EMC acquires Iwave software for Cloud automation

EMC has quietly acquired its OEM partner Iwave Software, the developer of EMC's storage and cloud automation technology for VMAX service provider platforms (VMAX service Provider Platform), The platform is designed to allow service providers to deploy a storage infrastructure for the cloud.

EMC did not officially announce the deal, although it ended December 27 last year. The acquisition's first public debut was on Iwave's website, with CEO Brent rhymes thinking of clients and partners in an open letter.

EMC will incorporate Iwave staff into EMC's Advanced storage unit (Advanced Storage Division (ASD)) Rhymes report to Jay Mastaj, the Senior VP and COO of this department.

Iwave's storage Automator performs storage allocation, matching applications need to connect storage tiers, matrices and device groups, device types, and data paths, but beyond the underlying storage allocations.

Randy Kerns, a senior strategist at Evaluator Group, says Iwave conforms to the underlying software choreography category, including dynamic server allocation, cloud service management, closed change management, intelligent failover, automated disaster recovery, and workload management.

Its main products iwave it automator processing server allocation, private cloud management, configuration Management database (CMDB), event response, and fault remediation, change control process execution, and Agile computing resource allocation. The CMDB is part of ITIL, which controls the details of the IT infrastructure configuration elements and shows how these changes affect the system process.

"EMC uses Iwave for storage allocation, but Iwave can do more than data-centric cloud management," Kerns says, "moving to a higher level, not just storage." This is a good technology that enables more advanced functionality. ”

Due to the OEM partnership, Kerns said: "The acquisition is not surprising, but on behalf of EMC as a significant participant in this field, they now have their own intellectual property." ”

The Second product of Iwave is Iwave TransportManager, which provides event-driven change, configuration and release management, and enforces Oxley compliance in SAP environments.

Storage, the company announced in November the latest version of Iwave's storage Automator, which can be easily deployed as a virtual device. Increased support for Windows Active directory, a more robust application interface, and chargeback Ben buying capacity. IT Automator assists managers in handling storage allocation and stacking, recycling capacity, and for Linux, VMware ESX Servers, vmware clusters, Common Internet File System (CIFS), and receptacle The File System (NFS) capacity supports block storage.

Iwave Storage Automator supports Emcvmax, Vmaxe, Vnx and CLARiiON, NetApp FAs, and Dell compellent matrices. also supports brocade and Cisco switches, Windows and Linux multipath processing, EMC PowerPath, CIFS, NFS, and iSCSI protocols.

"The process of iwave is that vendors often deliver in fragmented tools and put them under a roof," said Joseph Martins, manager of Data adroit Group, "You can have an application run with an absolute minimum datum contour, And you don't have to do a lot of human adjustment. These things are designed to bridge the generation gap between those who are not very skilled. ”

(Responsible editor: Schpeppen)