EMC's automated 'Pay As You Go' storage
EMC's automated 'Pay As You Go' storage
EMC has introduced an automated billing system for storage infrastructure that it claims is the first of its kind in the world.
The system, which will form an integral part of the vendor's OpenScale storage asset and financial management program, monitors the amount of storage used each day and tallies it into a monthly bill.
The new automated billing capability will be available for users' entire networked storage infrastructure, including storage capacity, SAN switch ports, NAS servers and storage software.
"For several years, OpenScale has taken the complexity, uncertainty and much of the cost out of the storage procurement process while meeting customers' immediate needs for how they buy and deploy their storage assets," says David Goulden, EMC's Executive Vice President of Global Marketing and Business Development. "OpenScale and the new automated billing capability demonstrate EMC's longstanding lead in delivering storage service automation—automation of the underlying processes and tasks that make internal storage utility models simple and practical to implement."
OpenScale provides automated billing for EMC's Symmetrix, CLARiiON, Connectrix and Celerra systems, as well as EMC TimeFinder and SRDF software.
Goulden adds: "EMC Automated Networked Storage and programs like OpenScale are prerequisites to enabling customers to achieve the benefits of utility computing models—such as reduced complexity and variability of costs—without having to surrender architectural control or best-of-breed technologies."
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