Sterling setup for storage management
Sterling setup for storage management
Sterling Software's Storage Management Division has launched its E3 Storage Management Initiative, designed to allow customers to use its 'best of breed' solutions by providing enterprise-wide storage control.
The strategy is intended to address all storage-related application and data availability requirements across hardware and software platforms, such as desktops, servers, mainframes, Storage Area Networks (SAN) and Network Attached Storage (NAS).
E3 includes products that standalone to solve specific problems and that integrate for optimal efficiency.
Sterling's E3 brings engine and interface operations under the control of one console.
With the E3 announcement, Sterling has released SAMS:Vantage 4.02, its first E3-ready product. Vantage provides a browser-based interface so that organisations can view storage across the entire enterprise, including OS/390, NT, Unix and NetWare operating systems.
This means that system status, and any faults, can be readily identified before applications are threatened.
E3's SAMS Enterprise Console provides an iconic representation of the physical and logical enterprise to allow user control over the storage setup. It comprises a management interface and a database and object model (DOM) that stores metadata collected via the interfaces in E3 engines and other products.
Within the management interface, a policy and automation engine aligns enterprise storage management policies, using wizards to construct automation scripts. A data classification engine, key to E3, groups data logically and manages it accordingly, while a trending and forecasting engine tracks historical use and projects trends to help storage management.
This interface resides above the DOM, which includes physical interfaces that collect information about the storage topology, logical interfaces that collect and store metadata about files, systems and applications. A third party product interfaces allows other products to operate with the E3 system.
Data protection engines in this layer automatically back up, migrate, archive and restore application data, high availability engines monitor point-in-time recovery to improve availability, and a software virtual tape engine delivers scalable technology for optimising OS/390 tape applications.