True data capacity planning means being able to look into the future and estimate future IT needs and efficiently plan where data is stored and how it is managed based on the SLA of the data. Not only must you meet the future business needs of fast-growing data, you must also stay within the organization’s tight IT budgets. And, as organizations are looking to reduce operational costs with the cloud, deciding what data can move to the cloud, and how to leverage the cloud without disrupting existing file-based users and applications becomes critical.