2.1 Introduction to IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Data TotalStorage Productivity Center for Data is designed to provide a comprehensive storage resource management (SRM) solution for heterogeneous storage environments across the enterprise. It includes enterprise-wide reporting and monitoring, policy-based management, and automated capacity provisioning for direct-attached storage (DAS), network-attached storage (NAS), and storage area network (SAN) environments. IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Data enables administrators to identify, manage, control, and predict storage usage. It also provides file system and database management and reporting on storage capacity and growth. TotalStorage Productivity Center for Data provides over 300 enterprise-wide reports, monitoring, alerts, policy-based action, and file system capacity automation in the heterogeneous environment. It allows you to create customized reports as well. The standardized reports provide information about file systems, databases, and storage infrastructure. These reports provide the storage administrator information about: Assets Availability