Aptare expands into capacity management

Storage in the Enterprise This newsletter is sponsored by LeftHand Networks ESG: Clustered Storage White Paper Learn more about ESG's view of true clustered storage including ease of management and a one-size-fits-all approach. As well as ESG's vision that there should be one logical storage system that can meet all of your storage requirements from your most mission-critical, demanding applications to digital archiving and tertiary applications. Network World's Storage in the Enterprise Newsletter, 08/30/07 Aptare expands into capacity management By Deni Connor Aptare last week introduced a new version of its StorageConsole software, which contains for the first time a capacity management component. StorageConsole Platform 6.5 now includes the ability to track storage capacity utilization to let storage administrators determine future storage needs. StorageConsole 6.5 integrates backup reporting and storage capacity management into a single Web-based console. Best practices for WAN Optimization Join Mark Fabbi, Gartner Vice President and Distinguished Analyst, as he discusses the four critical actions you must take to meet your application acceleration goals. Also, learn how to choose the best WAN optimization solution for your needs, how to building a scalable architecture and more. Click here to learn more. The new StorageConsole Capacity Management application gives storage administrators insight into the variance between allocated and used storage and provides predictive analysis to make future forecasting easier and more reliable. IT can view the relationship of host computers to arrays and identify storage users and abusers. With the software they can also identify underutilized storage. The StorageConsole Capacity Management application also provides alerts and notification of irregular storage utilization and consumption-based charge back reporting. Additionally, the StorageConsole Backup Management module has been enhanced with support for HP Data Protector and Symantec Backup Exec 11D backup environments. Going forward, StorageConsole will support reporting on replication of data. Aptare was founded in 1993 and claims as many as 300 customers. The Capacity Management Application is priced at $20,000 for 50TB of storage under management. The Backup Management module costs $15,000 for 50 backup clients. The new version is expected to be available by the end of this month.   What do you think? Post a comment on this newsletter

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