V.
Storage Management
GOLD:
Onaro's SANscreen
Onaro Inc
.'s SANscreen
predictive change management
software, the only product of its
kind available today,
troubleshoots problems caused
by changes to SANs. Its
analysis simulation capabilities
can predict the impact of
alterations made to a storage
network before
they occur.
It uses root
-
cause analysis to
detect and advise how to fix errors before, during and after changes are made. "It helped us to
more easily see the complex access paths, relationships and interdependencies within our
[1,000
-
port] SAN," said Ro
bert Shinn, a principal at State Street Global Advisors. He also uses
SANscreen to record changes for audit purposes and regulatory compliance.
The SANscreen server runs on Windows 2000; clients run on Windows, Unix or Mac OS X Java
-
enabled machines. No o
ther software is required in the network. It performs its discovery out
-
of
-
band or off the portion of the network that handles live data. Onaro claims that SANscreen
supports all leading storage equipment. Pricing for a perpetual license starts at $125 per
port; a
subscription license is $64 a year per port.
If you manage a large SAN, SANscreen is a tool you need for all the obvious reasons. It blows
the doors off anything else in the storage network management space.
SILVER:
NuView's StorageX 5.0
Release 5.0 of StorageX has
solidified Houston
-
based
NuVie
w Inc.'s position as a
pioneer in global namespace
technology amid a host of
new competitors entering this
market.
A global namespace acts as a
logical layer that sits between
clients and file systems for the
purpose of aggregating
multiple, geographical
ly
dispersed heterogeneous file
systems. It then presents file
information to users and
applications in a single, logical
view.
Onaro's SANscreen lets you test configuration changes before
committing to them.
StorageX 5.0, from NuView, uses a global namespace to aggregate file
systems.
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