Announcing a broad array of new software for information storage management, EMC has formally launched its AutoIS (Automated Information Storage) strategy, the next major wave of automation, simplification and openness for heterogeneous storage infrastructures.
The new announcements include fundamental components of EMC`s AutoIS strategy: new management technologies and open storage applications that deliver the distributed intelligence necessary to make storage management automated, simple and open.
EMC is delivering major elements of AutoIS today, including powerful automation and management applications that work together in a heterogeneous environment, as well as the requisite middleware to seamlessly integrate multi-vendor hardware and software components. The announcements include:
* EMC ControlCenter/Open Edition enterprise storage management environment;
* WideSky storage management middleware;
* EMC ControlCenter Replication Manager automated replication software; and
* EMC ControlCenter StorageScope storage system, network and host storage resource reporting software.
"The growing complexity of our customers` environments has imposed an artificial ceiling on their growth potential. The goal of AutoIS is to remove this barrier over time by helping customers reduce complexity, lower management costs and automate many labour-intensive and inefficient processes. Under AutoIS we will apply the weight of EMC`s massive software R&D investments to simplify customers` heterogeneous environments," says Gerhard van der Merwe, district manager of EMC SA.
Bill North, Director of Storage Software Research for International Data Corporation, says: "Businesses are finding their IT environments awash in increasing complexity. The primary task at hand is to find a way to manage this complexity while driving higher levels of efficiency. EMC - with AutoIS - is applying every one of its considerable strengths to this most critical issue."
Jim Rothnie, EMC Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, says: "EMC is helping customers build a world where virtually every server, connectivity device and storage system can be connected, centrally managed and tightly integrated with every major application. AutoIS delivers the foundation for this new world of openness and the power of automation to simplify even the world`s largest, most complex information storage infrastructures."
EMC software under the AutoIS strategy supports the a broad range of multi-vendor network devices, host storage resources and storage systems from EMC, Compaq, Dell, HDS, HP, Sun, IBM and Network Appliance.
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