Arxscan, Old Player for New Need

Founded in 2007 by Mark Fitzsimmons and Michael Bowers, Arxscan Inc. is based in Asbury, NJ and has less than ten employees.

The company plays in the storage infrastructure management also named sometimes and in the past storage resource management or SRM but claims to provide more than that with a business-oriented approach.

Arxscan developed Arxview Datacenter Analytics Engine (DCAE), a standalone software, that is hardware agnostic supporting all product lines including Dell EMC, NetApp, IBM, HPE, Hitachi, Oracle, Pure Storage, Violin Memory, VMware, Brocade and Cisco in various configurations of SAN, NAS, DAS, virtual storage and fibre channel switching.

The solution shows capacity utilization, trending, reporting, analysis, performance, chargeback, storage/device mapping, power use, line-of-business dependencies and network topologies for end-to-end clarity. Arxview doesn’t require any agent or in-band devices and can be deployed in less than an hour.

The product is listed on HPE and IBM partners portal and distributed by many resellers, VARs and integrators.

It reminds products such Veritas SANPoint Control or CommandCentral Storage, AppIQ, Onaro SANscreen, Tek-Tools, Highground, Astrum, WQuinn and some others logical and physical SRM.

More recent competition seems to be Aptare, EMC Storage Analytics, IBM Spectrum Control Storage Insights or CloudPhysics.

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