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Review: Onaro VM Insight 1.0

January, 2008

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It can't be denied that while most vendors have concentrated their development efforts on new SRM (storage resource management) and new SM (storage management) applications, Onaro took a completely different approach.(More)

Network Storage Reduces Server Virtualization Risks

January, 2008

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By now, the benefits of server virtualization are well known: greater, more flexible utilization of valuable server resources. As a result, many companies have discarded the old minset of one server per application. (More)

Insight for managing storage as a service

December, 2007

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When it is time to act on an emerging opportunity or react to a competitive threat, today’s real-time enterprise depends on getting the right information, to the right people, in time to act and create value or mitigate risk. That goal has set off an explosion in the volume of data maintained on SANs. (More)

Onaro Launches New Products to Support the Virtualized Data Center

December 19 , 2007

Onaro, Inc. announced new solutions to extend its support for the virtualized data center and further integrate storage with IT operations. The adoption of server and storage virtualization by large enterprises has created new challenges integrating networked storage into the balance of IT operations. (More)

Onaro Launches New Products to Support the Virtualized Data Center

December 17 , 2007

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Onaro Inc. is broadening its Application Insight monitoring and change management software to report on server and storage virtualization environments, as well as NAS systems.(More)

Onaro extends visibility into virtual environments

December 18 , 2007

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As virtual server infrastructures take hold, the need to see the links between virtual machines and storage grows. In response to the shift from physical to virtual data centers, Onaro today announced some new additions to its SANscreen software family designed to provide visibility for both physical and virtual servers across networked storage environments..(More)

Onaro Puts Storage at VMs' Service

December 17 , 2007

Onaro Inc. is broadening its Application Insight monitoring and change management software to report on server and storage virtualization environments, as well as NAS systems.(More)

Onaro Puts Storage at VMs' Service

December 17 , 2007

Onaro Inc. is broadening its Application Insight monitoring and change management software to report on server and storage virtualization environments, as well as NAS systems.(More)

Onaro adds support for NAS, VMware

December 17 , 2007

Onaro Inc. is broadening its Application Insight monitoring and change management software to report on server and storage virtualization environments, as well as NAS systems.(More)

Insight for Managing Storage as a Service

November 26, 2007

SANscreen Application Insight from Onaro uniquely empowers IT to align a SAN for maximum application performance at the lowest possible cost, by providing an automated solution for discovery, service monitoring and capacity management analysis.(More)

Lab Review: Insight for managing storage as a service (Onaro SANscreen)

November 9, 2007

When it is time to act on an emerging opportunity or react to a competitive threat, today's real-time enterprise depends on getting the right information, to the right people, in time to act and create value or mitigate risk. That goal has set off an explosion in the volume of data maintained on SANs..(More)

Onaro Hires Customer Service Director to Meet Expansion Needs

November 7, 2007

Onaro, Inc., the leader in datacenter automation for storage, today announced that Jim Lavallee has joined the company as director of customer service. Jim will lead Onaro's customer and partner support initiatives including product documentation, training, customer support and consulting services.(More)

Onaro Hires Customer Service Director

November 7 , 2007

Onaro, Inc., the leader in datacenter automation for storage, today announced that Jim Lavallee has joined the company as director of customer service. Jim will lead Onaro’s customer and partner support initiatives including product documentation, training, customer support and consulting services.(More)

Onaro ties into BMC

October 31, 2007

Onaro has linked its high-end storage software to BMC Software’s systems management tools, extending its claim to be a supplier of real-time operational management software rather than conventional SRM products.(More)

Onaro extends BMC Service Automation to networked storage

October 29, 2007

BMC Software Inc. announced Monday that Onaro Inc., a provider of data center automation for storage, has completed the integration of Onaro’s storage service management (SSM) solutions with BMC Service Automation, an extension of the BMC Business Service Management approach to optimizing IT’s responsiveness to business needs, BMC said in a statement. (More)

Onaro, BMC Integrate

October 29, 2007

BMC Software today announced that Onaro, the leader in datacenter automation for storage, has completed the integration of Onaro's storage service management (SSM) solutions with BMC Service Automation, an extension of the BMC Business Service Management approach to optimizing IT's responsiveness to business needs. (More)

Onaro Updates SAN Automation Tools

October 25, 2007

Onaro has brought out version 4 of SANscreen, its software for extending IT service management (ITSM) and data center automation to networked storage.
The new version adds the ability to do capacity and provisioning management, plus software called VM Insight, which adds support for virtual servers. (More)

Smarter tools for storage managers

October 23, 2007

Opsware and Onaro both released enhanced tools for automating datacentre management and storage provisioning last month, while Emulex has built user authentication, encryption and other security features into its host bus adapters (HBAs) that connect datacentre servers to the storage area network (SAN).(More)

Smarter tools for storage managers

October 23, 2007

Opsware and Onaro both released enhanced tools for automating datacentre management and storage provisioning last month, while Emulex has built user authentication, encryption and other security features into its host bus adapters (HBAs) that connect datacentre servers to the storage area network (SAN).(More)

Analyst Firm Identifies Onaro SANscreen As A Key Component Of An Enterprise-wide Business Service Management Solution

October 6, 2007

Onaro, Inc., the leader in datacenter automation for storage, today announced that Ptak, Noel & Associates (http://www.ptaknoelassociates.com), a leading analyst firm addressing converging IT trends, has validated SANscreen as a key component to extend data center automation to storage. A recently published report entitled, “Onaro: Datacenter Automation for Storage Environments” details the benefits offered by SANscreen for complex, virtualized environments.(More)

Storage Automation: Leading Industry Analyst Firm Identifies Onaro SANscreen As A Key Component Of An Enterprise-wide Business Service Management Solution

October 4, 2007

Onaro, Inc., the leader in datacenter automation for storage, recently announced that Ptak, Noel & Associates , a leading analyst firm addressing converging IT trends, has validated SANscreen as a key component to extend data center automation to storage. A recently published report entitled, “Onaro: Datacenter Automation for Storage Environments” details the benefits offered by SANscreen for complex, virtualized environments. (More)

Storage and Data Center Automation Begin to Converge

October 4, 2007

Storage systems can present a pretty big roadblock to enterprises following the path to complete data center automation. Server automation, when implemented correctly, can already provide big benefits to the companies that can afford it. That's because the ability to automate the provisioning, configuring updating, patching, auditing and day-to-day management of hundreds or even thousands of servers can save vast amounts of time and remove the need for an army of technicians involved in tedious, repetitive and sometimes complex tasks. And this saves big bucks. (More)

Onaro Launches New Products To Extend Datacentre Automation To Networked Storage

September 21, 2007

While datacentre automation has already brought significant benefits to server and network management, it has largely bypassed networked storage. Storage Resource Management, solutions have evolved to focus mainly on data management while more classic datacentre automation solutions remain tightly focused on network and server automation. (More)

Onaro Launches New Products To Extend Datacentre Automation To Networked Storage

September 21, 2007

Onaro, Inc. (www.onaro.com), the leader in storage service management, announced today the immediate availability of SANscreen Capacity Manager 1.0, SANscreen Provisioning Manager 1.0, and updates to SANscreen Service Assurance. The combination of these products enables organisations to extend IT Service Management and IT Automation to networked storage with the goal of accelerating application delivery, reducing operating costs and trimming capital spending on storage by as much as 20%.(More)

Onaro updates SAN automation tools

September 21, 2007

Onaro has brought out version 4 of SANscreen, its software for extending IT service management (ITSM) and datacentre automation to networked storage. The new version adds the ability to do capacity and provisioning management, plus software called VM Insight, which adds support for virtual servers.(More)

The Best of VMworld Awards announced by SearchServer
Virtualization.com

September 12, 2007

At VMworld 2007, the winners of the Best of VMworld Awards were chosen by a panel of experts and editors from TechTarget Inc.'s SearchServerVirtualization.com and announced at the show Wednesday, Sept. 12. (More)

Xsigo, Onaro Offer New Ways to Virtualize

September 10, 2007

Server and storage virtualization are proving to be viable technologies that reduce operating costs and improve efficiency. However, the infrastructure connecting servers and storage networks is still an expensive and time-consuming bottleneck for many IT departments. (More)

Datacenter Automation for Storage Environments

September, 2007

Traditionally discussions about enterprise storage have been dominated by two core questions. How much is needed? How to minimize storage costs? Ptak, Noel & Associates (PNA) believes this discussion is changing. As SAN environments become more complex and as more business applications and services interact with these environments, the more necessary, indeed, the more vital it becomes to have service-oriented, process-enabled management tools specifically for the storage environment. The growing adoption of virtualized server environments will only increase the need for such tools. Let us take a look at how Onaro is facilitating this change. (More)

Onaro Launches New Products To Extend Datacenter Automation To Networked Storage

September 4, 2007

Onaro, Inc. (http://www.onaro.com), the leader in storage service management, announced today the immediate availability of SANscreen Capacity Manager 1.0, SANscreen Provisioning Manager 1.0, and updates to SANscreen Service Assurance. The combination of these products enables organizations to extend IT Service Management and IT Automation to networked storage with the goal of accelerating application delivery, reducing operating costs and trimming capital spending on storage by as much as 20%. (More)

Onaro Puts Data Center Automation into Network Storage

September 4, 2007

Storage service management provider Onaro Sept. 4 launched a new version of its software that provides network storage with automated features that had been limited only to data centers in the past. The combination of Onaro's new SANscreen Capacity Manager 1.0, SANscreen Provisioning Manager 1.0 and updates to SANscreen Service Assurance products now enables enterprises to obtain a much clearer view of networked storage and provisioning (More)

Onaro Extends Datacenter Automation to Networked Storage

September 4, 2007

Onaro, Inc. released SANscreen Capacity Manager 1.0, SANscreen Provisioning Manager 1.0, and updates to SANscreen Service Assurance. The trio of products enables enterprises to extend IT service management and IT automation to networked storage and help accelerate application delivery, reduce operating costs, and trim capital spending on storage (by up to 20 percent, according to Onaro). (More)

Onaro software offers storage-capacity monitoring, virtualization features

September 4, 2007

Onaro today announced two new modules for its storage-management software that let customers monitor storage capacity and use while reducing the time they spend provisioning storage resources. (More)

Onaro develops storage monitoring

September 4, 2007

Onaro has announced two new modules for its storage-management software that let customers monitor storage capacity and usage, and reduce the time spent provisioning storage resources. (More)

Storage Automation: Oxymoron?

September 4, 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 hasA new buzzword has popped into the storage lexicon, straight from the marketing department: automation.It's a term not often associated with storage networking. Indeed, it seems many storage pros would go to great lengths to avoid automation, smacking as it does of loss of control and the fearsome potentialities that conveys. (More)

Onaro Extends Automation to Storage

September 4, 2007

There are a number of reasons why storage is left out of IT automation, but Onaro is determined to end the cycle of neglect.The vendor, which specializes in storage management, has introduced three new products it claims can substantially improve the capacity utilization and capex profiles of enterprise storage users. They include Capacity Manager 1.0, which presents information on the amount of storage capacity available by business unit, department, data center, or other organizational unit; and Provisioning Manager 1.0, a package that forecasts storage requirements for specific storage tiers or business units. Both modules run on dedicated Windows servers, like the rest of the SANscreen suite. They start at $250 per Tbyte of managed storage and are available now, Onaro says.(More)

Storage Special: Ways to squeeze performance

September 4, 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 adds capacity planning, plans VMware support

September 4, 2007

Onaro Inc. has announced two new software modules for capacity planning and application monitoring for its SANScreen change management and monitoring product, as well as plans to add long-awaited VMware support in the fourth quarter.(More)

Onaro tackles capacity/provisioning management

September 4, 2007

Onaro today added three new products to its SANscreen management software suite: SANscreen Capacity Manager 1.0, SANscreen Provisioning Manager 1.0, and a tool called Application Dashboard. The trio of new components brings with it the potential to simplify capacity planning and storage provisioning while offering application teams a better understanding of where their storage comes from. .(More)

IT Automation Bypasses Storage

August 30, 2007

Data center automation products have a blind spot when it comes to storage, and it may take a long time to remedy the situation. Software that automates various management functions of IT is growing in popularity, as demonstrated by BladeLogic's IPO and the proposed sale of Opsware to HP for $1.6 billion. But storage networks have been largely left out of the loop.(More)

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)

Application-Aware Storage Promises Intelligence and Automation

August 8, 2007

Storage professionals have been overbuying both performance and capacity in an effort to forestall potential storage problems. Tiered storage is one way to address this problem -- matching storage resources and costs with the value of data. Today, storage is poised to build on this notion with application-aware storage, using business policies to bring autonomy and intelligence to enterprise storage. This article considers the main ideas of application-aware storage, its benefits and limitations, and examines typical deployments as it looks ahead to the future. (More)

Princeton Deploys Onaro

August 8, 2007

Thousands of organizations worldwide, including nearly half of the Fortune 500, rely on Princeton Softech's Optim(TM) solutions to help maximize application performance and availability, mitigate risk and control costs. To support these customers, Princeton Softech is a heavy user of SAN technology with more than 200 TB of storage and hundreds of switch ports. Maintaining the alignment of these storage resources with application requirements is a key objective for the infrastructure team at Princeton Softech. (More)

Onaro SANscreen Application Insight Optimizes Storage Performance and Availability for Princeton Soft

August 8, 2007

Onaro, Inc., the leader in storage service management, announced today 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 requirements. (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)

Sitting on the storage hot seat: "Storage resource management on the rise"

June 22, 2007

A collection of Network Worlds’ Hot Seat podcasts on storage. "Storage resource management on the rise," featuring Onaro President and CEO Doug McNary. Onaro makes storage change management software. Gallant asks McNary to explain how the company’s software can provide end-to-end – application, server, storage – storage management. (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)

SAN management: a new view

May 17, 2007

IT professionals responsible for managing storage-area networks face a daunting challenge. Storage today is an integral element in the interconnected IT-service delivery chain, and applications are spread across multiple arrays, switches and servers, often from different vendors. (More)

QLogic Uses Partner Confab To Show SAN Assessment Tool, Talk Low Power

May 10, 2007

QLogic is expanding its hardware and software product lines to take it deeper into customers' storage infrastructures, with many of the enhancements being unveiled as part of its Fusion solution provider conference, held this week in San Diego. The Aliso Viejo, Calif.-based manufacturer of SAN components unveiled a partnership with software vendor Onaro to design SAN assessment tools that enable solution providers to offer assessments as a service. (More)

QLogic, Onaro Partner

May 9, 2007

QLogic Corp. (Nasdaq:QLGC), the leader in Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs), stackable switches and blade server switches, and Onaro, Inc., the leader in storage service management, today announced the two companies have signed an agreement in which QLogic will license a fully functional trial version of Onaro SANscreen SME Edition, an innovative application that allows SAN administrators to achieve real-time feedback about their SAN infrastructure. (More)

Onaro Expands Market Presence

May 9, 2007

the leader in storage service management, announced today a major expansion into the SME (small medium enterprise) market with the availability of SANscreen SME Edition, software that provides real-time, independent feedback that all the devices in the SAN are working together to meet the services required by an application. (More)

Onaro ties applications to storage performance

May 2, 2007

Onaro has added to its SANscreen family of storage resource management and monitoring software with the debut of software that directly links storage resources with application requirements. The company recently introduced SANscreen Application Insight 2.0, a tool that combines storage infrastructure utilization data with application path awareness to draw a complete map of storage resource utilization and efficiency from a given application down to the underlying storage arrays. (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)

Onaro looks to bridge app-storage gap

April 30, 2007

Seeking to aid enterprises in their ongoing struggle to better align storage resources with application requirements, Onaro Inc. today released an upgrade to its SANscreen Application Insight product. The new iteration, Version 2.0, combines storage utilization data with path awareness in an attempt to give administrators greater visibility into overall storage network health, according to the company.(More)

Onaro Plots Path Through SANs

April 30, 2007

Onaro has updated its SAN management software with the ability to determine data paths through storage networks, stepping up its diagnostic abilities significantly. “Is this unique? Not exactly, but a lot of what it does it does in a unique way, and yes it is a significant technology advance,” said Mike Carp, senior analyst at Enterprise Management Associates. While other SAN management tools can analyze and report on data flows through specific SAN ports, they are not able to show which applications or host servers are driving the traffic through those ports. (More)

Onaro looks to bridge app-storage gap

April 30, 2007

Seeking to aid enterprises in their ongoing struggle to better align storage resources with application requirements, Onaro today released an upgrade to its SANscreen Application Insight product. The new iteration, Version 2.0, combines storage utilization data with path awareness in an attempt to lend administrators greater visibility into overall storage network health, according to the company. (More)

When in doubt, businesses buy more storage

April 23, 2007

Imagine driving a car without a gas gauge. You have no idea how much gas is in the tank and worry that you're about to run out, so you stop at every gas station you see to buy more. Storage managers in data centers have much the same problem. They purchase additional storage capacity and then assign portions of it to various purposes -- the database program, the e-mail program, and so forth.Once they've apportioned all the storage capacity, it looks like it's all used up (though they set some aside as a reserve). The storage vendor, of course, is happy to sell them more. (More)

Onaro’s SANscreen interoperable with NetApp’s FAS systems

April 10, 2007

Onaro Inc., a provider of storage service management (SSM), and Network Appliance Inc. (NetApp) have announced the interoperability of Onaro’s SANscreen storage service management software with NetApp FAS (Fabric-Attached Storage) systems. The joint solution will enable customers to gain visibility into and easily manage the different storage services supporting their mission-critical enterprise applications, the companies said last week.(More)

Storage Management: Onaro SANscreen Storage Management Software Supports NetApp Storage Systems

April 5, 2007

Onaro, Inc., one of the leader in storage service management (SSM), and Network Appliance, Inc., recently announced the interoperability of its SANscreen storage service management software with NetApp FAS (Fabric-Attached Storage) systems. The joint solution will enable customers to gain visibility into and easily manage the different storage services supporting their mission-critical enterprise applications.(More)

Onaro's Storage Software Gets Support from NetApp

April 4, 2007

Storage service management provider Onaro, and Network Appliance announced April 4 that Onaro's storage area network screen storage service management software will support NetApp's fabric-attached storage systems. Onaro's SANscreen is a suite of integrated products that allow enterprises to manage storage as a service. With SANscreen, available since 2004, NetApp FAS customers will have access to reports on the storage services delivered to a particular application.(More)

Onaro, BladeLogic to offer integrated management solution

March 13, 2007

Onaro Inc. and BladeLogic Inc. have announced a technology partnership that provides enterprise customers with an integrated, best-of-breed management solution for server, application and storage infrastructure. The joint solution provides IT organizations with a service-oriented approach to server, application and storage management, the companies said last week. (More)

BladeLogic And Onaro Partner To Offer Integrated Best-Of-Breed Server, Application And Storage Automation Capabilities

March 13, 2007

BladeLogic, Inc., the leading provider of next-generation data center automation software, and Onaro, Inc., the leader in storage service management (SSM) software, today announced a technology partnership that provides enterprise customers an integrated, best-of-breed management solution for server, application and storage infrastructure. (More)

Onaro, BladeLogic Team

March 5, 2007

BladeLogic, Inc., the leading provider of next-generation data center automation software, and Onaro, Inc., the leader in storage service management (SSM) software, today announced a technology partnership that provides enterprise customers an integrated, best-of-breed management solution for server, application and storage infrastructure. (More)

Onaro to open R&D facility in Israel

February 13, 2007

Onaro Inc., a provider of software for storage networks, plans to establish a research and development facility that will also include engineering and support personnel, in Tel Aviv, Israel, the company said on Tuesday.

Roy Alon, vice president of product development, will manage the new outpost. The facility will be used to spur development at the Boston-based company.(More)

Onaro Establishes Israeli Facility

February 13, 2007

Onaro, Inc. announced today the establishment of an Israeli research and development, and support facility to accommodate the company's rapid growth. The new facility will be opened in Tel Aviv in March and will include engineering and support personnel. Roy Alon, vice president of product development will relocate from the company's Boston headquarters to manage the new facility, which will help meet the goal of doubling Onaro's development group.(More)

Onaro to open facility in Israel

February 13, 2007

Onaro Inc. said today that it will open a research-and-development facility in Israel. Onaro, which specializes in storage service management, said that the new facility will open next month in Tel Aviv and that Roy Alon, vice president of product development, will relocate from the company's Boston headquarters to manage it. (More)

Onaro Boasts of Profitability

January 25, 2007

Onaro, Inc. finished 2006 by reaching key milestones in the company’s development as a leader in storage management software. Profitable revenue growth, new customers, expanded distribution, new products and a growing list of industry awards highlighted the year. (More)

Onaro Quadruples Revenue

January 25, 2007

Start-up Onaro Inc has announced that it closed 2006 with revenue up fourfold year-on-year, as customer count doubled to over 70 mostly very large companies, and profitability in all four quarters of the year.(More)

Is storage management already past its prime?

January 19, 2007

It may sound hasty to dismiss a technology that many companies have yet to deploy or even evaluate, but some of the vibes I am getting lately from vendors suggest that storage management applications may become obsolete before becoming mainstream. (More)

Onaro signs reseller agreement with Hitachi Data Systems

January 17, 2007

Onaro, a provider of Storage Service Management (SSM), has revealed that Hitachi Data Systems, a provider of Application Optimised Storage solutions and a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, has signed an agreement to resell Onaro’s SANscreen storage management software. Under the terms of the agreement, Hitachi Data Systems will market, sell and provide first-level support for Hitachi Data Systems’ SANscreen customers. (More)

Onaro signs reseller agreement with Hitachi Data Systems

January 16, 2007

Onaro Inc. has announced that Hitachi Data Systems Corp. has entered into a global agreement to resell Onaro’s SANscreen storage management software. This arrangement with Hitachi Data Systems will accelerate Onaro’s growth and expand its global reach, the company said last week. Hitachi Data Systems is a provider of application optimized storage, and a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd., of Japan, Tokyo, while Onaro is a provider of storage service management (SSM) which enables enterprises to increase service quality, return on storage, and compliance by managing storage as a service. (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)

Hitachi will sell Onaro software

January 10, 2007

Onaro Inc. said the Japanese conglomerate Hitachi Ltd. will sell some of its software. Onaro, which specializes in storage service management, has signed a global agreement that will have Hitachi Data Systems Corp., a Hitachi subsidiary, resell Onaro's SANscreen storage management software. (More)

Hitachi to resell Onaro's SANscreen

January 10, 2007

Boston-based storage service management company Onaro Inc. reports that Hitachi Data Systems Corp. has agreed to resell Onaro's SANscreen storage management software for storage area networks. Hitachi Data Systems, a division of Hitachi Ltd., will market, sell and provide first-level support for Hitachi Data Systems' SANscreen customers, officials said. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. (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)

Onaro announces SANscreen Foundation version 3.5

December 7, 2006

Onaro Inc. has announced SANscreen Foundation version 3.5, the latest release of its flagship product in the SANscreen suite. The new release provides infrastructure teams with the ability to align their storage infrastructure with an application’s requirements at the lowest possible cost, the company said. (More)

Onaro…ohhh…oh

December 5, 2006

Onaro released its latest SANScreen Foundation Storage software yesterday, version 3.5. The main advantage: the software can map storage back to applications. I recommended this to them when they first showed me their wares before releasing them into the wild. Delighted to see that they are releasing it. (More)

Storage At Your Service

December 5, 2006

Onaro took the wraps off the latest version of its flagship storage resource management (SRM) software this week, adding application-centric management, among other features. Onaro, which boasts more than 70 customers and is in its fourth profitable quarter, is expanding beyond its initial change management focus into broader storage services management. (More)

Onaro gains first big-name sales partner in HDS

December 4, 2006

Onaro, a startup specializing in providing change management software for storage environments, has secured its first major partnership with a tier one storage player, as Hitachi Data Systems said it would resell its core SANscreen product. The news comes as Onaro continues to beef up SANscreen. The latest version – 3.5, also announced recently – includes tighter integration with key applications, as well as improved quality-of-service (QOS) monitoring and root cause analysis. (More)

Onaro upgrades storage mana