NetApp today announced SANscreen 6.0, the latest edition of its storage management solution, to enable service providers and enterprises to optimize storage efficiency and performance across their entire virtualized infrastructures.
SANscreen 6.0 is now also fully integrated with BMC Software’s Atrium Configuration Management Database (CMDB). This combined offering gives customers the ability to extend their IT service management solutions to the storage domain for increased visibility, control, and efficiency.
SANscreen 6.0 not only builds on its ability to manage large-scale heterogeneous environments, it now manages NetApp-only storage environments too. This helps customers to intelligently measure and control their virtual infrastructure and optimize capacity utilization, availability, and performance.
In fact, at least one customer reports having realized combined capital expenditure, operational expenditure, and service quality savings of more than $850,000 annually with SANscreen.
The integration of SANscreen with BMC Atrium CMDB plays an integral role in the transformation to a service-oriented IT infrastructure. BMC Cloud Service Management leverages the complete view and analysis of the environment in the BMC Atrium CMDB to quickly provision services and accurately remediate service-level degradation, saving time and money by improving service levels.
The SANscreen product suite offers end-to-end infrastructure discovery, service-level monitoring, analytics (planning, forecasting, and chargeback), change management, and impact analysis for virtual infrastructures affecting storage efficiency and optimization. SANscreen enables customers to manage storage as a true end-to-end IT service, which reduces capital and operational costs, increases efficiency, and improves application service quality (availability and performance).
Furthermore, the SANscreen detailed analytics help customers reallocate storage as needed, identify storage hot spots, and plan for and adapt to changing business goals.
All customer pricing for products described is available from NetApp sales or reseller partners. SANscreen 6.0 is available today.
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