StorageConsole provides for the Enterprise a Web-based management and reporting console offering visibility into the organization's current backup posture and performance. The platform now consists of three primary components: The StorageConsole itself, which provides the Web portal interface used to access and manage the other components; and the individual Backup Manager and new Capacity Manager components, which leverage the StorageConsole interface. StorageConsole provides management and visibility into existing (i.e., 3rd party) backup platforms, tools, and devices; it is not a backup platform in and of itself.

The StorageConsole interface is boasted by the vendor as supporting the serving of data to backup executives in five different ways: through an AJAX-enhanced browser interface; an XML Report Designer that supports the custom design of reports along with report scheduling, multiple outputs (text, HTML, delimited, PDF), and reports saving/E-mailing; pre-defined reporting with automated E-mail distribution; threshold-based alerting via SNMP or E-mail (with automated callback notification script execution); and published read-only database views into the underlying StorageConsole data. The vendor states that the portal requires no proprietary ports; collecting its data via HTTPS communications. For NetBackup environments, a data collector component is required to be deployed on the NetBackup Master Server.

Beneath this interface, two primary components are offered by the vendor for the management and analysis of the backup platform and its data.

Backup Manager provides real-time information as to the state and operations of their backup platforms; with support offered for VERITAS NetBackup, Symantec Backup Exec, Tivoli Storage Manager, EMC Legato Networker, Data Protector, Sun StorageTek ACSLS Manager, and Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN). Features include backup success/failure rate reporting, discovery of unprotected data, file level backup status detail, identification of partial backups, compliance reporting, SLA reporting, chargebacks, more.

Capacity Manager is a new component that, as its name suggests, focuses on capacity and utilization-based reporting of both existing storage arrays and the hosts that use them; including the ability to report such metrics as the relationships between LUNs and hosts, amount of capacity allocated and used by each host, and capacity allocated and used by application. Other features include predictive analysis (predict future storage capacity needs based on current usage and growth), application-specific threshold alerting, support for historical/current data reporting, and chargeback management. Capacity Manager supports arrays from Hitachi and EMC; and host systems running Windows, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, or Linux.

StorageConsole, Backup Manager, and Capacity Manager are all available now. Entry pricing for Backup Management is $15,000 for 50 clients; while entry pricing for Capacity Management is $20,000 for 50 TB.

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