EMC has announced significant advances in its WideSky Developer Suite offered through the EMC Developers` Programme. These new advances further EMC`s goal of enabling software and hardware developers to build open, interoperable automated networked storage environments that reduce costs, streamline management and improve business agility.
Highlighted in the announcement is the expansion of the WideSky Developers Suite to include new and enhanced interfaces that offer additional heterogeneous device support and increased functionality for managing platform-, connectivity- and server-based storage resources, says Alex Robertson, country systems engineering and professional services manager, EMC SA.
"EMC will also deliver even greater flexibility to developers and investment protection for customers by incorporating open industry standards into WideSky, such as the emerging Storage Management Initiative (SMI), previously known as the Common Information Model (CIM)/Bluefin specification," he adds.
WideSky uses a common architecture to provide access to a robust set of advanced storage management features and serve as a universal "any-to-any" translator for storage management.
"As a result, application developers can greatly reduce the time and effort needed to develop applications that work across heterogeneous networked storage environments, and are able to focus more on leveraging the depth of functionality and intelligence offered by WideSky.
"In turn, customers benefit from applications with greater breadth of device support and robust features that reduce integration, management, and training costs," says Robertson.
The enhanced WideSky Developer Suite APIs include:
* WideSky Connectivity API, which enables discovery and access to information for SAN elements including switches, bridges, and HBAs, and allows switch zoning. Devices supported by the Connectivity API include switches from EMC (Connectrix), Brocade, McData, Qlogic, and Inrange, and HBAs from Agilent, Emulex, JNI, and Qlogic.
* WideSky Storage API that provides discovery and enables access to configuration information on EMC, HP StorageWorks, HP XP, HDS 9900, and SUN StoreEdge 9900 storage platforms. Moving forward, the Storage API will also leverage the SMI (CIM/Bluefin) specification to offer even greater breadth of array support and depth of functionality.
* Expanded WideSky SRM API that characterises and maps host-level application elements (databases, volume managers, and file systems) all the way through to logical and physical storage devices. This API now includes support for HP StorageWorks, HP XP, HDS 9900, and SUN StoreEdge 9900 storage platforms, in addition to previous support for EMC Symmetrix and EMC CLARiiON arrays.
* The new EMC ControlCenter StorageScope API that provides access to the repository of information delivered by WideSky, this interface enables developers to take advantage of the data collected and stored by the EMC ControlCenter infrastructure to create applications for billing, resource tracking and infrastructure planning.
"Additionally, the new WideSky Developer Suite now supports two new interfaces: Java Native Interface (JNI) and Extensible Markup Language (XML) along with current support of a C interface. This allows developers to create applications in their choice of industry-standard languages and reduce their time-to-market in introducing new software products," says Robertson.
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