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At the ITSMF USA Fusion 07 conference in Charlotte, N.C., the company plans to introduce four products each with a function designed to ease IT service management for enterprise network managers: IT compliance Manager; IPv6 Availability Manager; IT Process Centre; and IT Performance Reporter. The products are designed to address specific pain points in the enterprise, but also the software is part of EMC's larger strategy to deliver data-center automation and IT services across domains. With competition such as HP and IBM, EMC says it is ramping up its product set to deliver management and automation across IT domains.
"The products are moving up the stack and leveraging the strength of our discovery, modeling and application-dependency mapping to help customers develop an infrastructure information strategy," says Jon Siegal, a senior manager in EMC's Resource Management Software Group. "Customers need shared services around storing, protecting and optimizing their infrastructure."
For instance, IT Compliance Analyzer is packaged as an appliance and uses EMC's Application Discovery Manager (ADM) software as the management data repository, which EMC says helps customers ensure application changes, configurations and dependences comply with preset policies or standards laid out by industry regulations such as the Payment Card Industry (PCI) data security standard.
ADM, based on technology EMC acquired with nLayers, gives IT managers an inventory of their data centers' applications and hosts and shows them how the elements are interdependent. Incorporating ADM technology into the compliance software to discover changes in real-time and ensure compliance. IT Compliance Analyzer is able to alert IT staff to policy violations in real time, EMC says.
IT Compliance Analyzer is expected to be available next month, and pricing is based on the number of managed servers, starting at $27,000.
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