NetApp SANscreen

Extend data center automation to storage with SANscreen® to drive cost containment and storage efficiency.

SANscreen drives up the quality and efficiency of storage management by extending data center automation to storage with its near real-time, multivendor and multiprotocol, service-level views of your storage environment. That means you can manage storage as an end-to-end service - and integrate storage into the entire IT service delivery chain.

With SANscreen's near real-time visibility, you can:

• Reduce capital purchases through improved capacity management.
• Improve service quality to reduce outages.
• Perform data center consolidations without risk.
• Implement ITIL improvements related to your SAN environment.
• Maximize the success of virtualization projects.

You’ll even realize immediate and measurable value during a proof of concept. For a typical 2,000-port data center, SANscreen can install within 24 hours and start providing actionable data from day one.

SANscreen’s product suite includes:

• Service Insight - Gain near real-time visibility into the “storage services” delivered by your storage infrastructure.
• Service Assurance - Deliver storage as a true end-to-end service with path-based service policies, violations, and change-planning capabilities.
• Application Insight - Improve resource utilization and application performance by aligning your storage resources with application service levels.
• Capacity Manager - Achieve better capacity utilization, make smart capacity purchase decisions and simplify the provisioning process with global visibility into storage resource allocation.
• VM Insight - Maximize server consolidation projects while minimizing the risk of increased storage costs in VM implementations.