Storability Software Announces General Availability of Robust New Vers

SOUTHBOROUGH, Mass., Jan. 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Storability(R) Software, a division of StorageTek(R), (Storage Technology Corporation) and a leading provider of Enterprise Storage Resource Management (ESRM) solutions, today announced the immediate availability of Global Storage Manager (GSM) Version 4.

This latest version delivers appropriate storage management capabilities to every level of the organization ensuring that C-level executives, storage administrators and IT managers have the appropriate information they need to make better business decisions. Large enterprises can view technical storage information in a business context, broadening their understanding of the storage infrastructure and the impact it has -- and their decisions have -- on the business as a whole.

Storability's GSM has a successful track record for enabling large enterprises to easily visualize and optimize multi-vendor, multi-site storage environments using a single integrated solution. Now, with Version 4, GSM delivers the information and functionality enterprises need to measure and manage their storage environment like a business. Just as important, GSM presents that information based on the perspective and requirements of different individuals within the organization. For example, C-level executives require information that helps maintain compliance and stay within budget. However, storage administrators require information that simplifies daily operations and maintains data availability. GSM provides the in-depth business analytics that all individuals within the organization need to optimize asset utilization, increase management efficiency, enhance quality of service, and achieve higher availability.

"A key reason for GSM's success in the market has been its depth of reporting capabilities and ability to identify areas for storage savings," said Joel Kimball, StorageTek president and GM of Storability Software. "With V4, we have taken this reporting feature a step further allowing our customers to use the valuable business analytics to minimize risk and meet compliance requirements. Customers are also using GSM for capacity planning and budgeting based upon their ability to accurately view storage usage by application or business unit."

The Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) recently gave the new version of Global Storage Manager a favorable review. In the report entitled "Storability Releases Version 4," ESG highlights GSM's reporting capabilities, such as the new backup exposure analysis, impact analysis and enhanced application aware views that enable users to make sense out of their storage environment. The report also states that Storability's GSM provides StorageTek with a strong enterprise storage management (ESM) solution and a solid foundation for its information lifecycle management strategy.

"Storability has always had an advantage over the competition when it comes to the depth of reporting provided by GSM," said Nancy Hurley, senior analyst at ESG. "However, the team realized that certain users in the organization need certain types of information, and that the information would be much more valuable if presented such that it directly correlated to those users' key business objectives. This flexibility enables all users in the organization, regardless of their role, to better utilize the information that GSM presents in order to make critical business decisions."

The full ESG report can be found at http://www.storability.com/.

GSM V4 also builds upon the broadest platform support in the industry by adding support for Cisco switches, Novell Servers, and IBM tape libraries along with SMI-S support for hosts and switch fabrics. For a more comprehensive list of the new functionality in GSM V4, contact Storability at 1-508-229-1700.

About Storability Software

A leading provider of storage management software, Storability is a division of StorageTek and a vendor-neutral resource for companies seeking to measure and manage their storage like a business. Storability's Global Storage Manager (GSM) complements StorageTek's robust information lifecycle management (ILM) offerings and allows enterprise organizations to optimize asset utilization, increase management efficiency, enhance quality of service, and achieve higher availability.

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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