Tek-Tools Secures Leadership Position in Storage Reporting with Release of Profiler Version 4.1.

Storage Monitoring and Reporting Solution Enhances Support for Storage Arrays

DALLAS -- Tek-Tools Software, the leading independent provider of resource management software solutions, announces the release of Profiler 4.1, its modular, real-time, and historical resource monitoring and reporting framework for servers, storage, connectivity, applications, and backup. Tek-Tools' award-winning design offers a consolidated view of heterogeneous environments, relating storage and backup resources to the applications they support. Profiler allows end users to easily collect data, monitor, and report on critical infrastructures that both automate and simplify the management of diverse environments while also reducing operational overhead and reclaiming valuable administrative cycles via automation. The Profiler Suite consists of: ServerProfiler, StorageProfiler, BackupProfiler, and AppProfiler.

Profiler version 4.1 extends its StorageProfiler support for storage arrays, based on SNIA's SMI-S standards, including arrays by IBM, HP, Hitachi, Sun/STK, Fujitsu, SGI, and Teradata. In addition, StorageProfiler version 4.1 supports NetApp storage systems used as SANs. The StorageProfiler module assists in ascertaining and reporting on data for logical and physical mapping, physical components, and operational status. Reports can be run in intervals to collect data over time in order to assist in managed space consumption on RAID Groups, to map storage volumes back to the host that they were assigned to, and to show how these volumes are load balanced across each storage processor on the array. StorageProfiler automates file analysis, capacity planning, and performance monitoring across heterogeneous file systems. From SAN, NAS, iSCSI to direct attached storage, users can proactively monitor, alert, and act on storage utilization levels to systematically avoid outages and insure data usage policies are within compliance. Further efficiency and security is gained with the addition of Profiler's backup monitoring and reporting, which marries storage data to backup information for a complete view of the IT infrastructure.

"We continually work with our customer base to identify and develop the most needed solution modules to address their pain points, and the new capabilities available in Profiler 4.1 help users to make the most of their existing investments as well as evaluate where future acquisitions may be justified," said Brian Radovich, Product Manager of Tek-Tools, Inc. "With our modular approach, we enable administrators within departments as well as enterprise-wide managers to select as much or as little pain relief as needed, instead of presenting a single, over-featured solution at a much higher cost and complexity."

Profiler offers asset management, alerting and notification, performance management, capacity planning, and forecasting and trending for heterogeneous networks. It installs quickly with only one download and easily integrates with existing storage systems and applications, giving customers immediate return on their investment. Its rapidly growing customer base includes large corporations, government and educational agencies, departments and business units within enterprises, and small to midsized businesses. Using Profiler can save companies a substantial percentage of their IT budgets by identifying and helping to correct inefficiencies in the management and allocation of storage, backup, and server capacity. Profiler can help customers save money and streamline their storage and backup infrastructure by enabling server/storage consolidation, streamlining the backup process, and offering visibility for chargeback/resource allocation.

"With Profiler 4.1 general availability, Tek-Tools offers a full range of modules supporting numerous storage and backup vendors allowing both small to midsize business and enterprise customers to achieve the highest return from their considerable investments in storage devices and technologies," said Ken Barth, President and CEO of Tek-Tools, Inc. "Profiler provides a full spectrum of monitoring and file analysis features allowing organizations to uniformly view, report, and make proactive and intelligent business decisions regarding their complex heterogeneous storage/backup environments."

About Tek-Tools Software

Tek-Tools Software, Inc. is a recognized leader in the resource management space. The Profiler Suite is a Web-based, real-time and historical resource monitoring and reporting application targeting SAN, NAS, direct attached storage, database, and backup pain-points. Tek-Tools' headquarters are located at 4040 McEwen Dr., Suite 240, in Dallas, Texas 75244, [phone], and on the Web at www.tek-tools.com.