Onaro aims to simplify SANs
Onaro aims to simplify SANs
Storage software vendor Onaro is looking to unravel the complexity of storage area networks (SANs), after securing a multi-million dollar funding boost to develop its predictive change management technology for SANs.
VC firms Newbury Ventures and Cedar Fund are backing Onaro to the tune of US$7.75 million (AUD$10.8 million), as the company gets set to launch its product that simplifies the complexity of SAN management and enables its growth by detecting errors before they occur.
The technology continuously gathers and analyses in real-time the complex network comprised of a vast number of "access paths" present throughout the SAN, identifying violations of SAN policies and alerting administrators about vulnerabilities. The software also allows enterprises to predict errors before they occur and conduct root-cause analysis to validate change plans.
Trevor Kienzle, general partner and lead investor from Newbury Ventures, outlined why the company had chosen to back Onaro.
"The Onaro technology provides a compelling value proposition for any mid-to-large sized enterprise employing a SAN. I was struck by the commitment to the product articulated by the company's existing corporate customers. They highlighted the ease of installation, the immediate benefits, and the uniqueness of the change planning and predictive testing functionality."
"Cedar Fund has been working closely with the Onaro team since the company's inception and through a pre-seed process," said Amnon Shoham, partner with Cedar Fund. "Onaro's team was able to develop a solution for problems impacting large organisations' abilities to effectively and safely use their SANs. We're delighted to see Newbury lead this round and join us as partners while we work with the company to ramp and expand its operations."
Frank Moss, former Tivoli CEO and president, who works closely with Onaro as part of its industry advisory board, said Onaro's solution will form an intrinsic part of SAN infrastructures.
"IT spent millions implementing SAN architectures that promised to enable storage as an always-available utility, but this strategy nosedived when access paths, relationships and inter-dependencies between data and devices reached vast numbers that could no longer be managed with existing SAN tools. The Onaro solution calms the SAN beast, allowing SANs to grow at the speed of business. I predict huge success for Onaro and see their solution as mandatory for any SAN with more than six switches."
"The complexity of storage networks has grown much faster than the ability of software tools to manage SANs effectively and attain high availability, performance and security," said Onaro CEO Shai Scharf. "We founded Onaro to solve one of the biggest problems facing IT - complexity and risk associated with managing the SAN change process."
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