A waste of space: Bulk of drive capacity still underutilized
7.28.10 — "Despite Fibre Channel and IP SAN adoption and the advent of technologies such as thin provisioning, storage resource management, capacity reclamation and storage virtualization, storage utilization rates remain at 40% or lower."

APTARE Releases StorageConsole 8 to Enable 360 Degree View of the Storage System.
6.24.10 — "IT administrators face problems with the increasing complexity of today's storage environment. Most products only report on a limited scope which makes difficult to manage the company's entire storage environment."

Aptare promises 'Web 2.0' storage management
6.23.10 — "Aptare has released a new version of its storage resource management (SRM) app called StorageConsole 8 that adds SAN fabric component coverage.""

APTARE SRM StorageConsole 8
6.22.10 — "Enterprise storage resource management leader APTARE, Inc. announced a new release of its StorageConsole 8."

APTARE adds SAN fabric monitoring to SRM suite.
6.22.10 — "Aptare, one of the last pure-play enterprise storage resource management (SRM) software vendors, updated its StorageConsole SRM suite today ...""

APTARE adds SAN change management to SRM suite
6.22.10 — "Aptare Inc. today released StorageConsole 8, adding a fabric management application to its suite of storage resource management (SRM) tools."

APTARE introduces StorageConsole 8 - Podcast
6.22.10 — ""Virtual Strategy Magazine speaks to APTARE CEO Rick Clark about the new StorageConsole 8 and enhancements to existing products."

2010 Storage Superstars
6.21.10 — "Enter the storage visionaries. This group of talented individuals -- some of the smartest people on the planet -- live and breathe storage."

Storage Virtualization At A Glance
3.12.10 — "Pooling Your Storage Resources Can Save Money & Improve Performance "

IT Managers Seeking — and Getting — More Help to Control Far-flung Assets
3.10.10 — "The No. 1 most talked-about product genre at Data Center World 2010 is data center management software."

Backup software keeps up with the times
3.9.10 — "New backup technologies are ready for mass adoption, and they're not just for early adopters."

VM-specific software vs. traditional enterprise data backup software
1.24.10 — "There have been all kinds of tried-and-true solutions over the years. Probably the most popular one has been when something is not needed, you used to delete that set of files."

Storage optimization and capacity reduction
1.19.10 — "There have been all kinds of tried-and-true solutions over the years. Probably the most popular one has been when something is not needed, you used to delete that set of files."

What Is Cloud Appropriate Data?
1.14.10 — "As the use of cloud storage becomes more prevalent this year one of the key challenges is what data should go to cloud storage, when that data should be moved there and how should that data be moved there?"

Data Thinkage
11.12.09 — "For most environments obtaining enough capacity is no longer a challenge, it is managing that capacity that becomes the problem."

Improved enterprise storage management tools are needed, especially for data backup
10.06.09 — "The explosive growth of data storage is causing IT organizations to consider, even if only wistfully, making a case for the purchase of new storage resource management (SRM) tools."

Backup Vs. Recovery
9.17.09 — "One thing suppliers and analysts are quick to point out is that when it comes to data protection it is not about how well you backup, it is about how well you recover."

Top 20 Storage Products From VMworld
9.14.09 — "APTARE enhanced its new Aptare StorageConsole 7.1 Virtualization Manager, which looks at the storage sitting on virtual machines to help customers with planning, management and optimization of storage environments."

GlassHouse talks to Rick Clark from Aptare about Cloud Computing at VMworld 2009
9.4.09 — "Rob Zylowski from GlassHouse talks to Rick Clark of Aptare about Cloud Computing @ VMworld 2009."

VMworld 2009: Storage vendors continue product updates around VMware
9.4.09 — "Aptare Inc.'s StorageConsole 7.1 SRM and backup reporting software now offers predictive analysis and forecasting of VM storage utilization."

Hot technology for the virtual world
9.2.09 — "Aptare has upgraded its flagship product to improve storage utilization in data centers using both physical and virtual servers. The new release adds support for VMware's vSphere and uses a virtualization manager to reclaim wasted storage dedicated to unused virtual machines."

APTARE Expands Virtual Component Offering
9.1.09 — "APTARE today announced upgrades to its flagship StorageConsole product suite. These enhancements help data center administrators effectively improve storage utilization in both physical and virtual server environments."

Live from VMworld
9.1.09 — "APTARE announced 7.1 at the show and it will be available on September 25th. The tools focus on VMware handling virtualization specific problems like lack of planning, limited enterprise view and VM sprawl."

APTARE enhances storage management software
9.1.09 — "APTARE on Tuesday enhanced its storage management StorageConsole suite with the addition of reporting tools for virtual environments that show resource performance contention and identification of assets that may have been forgotten, underutilized or overprovisioned."

How to control your SAN
8.25.09 — "Ron Nutter talks with Rick Clark, CEO of Aptare, about the challenges of SANs growing at an exponential rate while the funding to manage them doesn't keep pace."

Deletion And Reclamation — The Ultimate Deduplication Strategy
8.12.09 — "With all the products that are available today for optimizing storage through deduplication and/or compression, one of the best methods available is deletion and reclamation."

Data Storage, Data Backup and Storage Virtualization: 10 Best Practices for Implementing Cloud Storage
8.9.09 — "If a large or midsize enterprise isn't already investing in some sort of cloud component or service in its IT system, then one can bet that, at the very least, this topic is being discussed at the highest levels of decision-making. "

Q&A: Best backup reporting tools
8.5.09 — "These products are now referred to as Data Protection Management products. There are several in this space and we maintain a list of them on Backup Central. In alphabetical order, they are Aptare's Storage Console, Bocada's Enterprise, EMC Data Protection Advisor, Rocket Software's Servergraph. Symantec Veritas Backup Reporter, Tek-Tools Software's Storage Profiler and TSMworks. "

Data backup reporting tools' trending features rank highly with backup administrators
7.21.09 — "Data backup reporting tools have evolved to include trending and analysis features to better help in planning for backup data growth — a valuable asset for companies doing backups to tape, and especially for those backing up to disk."

Product Spotlight: APTARE StorageConsole Capacity Manager
7.13.09 — "The more storage installed in an enterprise's data center, the more likely it is that some of that storage space is under used. Finding and then reclaiming this dark storage, and putting it to productive use, is what the APTARE StorageConsole Capacity Manager is designed to do. "

How to handle an increasingly larger SAN?
7.8.09 — "Our SAN has increased in size several times in the past year. The different departments and users have been requesting yet more storage. Management had been receptive in the past to buying off to get more storage. They pushed back this time. How do I satisfy their concerns and get more storage to meet the requests I am getting?"

Storage resource management tools for SMBs
6.21.09 —"In 2008, the IT group at the Law School Admission Council (LSAC), Newtown, PA, came under pressure from its Board to improve service reliability and continuity. LSAC provides technology-based services to more than 200 law schools."

Increase Control Over Storage Resources In VMware & NetApp Environments
6.19.09 — "In-depth data storage reporting is critical to efficient operations of any server environment, especially when performance and business continuity is of the utmost importance. APTARE released the most recent version of its StorageConsole solution to provide increased functionality and operational control with storage environments."

Automated Virtualization and Replication Management Integral to Delivering on the Full Promise of SRM
5.13.09 —"The introduction of Virtualization Manager and Replication Manager addresses two critical infrastructure needs of organizations. First, there is not an enterprise organization that is not enticed by the cost savings that virtualization offers."

Hitachi Data Systems targets holistic management
5.13.09 —"Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) Corp. is broadening its data management software with three new applications today, including one that monitors data storage resources along with network and server devices."

Hitachi Uses Aptare to Bring Its Storage Portfolio Up to Date
5.13.09 —"New software options will provide HDS' customers with a more extensive management view beyond the storage system"

APTARE StorageConsole 7.0
5.5.09 —"Transforming the Marketplace: Virtualization and Cloud Computing"

APTARE StorageConsole 7.0
4.24.09 —"APTARE released the StorageConsole 7.0 with increased control of storage resources for VMware servers and NetApp environments."

Optimize Cloud Storage, Flash Storage And Deduplication
4.10.09 — "Tools and better storage systems can help make IT Administrators more efficient. The other option is to keep throwing new technology at the problem. Cloud Storage, Flash Storage and Deduplication are great examples."

APTARE rolls out new SRM software
4.2.09 — "Storage resource management vendor APTARE this week announced its latest version of StorageConsole, software that gives IT managers better visibility into and control of their storage resources."

APTARE SRM targets virtual servers
4.1.09 — "Storage resource management (SRM) software maker APTARE is now selling a new version of its StorageConsole software with new functionality for better control of storage resources within VMware virtual server and NetApp replication environments."

APTARE widens SRM net to include VMware, NetApp replication
4.1.09 — "APTARE Inc. upgraded and expanded its StorageConsole storage resource management (SRM) suite this week, adding products to manage resources in VMware virtual server and NetApp replication environments."

APTARE Goes Upgrade Crazy
4.1.09 — "APTARE has upgraded its Storage Resource Management (SRM) products to work better in a virtualised server world. It says its StorageConsole 7.0 suite gives users greater control of storage resources within VMware virtualised server and NetApp replication environments."

APTARE's StorageConsole Platform Receives Enhancements: VSM Speaks with Rick Clark, President and CEO of APTARE, about agent-less Web 2.0 Storage Management and Reporting for Enterprises
3.31.09 — "APTARE's StorageConsole, a reporting and management platform for storage environments — how it works"

You Can't DeDupe IT Administration
3.26.09 — "Primary Storage Optimization is about putting more data in the same amount of physical space. Server Virtualization is about putting more virtual servers in the same physical space."

16 ways IT can do less with less
3.16.09 — "Tough times call for tough measures. Layoffs and cutbacks are rampant. Even if your IT budget is relatively stable, you will probably be asked to do more with less."

Back to Basics: Making Smart Storage Decisions During Tough Economic Times
2.17.09 — "Ah, those were the good old days. When the storage array looked to be at capacity, IT administrators simply requested more storage and the powers that be gladly signed off."

How to manage storage resources in a server virtualization environment
2.17.09 — "Server virtualization in general, and VMware in particular, is supposed to help your customers reduce costs and save money by increasing the utilization of physical server hardware. For the most part, it works."

Year In Review: The state of Backup
1.05.09 — "Storage administrators at the largest companies have learned that without better management of the entire backup process, it will be impossible to tame their data growth regardless of what data reduction or protection tools they use. "

8 Ways To Expense An iPhone
12.17.08 — "Management vendors have gotten wise to the fact that most in IT can't sit in front of monitoring consoles to detect problems and potential failures. Now several have designed their applications to run from the graphical user interfaces of iPhones and other smartphones."

Aptare StorageConsole: Web-based Storage Management
10.29.08 — "The browser is becoming the interface of choice, and the shift is not lost on storage management concern Aptare. "

IT Q3 Report Card: Financial Crisis Impacting IT Decision-Making
10.29.08 — "How is IT in general holding up in this volatile environment, and what are the prospects of various sectors going forward? That's what everyone wants to know, and about which few people are willing to go out on a limb and make predictions. "

Aptare Releases StorageConsole 6.6
10.28.08 — "Enterprise storage software leader APTARE®, Inc. today announced APTARE StorageConsole 6.6, the latest version of its Web 2.0 agent-less storage management and reporting platform that now includes full support for NetApp storage environments. "

Aptare Upgrades StorageConsole
10.28.08 —"Today’s announcement strengthens APTARE’s ability to deliver unparalleled breadth and depth in storage reporting details. It extends the company’s competitive position as the provider of the industry’s most comprehensive easy-to-use end-to-end storage management and reporting platform.

APTARE launches latest version of its Web 2.0 agent-less storage management platform
10.28.08.08 —"APTARE StorageConsole is a cost-effective agent-less platform leveraging all of the interactive, customizable benefits of Web 2.0 architecture. It integrates backup and storage capacity reporting into a single Web 2.0 console optimized to allow enterprises to improve their storage utilization and reduce costs. "

Staying Creative: Success On A Shoestring
8.14.08 —"APTARE CEO Rick Clark explains how his company grew from two to over 50 employees from its inception 15 years ago and doubled revenues every year for the past four—without venture capital."

Managing Storage From Your Cell Phone
7.18 —""(Storage) management has been the Cinderella of storage apps for many years, and she hasn't found a prince to rescue her quite yet. Well, until now, that is, because APTARE StorageConsole has the potential to be crowned prince of storage management applications..."

25 Coolest Emerging Vendors
7.08 —""Here is our list of the 25 coolest emerging vendors selected from our list of 178 companies in the CRN 2008 Emerging Vendors report. These are the sleek red Ferraris of the technology set zooming past your parents' Volvo."

Application Awareness Makes Storage More Useful
7.08 —"Traditionally, computer storage is divided into silos, with one application attached to a specific piece of “dumb” storage hardware. However, this model is no longer effective for all users because storage is no longer always a one size-fits-all concept."

How Do You Stay Entrepreneurial?
6.27.08 —"APTARE CEO Rick Clark shares his tips on staying entrepreneurial and taking risks in an era of uncertainty.

Top Backup Problems & How To Avoid Them
6.09.08 —"These days, backing up data is significantly more complex and risky. Here are a few key backup problems SMEs face and ways either to avoid them or solve them.."

Vendors retool SRM apps
3.08 —"Storage resource management tools come in a variety of flavors and offer features that take steps toward automating your storage environment, while reporting on the efficiency of the installed storage systems."

A New Level Of Backup Reporting
2.08 —"Backup success rates are improving, but reliable data recovery is still a concern. Not only does data loss impact business productivity and potentially revenue, but failure to produce data could result in fines or damage to a company's reputation. The good news is that a collection of vendor offerings has arrived to address the need to provide reporting beyond a single backup event."

90% of APTARE's Customers Have 2008 Initiatives
2.25.08 —"APTARE's Clark says that it is essential that APTARE first deliver what their current and potential customers want to see in a reporting tool: (1) A centralized database; (2) A web-based GUI and (3) No agents."

2008: The Year of the Storage Vendor
2.04.08 —"All of the compliance talk – SOX, COBIT, COSO, HIPAA, Section 404 – has overwhelmed organizations of all sizes and has made them more accountable for the data they collect and store."

Product Releases
12.27.08 —"New from Aptare are its StorageConsole 6.5 and StorageConsole Capacity Manager products. StorageConsole 6.5 is an agentless, bridged platform that offers single Web 2.0 console access to backup reporting and storage management features."

Data Protection Management: A Good Fit For SMEs
11.30.07—"Backup failure and performance rank at the top of the list of issues that continue to perplex storage administrators on a daily basis."

Brain Drain
11.07—" Does the promise of huge financial payoffs cramp the creativity of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs?"

A standard that leaves out the good stuff?
10.24.07—"A specification meant to bring together storage device management under one umbrella instead continues to be criticized for its innate inability to enable interoperable functionality."

Checking Storage Capacity -- on an iPhone
10.19.07—"There's nothing like making a phone call, listening to a favorite MP3, then checking your company's storage capacity -- all on the same handheld unit. In this case, it's an iPhone."

Is Your Storage Vendor Ripping You Off?
10.04.07—"Not every bit and byte requires the best storage. Tier your storage and save money."

Aptare expands into capacity management
8.30.07—"StorageConsole Platform 6.5 now includes the ability to track storage capacity utilization to let storage administrators determine future storage needs."

Aptare adds capacity planning
8.22.07—"StorageConsole Platform 6.5 gives administrators access to the status of their backups, detailed insight into their heterogeneous storage environments, and the ability to run reports to check on storage capacity and utilization."

Aptare releases new version of StorageConsole software
8.21.07—"Aptare Inc., a provider of web-based storage reporting and management software, has announced on Monday a new release of StorageConsole software,"

Backup Reporting Tools Become DPM
8.20.07—"backup reporting specialist Aptare, which started life as a services company back in the early '90s, unveiled the addition of capacity management to its StorageConsole software."

Backup reporting expands to add capacity planning
8.20.07—"Aptare Inc. is the latest vendor of data storage reporting and monitoring tools to try to sweeten the pot for users by expanding the scope of its product."

What's Up With Centralized Storage?
4.13.07—"Rick Clark, president and CEO of APTARE, notes many of its customers found “connecting [storage] systems was the easy part; managing it was a nightmare.”"

Capacity planning tools require serious purchase consideration
4.11.07—"Gauging storage needs over time is one of the biggest challenges faced by IT administrators, and a new generation of capacity planning tools is emerging to help forecast growth and utilization of storage resources."

"IDC predicts rapid growth for DPRM"
3.26.07—"A recent report from International Data Corp. (IDC) predicts that the worldwide data protection and recovery management (DPRM) market will grow from $58 million in 2006 to $200 million by 2011, representing a 28% compound annual growth rate (CAGR)."

"Big Bytes Finalists Named"
8.30.06—"Byte and Switch today announced that nearly three dozen organizations have been selected as finalists for the Big Bytes, an industry awards program that recognizes storage innovation and creativity."

"Aptare upgrades DPM software"
7.26.06—"Aptare added support for IBM’s Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) software in the latest edition of its StorageConsole data protection management (DPM) software."

"Six storage companies to watch"
7.24.06—"In researching this story, analysts and others also pointed us to these two independent storage companies that, while not start-ups, are worth watching:

"Aptare expands channel focus"
7.12.06—"Aptare, a provider of web based data protection management software, is seeking to expand its reseller base from its current 20 to at least 100 worldwide."

"Users tame backup systems with reporting tools"
7.10.06 —"as data grows everywhere and backup environments grow more and more difficult to manage manually, many enterprises are seeing the value in a separate reporting tool."

"APTARE Manages backup"
6.27.06 —"Using the centralized, Web-based portal, Aptare says storage administrators can increase the integrity of their data protection by being able to quickly identify unprotected data, improve capacity planning, increase performance and provide compliance with audits and legal discovery."

"APTARE announces backup managed service"
6.26.06 —"The software enables resellers and managed service providers to offer customers backup reporting and management..."

"APTARE Adds Data Protection"
6.25.06 —"APTARE, Inc., provider of web-based data protection management software, today announced APTARE StorageConsole Managed Services Edition."

"APTARE StorageConsole, Web Based Management, Reporting of Backup Platforms"
5.18.06—"StorageConsole provides for the Enterprise a Web-based management and reporting console offering visibility into the organization's current backup posture and performance.".

"APTARE Upgrades Data-Protection Software"
5.18.06—"Aptare has added the latest edition of its StorageConsole data-protection management software as support for IBM's Tivoli Storage Manager.

"APTARE Unveils Enhanced APTARE StorageConsole 5.1"
5.15.06—"APTARE, Inc., provider of web-based data protection management software, today unveiled APTARE StorageConsole(R)5.1, the next major update of its enterprise backup reporting and management solution."

eWeek - "APTARE Confronts Competitors with Data Protection Upgrade"
5.15.06—"Aptare's new version of its backup and management tool is a call to arms against competitors Bocada and WysDM, while also offering compatibility with major backup products."

Byte and Switch - "APTARE Adds Tivoli Support"
5.15.06—"Already deployed in hundreds of installations worldwide, APTARE StorageConsole is the only web-based reporting and management tool that provides centralized, real-time information on complex backup and recovery environments."