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Symantec unveils Veritas CommandCentral 5.0

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BANGALORE, INDIA: Symantec Corp has unveiled Veritas CommandCentral 5.0 product family, a key component of the company's Storage United initiative to help enterprises address their most pressing storage challenges with a unified, software-oriented approach.

Veritas CommandCentral 5.0 provides industry-leading scalability and reliability coupled with the breadth of heterogeneous support demanded by large enterprise data centers around the globe.

The Veritas CommandCentral 5.0 family includes Veritas CommandCentral Storage 5.0, Veritas CommandCentral Enterprise Reporter 5.0 and Veritas Process Automation Manager 5.0. With the release of this integrated solution set, Veritas CommandCentral becomes the only comprehensive storage resource management (SRM) solution in the market to optimize storage utilization, automate storage processes and align storage with business goals.

Optimizing Storage Utilization in Physical and Virtual Environments with CommandCentral Storage The proliferation of virtualization technologies introduces new challenges in storage management. Veritas CommandCentral offers the unique ability to address these challenges by providing end-to-end visibility in both virtualized server and storage environments. New in the latest release is advanced support for VMware, HDS TagmaStore and IBM SAN Volume Controller.

This advanced support gives IT organizations the ability to effectively manage storage capacity at an application level in virtual environments, which hasn't been possible until now.

Average storage utilization rates across data centers are disconcertingly low, typically hovering at 30 – 40 percent, according to Symantec research. CommandCentral Storage 5.0 analyzes end-to-end storage consumption in both physical and virtual heterogeneous environments, identifies storage that can be reclaimed and enables organizations to increase storage utilization levels by up to 40 percentage points.

By driving up utilization and providing organizations with flexibility and choice of storage hardware, CommandCentral Storage helps customers reduce their storage spend. This includes data center space, power and cooling costs, which are scarce resources and an increasing percentage of the IT budget.

Delivering Business Alignment with Enterprise Reporter

Many organizations do not fully understand how storage assets are being used by business applications and consequently cannot make informed decisions about storage budget expenditures. CommandCentral Storage 5.0 and Enterprise Reporter tighten this relationship by delivering global business-level reporting capabilities that provide executives with easily customizable reports containing the business insight they require and on demand answers to global storage infrastructure questions.

Enterprise Reporter includes a global view of storage with the ability to roll up information from multiple data centers into a single comprehensive view – organized by lines of business, geography or other customized views.

Improving Operational Efficiency with Process Automation Manager

Storage administrators are struggling to ensure uptime and maintain service levels in an ever expanding and complex storage environment. With Veritas Process Automation Manager 5.0, Symantec introduces a comprehensive IT process automation platform that helps storage teams cope with this challenge. This solution enables standardization of storage management processes, implementation of consistent operational policies and automation of these processes. With Process Automation Manager, organizations can improve efficiency of storage operations, reduce time to provision storage and effectively manage service levels.

Delivering Industry Leading Scalability, Reliability and Heterogeneous Support

The new 5.0 release extends CommandCentral Storage's leadership in scalability by supporting over 3,000 servers, 6 petabytes of storage capacity, and 12,000 switch ports with a single management server.  This unique level of scale enables CommandCentral Storage to provide data center wide storage management.

Fully compliant with the industry standard SMI-S 1.1 specification and deeply integrated through multi-vendor API agreements, the 5.0 release of CommandCentral Storage adds support for 3PAR, Fujitsu, HP EVA, IBM DS4x00 arrays and NetApp iSCSI devices enabling comprehensive monitoring, reporting, and active management across a heterogeneous infrastructure.

CommandCentral Storage also provides management and reporting of local and remote replication for high availability and disaster recovery architectures. Extending its current support for EMC TimeFinder, it now also supports EMC's Symmetrix

Remote Data Facility (SRDF); Clariion SnapShot, MirrorView and Snapview; NetApp SnapMirror; and HDS Shadow Image replication solutions.

"IT organizations need to have visibility and control over their heterogeneous storage infrastructure in order to deliver storage services to the business," said Rohit Ghai, Vice President-Engineering, of Symantec's Data Center Management Group.

"CommandCentral Storage 5.0 is the only SRM solution that provides support for both physical and virtual environments with advanced process automation and reporting features. Along with enhanced scalability, it helps allocate storage resources and align IT with business needs".

"The storage environment has to be fully compliant with the industry standards. Enterprises need a comprehensive and robust SRM solution that optimize storage assets, improve storage processes and deliver storage services to the business," said

Vikas Pradhan, Director, Sales, Symantec India. "CommandCentral Storage 5.0 is designed to help optimum utilization of storage space and enables to view and manage the storage environment constantly".

Accelerating Storage Optimization with New Services Offering

Symantec Global Consulting Services is launching a Storage Assessment Program, which provides an objective view into the state of the customer's storage environment. Through this fixed price program, Symantec will assess the organization's storage infrastructure and provide the customer with a comprehensive report detailing the current utilization of storage resources, potential efficiency gains from improved utilization and recommendations to improve storage processes. 

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