iWave Software Debuts Storage Director

iWave Software LLC, a provider of storage and cloud automation solutions and a privately-held subsidiary of the Hall Financial Group, introduced Storage Director 1.5, a storage automation platform for companies to develop and operate cloud-based storage services on demand using their existing storage infrastructures.

By automating the tasks associated with provisioning, reclamation and remediation for storage, iWave Software closes the gap between rapidly expanding storage requirements and a lack of available and affordable IT resources.

Prior to Storage Director, storage automation resided within management consoles and home-grown scripts, each narrowly focused along vendor and product lines. Using Storage Director, storage administrators can automate storage services in a self-service, private storage cloud environment that is available to storage consumers, leveraging unified workflows across vendor products and within organizationally defined policies for use and regulatory compliance.

Storage Director:

• Improves storage administrator productivity by automating routine tasks such as provisioning, reclamation and remediation, letting storage administrators focus on higher value activities;
• Lowers storage operating costs by supporting more storage with fewer administrators;
• Reduces storage outages by ensuring best practices are automatically followed for each provisioning request, removing configuration errors during provisioning;
• Reduces unnecessary storage expenditures by identifying and reclaiming unused storage; and
• Reducing the time to provision new storage from weeks to hours.

Leveraging iWave Software’s cloud orchestration platform and 17 years of field experience working with global 500 firms, Storage Director works with third-party adapters such as EMC and NetApp storage arrays, Cisco and Brocade switches, and a variety of host and applications, including Windows, Linux, VMware ESX, Microsoft Hyper V, Oracle, SQL Server, and more. Support for additional storage arrays from vendors including Dell, Hitachi Data Systems, HP, IBM and others is expected in 2012.

"The growth in the number of storage requests is multiplying by the minute. Storage Director users expressed a pent-up demand to extend the automation principles and concepts of cloud computing into the world of storage administration so as to scale their IT and storage departments without increasing their staff, resources or budgets," said Brent Rhymes, CEO of iWave Software.

iWave Software will demonstrates its Storage Director solution at the Gartner Data Center Conference in Las Vegas from December 5 through 8, 2011.