DataCore Launches Non-Invasive Tool to Analyze Storage Resource Utilization.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 12, 2004 New SANsymphony Option Correlates SAN Activity to Applications by Charting I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output Workloads, Capacity Consumption and Access Frequency DataCore Software, a leading provider of enterprise-class, open storage networking software  This article is written like a personal reflection or and may require .Please [ improve this article] by rewriting this article in an . , today announced an innovative resource analysis package for companies that consolidate their IT infrastructure under the SANsymphony(TM) open storage networking platform. The new SANmaestro(TM) option enables these firms to monitor and analyze how application servers consume valuable storage resources over time, defined in terms of disk capacity, physical ports, I/O bandwidth and throughput. Most importantly Adv. 1. most importantly - above and beyond all other consideration; "above all, you must be independent" above all, most especially , it provides this unique insight without invasive host agents. "Customers complain that traditional host-based monitoring techniques are difficult, if not impossible to maintain across numerous servers and different operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. . In many cases they've given up trying to piece the big picture together," said Arun Taneja, of Massachusetts-based Taneja Group, an analyst and consulting firm Noun 1. consulting firm - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee consulting company business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a specializing in storage and storage-centric server technologies. "By combining SANsymphony's centralized storage pooling with SANmaestro's non-intrusive probes and charting capabilities, IT can gauge which applications are the most resource hungry, then factor these figures into billing, charge-back, capacity planning Determining the required future configuration of hardware and software for a network, datacenter or Web site. There are numerous capacity planning tools on the market used to monitor and analyze the performance of the current hardware and software. , and budget justification. An export facility makes it simple to further process results in Excel, SAS (1) (SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, www.sas.com) A software company that specializes in data warehousing and decision support software based on the SAS System. Founded in 1976, SAS is one of the world's largest privately held software companies. See SAS System. , SAP, Oracle, SQL Server An earlier relational DBMS from Sybase and from Microsoft. Sybase introduced SQL Server in 1988 for various Unix versions. In that same year, with help from IBM, Sybase created an OS/2 version that Microsoft licensed and branded as Microsoft SQL Server. and other familiar packages already used for those purposes." Companies can also review I/O service levels over variable time periods. Unexpected peaks and bottlenecks visually jump out from the built-in charts, where they can be associated with specific points in time and critical business events. This ability helps IT departments troubleshoot what may have otherwise been interpreted as unrelated incidents Unrelated Incidents is a series of poems by Tom Leonard. One of the more well-known of this series is "The Six o'clock news" where the poem takes the form of a Glaswegian reading the news autocue like a BBC newsreader. . With little training, storage administrators can quickly isolate unusual patterns over a relatively long period, and then drill down granularly to five-minute intervals. Security-conscious customers, as well as service providers prefer SANsymphony's off-host monitoring because the requirement for vital statistics can be met without granting special privileges on the application servers. Instead, SANmaestro gathers SAN-wide instrumentation provided by SANsymphony in real-time, and then aggregates and charts workloads, capacity utilization and access frequency, among other parameters. SANsymphony and the SANmaestro option operate in heterogeneous networks consisting of mixed storage devices, switching infrastructure and major open operating systems, including Windows, UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). , NetWare, MacOS, and Linux. Extensible for Customization For those organizations whose monitoring requirements exceed the scope of the built-in charts, DataCore offers a SANmaestro extensible spreadsheet and display builder for more sophisticated processing, analysis and presentation. SANmaestro is available today. Pricing for the SANmaestro Monitoring Component starts at $15,000 per storage pool. Site-specific customization is also available. About DataCore Software DataCore Software fundamentally changes the economics of managing storage with innovative software that combines advanced functions and services with the agility and savings of hardware independence. The company's award-winning SANsymphony software provides unprecedented purchasing flexibility and future-proofing by empowering customers to fulfill portability and price/performance requirements across a broad choice of systems and devices. Global 2000 enterprise data centers 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 storage subsystems rely on this comprehensive software platform to centralize and automate storage management for Windows, Unix, Linux, MacOS and NetWare systems. DataCore is privately held with corporate headquarters in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. For international office locations and more information, call (877) 780-5111 or visit www.datacore.com. DataCore, the DataCore logo, SANsymphony and SANmaestro are trademarks or registered trademarks of DataCore Software Corporation DataCore Software is a privately held, computer software corporation founded in 1998 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. DataCore manufactures storage virtualization software, focusing in Storage Area Networks (SAN), Continuous Data Protection (CDP), and Software Acceleration and . Other DataCore product or service names or logos referenced herein are trademarks of DataCore Software Corporation. All other products, services and company names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. |
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