SMB: Hitachi upgrades mid-size data center SW

Hitachi upgrades mid-size data center SW

Hitachi IT operations analyzer 1.2 boosts Operating System, virtualization and switch Support

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

BANGALORE, INDIA: Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. and the only provider of Services Oriented Storage Solutions, today announced the Hitachi IT operations analyzer, version 1.1, offering comprehensive monitoring software for mid-market customers.

Hitachi IT operations analyzer 1.2 provides a customized Application Product Interface (API) which six Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) are currently integrating, and also includes expanded operating system, virtualization and switch support.

Introduced in April 2009, the solution is a mid-sized business product designed to monitor and diagnose up to 250 heterogeneous server, switch and storage nodes across the data center through a single unified interface, said a press release.

The software provides easy-to-use, comprehensive monitoring capabilities that streamline IT operations and improve customer service levels while reducing the total cost of ownership.

The solution also introduces monitoring support for NetApp FAS, Cisco FC and Juniper EX-Series, and expands its VMware virtualization support with the inclusion of VMware ESXi, added the release.

Sean Moser, vice president of Software Product Management, Hitachi Data Systems said, “In less than a year, our IT Operations Analyzer offering has generated a tremendous amount of interest from the ISV community, particularly as its adoption grows and demand for comprehensive easy-to-manage monitoring solutions for multivendor, multiplatform servers, networks and storage has risen.”

He further added that this new release makes the software an even more comprehensive data center solution that IT managers can easily utilize without needing to invest in specialist knowledge, allowing for rapid problem resolution while reducing the overall cost of ownership.

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