EMC unveils Ionix data center insight

EMC Corporation has unveiled EMC Ionix Data Center Insight laying the foundation for unified IT configuration visibility across the data center and helping customers accelerate their journey to the private cloud.

EMC Corporation has unveiled EMC Ionix Data Center Insight laying the foundation for unified IT configuration visibility across the data center and helping customers accelerate their journey to the private cloud.

With an ability to bring together dependency mapping and discovery across storage,network,server and application domains,Ionix Data Center Insight is a game-changing solution that enables customers to evolve their Configuration Management Databases (CMDBs) into fully federated Configuration Management Systems (CMS).

Ionix Data Center Insight is a key piece of EMCs newly announced Ionix IT management suite powerful solutions for automating IT management across a unified infrastructure of storage,server,network and virtualization resources.

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With Ionix,customers can confidently move from physical to virtual to cloud computing maximizing the value of their new enterprise IT architecture.

Establishing and populating a federated CMDB system is one of the biggest challenges companies face today when trying to manage their next-generation data centers. With so many tools collecting data from all parts of the IT environment,the ability to get up-to-date,accurate and complete data to a single,monolithic CMDB solution becomes extremely difficult and requires excessive manual labor and guesswork, said Dennis Drogseth,Vice President,Enterprise Management Associates.

With EMC Ionix Data Center Insight,EMC is taking a major step forward in helping customers tackle these challenges head-on,while at the same time enabling far more flexibility in capturing real-time insights versus aging information.