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Symantec Rolls Out SRM for Enterprises|
- By CXOtoday Staff, Aug 16, 2007 1752 hrs IST
- Tags : Symantec Rolls Out SRM for Enterprises
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Looking at the increasing demand for Storage Resource Management (SRM) among enterprises and customers, a new solution has been introduced to meet storage challenges faced by them.
Enterprises can hope to address their storage challenges through the SRM with Veritas CommandCentral 5.0 launched by Symantec. This aims to optimize storage assets and improve storage processes. It offers the ability to address storage challenges by providing end-to-end visibility in both virtualized server and storage environments.
The Veritas Command Central 5.0 family includes Veritas CommandCentral 5.0, Veritas CommandCentral Enterprise Reporter 5.0, and Veritas Process Automation Manager 5.0. It enables to optimize storage utilization, automate storage processes, and align storage with business goals. This solution provides standardization of storage management processes, implementation of consistent operational policies, and automation of these processes. Furthermore, it claims to provide industry - scalability and reliability coupled with the breadth of heterogeneous support demanded by large enterprise data centers around the globe. CommandCentral Storage 5.0 and Enterprise Reporter deliver business-level reporting capabilities that provide executives with customizable reports containing the business insight to global storage infrastructure questions. With Process Automation Manager, organizations can improve efficiency of storage operations, reduce time to provision storage, and effectively manage service levels.
The new 5.0 release extends CommandCentral Storage's leadership in scalability by supporting over 3,000 servers, 6 petabytes of storage capacity, and 12,000 switch ports with a single management server. This unique level of scale enables storage to provide data center wide storage management.
According to Rohit Ghai, VP (engineering data center management group) of Symantec, the product aims at empowering IT organizations by allowing them to procure hardware, optimize IT infrastructure, improving operational efficiency, and aligning themselves to business. It aims to cater to verticals such as financial, healthcare, etc., helping them to handle storage needs, and ensure growth in their businesses. There are 4 phases of running storage as a device. This includes understanding the current event, drive up utilization, improving operations, and deliver storage as a service.
CommandCentral Storage 5.0 and Veritas Process Automation Manager 5.0 are available now. Veritas CommandCentral Enterprise Reporter 5.0 is expected to be available in next 60 days. The Storage Assessment Program is available at a fixed price of US $ 25,000.
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