NOVELL SELECTS APTARE'S STORAGECONSOLE Backup Manager
SOFTWARE
Backup Reporting Solution Chosen for Its Robust Functionality,
Ease of Use and Capacity Planning Feature
CAMPBELL, Calif. - February 4, 2008 - APTARE®, Inc., a provider
of Web-based storage reporting and management software, today announced
that its APTARE StorageConsole®
Backup Manager has helped Novell, a leader in enterprise infrastructure
software, to manage, protect and recover the high volume of data generated
by its Information Services and Technology (IS&T) Operations group.
By utilizing APTARE's solution, the company has been able to better
forecast its storage needs and expedite the recovery of data.
Prior to APTARE, Novell had no easy way to assess how much data, if
any, was available for recovery beyond its retention period. APTARE
has equipped the company with the ability to go back historically and
locate expired tapes and associated backup jobs. Using APTARE's solution,
Novell is able to locate and recover previously irretrievable data,
saving the valuable time and resources that would have previously been
needed to recreate the missing data.
Novell went through a comprehensive review process of multiple vendors
in the storage backup and recovery space and chose APTARE's reporting
tools based on criteria that included feature set, reporting organization
and interface, and ease of use. The APTARE StorageConsole Backup Manager
delivers in-depth information about an enterprise's backup environment
through multiple reporting channels. It gives storage administrators
the flexibility to customize the information they need to know immediately
and to define how it gets delivered. APTARE's solution also provides
the benefit of helping to project more accurately storage capacity growth
up to several months out.
"APTARE set the high-water mark when it came to analysis of solutions
that would meet our data backup, recovery and management requirements,"
said Scott Jacobson, systems engineer at Novell. "StorageConsole
Backup Manager is designed to ease the burden of the data growth
curve for IT administrators and to protect our company's most important
asset - our data. APTARE's solution provides considerable time and cost
savings, as well as the peace of mind that our data is safeguarded and
readily and easily available. The fact that StorageConsole Backup Manager
is Web-based is an added bonus."
APTARE's solutions enable storage administrators to run predictive
analysis for future forecasting. Report
creation is straightforward and painless. Making use of APTARE StorageConsole
Backup Manager's utilization and capacity planning reporting, Novell
has been able to decrease the capacity utilization of its backup tape
system from 93 percent to 83 percent in less than four months.
Previously, Novell created an in-house variance report, which was a
lengthy, step-by-step process. With APTARE's automated reporting capability,
a job summary virtually takes seconds and allows storage administrators
to focus on tasks that are more important.
StorageConsole Backup Manager delivers the following capabilities:
- Web 2.0 Architecture: APTARE StorageConsole Backup Manager
provides real-time reporting on the entire backup environment from
one central portal that can be accessed using any popular browser.
- Out-of-the-box Reports: APTARE StorageConsole Backup Manager provides the most popular reports right out of the box -
enabling storage administrators to diagnose and manage the environment
immediately with no training.
- Robust Reporting: APTARE StorageConsole Backup Manager
provides the greatest depth and breadth of reporting - down to file-level
detail. Reports provide "context-sensitive" information using
the terminology of the underlying backup software.
- Predictive Analysis: APTARE StorageConsole Backup Manager
provides predictive analysis so administrators can accurately forecast
and plan the level of resources they'll need for future backup or storage
operations.
- Automated Alerts and Notification: APTARE StorageConsole
Backup Manager proactively sends alerts when user-established thresholds
have been breached in the storage environment.
About APTARE
Headquartered in Campbell, California, APTARE is a provider of Web 2.0
reporting and management applications that simplify the optimization
of complex enterprise storage environments. APTARE StorageConsole products
include APTARE StorageConsole Backup Manager for backup reporting and
APTARE StorageConsole Capacity Manager
for storage capacity reporting. APTARE StorageConsole®, the company's
application platform, is a Web 2.0 platform that gives IT administrators
and executives a centralized, real-time view of their storage environment
through out-of-the-box dashboards. Using APTARE StorageConsole applications
companies like Novell, Calamos Investments, Eprod and York University
increase management effectiveness, maximize storage utilization, and
reduce costs. The software is sold direct and through a large base of
resellers and managed services providers. For more information, please
visit www.aptare.com.
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