Veritas CommandCentral 5.0 product family, offers industry-leading scalability and reliability coupled with the breadth of heterogeneous support demanded by large enterprise information centers around the globe. The suite includes Veritas CommandCentral Storage 5.0, Veritas CommandCentral Enterprise Reporter 5.0 and Veritas Process Automation Manager 5.0. Veritas CommandCentral becomes the only comprehensive storage resource management (SRM) solution in the market with the release of this integrated solution set. The new solution will optimize storage utilization, automate storage processes and align storage with business goals.

    Daniel Trim, director, operations, UNIX systems and database management for Health Alliance Plan, one of Michigan’s largest health plans, stated: “CommandCentral Storage provides us with an instant view of how storage is allocated across the five different platforms in our data center, helping us increase utilization and cut storage administration costs by 90 percent. By giving us visibility into where our storage is and who is using it, CommandCentral helps us more effectively allocate storage resources and align IT with the needs of our business.”

    The new solution, Veritas CommandCentral brings the unique ability to address these challenges by offering end-to-end visibility in both virtualized server and storage environments. Among the new features that we can find in the latest release is advanced support for VMware, HDS TagmaStore and IBM SAN Volume Controller. This advanced support gives IT organizations the chance to effectively manage storage capacity at an application level in virtual environments, which hasn’t been possible until now.

    In addition, CommandCentral Storage 5.0 and Enterprise Reporter tighten this relationship by bringing global business-level reporting functions that offer 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 function to roll up data from multiple information centers into a single comprehensive view – organized by lines of business, geography or other customized views.

    The latest 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 the chance to offer data center wide storage management. Symantec Global Consulting Services is launching a Storage Assessment Program, which offers an objective view into the state of the customer’s storage environment. Symantec will assess the organization’s storage infrastructure through this fixed price program, and offer a detailed report about the current utilization of storage resources, potential efficiency gains from improved utilization and recommendations to improve storage processes.

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