Storage Technology (StorageTek) has bought Storability
Software in order to acquire its enterprise storage resource
manager product.
StorageTek is building a comprehensive information lifecycle
management product set, aiming to provide more storage tiers and
facilities than any other supplier.
To meet that goal it needs to offer large customers the ability
to review thousands of individual elements of their storage set-up
and see how much they cost, how well they perform and whether they
are worth it.
Storability was a storage service provider that refocused on
development and sales of the software it used to manage storage for
its customers.
It recently announced Global Storage Manager v4, which added
business analytic functions to its existing heterogeneous storage
element viewing and monitoring - capabilities that are a natural
fit with StorageTek's information lifecycle management
strategy.
Chris Mellor writes for Techworld.com