BMC Software, the provider of e-business systems management, has announced a new way to manage storage intelligently, in effect adding application intelligence to heterogeneous storage environments.
BMC`s Application-Centric Storage Management is a new approach that allows customers to manage storage in a way that optimises application availability, performance and recoverability by focusing on the application itself to direct storage policies and procedures.
The announcement of Application-Centric Storage Management has received broad industry acceptance, being endorsed through partnerships with leading storage vendors including Brocade, Cisco, Compaq, Crossroads Systems, EMC, Emulex, Hitachi Data Systems, Hewlett-Packard, IBM Storage Systems Group, JNI, McData, Network Appliance, Nishan Systems, Sun Microsystems Network Storage and Veritas.
"The data storage market is predicted to exceed $160 billion in five years.
While this growth continues, most companies manage it on the fly," says Reg Swart, BMC product and operations manager at sole BMC distributor CCH Enterprise Solutions. "This new approach is changing the rules by providing, for the first time, an application-focused view of the complex world of storage. This approach gives customers management of all the data that keeps them in business, whether that information is as simple as the last book someone purchased or a recap of an investor`s history of stock purchases."
By implementing Application-Centric Storage Management, companies can optimise storage resources by understanding the relationship between the application and the storage resource layer. This new approach allows customers to discover the application, discover the storage system and logically map the application to the physical storage system.
"Quickly and accurately accessing stored data can make the difference between a company`s success and failure," adds Swart.
Application-Centric Storage Management takes full advantage of Patrol`s ability to manage the entire technology stack, including the operating system, database, middleware, network, and end-to-end Web transactions.
How it works
BMC`s Knowledge Modules provide the foundation for Application-Centric Storage Management. These modules discover, capture, store and report physical attribute and event information for storage systems and storage network interconnect devices including disks, bridges, hubs and routers.
This information is combined with the application intelligence available through BMC`s Patrol to associate storage events with business processes.
Knowledge Module benefits include:
Simplified storage management by providing a centralised, graphical view of the configuration and performance of the intelligent storage device;
Increased availability and optimised performance by proactively monitoring and managing your intelligent storage devices;
Integration into existing management frameworks and infrastructures by leveraging the Patrol architecture and Patrolview product; and
Speed-up of diagnosis time by centrally managing the network storage alerts within the context of the whole environment.
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