Sydney, AUSTRALIA - 15 June
2010 -- NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) today announced
SANscreen® 6.0, the latest edition of its award-winning
storage management solution, to enable service providers and
enterprises to optimise storage efficiency and performance across
their entire virtualized infrastructures. SANscreen 6.0 is now also
fully integrated with BMC Software's (NASDAQ: BMC) Atrium
Configuration Management Database (CMDB). This combined offering
gives customers the ability to extend their IT service management
solutions to the storage domain for increased visibility, control,
and efficiency.
Even though storage efficiency technologies
offer unmistakable benefits and cost savings, adoption is not
universal because customers cannot always quantify the impact on
their storage environment. SANscreen 6.0 addresses this issue
through its unique ability to measure, analyse, and mitigate the
risks associated with using NetApp or third-party storage efficiency
technologies such as thin provisioning and deduplication in
virtualized and cloud infrastructures. As more virtual applications
are added to an environment, SANscreen 6.0 scales and delivers
constant monitoring and analyses to help IT organisations identify
efficiency metrics critical to application availability and
performance. As a result, customers achieve greater efficiencies,
scalability, and cost savings, and they also gain a clearer view of
their environment, taking the guesswork out of when and where to
apply storage efficiency technologies.
"SANscreen 6.0 now offers our customers
increased visibility into and analysis of their NetApp storage
environments in the context of service levels, efficiencies, and
business applications," said John Bacci, director of engineering
for The Ergonomic Group, Inc., a NetApp® SANscreen channel
partner. "The fact that SANscreen 6.0 can also show detailed trends
and risk reports for deduplicated and thin-provisioned storage is a
true differentiator, and provides our customers with tremendous
value in an economy where cost savings is a high priority."
SANscreen 6.0 not only builds on its ability
to manage large-scale heterogeneous environments, it now manages
NetApp-only storage environments too. This helps customers to
intelligently measure and control their virtual infrastructure and
optimise capacity utilisation, availability, and performance. In
fact, at least one customer reports having realised combined
capital expenditure, operational expenditure, and service quality
savings of more than US$850,000 annually with SANscreen.
SANscreen Integration with BMC
Software
The integration of SANscreen with BMC Atrium CMDB plays an integral
role in the transformation to a service-oriented IT infrastructure.
BMC Cloud Service Management leverages the complete view and
analysis of the environment in the BMC Atrium CMDB to quickly
provision services and accurately remediate service-level
degradation, saving time and money by improving service levels.
"By integrating SANscreen into BMC Atrium
CMDB, customers are now able to get a holistic view of all of the
different components of their IT environment," said John Peters,
vice president and general manager of the Atrium product line at
BMC. "This enables service providers and enterprises to more
effectively and efficiently manage their cloud environments,
resulting in improved service quality. The integration is also
another proof point of NetApp's and BMC's commitment to work
together to help customers on their journey to the cloud."
"SANscreen 6.0 provides customers with a best
in class, end-to-end management solution that goes well beyond the
scope of what point solutions can do and is far less complex than
traditional storage resource management offerings," said Patrick
Rogers, vice president of Solutions and Alliances for NetApp. "With
SANscreen 6.0 and our integration with BMC, customers are able to
gain more control and insight of their virtual environments,
helping to improve operational efficiency and gain a greater return
on investment."
The SANscreen product suite offers end-to-end
infrastructure discovery, service-level monitoring, analytics
(planning, forecasting, and chargeback), change management, and
impact analysis for virtual infrastructures affecting storage
efficiency and optimisation. SANscreen enables customers to manage
storage as a true end-to-end IT service, which reduces capital and
operational costs, increases efficiency, and improves application
service quality (availability and performance). Furthermore, the
SANscreen detailed analytics help customers reallocate storage as
needed, identify storage hot spots, and plan for and adapt to
changing business goals.
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Pricing and
Availability
All customer pricing for products described in this release is
available from NetApp sales or reseller partners. SANscreen 6.0 is
available today.
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