APTARE StorageConsole for Data Protection Validated as EMC VSPEX Proven Infrastructure Solution

The APTARE StorageConsole has been tested and validated as part of an EMC VSPEX Proven Infrastructure solution, the company announced. APTARE, which offers data center optimization solutions, aims to help customers gain insight into complex, heterogeneous storage and data protection environments.

APTARE covers the entire data protection environment, across both internal data centers and external private clouds. The company's solutions are designed to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, and enable the chargeback of storage based on either capacity or utilization.

The StorageConsole offering from APTARE for EMC VSPEX offers a number of capabilities, including chargeback across business units or departments, which may be based on raw, allocated or utilized storage volume. The solution also provides visibility across internal data centers and external private cloud environments to help companies evaluate the potential migration of their applications and data to cloud solutions.

Finally, it offers tracking and audible results to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.

The EMC VSPEX Proven Infrastructure is a flexible reference architecture made up of a variety of products from EMC and its alliance partners, including Brocade, Cisco, Citrix, Intel, Microsoft and VMware. The program offers several configuration options to help customers accelerate the deployment of private cloud and end-user computing environments.

EMC offers the VSPEX labs for partners to test, validate and demonstrate VSPEX solutions.

"EMC continues to build our ecosystem with leading management and orchestration partners like APTARE, delivering even greater simplicity for customers deploying VSPEX Proven Infrastructure," said Parmeet Chaddha, vice president, Partner Solutions, EMC Corporation.

"APTARE solutions deliver a complete picture of enterprise storage utilization at the array, host and application level," said Walt Duflock, vice president of marketing at APTARE. "Validation of StorageConsole as part of an EMC VSPEX solution provides customers with the confidence that the solutions they buy will work together effectively. We are very excited to offer new management capabilities for VSPEX customers through StorageConsole."