MonoSphere(R) Announces the MonoSphere Authorized Partner Program; Partners Can Now Use an Award-Winning Storage Capacity Planning Solution to Expand Their Businesses.REDWOOD CITY Redwood City, city (1990 pop. 66,072), seat of San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1868. Manufactures include commmunications, electrical, electronic, and medical equipment. , Calif. -- MonoSphere(R) Inc., an independent storage management software innovator, today announced the MonoSphere Authorized Partner (MAP) Program. The MAP Program is targeted to global partners, resellers, and service partners who provide solutions and services to help companies more effectively manage their storage infrastructure. Storage Horizon software is used by Fortune 1000 companies as the centerpiece of their systematic storage 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. processes aimed at drastically reducing their Capital Expenditures (CapEx) spending for storage infrastructure. Storage infrastructure spending has become a top of mind issue as new applications' insatiable thirst for computer storage has grown exponentially. Despite shrinking unit costs, yearly storage costs are rising faster than overall IT budget growth and have become an increasingly large part of the total IT hardware budget. Since storage demand had been too difficult to determine or project due to the size, rate of change, and complexity of storage infrastructures, administrators significantly overprovision storage to avoid shortages. This has resulted in average storage usage of around 40% on non-mainframe systems. This low utilization is what Storage Horizon helps IT organizations target and improve, significantly reducing CapEx spending. "The need for an enterprise storage capacity planning and forecasting solution is a top priority for Storage professionals, it is consistently listed as a top pain and the products in use today are overwhelmingly homegrown home·grown adj. 1. Raised or grown at home. 2. Originating in or characteristic of a locality: "Rock is homegrown music in the United States, evolved from blues and country and Tin Pan Alley" , inaccurate and late to meeting business needs," according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Robert Stevenson, managing director for storage research at TheInfoPro. Partners receive a variety of incentives, training, and technical assistance as part of their participation in the program. Partners have access to sales training, demonstration software, marketing programs, communication vehicles, and pre-sales technical support. In addition, MonoSphere's mobile/portable licensing model allows partners to license Storage Horizon so that it can be used for the length of a consulting engagement and then moved on to another project. "Our storage cost management service helps our clients identify and quantify their Total Cost of Ownership (TCO (1) (Total Cost of Ownership) The cost of using a computer. It includes the cost of the hardware, software and upgrades as well as the cost of the inhouse staff and/or consultants that provide training and technical support. See ROI. ) of storage by line-of-business", said Thien Doan, President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of IMT IMT, n.pr See inspiratory muscle training. Partners, a leading systems integrator and consulting organization for 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. (ILM) challenges. "By utilizing MonoSphere Storage Horizon in delivering our ILM solutions, we enabled our clients to set goals, measure and report on the financial return on their investments in data management and ILM strategy." "We designed the MAP program to meet the needs of partners who assist enterprises in making more efficient storage CapEx spending decisions," said Ralph Hubregsen, MonoSphere's Vice President of Business Development. "This is a large and growing market, so MAP provides a critical solution for our partners to address a significant pain point and deliver significant ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). ." About MonoSphere MonoSphere, an independent storage management software innovator, helps large to mid-size enterprises forecast, plan, and optimize their storage capacity. MonoSphere's agent-less software provides customers with the strategic insight they need to maximize resource utilization while proactively planning for future demand. Unlike first-generation reporting tools, MonoSphere delivers clear, accurate, and actionable recommendations so customers can increase their service levels while reducing capital expenditures -- all without assuming unnecessary risks that can compromise business processes. MonoSphere is headquartered in Redwood City, California Redwood City is a suburb located on the San Francisco Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. Redwood City is the county seat of San Mateo County. As of the 2005 census, the city had a total population of 76,000. , and is led by a team of proven innovators in enterprise management and storage infrastructure software markets. Customers include financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. , technology, life sciences, and telecommunications enterprises. The company has attracted $30 million in backing from top-tier investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, ComVentures, and Benchmark Capital Benchmark Capital is a venture capital firm responsible for the early stage funding of some very successful startups, including eBay. In 1995, the firm invested $6.7 million in eBay, which became worth more than $5 billion by the spring of 1999 and resulted in one of Silicon . For more information, go to www.monosphere.com. MonoSphere and the MonoSphere Logo are registered trademarks of MonoSphere Inc. Other MonoSphere product or service names or logos referenced herein are trademarks of MonoSphere Inc. All other products, services and company names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. |
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