French Consulting Company Comitem Has Chosen SAN Sentinel

SAN Sentinel SAS, publisher Sentinel
Navigator, a cloud/SaaS software to manage storage infrastructures for EMC,
IBM, HP and NetApp storage arrays, has signed a partnership agreement with Comitem SAS, a consulting company specialized
in distributed architectures.

The consulting services allow companies to control shared
and heterogeneous environments on a regular basis. They improve the
cost-efficiency ratio of the entire storage infrastructure and of the OSs,
while taking into account the storage arrays, the network and servers whether
they are physical or virtual.

Clients can take reliable decisions and define the best
suited procedures all the while guaranteeing the implementation of storage
solutions. It saves space by identifying servers/applications with highest
consumption/growth rate in order to switch them to ‘Thin
Provisioning’, and by giving a precise inventory with historic. The
clients can plan proactively the capacity level upgrades by managing storage
growth. They can thus anticipate their consumption and take proactive rather
than reactive actions.

"To face  the storage infrastructure changes of our
clients who have become multi-suppliers, we had to find a simple, fast and
efficient solution. We chose SAN Sentinel which allows our clients to
inventory, within minutes, on a regular basis and at a lower cost, not only the
entire storage arrays but also the SAN network or the capacity used by the
connected servers", says Thierry Hérambert, GM, Comitem.

As services in Saas ‘software as a service’ mode are available without any installation, they reduce administration
costs and replace the less viable and trivial daily tasks which consist in
trying to obtain array information by writing ‘home-made’ scripts, transferring the results and manually combining them into spread
sheets, a much more costly and unreliable method.

"By using the SAN Sentinel technology, Comitem
thoroughly follows the recommendations of experts who, in order to face storage
growth, encourage companies to monitor their infrastructures by having proper
control and knowledge of the exploited resources," says Jéronimo Munoz, COO, San
Sentinel.