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One of the largest US banks is using storage to implement its business strategy. The Bank of Boston believes system-managed storage may be the key to acquisitions. SMS automates and centralizes the management of the storage facilities. SMS is a set of software products and a series of policies and procedures for data management. Instead of a storage administrator, a system programmer or even a user allocating a specific disk drive to a given application, allocation decisions can be made on the fly by the system based on the availability of space on disks. SMS makes it possible for the system to monitor storage levels continuously day and night to determine the optimal use of storage space. And SMS brings storage management down to the data set level, a finer gradation than was ever before possible.