EMC Expands Solution Set for Managing IT Service Delivery
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New Software for Automated IT Governance Analysis, Advanced Network Problem Management, and IT Process Automation Help Enterprises and Service Providers Automate Data Center Operations
HOPKINTON, Mass., Sept. 17 -- EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC), the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today further strengthened the company's IT service delivery management offerings with key additions to its software portfolio. Aimed at helping customers better automate their data center operations, the company today announced EMC IT Compliance Analyzer - Application Edition, EMC Smarts IPv6 Availability Manager, EMC IT Process Centre, and EMC IT Performance Reporter - Network Edition (see separate press releases also announced today).
The solutions are key pieces of EMC's IT service delivery portfolio, a comprehensive set of management software based on EMC Smarts and EMC ControlCenter technologies. Aimed at helping customers achieve higher degrees of automation for their data center operations, EMC provides customers with end-to-end service visibility and control across their complex IT information infrastructures.
"Over the past decade, the sheer number and management complexity of elements in the storage, server, network and application domains have made it nearly impossible for companies to get a handle on their IT resources and the business and information services they support," said Dennis Drogseth, Vice President, Enterprise Management Associates. To get the most of their IT investments, companies today demand a clear line-of-sight across their IT infrastructures, and the ability to manage disparate domains holistically."
"IT is facing a perfect storm of information explosion, from VoIP to IPTV to secure content, and management fragmentation. This has put tremendous stress on IT's ability to ensure the delivery of key information, business, and infrastructure services - both new and existing," said Chris Gahagan, EMC's Senior Vice President, Resource Management Software. "The key differentiator behind EMC's IT service delivery strategy is our ability to tie the information infrastructure together -- across what are now very disjointed domains - making it possible for customers to manage the entire information delivery chain."
He continued, "By delivering end-to-end service visibility and control across silos, only EMC provides users with the line-of-site they need to manage their IT infrastructures from an application perspective. Customers benefit from lower IT operational costs and increased efficiencies, resulting in more effective service delivery across the business."
Announced today (see separate press releases), EMC's new management software solutions around IT compliance analysis, IPv6 network problem management, and storage service delivery further bolster this vision and include:
o EMC IT Compliance Analyzer - Application Edition: The market's premier
application solution helping IT to ensure configuration compliance of
business-critical applications with internal IT governance policies,
regulatory requirements, and IT best practices. Leveraging the power
of EMC Smarts Application Discovery Manager, the software performs
real-time analysis and alerts IT managers when business-critical
applications violate their compliance policies.
o EMC Smarts IPv6 Availability Manager: One of the market's first
solutions to fully support native IPv6 networks and one of the only
network management solutions to automate the end-to-end problem
correlation and analysis of IPv4 and IPv6 networks. With Smarts IPv6
Availability Manager, customers can now effectively comply with IPv6
standards, simplify management and increase IP network availability.
o EMC IT Process Centre: First in a family of modules designed to
automate IT processes and tasks for enterprise customers across server,
application, network, and storage domains. This initial solution
focuses on more efficient provisioning and management of storage
requests, enabling IT operations to meet service-level agreements
(SLAs) and lower costs.
o EMC IT Performance Reporter - Network Edition: Delivers real-time
trending and historical data reporting on network availability and
performance issues. With the ability to work seamlessly with other
Smarts solutions, IT Performance Reporter enables proactive problem
management and capacity planning, and accurately forecasts future
network demand.
EMC offers advanced solutions helping customers automate their data center operations. With a unique set of products enabling closed-loop automation, EMC's products conduct comprehensive discovery, compliance, analysis, automation and visualization across the IT infrastructure. This automation process enables companies to discover what IT resources they have, check for compliance to policies, isolate root-cause problems, and immediately fix any issues. Leveraging this model-based, intelligent software, customers are now able to take a service-centric approach to IT management and gain insight into how their information infrastructures support key business services.
About EMC
EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC) is the world's leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions that enable organizations of all sizes to transform the way they compete and create value from their information. Information about EMC's products and services can be found at www.EMC.com.
Source: EMC Corporation
CONTACT: Craig Librett of EMC Corporation, +1-914-806-2809, librett_craig@emc.com
Web site: http://www.emc.com/
