BrightStor:
Managing Storage Without Boundaries
Imagine
an eBusiness environment in which the arrival
of new storage is automatically discovered, allocated
against enterprise-wide policies, provisioned
based on Best Practices and deployed where most
needed. Now imagine that this environment automatically
balances data across storage volumes, updates
backup/recovery jobs and procedures and optimizes
storage paths based on bandwidth and storage loads.
This
is CA's vision and the BrightStor family of solutions
provides the key components to make this vision
a reality. BrightStor supports all major platforms,
applications, systems and storage technologies,
integrating all storage management functions to
provide complete end-to-end storage management
for business. The combination of coverage, intelligence,
application breadth and CA's experience enables
BrightStor to provide the next generation of storage
management, Enterprise Storage Automation.
Enterprise
Storage Automation provides the ability to correlate
and represent technology in a fashion that enables
administrators to visualize their environment
along operational business lines. This top down
approach reverses the bottoms-up view that dominates
the market today and enables organizations to
address dynamic provisioning, single point of
management and topology guided recovery.
Dynamic
Provisioning
Managing and integrating storage are very complex,
time-consuming and error-prone tasks. For example,
adding new storage to a SAN environment requires
extensive operational procedures and time to install,
configure and change all storage applications,
devices and products. There is a clear need for
storage Best Practices and policy-based facilities
that can perform these tasks automatically. Complete
storage knowledge that is application aware provides
the solid foundation for self-generating policies.
Dynamic
provisioning provides the core intelligence for
automating complex operational tasks in a seamless
integrated process. It is the next generation
of storage intelligence for business. By integrating
existing storage management products, defining
business policies for storage allocation and utilizing
enterprise storage information and service-level
requirements, dynamic provisioning provides error-free,
timely and automatic processing for improved business
efficiency and operations.
Single
Point of Management
Traditionally, storage management was made up
of many different independent products and solutions
running on different operating systems and network
environments. Each product had a different set
of interfaces, procedures and required training.
The more independent the solutions were, the more
complex and complicated they were to operate.
A single point of management for all storage solutions,
both CA and non-CA, is one component that makes
"Managing Storage without Boundaries"
possible.
This
single point of management operates at multiple
levels in today's storage environment. It provides
integration at the administrative level, enabling
IT administrators to interact with existing products
across multiple platforms from a central point
of control. This integration simplifies storage
operations and enables greater operator efficiency.
On another level, it improves storage operations
by collecting and integrating information from
existing storage systems into a single point.
Now, unattended policy-driven operations are possible.
Topology
Guided Recovery
Recovery of critical business information or system
information can be the difference between success
and failure of a business. The constant change
of storage technology makes it difficult for storage
operations to update all applications, processes,
systems and components for each change. Imagine
not being able to recover a mission-critical database
because the recovery processes were not updated.
Topology
guided recovery understands all the storage infrastructure
and technology and separates the business of storage
from the underlying technology. Backup and recovery
operations will determine the best path, route
and procedures to accomplish the tasks based on
current up-to-date storage topologies. For example,
environments with serverless backup/recovery capabilities
will automatically use them based on best practice
definitions. These capabilities will improve operational
effectiveness, reduce errors and lower costs.
BrightStor Portal provides a single integrated
storage management platform for both CA and non-CA
solutions, integrating SAN management, Storage
Resource Management, Media Management and Data
Availability.
Self-Generating
Policies
The growing complexity of storage management makes
it very difficult to keep company policies and
practices up to date. With a complete understanding
of storage environments coupled with Best Practices,
policies can be automatically generated to simplify
storage management and reduce operational cost
and complexity.
Plug-and-Play
Storage Solutions
Today, a typical storage landscape comprises multiple
solutions from multiple vendors. Organizations
choose these solutions based on platform, best-of-breed
and/or vendor preference to meet localized management
and instrumentation needs. Additional management
is needed to enable cross-product, cross-function
service levels and provisioning. Because CA realizes
it is important for organizations to have the
freedom of choice, BrightStor enables plug-and-play
storage solutions and integration with BrightStor
Enterprise Storage Automation components.
The
plug-and-play capabilities of BrightStor support
integration and interoperability of multiple vendor
solutions through invocation and instrumentation.
Existing solutions can be run and administrated
by operators using existing interfaces, manuals
and procedures or data can be extracted and acted
upon without operator intervention. Plug-and-play
supports the growth and operational consistency
needed to integrate all storage functions.
BrightStor
provides a systematic approach to enable platform-neutral
storage and seamless integration and operation
of growing storage environments. Our approach
solves the toughest storage challenges facing
organizations today.
BrightStor
Solutions
Enterprise
Storage Automation
Enterprise Storage Automation represents the next
generation of storage management solutions. This
is a new higher level set of storage management
solutions designed to address dynamic provisioning,
automated operational workflow, storage compliance,
charge back and storage service-level management.
The key to Enterprise Storage Automation is that
it integrates both CA and non-CA solutions and
operates with all other storage components and
systems. The BrightStor Portal is the first solution
truly operating across all of storage to pro-vide
a single point of management.
Storage
Management Portal
CA's new BrightStor Portal can revolutionize the
way organizations manage their storage environments.
The BrightStor Portal enables organizations to
bring a new centralized approach to managing the
complex and diverse elements of enterprise storage
environments. With unique integration capabilities,
it empowers organizations with the ability to
manage heterogeneous storage environments seamlessly.
State-of-the-art portal technology delivers the
capability to provide a flexible, fully customized
view of the information, applications and tasks
essential to each administrative and management
role in the storage enterprise.
Data
Availability
BrightStor Data Availability solutions provide
complete end-to-end storage protection for all
critical business storage assets from the laptop
to the mainframe. CA solutions provide industry-leading
performance, reducing the backup window with complete
integrated support for serverless backup, snapshot
technology, complete devices support and full
application/ database support. These solutions
provide comprehensive cross-platform backup/recovery,
disaster recovery, data replication and hierarchical
storage management for any sized organization.
CA's Data Availability Solutions also include
data management for the mainframe enterprise server
environment, including z/OS, OS/390, z/VM and
VSE. Integration with BrightStor Storage Resource
Management and BrightStor Portal provide complete
data availability, support and operational management
for enterprise storage.
Media
Management
BrightStor Media Management solutions lead the
industry in protecting corporate data centers
by providing complete management control and reporting
of all mission-critical tape operations. In addition
to tape cataloging, vaulting and reporting, BrightStor
solutions optimize overall tape operations with
software-based virtual tape systems reducing tape
mounts, improving tape utilization and delivering
more efficient business operations. BrightStor
Media Management solutions set the standards for
the industry.
SAN
and NAS Storage Management
BrightStor SAN and NAS Storage Management solutions
address the growing management and operations
of SAN and NAS environments. BrightStor SAN Manager
provides discovery, zoning, LUN (Logical UNit)
assignments and enhanced visualization to simplify
SAN management. In addition, adoption of industry
standards and existing management interfaces enable
complete end-to-end management control of SAN
environments, bridging SANs, fabrics, arrays and
TCP/IP networks. Integration with BrightStor Portal,
BrightStor Storage Resource Management and Unicenter
provides complete end-to-end management for networked
storage.
BrightStor SAN Manager provides complete business
focused management of SAN systems, applications,
networks and devices.
Storage
Resource Management
BrightStor Storage Resource Management (BrightStor
SRM) provides centralized management of storage
resources for both distributed and mainframe systems.
This leading cross-platform solution centrally
analyzes, manages, reports, schedules and automates
networked storage resources across distributed
and centralized environments in the enterprise.
Comprehensive support exists for leading applications,
databases, devices and systems to enable complete
end-to-end resource management.
BrightStor
SRM provides a centralized view of storage usage
and availability to facilitate storage capacity
planning, allocation and space-usage management.
As a result, organizations benefit from the effective
and preemptive management of storage assets and
lower total cost of ownership.
CA
Common Services
CA Common Services provide the foundation of all
BrightStor solutions, enabling quicker time to
market. BrightStor leverages key network and system
discovery components in the BrightStor Portal
and BrightStor SAN Manager to fully discover all
systems, applications and networks. CA Common
Services also enable integration with Unicenter
for eBusiness infrastructure management and eTrust
for eBusiness security management.
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