Pioneering Storage Area Management

Chris MelvillePresident and CEOInterSAN, Inc.www.intersan.net

Networked Storage Management Challenges

Scalability Operational Efficiency

SecurityAvailability

Service Levels

Device-centric management inadequate

Doesn’t tie resources with applications

Doesn’t automate repetitive tasks

Doesn’t reduce the need for experts

Doesn’t measure application service

levels

Doesn’t scale to large environments

Virtual Private DataPath™Manages the relationship between applications and data, hiding complexity

InterSAN InterSAN Storage Area ManagementStorage Area Management

Automated Best-Fit Storage Provisioning

Transforms a complex multi-step task performed by an expert into a one step task performed by a non-expert

Application Service Level Management

Measure availability, performance, and costs

Exception reporting and response

Business Relevant Views

Owners

TradingFloor

InsuranceBanking

Storage DomainsApplications

Database CRM

ERPMail

Locations

Enterprise-wide Deployment

Uniform and unified management of global resources

InterSAN Advantage Summary

FEATURE BENEFITBusiness-relevant

Views

Identifies who is affected by a problem

Tie infrastructure to applications/owners/locations

Automated Best-Fit

Storage Provisioning

Reduces number of experts

Reduces time to deploy storage resource

Service Level

Management

Provides differentiated service levels

Enables infrastructure right-sizing

Policy EnforcementProvides end-to-end security

Supports best practices

Global Management

Console

Unified administration & monitoring

Manage globally distributed resources

Discovery &

Visualization

Automates global asset tracking

Provides physical topology view