Wednesday, 19 September 2007

EMC Unveils IPv6 Network Management Solution

Storage company EMC has launched EMC Smarts IPv6 Availability Manager, the company’s first network management solutions supporting native IPv6 deployments. The software offers comprehensive network discovery, mapping, monitoring, and root-cause analysis for IPv6, IPv4 and mixed environments.

A prepared company press release said the solution is a key piece of EMC's IT service delivery management portfolio. Aimed at helping customers achieve higher degrees of automation for their data centre operations, EMC software provides customers with end-to-end service visibility and control across their complex IT information infrastructures.

Smarts IPv6 Availability Manager will fully automate the end-to-end correlation and analysis of networked infrastructures, including IPv6 protocols and devices. The software fully meets US Federal Government requirements for native IPv6 support and is currently submitted for Ready v6 Logo Testing.

"The Federal government has mandated that all agency networks and all network access to federal agencies must comply with native IPv6 by June 2008," said Jon Oltsik, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. "With less than a year left until this mandate is enacted, anyone wishing to provide network services to – or connect with – the federal government must comply with native IPv6."

"Clearly, this drives demand for network management solutions capable of managing IPv6 networks. Those vendors that make it first-to-market with such products clearly will have a unique advantage," Oltsik said.