"The Storability software helps us give upper management what they want to know, such as how much storage there is, how much is being used, capacity planning, and trending, uptime, and availability," Smith says. Storability's Global Storage Manager management software is in the design phase at the moment, but Cox expects to kick off the production environment later this month.
Smith hopes Cox's remote cable sites will also benefit from the new software. He says the idea is to let them manage their own storage. "Right now I have no clue what it going on over there, no picture into their environment. Storability should lessen that gap."
Not even Storability was perfect at everything, however. "All the products fell short on the switch management and reporting side," Smith says. He ended up picking another product written specifically to handle the task of pinpointing bottlenecks in the network. As a McData Corp. (Nasdaq: MCDTA) shop, with one or two Brocade Communications Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: BRCD) switches, he chose SANavigator, McData's multivendor SAN device management software (see McData Stirs Up Software and McData Ships SANavigator 3.5
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