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Aptare SRM StorageConsole 8
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on Tue, June 22nd, 2010
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To monitor backup, primary storage, virtualization, replication and SAN
APTARE StorageConsole 8 allows IT administrators to proactively monitor their entire storage environment through one centralized Web 2.0 console. With the addition of SAN fabric reporting, APTARE StorageConsole now gives storage administrators a 360° view of their storage: backup, primary storage, virtualization, replication and the storage network (SAN). The new SAN fabric reporting provides increased visibility of SAN components with topology mapping, superior change management and performance reporting through interactive dashboards that leverage HTML5.
“The complexity of today’s storage environment can make an IT administrator’s head spin. Most products only report on a limited scope, making it extremely difficult to manage the company’s entire storage environment,” explained Rick Clark, president and CEO of APTARE. “With StorageConsole Fabric Manager and the new technology advancements in APTARE StorageConsole 8, we have created the most intuitive, full-spectrum storage management application available today.”
APTARE is announcing the addition of APTARE StorageConsole Fabric Manager to the APTARE suite of StorageConsole products. APTARE StorageConsole Fabric Manager gives IT administrators the ability to proactively manage the dynamic environment of the SAN. Critical success factors for IT administrators include the ability to gain true visibility into the SAN environment, manage and understand the changes to this environment, and provide necessary feedback to run at optimal performance.
APTARE StorageConsole Fabric Manager
provides these benefits:
- Visibility: Provides insight into the SAN, no matter the complexity of servers or vendor setup. Interactive Web-based dashboards display a real-time topology of the paths from the host to its storage.
- Change Management: Easily identifies and trends changes made to the SAN fabric over time with proactive monitoring and alerting when changes are made that will affect service level agreements (SLAs).
- Performance: Ensures the SAN fabric from the edge to the core is operating at peak performance, no matter the complexity.
APTARE StorageConsole 8 Product Suite Upgrades
As with all major company announcements, APTARE also enhanced several existing products:
APTARE StorageConsole Backup Manager
- Data Deduplication: Now includes support for EMC Avamar
- Mid-tier Array Support: Now provides reporting for HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA)
- Applications: Now supports Oracle Automated Storage Management (ASM) for Oracle 10g and 11i
- Server Virtualization: Now supports IBM Virtual I/O (VIO) Server
- Storage Virtualization: Provides support for IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC)
By embracing HTML5, APTARE StorageConsole dashboards are even more interactive, enabling users to easily access critical information about their storage environment using topology mapping.
APTARE StorageConsole now provides a fully automated capability that enables key software components to remain current with the latest updates. Components can be updated automatically without the need for administrator interaction.
The APTARE StorageConsole 8 product suite is available directly from APTARE and through its worldwide alliance of resellers. APTARE products can also be purchased through APTARE managed service partners as a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering.
Our comments :
The need for storage management and efficiency increases driven by the exponential data growth and this StorageConsole 8 from Aptare offers a bunch of services to help IT managers to monitor their storage environment.
APTARE (Latin for adapt, fit, apply) was founded in 1993 by a team of computer software engineers and introduced in 2003 its first version of SRM, StorageConsole Backup Manager. Headquartered in Campbell, CA, the company claimed actually 400 enterprise customers worldwide. Founder, president and CEO Richard Clark came from SSP Sanrise. VP business development Robert Cordell was previously with IBM, HDS and Sun. For the year 2009, Aptare said it posted record profits with annual bookings up 61% compared to 2008 and strengthened its partner relationships with HDS, NetApp and IBM.
A lot of companies entered into SRM but finally with relatively small success as it is extremely difficult to integrate into their suite all the vendors' storage hardware and software products. For about each of them, SRM needs a special module as there is no real standardization. It's like in the old time when backup software publishers were obliged to update their product after each new tape drive announcement.
Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) from SNIA was a good idea in this standardized direction but is not complete and has not been adopted by all hardware manufacturer for all of their products.
Among the companies currently offering SRM there are Aptare, CA, CommVault, EMC, HP, IBM/Tivoli, Innovation, NetApp, Quest Software and Symantec, not including the start-ups in this field. According to IDC, IBM is the leader followed by IBM with its TotalStorage Productivity Center, CA's SRM and HP's Storage Essentials.
Dead, Acquired and Alive Start-Ups in SRM
Name (Birth Date): Comments
- Akorri (2005): founder Rich Corley started Pirus Networks; acquired by Sun
- AppIQ (2001): member of SNIA's CIM/WBEM group; acquired by HP in 2005
- Astrum Software (1997): sold to EMC
- Convergent Data Services: virtual media manager software, professional and consulting services; started Tavata Software to focus on SRM software development; Web site disappears in 2005
- CreekPath Systems (2001): former Exabyte's subsidiary; sold to Opsware in 2006
- Intermine (1999): Filecensus software
- InterSAN (2000): acquired by Finisar in 2005 for $9.5 million
- MonoSphere (2001): R&D in Ra'anana, Israel; technology assets sold to Quest Software in 2009
- Northern Parklife (1995): originally called Northern Technologies
- Onaro (2000): R&D in Israel; acquired by NetApp in 2008 for a reported $120 million
- Opsware (1999): formerly Loudcloud; acquired CreekPath in 2006; sold to HP in 2007 for $1.6 billion
- ProvisionSoft (2000): formerly CMGion; intellectual property of the software sold to Storability in 2003; shut down
- Tek-Tools (1996): Java-based SRM with a centralized Web-based console; certain assets sold to SolarWinds in 2010 for $42 million
- Telaine: agent-less CIM tool for SRM
- Terraspring (1999): former SSP in resource management and virtualization software via a Web browser; acquired by Sun in 2002 for $35 million
- Trellisoft (1999): Java SRM software; acquired by IBM in 2002
- TrueSAN Networks (1999): software solution combining storage virtualization, network/device management and SRM; closed in 2003
- XstormTech (2002): development center in India; acquired by AppiQ in 2003
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