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GRESHAM'S CLARETI EDT 8.1 AND CONTROLCENTER ENTERPRISE ENHANCES TSM/SUN LIBRARY ENVIRONMENT WITH IMPROVED START-UP TIME, REDUCED MOUNT TIME AND FAULT TOLERANCE
Austin, TX, April 3, 2008: Gresham Enterprise Storage, the leading developer of data protection solutions with vision, announced today the release of Clareti® Enterprise DistribuTape (EDT) 8.1 and ControlCenter Enterprise (CCE). Clareti® EDT software is an external library manager for IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM), adding intelligence to the backup environment and value to the bottom line. With the latest EDT release and CCE, TSM administrators will experience improved start-up time, reduced mount time, and reduced downtime. ControlCenter Enterprise includes a new PathWatch® module which provides alternate pathing for communication requests to the library media manager (ACSLS or Library Manager).
The enhanced ControlCenter management console is a user friendly GUI for centralized management of all the functions and tasks between TSM, EDT and ACSLS. CCE has the ability to recognize a library's physical characteristics, which can greatly reduce mount times as drives are selected that are closest to the tape volume’s physical location in the library. This capability reduces the need for elevator and pass-thru port rides.
Jeannine Walter, Tivoli Certified Consultant, commented “Bottom-line, EDT 8.1 with CCE saves time and money. Allowing users to simply manage tape drives, discover orphaned volumes and effectively track media for quick disaster recovery operations leads to reduced operating costs, improved efficiency and quicker data recovery.”
The new EDT-PathWatch function allows users to monitor the communication path(s) to the media manager (ACSLS or Library Station). It presents stop/go lights for each path in the Media Manager list on the main CCE administration panel. Additionally, failover capabilities allow users to switch to an alternative communications path, providing a library connection if one of the paths to the media manager fails.
To summarize, the functionality of EDT 8.1 and ControlCenter Enterprise offers improved start-up time, reduced mount time and reduced downtime—which are just a few of the benefits gained by implementing EDT and CCE into any TSM/SUN library environment.
To learn more about Clareti® EDT version 8.1, visit Gresham at Storage Networking World, April 7-10th in Orlando, FL at booth #1500, or go to www.greshamstorage.com
About Gresham Enterprise Storage
Gresham Enterprise Storage delivers data protection with vision, combining the visibility of comprehensive storage analytics with highly scalable and easily manageable backup and restore to optimize operating costs. The world's most successful enterprises, including many of the Global 500 and the world’s largest data centers, use our Backup Virtualization Solution, Gresham Clareti® VTL, and our TSM tape and drive management solution, Clareti® EDT, to manage the unrelenting growth of data with ease, improve their backup/restore performance, and scale their environments cost-effectively.
For more information, contact:
Jeannine Walter
Gresham Enterprise Storage
+1 314-276-3873