Patent ID: 8209410

Claim:
A system for management of a storage estate of an organization, comprising: a storage management data repository configured to receive periodic updates from one or more servers or applications coupled to the storage estate; and a web reporting tool configured to periodically process data from the storage management data repository, the web reporting tool configured to provide one or more reports related to the storage estate in a format accessible through a web interface provided to authorized users, the one or more reports including a key performance indicator (KPI) report, wherein the KPI report comprises one of a SAN KPI report and a NAS KPI report, wherein the SAN KPI report comprises a display of one or more SAN KPIs related to storage area network (SAN) data of the organization, wherein the NAS KPI report comprises a display of one or more NAS KPIs related to network attached storage (NAS), wherein at least one SAN KPI comprises one or more of: protection efficiency calculated as a ratio of logical addressable data storage volume to total physical volume of data storage for storage area network data of the organization, and application efficiency calculated as a fraction of disk storage allocated to end user devices that is actually used by the end user devices, wherein at least one NAS KPI comprises snapshot overhead calculated as a ratio of a volume of storage allocated for replicated copies of data to allocated storage.