Onaro Joins StorageTek's TekAlliance Partner Program

LOUISVILLE, Colo., April 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- StorageTek(R), (Storage Technology Corporation) , the leading provider of enterprise information lifecycle management, and Onaro(R), Inc., a leader in Storage Area Networking (SAN) change management solutions, jointly announced the acceptance of Onaro into StorageTek's TekAlliance(TM) partner program. This program offers customers a wide portfolio of jointly sold and supported storage solutions to better meet their specific information lifecycle management needs.

Onaro's SANscreen(R) automates and accelerates the entire SAN change-management process, giving storage managers and other IT professionals visibility into their SANs by analyzing and validating the complex logical and physical relationships prior to, during, and after SAN changes. The software augments the robust data collection and business analytics found in Global Storage Manager, a leading Storage Resource Management (SRM) solution from Storability(R) Software, a division of StorageTek. Both solutions strengthen the ability of customers to efficiently plan and implement changes in their storage environment and validate changes once they have been made, leading to greater primary storage productivity and efficiencies.

"Sixty to 80 percent of SAN problems occur from errors made from manual changes, whether it's simple day to day change like adding a server and alerting zoning or a major consolidation or migration," said Andrew Bird, vice president, Marketing, Onaro. "Working together with Global Storage Manager, SANscreen enables customers to automate the change-management process, eliminating errors and dramatically reducing unplanned SAN outages maximizing business availability."

"As SANs continue to grow more complex, it is essential that organizations have a range of management tools at their disposal," said Cameron Van Orman, StorageTek director, Corporate Alliances. "SANscreen offers a controlled and predictable change management process that significantly reduces deployment times, costs and damages from downtime and brown-outs. The software is very complementary to our Global Storage Manager solution, which provides visibility into the entire storage infrastructure and offers robust business analytics that transform raw data into relevant business information. By adding Onaro to our TekAlliance program, we can jointly offer our customers the most comprehensive storage management solutions in the industry today."

"As storage networks grow in both size and complexity, administrators require a comprehensive change management solution," said Nancy Hurley, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. "By being able to proactively plan, validate and track all changes to the storage network, administrators can help eliminate downtime and lower overall operational costs."

SANscreen allows companies to rapidly change and expand their infrastructures at the speed of business. SANscreen minimizes errors and disruptions to corporate data, applications, and business processes and eliminates the guesswork in changing and scaling a SAN.

Global Storage Manager enables large enterprises to easily visualize and manage multi-vendor, multi-site storage environments from a central location. It provides a consolidated view of the entire infrastructure and business analytics to help organizations make sense of their storage environments.

About Onaro

Onaro is the pioneer in Change Management for SANs, enabling enterprises to quickly and effectively manage changes and growth in complex Storage Area Networks with absolute confidence through SANscreen(R) Monitoring and Predictive Change Management software. SANscreen is currently deployed at some of the world's largest SANs. Onaro is a privately-held company backed by leading investors Newbury Ventures and Cedar Fund. For more information, please visit http://www.onaro.com/

About StorageTek

StorageTek is a $2 billion global company that enables businesses, through its information lifecycle management strategy, to align the cost of storage with the value of information. The company's innovative storage solutions manage the complexity and growth of information, lower costs, improve efficiency and protect investments. For more information, see http://www.storagetek.com/, or call 1.800.877.9220 or 303.673.5151.

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