AppIQ Software Outscores Other Solutions in First SNIA Conformance Testing Program for Storage Management Applications.BURLINGTON, Mass. -- AppIQ, Inc., a leading provider of software solutions that enable data storage to be managed as a business-focused IT utility, today announced that its software outscored all other solutions in the first Storage Networking Industry Association An association of producers and consumers of storage networking products, whose goal is to further storage networking technology and applications. The Storage Networking Industry Association, or SNIA Conformance Testing Conformance testing or type testing is testing to determine whether a system meets some specified standard. To aid in this, many test procedures and test setups have been developed, either by the standard's maintainers or external organizations, specifically for Program (SNIA-CTP SNIA-CTP Storage Network Industry Association-Conformance Testing Program ) for storage management applications. The SNIA-CTP testing process validates how well each management solution conforms to SNIA's Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S SMI-S Storage Management Initiative - Specification (SNIA) ) version 1.0.2, the industry standard that enables enterprises to deploy and manage highly interoperable, multi-vendor storage infrastructure. Products like AppIQ StorageAuthority(R) Suite that pass the SNIA-CTP for SMI-S improve the ability of IT professionals to align storage infrastructure with business requirements, manage complex heterogeneous storage environments, comply with service levels, and reduce operational and capital costs. The results of the inaugural SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association, San Francisco, CA, www.snia.org) An organization devoted to the advancement of mission critical storage systems. Founded in 1997, its goal is to determine the standards that must be developed to allow hosts and storage systems to interact via SMI-Client Test were announced last week at the Storage Networking World Storage Networking World (commonly called SNW) is a for data storage professionals in the United States. Sponsored by Computerworld and the Storage Networking Industry Association, SNW is held twice each year. Spring 2005 conference in Phoenix, Arizona. AppIQ StorageAuthority Suite and OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and versions of the AppIQ product family offered by Hewlett-Packard (HP Storage Essentials), Hitachi Data Systems See HDS. (HiCommand(R) Storage Services Manager) , and Sun Microsystems (Sun StorEdge(TM) Enterprise Storage Manager Advanced Applications) represent four of the nine products that passed the test. These AppIQ and "Powered by AppIQ" products are also the only management solutions that successfully passed all four test categories - including discovery of disk arrays, fabric switches, fabrics, and host bus adapters (HBAs) - using out-of-the-box product features, and without the aid of custom scripts. In addition, AppIQ software discovered the broadest range of asset information for each resource category. "The results of the SNIA-CTP for client applications offer yet another proof point that AppIQ is the undisputed leader in delivering standards-based management of heterogeneous storage infrastructure," said Ash Ashutosh, AppIQ Chief Technical Officer. "Our technology, built natively on SMI-S, enables companies of all sizes to simplify the management of data center storage. Just as importantly, it gives IT decision-makers the flexibility to choose the storage resources that best satisfy their consolidation, remote data center management, compliance, information lifecycle management Information Lifecycle Management refers to a wide-ranging set of strategies for administering storage systems on computing devices. Specifically, four categories of storage strategies may be considered under the auspices of ILM. , and service level initiatives." For a complete list of the vendors that passed the SMI-Client Test, visit http://www.snia.org/ctp. For each vendor's complete test results, including product name, which of the four test categories the vendor successfully completed, and what information was discovered during each test, click on each company's name. AppIQ's complete test results can be found at http://www.snia.org/ctp/smi_conform/smi_client_appiq. About AppIQ AppIQ(TM), Inc. is a leading provider of open Storage Area Network (SAN) management and Storage Resource Management (SRM (1) (Storage Resource Management) The management of the storage resources in an organization in order to avoid duplication of files and to determine space utilization across all servers. ) solutions. Customers worldwide in almost every industry rely on AppIQ software to simplify the management of storage infrastructure, reduce operational costs, and synchronize IT resources with business needs. AppIQ StorageAuthority(R) Suite and "Powered by AppIQ" solutions are "Enabling the storage utility"(TM) for today's data-intensive enterprise by seamlessly integrating storage resource visualization, provisioning, monitoring, reporting, and policy-based automation, and by correlating the availability of business-critical applications with SAN configuration, capacity, and performance. AppIQ products are sold across all continents through strategic OEM partners Engenio, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi Data Systems, SGI (SGI, Sunnyvale, CA, www.sgi.com) A manufacturer of workstations and servers, founded in 1982 by Jim Clark. The company was founded as Silicon Graphics, Inc., but changed to its acronym in 1999. , and Sun Microsystems, and a global network of resellers. AppIQ is based in Burlington, MA, USA. For more information, visit www.appiq.com. (C) 2005 AppIQ, Inc. AppIQ and "Enabling the storage utility" are trademarks and StorageAuthority is a registered trademark of AppIQ, Inc. in the United States and in other countries. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such. |
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