Monosphere Delivers exceptional Visibility and Forecasting Capabilities For EMC Storage Environments

Latest Storage Horizon Software Will Be Showcased at EMC World in Orlando, May 21-24

Redwood City, Calif. – May 14, 2007 – MonoSphere Inc., creator of award-winning storage capacity management software, today introduced Storage Horizon® 3.2, a comprehensive solution delivering exceptional visibility into the most popular EMC storage arrays. Ideal for managing many terabytes of storage, this enterprise-class software solution provides Global 3000 companies with a unified view of current and projected storage capacity usage, giving companies the insight to develop effective storage capacity plans and maximize utilization of existing and future storage assets.

The result is both a dramatic decrease in storage capital expenditures -- as much as 50 percent -- and a reduction in operational expenditures such as power, cooling and floor space. 

New in this version of Storage Horizon is support for EMC’s CLARiiON product family and EMC’s industry-leading Symmetrix replication solutions - Business Continuance Volumes (BCV) and Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF). Storage Horizon is the industry’s only solution for capacity planning environments that use BCVs and SRDFs to store multiple copies of data. This version deciphers the complex associations between host volumes and their RAID levels, storage array logical devices and their RAID levels, and replication levels supported by EMC BCVs and SRDFs. Through these associations, current and forecasted usage of arrays is determined. 

“For storage administrators, aligning storage resources with actual usage has been a challenge that can result in over-purchasing hardware or out-of-storage emergencies,” said Brad O’Neill, senior analyst at the Taneja Group. “Using Storage Horizon, enterprises can map storage usage from application hosts down to storage subsystems, allowing users to make well-informed purchasing decisions and reduce unnecessary hardware spending.”

Before Storage Horizon, capacity planning for networked storage was too complex, error-prone and manually intensive.  As a result, most companies rarely implemented a planning process, causing overall storage utilization to be at unacceptable levels – 36 percent on average.  Storage Horizon automates data collection, forecasting, analysis, and storage capacity management, enabling storage administrators to proactively plan capacity in a timely, cost effective manner, thereby enabling users to achieve much higher utilization levels, typically greater than 75 percent.

With this release, MonoSphere’s Storage Horizon is the only storage capacity planning solution which determines actual and forecasted usage (i.e. storage with data written to it) for EMC’s popular Symmetrix and CLARiiON series arrays.  From this information, Storage Horizon automatically develops optimized capacity plans and analyzes large, heterogeneous storage infrastructures to determine areas of over-provisioning, under-provisioning and unused storage. 

“While storage arrays report storage allocation, they do not provide actual application usage information, which results in enterprises using only 36 percent of their total storage capacity, on average,” said Frank Kettenstock, MonoSphere’s vice president of marketing. “MonoSphere customers are enjoying multi-million dollar savings on storage capital expenditures annually because Storage Horizon delivers unprecedented visibility into actual capacity usage and growth within storage assets.”

As with previous versions, Storage Horizon does not require installation of software agents on application servers, so the system deploys in hours and immediately collects storage usage data. Available now, Storage Horizon 3.2 pricing is determined by the number of terabytes managed.  Interested parties can see Storage Horizon in booth #122 during EMC World, taking place May 21-24 in Orlando, Fla.

About MonoSphere
MonoSphere provides agent-less storage capacity management software that enables Global 3000 companies to forecast, plan and optimize their storage capacity.  Providing unprecedented visibility into an organization’s storage resources, MonoSphere’s award-winning Storage Horizon software dramatically reduces spending on storage infrastructure.  Headquartered in Redwood City, Calif., the company is venture-backed by top-tier investors Intel Capital, ComVentures, and Lightspeed Venture Partners.  More information can be found at www.monosphere.com.

For more information:
Frank Kettenstock
650-595-3102
frank@monosphere.com