Take Control of Your Data Center

Your data center relies on a complicated integration of technologies that present a complex set of challenges. SAN and NAS storage, backup, data replication and virtualization – each component is a challenge to manage. Put them altogether and you are caught in a management dilemma.

To make matters worse, the data center is open for business 24/7/365 and every aspect must be managed properly – otherwise mission-critical operations fail. And the data center grows larger and more complex every year. With data requirements increasing by 80% or more per year, you are constantly in need of more capacity, more servers, and more virtual server instances. Now is the time to take control of your data center.

APTARE StorageConsole

Optimize Storage Resources
The data center’s increasing need for capacity is unstoppable, but today’s budgets simply cannot keep up. The only alternative is to reclaim “dark” storage within your data center – storage that has been allocated but will never be used.

APTARE StorageConsole Capacity Manager empowers you to increase the utilization of current storage assets and reduce your data center costs by minimizing storage purchases. Since APTARE StorageConsole Capacity Manager delivers agentless end-to-end visibility into actual consumption – not just allocation – from the storage arrays down to the hosts, applications and files, you can easily identify and tap into hidden storage resources. Using APTARE’s out-of-the-box reports, you can reclaim from 10%-40% of your allocated storage.

Drive Maximum VM Performance
Virtualization in the data center is a highly effective way to optimize your server infrastructure, but the challenge of server virtualization is that it adds a layer of abstraction between the physical servers and virtual hosts – increasing complexity, reducing your visibility, and impeding your ability to manage your VMs.

APTARE StorageConsole Virtualization Manager enables you to drive VMware performance in your data center by delivering comprehensive monitoring, alerting and reporting of ESX servers, VMs and datastores. The system monitors and reports on key VM performance metrics – CPU, memory and storage utilization. In fact, it goes beyond VCenter, to report on VM storage usage all the way to the LUN. In addition, APTARE StorageConsole Virtualization Manager battles “VM sprawl” by identifying outdated and unused VMs and VM snapshots, and freeing up additional storage space.

Ensure Backup Reliability
One of your top responsibilities in the data center is to ensure that your data is protected via the backup process – and you have to be able to prove it. With unprecedented visibility into your backup environment, APTARE StorageConsole Backup Manager enables you to optimize the process, guarantee backup success, boost backup performance, improve capacity planning, and streamline your regulatory compliance initiatives.

Streamline Chargeback and Tiering Processes
Even if you do not actually bill your internal customers, you still need an accurate picture of their hard dollar storage expenses. Utilizing the chargeback reporting feature within APTARE StorageConsole Capacity Manager, enables you to establish various storage tiers with multiple attributes – such as array type, drive type, drive speed – and assign a cost to each tier. Using logical “server groups”, you can generate chargeback reports for any configuration of groups including by department, geography, and data center.

Proactively Resolve Problems
The complexity of the data center makes monitoring essential. APTARE StorageConsole monitors your data center environment 24/7 and sends alerts so you can solve issues before they become problems that impact storage performance. Flexible alerting options include email, scripts, or SNMP traps, and you can customize alerts to fit your environment and compliance needs. APTARE StorageConsole Capacity Manager can even be set up to automatically remediate the issue by generating a custom script or interfacing with a ticketing system via SNMP.

More Resources

	Calculate Your ROI
	Webcast: Increase Your Storage Efficiency & Reduce Costs
	Podcast: Reclaiming Hidden Storage