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| MonoSphere Introduces Storage Horizon 2.3 MonoSphere has announced the newest release of its Storage Horizon 2.3. The solution provides Global 3000 companies a unified view of current and projected storage capacity usage, which enables IT organizations to develop effective storage-capacity plans, maximize utilization of existing storage assets, and significantly reduce CapEx spending. Storage usage can change significantly over time, making it necessary to frequently update usage forecasts to reflect new trends. In large environments with tens to hundreds of thousands of volumes and filesystems, it is not feasible to manually generate all of these forecasts. To address this, MonoSphere's latest version of Storage Horizon features an Auto-Forecaster. Through user-defined templates, end users can schedule periodic forecasts to run automatically across all their host volumes and supported applications. With up-to-date forecasts, Storage Horizon's analysis allows users to keep a close watch on their entire storage infrastructure and get notifications of potential issues long before they become problems. In addition, Storage Horizon's forecasting engine will automatically assign each forecast a Modeling Quality Index, which uses advanced statistical algorithms to calculate the quality of the forecast. Storage Horizon categorizes each index as either: Poor, Good or Excellent. A Modeling Quality Index rating of "Excellent" would be assigned, for example, if a six-month forecast was generated on six months of collected data. When running reports from a Storage Horizon analysis engine, such as the Storage Planner, users can specify a Modeling Quality Index of "Good or Better" to avoid making poor purchasing decisions based on insufficient data. As with previous versions, Storage Horizon 2.3 does not require installation of software agents on application servers, so the system deploys in hours and collects storage usage data immediately. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Networking News :: home page |