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AppIQ SAN Management and SRM Software

AppIQ StorageAuthority® Suite is the leading management solution for aligning multi-vendor storage infrastructure with the on-demand needs of today's business. StorageAuthority Suite combines the monitoring, reporting, correlation, provisioning, and automation capabilities of traditionally separate point products for Storage Area Network (SAN) management, storage resource management (SRM), provisioning, and application management into a scalable, easy-to-use solution built on industry standards. The result is a truly unified storage area management product family that offers clear business and operational advantages.

Heterogeneous Support: Maximizes Business Flexibility

With AppIQ StorageAuthority Suite, you gain the flexibility to select the storage products that work best for your business and your budget. AppIQ's strategic OEM and joint development relationships with Engenio, Hitachi Data Systems, HP, SGI, and Sun Microsystems mean best-in-class support for the storage systems, fabric switches, host bus adapters (HBAs), operating systems, volume managers, file systems, and management software offered by these vendors. In addition, AppIQ has development alliances with Brocade, Cisco, CNT, EMC, Emulex, HP, IBM, JNI, Intel, McDATA, NetApp, QLogic, Xiotech, and 3PAR to ensure full solution interoperability. All so you spend less time training IT staff on separate point tools, and more time turning your storage investments into competitive advantage.

Application Modules: Ensure Business Availability

The Application Modules of AppIQ StorageAuthority Suite correlate business application performance and availability with the health of underlying host servers, HBAs, fabric switches, and storage systems. These modules go beyond simple "application awareness" by giving you views of your storage environment from each application's perspective, so can perform faster root cause analysis and prevent unplanned downtime. You'll also be better equipped to meet service levels and ensure business continuity.

Business Modules: Align IT With Business Needs

The Business Modules of AppIQ StorageAuthority Suite provide flexible solutions for storage infrastructure provisioning and cost accounting, so you can protect the data and applications that matter most to your business, while delivering a more cost-effective level of service for less critical assets. With the advanced reporting modules, you'll be able to prove to your internal customers and executive management at a moment's notice how your storage infrastructure is being optimized and managed to meet business needs.

Protection and NAS Modules: New From AppIQ

StorageAuthority for NetApp® , the first in a new line of Network Attached Storage (NAS) modules, extends AppIQ StorageAuthority Suite with NAS management capabilities. You now have a single platform to manage your DAS, SAN, and NAS storage. StorageAuthority for VERITAS NetBackup, the first in a new line of Protection modules, provides backup resource management and reporting capabilities. You'll finally understand just how protected your data really is.

Standards-Built Architecture: Reduces TCO

AppIQ StorageAuthority Suite is the first solution designed from the ground up on the Common Information Model (CIM) and Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S), and built using scalable Web services technology. This translates into less risk to you and your business, faster implementations, and lower total cost of ownership. You can be confident that StorageAuthority Suite will support almost any storage hardware choice you make in the future, since AppIQ has no hardware agenda. Your investments in IT staff training will be on a standards-based solution family, not a proprietary point tool. You won't need to increase the memory on all of your managed servers or sacrifice server performance, since AppIQ software doesn't require multiple heavyweight agents. And you won't have to worry about the cost of installing and maintaining thick clients on every administrative desktop, since 100% of AppIQ features are delivered through a Web browser for true "anytime, anywhere" management.

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