Cloud Computing: iWave Software Debuts Storage Director 1.5
December 7, 2011
iWave Software, a provider of storage and cloud automation solutions, on Tuesday introduced iWave Storage Director 1.5, a storage automation platform for companies to develop and operate cloud-based storage services on demand using their existing storage infrastructures. By automating the tasks associated with provisioning, reclamation and remediation for storage, iWave Software closes the gap between expanding storage requirements and a lack of available and affordable IT resources.
According to Brent Rhymes, CEO of iWave Software "automation is essential if we are to traverse the gap between IT staff and storage capabilities and the demands of data growth. Storage Director users bridge this storage automation gap and significantly increase productivity."…
Prior to iWave Storage Director, storage automation resided within management consoles and home-grown scripts, each narrowly focused along vendor and product lines. Using iWave Storage Director, storage administrators can automate storage services in a self-service, private storage cloud environment that is available to storage consumers, leveraging unified workflows across vendor products and within organizationally defined policies for use and regulatory compliance.
iWave Storage Director:
- Improves storage administrator productivity by automating routine tasks such as provisioning, reclamation and remediation, letting storage administrators focus on higher value activities;
- Lowers storage operating costs by supporting more storage with fewer administrators;
- Reduces storage outages by ensuring best practices are automatically followed for each provisioning request, removing configuration errors during provisioning;
- Reduces unnecessary storage expenditures by identifying and reclaiming unused storage; and
- Improves end-user satisfaction by reducing the time to provision new storage from weeks to hours.
iWave Storage Director works with many third-party adapters such as EMC and NetApp storage arrays, Cisco and Brocade switches, and a variety of hosts and applications, including Windows, Linux, VMware ESX, Microsoft Hyper V, Oracle, SQL Server, and more. Support for additional storage arrays from vendors including Dell, Hitachi Data Systems, HP, IBM and others is expected in 2012.