NetApp OnCommand Insight Balance

Upon transition of clients to "cloud" services becomes especially important to support the optimal performance of infrastructure of data storage as for providing business and critical applications it is necessary to guarantee access of virtual machines and physical servers to required resources. For compliance to these requirements, customers use solutions for management of data storage. Among them — a line of software products for management — NetApp OnCommand which, thanks to optimization of performance of virtual and physical infrastructure of a data processing center, allow to increase efficiency of data storage and level of the provided services.

In March NetApp officially announced that the software of Netapp OnCommand Insight Balance is called a product of 2011 in category "The Best Management Tool Data Storage" according to the Storage magazine (SearchStorage.com). This award speaks about recognition of the product OnCommand Insight Balance by the most demanded and significant in this category.

"As more and more customers use the virtualized separated infrastructure and private "cloud" environments, the innovative solutions offering expanded management of heterogeneous infrastructure find the vital value as allow to react quickly to the changing requirements of business and to increase efficiency" — Chris Cummings, the vice president of department for marketing of products and solutions of Netapp company tells. "For professionals of the IT field such ability to manage is the requirement now, but not luxury. We believe that this award once again confirms our leadership in the field of management of data storage and also shows our aspiration to provide customers with expanded management tools and the analysis in the field of data storage".

Basic facts

• The software of OnCommand Insight Balance is included into a line of the software products of management of Netapp OnCommand allowing to increase efficiency of data storage and level of provision of services thanks to the whole feature set which help clients to manage, automate and analyze optimum separated data storage infrastructure.
• The research of aggregate economic effect conducted by consulting company Forrester in September, 2011 by request of NetApp showed that when using the managing software of OnCommand as a part of the solution of Netapp company for private "cloud", investment profitability of the complex organization made 151%, and a payback period — 12 months.
• The product OnCommand Insight Balance became a part of the solution of Netapp after acquisition by Netapp company in February, 2011 to Akorri Networks company. The solution was actively implemented during the period between 2011 and 2012 financial years and helped to reach increase in revenue by 67% as customers were convinced of efficiency of OnCommand Insight Balance for risk mitigation and costs when using virtual solutions and also for increase in payback, thanks to more exact assessment and an opportunity to make optimal solutions.