Aptare Adds SAN Fabric Component to Storage Management App

Aptare has released StorageConsole 8, a new version of its storage resource management (SRM) app. According to this report on The Register the new version offers SAN fabric reporting with topology mapping, change management and performance reporting through interactive dashboards.

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"SRM software fell into the doldrums a few years ago when it proved impractical to cover all the various Fibre Channel SAN arrays and fabric devices, filers and iSCSI storage network cards and arrays, and get resource usage data from them. Without a comprehensive cover of all the storage network devices, adapters and storage arrays the SRM apps couldn't provide an acceptable end-to-end picture of storage resource use. The suppliers fell away, with the lucky ones being acquired. HP nabbed AppIQ, for instance."

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