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Storage Service Management: Onaro SANscreen Application Insight Optimizes Storage Performance And Availability For Princeton Softech

August 21, 2007

Onaro, Inc., the leader in storage service management, announced recently that Princeton Softech, the market leader in enterprise data management, is using SANscreen Application Insight to gain never-before visibility into the alignment of storage resources with application requirement (More)

CIO 100 > Nationwide Building Society

July 5, 2007

Nationwide took the decision to deploy Onaro’s SANscreen storage service management software, which provides capacity for 850Tb of data. The building society achieved a 50 per cent return on its investment in the first week of implementation and a full return on investment within a month. (More)

United Airlines works storage smarter, not harder

June 21, 2007

“Before we had SANscreen, we were constantly having server admins call us saying they lost the SAN connection, or that something’s wrong with the SAN," Turner says. “We’d scramble around to figure out what’s going on, only to find that the problems were due to changes taking place at the host level. They would change drives, swap out HBA cards, or sometimes disconnect themselves from the network, and then forget a path was missing." (More)

Seven things every IT person should know about storage

June 7, 2007

Thanks to virtualization and a host of other technologies, storage has left its silo. Its performance affects the whole computing infrastructure. Fortunately, new technologies that cross the boundaries of storage, management and compliance are smoothing over performance issues and easing the pain (and expense). But you've got to be in the know to make use of them. Here are seven storage truths that every IT person should understand. (More)

The best ways to tweak storage for great performance

May 21, 2007

Every IT person knows this painful truth: Attention from users for underlying IT operations is not always a good thing. This is especially true when an application or storage system has halted or slowed to a crawl because the infrastructure is not performing at an optimal level.(More)

Onaro Takes Aim at Applications

May 1, 2007

Onaro has unveiled a new product that makes sure applications get the storage resources they need. Onaro says SANscreen Application Insight 2.0 combines storage utilization data with an understanding of the application path to provide a complete picture of storage resource utilization and efficiency. The company says the product helps storage users analyze storage tier assignments, load balance the entire application portfolio and prevent application outages, improving utilization and performance and saving on capital costs.(More)

Is Storage Growing a Brain?

April 30, 2007

For Raul Robledo, storage specialist with the Affinion Group, storage capacity planning used to involve freeware and a spreadsheet. His group used the freeware to gather performance statistics from switches and hosts. The spreadsheet -- or other desktop software, depending on who was doing it -- was then used to plot the freeware stats against actual applications deploying those hosts and switches. The end result was apparently satisfactory, but it usually required someone on staff to become an expert in this home-made planning technique. And if that person left or was out, the job went undone. (More)

Affinion Group adopts SANscreen's ability to ensure storage service quality and availability

January 10, 2007

"We needed a tool that would alert us to potential SAN infrastructure issues" Robledo says. "When issues arose, we often wouldn't know about them immediately. In some cases, we found out the hard way, with an outage." When that happened, Robledo and his colleagues would have to search through logs or dive into proprietary software from each storage vendor to try to figure out what went wrong and which host was affected.

Given the criticality of Affinion's applications and data, that manual approach was no longer acceptable. Robledo and his colleagues set out to find a solution that would give them the ability to know precisely what was happening throughout the SAN, in real time. (More)

Nationwide storage system speeds up access to data

January 4, 2007

The ever-present need for companies to have accurate and accessible information prompted UK building society Nationwide to carry out a major review of its storage strategy. Lynn Banagan, head of IT infrastructure at Nationwide, says the company’s data storage strategy is crucial to its wider success. (More)

Storage system speeds up Nationwide employees' access to data

November 30, 2006

Nationwide took the decision to deploy Onaro’s SANscreen storage service management software in November 2005. The system provides capacity for 850TB of data. The building society achieved 50 per cent return on its investment in the first week of implementation and a full return on investment within a month. (More)

AOL wins SNW's "Best Practices in Storage Systems Implementation"

November 3, 2006

AOL was selected as the winner of Storage Networking World's (SNW) "Best Practices in Storage Systems Implementation" Award for its successful implementation and management of a storage-service approach for managing its storage infrastructure. The AOL solution includes Onaro’s SANscreen as one of the key components. (More)

JetBlue Airways Uses Onaro SANscreen To Achieve New Heights Of Operational Excellence And IT Cost Containment

August 30, 2006

Despite spending its first few years weathering a steep spike in both fuel prices and airline operating expenses, JetBlue Airways quickly became known among customers for its novel, low-cost approach to air travel. From all-leather seats to free, on-board access to 36 channels of DIRECTV programming, JetBlue has earned its share of industry accolades, including being named "Best Domestic Airline" by readers of Conde Nast magazine for the fourth consecutive year. (More)

JPMC - The financial giant is making huge investments in info tech, and expects to reap huge rewards

June 19,2006

Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ ) has nothing on JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM ) when it comes to investing in technology. What's that? A bank that's spending more on technology than a tech outfit? Sure enough, HP's ambitious plan to replace 85 global data centers with six cutting-edge facilities will cost about $1 billion. JPMorgan is spending twice that just on overhauling its network, plus another $1 billion to reduce 90 global data centers to 30 by 2008. (More)

JetBlue Takes Off With Onaro

June 9 , 2006

When a SAN is in transition, it's tough to keep things under control. That's why Glen Gambal, manager of data center operations at JetBlue Airways, went looking for a product to help him track his storage six months ago.

"Our environment's in a bit of a mess," he concedes. The company is moving its data center -- which features a 14-Tbyte SAN -- from Forest Hills to Garden City, N.Y., while trying to prepare a new disaster recovery site in Salt Lake City, Utah. (More)

Caregroup takes guess work out of managing applications

May 01 , 2006

(CAMBRIDGE, MA) CareGroup Healthcare System, which includes Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, has tackled the stress that the growing number of applications was placing on its network and on its IT team.

Today the healthcare system is looking ahead to what CareGroup’s storage architect Michael Passe calls “true storage service management” to keep continuous watch over the network and all the applications.  (More)

Countrywide manages 5,000-port SAN with Onaro

April 27, 2006

EMC Corp. announced this week that its Smarts network fault-correlation software now supports Fibre Channel (FC) networks. Unfortunately, this was a couple of months too late for Countrywide Financial Corp.

With almost 2 petabytes of capacity, the vast majority of it on EMC devices, "we were looking to them to provide this functionality," said Michael Crocker, vice president of enterprise storage area management at the real estate mortgage lender. Unfortunately, "they just aren't there yet," he said. EMC kept Countrywide apprised of its work on porting Smarts, a network fault-correlation package that it bought last year, but Crocker said he expects it will take some time for it to work well with FC. (More)