To enable favorable control of the storage of electronic information, a management device connected communicably to one or more storage control devices that are connected communicably to at least one of a plurality of storage devices refers to resource information relating to the usage condition of at least one hardware resource from among the one or more storage control devices, specifies an unused part of the hardware resource from the resource information, and sets a storage virtual computer, which serves as a virtual computer to which all or a part of the specified unused part is allocated, in at least one of the one or more storage control devices.