NEW DELHI, INDIA: EMC Corporation unveiled EMC Ionix Data Center Insight – laying the foundation for unified IT configuration visibility across data centre and accelerate private cloud. Ionix Data Center Insight's base pricing starts at of $40,000. 

With an ability to bring together dependency mapping and discovery across storage, network, server and application domains, Ionix Data Center Insight enables customers to evolve configuration management databases (CMDBs) into fully federated configuration management systems (CMS).

Ionix Data Center Insight is a key piece of EMC’s newly announced Ionix IT management suite – powerful solutions for automating IT management across a unified infrastructure of storage, server, network and virtualization resources. With Ionix, customers can confidently move from physical to virtual to cloud computing – maximizing the value of their new enterprise IT architecture. 

Dennis Drogseth, VP, Enterprise Management Associates, said: “Establishing and populating a federated CMDB system is one of the biggest challenges companies face today when trying to manage their next-generation data centers. With so many tools collecting data from all parts of the IT environment, the ability to get up-to-date, accurate and complete data to a single, monolithic CMDB solution becomes extremely difficult and requires excessive manual labor and guesswork."