APTARE and HDS Renew Partnership

APTARE, Inc. has renewed its global partnership with Hitachi Data Systems. Under the agreement, Hitachi Data Systems is leveraging the APTARE StorageConsole 6.5 platform to power Hitachi Storage Capacity Reporter, part of the newly introduced Hitachi Storage Command Suite. Over the past three years, both companies have collaborated to deliver management tools that help organizations effectively manage their primary storage and complex backup and recovery environments.

Customers using the combined Hitachi Storage Capacity Reporter with APTARE’s StorageConsole 6.5 Web 2.0 technology are able to gain valuable insight into their storage utilization to best optimize their storage resources and reduce costs. (See the separate Hitachi Storage Capacity Manager announcement from last week here.) Hitachi Storage Capacity Manager powered by APTARE delivers a 360-degree view of an organization’s heterogeneous storage without the need for host agents. This is achieved through Web 2.0 and AJAX technologies that create real-time interactive reports as well as historical capacity views, forecasting and predictive analysis.

"As customers continue to face the daunting challenge of managing and retaining more data, it’s critical that their management solutions provide both scalability and flexibility," said Peter Smails, senior director, global product marketing, Hitachi Data Systems. "The combination of our new Hitachi Storage Command Suite and its backup and recovery reporting features powered by APTARE’s StorageConsole 6.5 technology provides customers with unique monitoring capabilities so they can best manage, report and optimize their complex storage environments."

"This solution is our latest milestone in a very long history of partnering with Hitachi Data Systems to develop storage solutions that address the pain points of customers — from backup reporting to primary storage capacity management," said Rick Clark, president and CEO, APTARE. "Our collaboration with Hitachi Data Systems opens the door to new and viable markets where real-time visibility into the storage environment is becoming critical to the success of business operations. Together, we’re fulfilling our promise to IT storage administrators who need leading-edge tools to manage the ever-growing amounts of data that must be stored because of regulatory requirements."

APTARE StorageConsole’s agent-less architecture can extend Web 2.0 functionality seamlessly to future applications, enabling Hitachi Data Systems to meet the evolving needs of its partners and customers. With these ‘application-to-spindle’ views into actual capacity, organizations are able to allocate storage more efficiently to maximize its usage and significantly reduce costs by delaying the need for future storage purchases.