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| MonoSphere Introduces Storage Horizon 3.0 MonoSphere has introduced Storage Horizon 3.0. This software 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 capital expenditures on IT storage. New analytical tools automate the previously manual process of matching storage demand with physical storage inventory, enabling enterprises to more fully leverage existing hardware assets. Fortune 1000 companies' demand for storage capacity has increased from 44 terabytes to 698 terabytes on average within the past four years, according to the analyst firm TheInfoPro's Wave 8 Report. In MonoSphere's December 2006 survey of 140 storage professionals, 83 percent responded that despite declining unit costs, storage spending is increasing and at a rate faster than IT budget growth. In fact 62 percent responded that the increase in capital expenditures for storage causes delays in other important IT initiatives. This issue underscores the need for large enterprises to develop effective storage capacity plans and maximize utilization of existing storage assets. For mid- to large-sized enterprises, savings within the first year of implementing MonoSphere's storage capacity management software can exceed millions of dollars. MonoSphere's Storage Horizon enables storage administrators to make informed storage infrastructure decisions about how and when to consolidate storage, increase utilization, add new subsystems, understand the impact of data protection schemes, reclaim under-utilized storage and prevent out-of-storage emergencies. Storage Horizon 3.0 is a comprehensive management application for capacity forecasting, capacity budgeting, storage analytics, supply-to-demand mapping and daily usage monitoring. New features include: - Data collection and reporting from storage arrays; - Automated supply-to-demand mapping of storage array logical devices to host volumes; - Automated association of usage and usage forecasts to storage arrays; - Automated, storage-array-based capacity plan generation; - 20 template-based analytical reports, in addition to more than 500 custom reports; - Alerts for potential "trouble spots" and over-provisioned areas. As with previous versions, Storage Horizon 3.0 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 :: © 2007 Networking News :: home page |