Management Automation
ESG Lab recently completed testing of the EMC ProSphere.
Testing was designed to demonstrate how EMC ProSphere intuitively provides end-to-end resource management for storage environments. Also of interest were ease of use and implementation as well as agent-less host, SAN, and array data collection.
Please click here to read the full report.
Published on Tuesday, January 10th, 2012 at 3:13 pm | 2 Comments »
Authors: Bob Laliberte | Vinny Choinski |
End-to-End Cloud Storage Resource Management
This ESG Lab Validation report documents the results of hands-on testing of the EMC ProSphere storage resource management solution. Testing explored how ProSphere can help simplify management, identify problem areas, and ensure application performance in otherwise complex storage environments. The report focuses on the easy deployment, ...
Authors: Bob Laliberte | Vinny Choinski |
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