EMC SMARTS up ability to pinpoint problems
EMC SMARTS up ability to pinpoint problems
The health of EMC storage networks can be monitored proactively now to pinpoint the root cause of problems following EMC's acquisition of SMARTS, which offers automation and real-time networks systems management software.
The deal is worth US$260 million in cash, and will allow EMC to take full advantage of SMARTS products dynamically capture knowledge about the inter-relationships, behaviours and characteristics of any IT environment to be managed.
SMARTS' InCharge software not only finds the root cause of problems, it also calculates their impacts across technology domains, and presents a logical action required to keep business services up and running.
Chris Gahagan, the senior vice president of EMC Software said: "This acquisition not only expands EMC's software portfolio and market lead, but will play an important role in taking customers to the next level of storage management.
"As the convergence of data and storage networks continues, SMARTS extensible technology will enable EMC to take advanced management and real-time analysis capabilities developed for the data network and apply them across heterogeneous storage networks."
Shaula Alexander-Yemini, SMARTS founder and CEO, said: "This combination is a great fit, at the right time, for SMARTS and our customers. EMC and SMARTS share a vision for event automation and real-time network systems management and their increasing importance as the IT world becomes more complex, heterogeneous and dynamic.
"With the help of EMC, SMARTS now has at our disposal the resources to realise the full potential of our technology, and bring a broader set of products to a larger customer base much faster."
SMARTS believes that some of the advantages of its InCharge software products include its ability to understand how problems spread across infrastructure and applications to damage business services; automatically adapts dynamically to changing environments and quickly and accurately discovers and models the components of a company's IT environment and the relationships.
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