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Keeping Tabs On Data

Solution providers meet federal storage-management demands head-on

governmentVAR logo By Dennis McCafferty

12:00 AM EDT Mon. Jun. 25, 2007
From the June 25, 2007 issue of GovernmentVAR
Page 3 of 3
WEIGHING OUT THE STORAGE OPTIONS
Vendors offer a variety of software products for distributed storage management. Here are the vitals on several:
Vendor
 Product/s
 Key Capabilities
Brocade
 Enterprise Fabric Connectivity Manager (EFCM)
 > Centralized management of large, multifabric or multisite storage networks
> Proactive monitoring and alert notification
> Client-server application for viewing, configuring and zoning Brocade M-EOS and heterogeneous SANs
> Open trunking to optimize data flows
EMC
 ControlCenter family
 > Configuration and optimization of EMC Symmetrix, CLARiiON, Celerra and EMC Centera storage devices
> Monitors and reports on multivendor, tiered storage to improve asset utilization and performance
> Designs, plans and provisions multivendor, tiered storage to streamline operations and meet service-level agreements
EqualLogic
 PS Series iSCSI SANs (integrated hardware/
software package
 > Storage virtualization and SAN boot capability
> Peer provisioning for automating key functions needed to configure, manage and scale storage with no downtime
> Auto-Stat Disk Monitoring System (ADMS) for proactive scans of disk drives
> Multipath I/O auto-replication of data over a standard IP network
HP
 Storage Essentials Enterprise Suite Software
 > Unified server and storage management
> Integration with OpenView software for integrated IT services management in provisioning, operations and reporting
> Increased utilization of capacity management with monitoring of availability and utilization at host, switch and array
> File performance management from application objects down to storage subsystems and file identification
IBM
 IBM Tivoli Storage Manager family
 > Stores backup, archive, space management and bare-metal restore data, as well as compliance and disaster-recovery data in a hierarchy of offline storage
> Web-based management
> Intelligent data move-and-store techiques
> Comprehensive policy-based automated administration
Sun Microsystems
 StorageTek Resource Management Suite
 > Common agent architecture
> Path provisioning includes application-to-spindle
> Integrated view of the application infrastructure from storage to applications
> Supports standards including SMI-S, CIM HTTP, SOAP and XML
Symantec
 Storage Foundation
 > Centralized control over storage administration with visibility across all major application, server operating system and storage platforms
> Centralized multihost management capabilities across Unix, Linux and Windows
> Dynamic multipathing that allows I/O to be spread across multiple paths failure protection and fast failover
> Dynamic Storage Tiering (DST) for data mobility through matching of the appropriate storage hardware tier to the application, and prioritizing data

 
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