BANGALORE, INDIA: LSI Corporation announced the release of its latest LSI StoreAge SVM (Storage Virtualisation Manager) software suite. 

LSI StoreAge SVM software suite is an advanced services platform that enables centralised storage management and multi-level data protection for distributed, heterogeneous storage environments.

Based on industry-proven, fifth-generation architecture, the SVM software suite includes centralised volume management, storage pooling, snapshot, volume copy, data migration and mirroring applications.

The new architecture is designed to deliver greater scalability for up to a 10X increase in the number of snapshots and replication tasks per volume, and incorporates new features such as thin provisioning to help simplify virtualised infrastructure management and dramatically increase storage capacity utilisation. The software also delivers green benefits by allowing storage platform consolidation, which reduces data centre power consumption for improved energy efficiency. 

Phil Bullinger, executive vice president and general manager, Engenio Storage Group, LSI, said: “Large-scale consolidation is the economic imperative of the twenty-first century data centre. By complementing server virtualisation with StoreAge SVM, customers can regain control of their data and dramatically increase capacity utilisation.”

SVM software’s dynamic thin provisioning feature enables users to allocate virtual capacity to meet the relentless data growth demands triggered by today’s applications. This eliminates the need to over-allocate large amounts of real capacity to individual applications, reducing the amount of physical storage and allowing up to a 2X improvement in capacity utilizstion. It also improves application availability by eliminating disruptions caused by everyday data management tasks like increasing file allocations or expanding volumes to meet constantly changing requirements.