SANpulse Receives Marks From Bloor Research

SANpulse Technologies, Inc. announced that its SANlogics offering has been recognized by Bloor Research International Ltd. for automated storage resource management (SRM), data migration, data center consolidation, governance regulation and compliance (GRC) for applying business policy rules and reducing risk. Bloor, in its recent solution overview report, Storage Optimisation: SANpulse, rated the SANlogics solution a high 4.4 for SAN resource discovery and 4.5 for data migration on its rigorous five-point scale.

"SANpulse is an end-to-end storage optimization solution that provides not just storage resource management (SRM) capabilities but also extensive functionality that goes beyond SRM," said Philip Howard, research director, Bloor Research. "It automates and streamlines a series of time-consuming and otherwise typically unreliable discovery, reporting and analysis processes – applying business-aware functionality (rules and priorities) as necessary – to facilitate migration and consolidation projects and improve agility to meet changing business needs. SANpulse earned truly exceptional marks in our recent solution overview in the areas of SAN resource discovery and data migration."

The Bloor research report discusses their view on the requirements for storage optimization including features in the following categories: SAN resource discovery; performance monitoring and management; capacity reporting, planning, provisioning and recommendations; data migration; and business-aware functionality and agility. The report also provides an analysis of SANlogics in each of these categories in which the product received particularly high marks in the areas of SAN resource discovery and data migration.

According to the Bloor report, SANpulse, using its SANlogics software, has solved two major enterprise problems in data and infrastructure management.

1. It offers a comprehensive solution for the delivery of up-to-date visibility of customers’ ever-changing, complex, multi-vendor infrastructure, maintaining it to an optimal level without needing excessive staffing resources.
2. It offers automated data migration capabilities, providing efficient migration across heterogeneous environments.

"At SANpulse, we work to ease the pain of storage consolidation and migration through advanced automation technologies that will reduce project timeline, errors, and financial costs to provide unique and significant business value to both end users and our partners," said Peter Mehta, SANpulse Chief Executive Officer. "We are pleased that Bloor has recognized the power and effectiveness of our solution."

The Bloor Research solution overview report is available to download (you need to register)