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Storage giant EMC is looking to offer server management and compliance management tools to add to its other set of management software for storage and networks. The two new EMC management tools, Server Configuration Manager and Configuration Analytics Manager, look to offer the same type of capabilities that HP offers through its Opsware acquisition and BMC through its BladeLogic purchase.Storage
giant EMC is looking beyond its traditional roots in data storage and network
management software and will now begin offering a new set of products that
address server configuration and compliance management.
EMC
plans to introduce two new management tools Oct. 29. The first, Server Configuration
Manager, automates the management of individual servers and ensures compliance
with different federal regulations. The second, Configuration Analytics
Manager, acts as a business intelligence tool and will keep track of data and
configuration changes over time.
These two new management tools, which will integrate with existing EMC
products such as its VoyenceControl tool for network configuration management,
will be available on Nov. 15. The
EMC Server Configuration Manager tool will also integrate with VMwares virtual
infrastructure products to allow IT managers to track both physical and
virtual machines within a data center.
The fact that EMC is offering tools for
server management means that company is looking to offer the type of end-to-end
data center management that Hewlett-Packard
can offer through its Opsware
acquisition and that BMC inherited through
its BladeLogic purchase. The new tools also allow EMC
to offer customers ways to ensure that servers are being configured correctly
and that the organization is in compliance with federal regulations such as HIPAA
(Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) and the Sarbanes-Oxley
Act.
We wanted to add the server component to build out the full complement of
data center management capabilities, said Bob Quillin, a senior director of product
marketing for resource management software at EMC.
The server configuration management tool really looks to help the data center
managers and folks who are responsible for configuring and patching as well as
those people who are focusing heavily on issues around compliance.