iWave Software Demonstrated Storage Automator

iWave Software LLC, provider of storage and cloud automation solutions, announced Storage Automator support for Dell Compellent storage arrays, allowing enterprise IT organizations and service providers to deliver Storage as a Service and to automate end-to-end storage provisioning.

The product was demonstrated at the at Dell Storage Forum 2012 at the Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel in Boston, Mass. on June 11-13, 2012.

"Automation is now a requirement for organizations to process the exponential number of service requests flooding the storage team," said Ron Smith, VP of sales and marketing of iWave Software. "Storage Automator allows end users to provision their own storage, through a service portal, thereby lowering storage operating costs, enabling administrators to scale and improving end user satisfaction."

iWave Storage Automator provides IT departments with out-of-the-box automation for the administration of enterprise storage and private cloud environments.

It offers organizations:

• Policy-based storage selection
• Multi-tenant, self-service portal and catalog
• End-to-end automated storage services
• RESTful storage API
• Change control, scheduling and notification
• Service level options
• Chargeback
• Multi-vendor array, fabric and host support