The News: HPE has announced a new offering for its GreenLake Cloud Platform to greatly simplify Storage Area Network (SAN) configuration and management. GreenLake for Storage Fabric Management is a SaaS offering that allows administrators to configure and manage all elements of a Fibre Channel SAN. Read the full announcement here.
HPE Announces GreenLake for Storage Fabric Management
Analyst Take: For the longest time, configuring a Fibre Channel SAN has been a complicated exercise for specialists. The training required to become proficient is extensive and also required understanding of tools for specific hardware and software elements. HPE has made this much, much simpler with its SaaS offering that can do the configuring in an interactive manner, taking care of many of the seemingly esoteric details. Monitoring and ongoing administration are also simplified.
Making storage fabric management simpler is very beneficial for IT. The majority of Fibre Channel SANs are in production already but HPE GreenLake for Storage Fabric Management will be valuable for changes, new deployments, and ongoing administration. When support for Ethernet is added, the combined solution will be an even more valuable, too.
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Randy draws from over 35 years of experience in helping storage companies design and develop products. As a partner at Evaluator Group and now The Futurum Group, he spends much of his time advising IT end-user clients on architectures and acquisitions.
Previously, Randy was Vice President of Storage and Planning at Sun Microsystems. He also developed disk and tape systems for the mainframe attachment at IBM, StorageTek, and two startup companies. Randy also designed disk systems at Fujitsu and Tandem Computers.
Prior to joining The Futurum Group, Randy served as the CTO for ProStor, where he brought products to market addressing a long-term archive for Information Technology and the Healthcare and Media/Entertainment markets.
He has also written numerous industry articles and papers as an educator and presenter, and he is the author of two books: Planning a Storage Strategy and Information Archiving – Economics and Compliance. The latter is the first book of its kind to explore information archiving in depth. Randy regularly teaches classes on Information Management technologies in the U.S. and Europe.
