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    EMC launches storage management software

New product look to make managing storage resources both for physical and virtual server environments.

By Rene Millman, 15 May 2007 at 11:36

Storage company EMC has launch new software aimed at managing storage resources.

EMC ControlCentre 6.0 is the newest version of the company's storage resource management (SRM) software. The company said the product will complement VMware VirtualCentre by offering customers support for VMware Infrastructure 3 software and improving flexibility and customisation for SRM reporting.

"Virtual infrastructure provides simplified IT management for data centres of any size," said Brian Byun, vice president of global partners and solutions at VMware. "But VMware Infrastructure customers also tell us they want to surround their virtualised environments with diagnostic tools that provide complete end-to-end visibility to account for the physical infrastructure."

Byun said that the software enabled both companies' customers to manage storage resources in mixed virtual and physical environments.

ControlCentre 6.0 offers support for VMware Infrastructure, including discovery, problem management, compliance, change management, provisioning, and reporting of VMware ESX Server host and guest servers - fully enabling SRM in virtual environments.

Analysts said that while organisations were increasingly turning to virtualisation to increase efficiencies and lower IT costs the tools to manage virtual infrastructure was lagging behind.

"Lacking the ability to comprehensively discover, map, provision and report on virtual server environments, users cannot effectively connect the dots between the virtual and physical worlds and fully realise the cost efficiencies of virtualisation," said Dave Russell, vice president at Gartner.

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