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Onaro Partners With Leading Storage Vendors to Attain Broad Adoption of Change Management for SANs

Posted on: Monday, 25 October 2004, 09:00 CDT

Development partners include industry leaders EMC, HDS, IBM, HP, Cisco, Brocade, McData, CNT, QLogic, and Emulex

Onaro, Inc., developer of the first change management software to predict, prevent and troubleshoot problems in storage area networks (SANs), today announced the Onaro Development Partner Program. The program is open to prominent and innovative storage-device vendors that want to improve their customers' ability to manage change and growth of their storage networks with greater speed, assurance and lower costs.

Debuting partners include: EMC, HDS, IBM, HP, Cisco, Brocade, McData, CNT, QLogic and Emulex. Through the program, Onaro's SANscreen(R) change management software integrates easily into a company's heterogeneous storage environment, detecting problems before, during and after SAN changes. By simulating the impact of changes, performing root-cause analysis, and continuously troubleshooting and validating changes, SANscreen reduces the time, resources and risks in managing and scaling SANs.

"Eighty percent of all SAN availability issues result from faulty change processes - not from hardware of software issues," said Schai Scharf, CEO and co-founder of Onaro. "Through the Onaro Development Partner Program, SANscreen delivers the storage industry's gold standard for SAN change assurance." Onaro and its partners expect SANscreen to become the de facto standard for SAN change management, monitoring the health of complex SANs in real time.

SANscreen complements and empowers storage resource management and provisioning software by providing a sound storage infrastructure. It ensures that changes are performed quickly and accurately, without damaging disruptions and security breaches.

Through the partner program, SANscreen's "checks-and-balances" capabilities function regardless of the customers' choice of storage equipment, meeting the industry requirement for broad device support. SANscreen currently operates with storage and switch devices from all major storage vendors. Onaro, a Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) member, develops and deploys SANscreen for open storage networking standards such as SMI-S.

Members of the partner program, recognizing the value that SANscreen delivers to their customers, provide the technical cooperation to integrate SANscreen into multi-vendor storage environments. SANscreen's non-intrusiveness eliminates risk of deployment, by operating without agents, out of the data path, in a 'read-only' manner.

Analysts, including Gartner Vice President Ray Paquet, emphasize that SAN change management is a critical "watchdog layer" of storage networks. Steve Duplessie, founder and senior analyst of Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) said his firm "has confirmed that the issue of change management...represents the single biggest challenge in data centers today. You can't manage, maximize, virtualize, improve utilization, or anything else if you don't have a stable infrastructure. If you are part of the real world of chaotic storage environments, you'll find SANscreen may literally change your life".

About Onaro

Onaro is the pioneering leader in Change Management for SANs, enabling enterprises to effectively manage changes and growth in storage networks with absolute assurance. Its SANscreen software continuously validates SAN changes throughout the change process, growth, consolidations and conversions. Its root-cause analysis identifies and fixes violations that stray from policies and best practices, exposing potentially fatal errors and vulnerabilities. SANscreen's automated change management process replaces essentially manual methods in order to attain superior SAN availability, security and performance.

SANscreen is currently deployed in some of the largest SANs in the world in corporate and government markets. The patent-pending technology behind SANscreen has been applied first to storage networks, but has pertinent application across many domains beyond storage. Founded in 2002, Onaro is a privately-held company backed by leading investors Newbury Ventures and Cedar Fund. The company's headquarters are in Boston, Mass. For more information, please visit http://www.onaro.com.

SANscreen is a registered trademark of Onaro, Inc. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.

Source: Business Wire

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