EMC Corporation has announced Smarts IP Availability Manager 7.0 and Smarts Service Assurance Manager 7.0. With this, the company aims to bring high levels of security and cross-domain support for managing a broader scope of IT and service provider environments.
Smarts IP Availability Manager automates real-time root-cause analysis of critical network connectivity layers, including network-attached storage connectivity. Its impact analysis distills many simultaneous events into a few root-cause problems.
Smarts Service Assurance Manager is the cornerstone of the EMC Smarts management suite, integrating and correlating topology, events and analysis from multiple sources - offering a real-time end-to-end perspective on the IT environment, its health and its effect on core business services.
The newly enhanced levels of security are core to these new offerings. Version 7.0 now offers SNMPv3 authentication support for traps, which is a key requirement for government agencies and managed service providers. The new support gives users two layers of security, providing full encryption of packets as well as full encryption and authentication for polling and discovery.
Also key to these software is 'IP Tagging', with which users can better handle overlapping IP addresses in both IP and MPLS environments. Smarts can now tag and monitor multiple links with the same address.
"The EMC Smarts architecture allows us to integrate all of our siloed management systems, including in-house-developed systems, into one correlation console. Of all the solutions tested, we found that only EMC Smarts software provides the levels of business logic necessary, without forcing us to write complex rules to capture every possible scenario," said John Premus, CTO, JRI America.
"One of the key success drivers of the EMC Smarts suite has always been its ability to automatically manage highly distributed, complex IT environments spanning a variety of domains. Today's announcement takes this capability even further - better enabling customers to bridge management gaps to enhance reliability of their core business services, which are built on top of these complex IT infrastructures," said Chris Gahagan, senior VP - resource management software, EMC.
