ORLANDO, Fla., Oct. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- The following advisory outlines a CareGroup Healthcare System presentation of SAN change management best practices and use of SANscreen technology from Onaro, Inc. to be given at the Storage Networking World conference this week in Orlando.
WHO: Michael Passe, storage architect for the CareGroup Healthcare System (http://www.caregroup.org) and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC). Passe leads the organization’s efforts to create, plan and manage a growing storage infrastructure, engaging in long term capacity planning and focusing on issues of SAN management and storage migration. WHAT: CareGroup Healthcare System offers a range of health services to residents of Eastern Massachusetts in world-renowned academic health centers, community hospitals, physician offices and community health centers. With more than 13,000 employees and an IT staff of nearly 200, CareGroup has experienced tremendous growth in data volume the past few years -- at times 200 percent year-over-year increases due in part to email and document storage. During this period, its storage area network (SAN) requirements grew from six to 75 servers -- or one to 50 terabytes of data -- due to the introduction of new applications and the adoption of an information lifecycle management (ILM) strategy for patient records and clinical information. CareGroup faced the challenge of managing and growing an increasingly complex SAN with insufficient manual methods, where the introduction of small and large SAN changes became time consuming and error prone. This made maintaining application availability, operational efficiency, and regulatory compliance increasingly difficult. By adopting SANscreen(R) technology from Onaro, Inc., CareGroup is now able to: * Automate change monitoring and troubleshooting to eliminate SAN related downtime * Validate access paths to understand the impact of change on all data paths * Automate planning and simulation to detect errors before, during and after changes * Perform root-cause analysis to resolve problems quickly * Ensure continuous access to patient data records in compliance with HIPAA * Conduct advanced planning and validation to ease data migration During this session, attendees will learn best practices for implementing predictive SAN change management technology within storage networks to eliminate risks associated with SAN changes, increase productivity and ensure network availability. WHEN: Michael Passe’s case study presentation, “Automating the SAN Change Management Process,” will be held Thursday, October 27th at 10:20 a.m. WHERE: Storage Networking World Fall 2005 (http://www.snwusa.com), JW Marriott Grande Lakes Resort in Orlando, Fla. CONTACT: For more information on Onaro visit http://www.onaro.com or contact: Matthew Card SparkSource, Inc. 781-418-2411 mcard@sparksource.com About Storage Networking World (SNW)
Co-owned by Computerworld and the Storage Networking Industry Association (http://www.snia.org), Storage Networking World (SNW) is the leading global event series focused on the continued, rapid growth and implementation of storage networking technologies. With a concentration on end-user education, SNW’s content-rich agenda and quality presentations have earned the conference a reputation as the industry’s leading forum. Throughout the four-day conference in April, companies such as Bank of America, SAIC and Yahoo!, Inc. will share their successes and challenges and the latest technologies, standards, business benefits and products will be presented to the end-user audience. In addition, they will have access to the most comprehensive storage training available within the storage networking industry. Additional program details are available at http://www.snwusa.com.
About Onaro, Inc.
Onaro pioneered Change Management for Storage Area Networks (SANs), enabling enterprises to ensure regulatory compliance and storage service levels by quickly and effectively controlling change and managing growth in complex SANs through its SANscreen(R) Monitoring and Predictive Change Management software. SANscreen Business Continuity extends the Onaro solution to replicated data environments assuring continuous compliance and application availability when disaster strikes. Onaro products are currently deployed at some of the world’s largest SANs including AOL, Nationwide, State Street Global Advisors, and Wyeth Pharmaceuticals.
In recent months the company has also received numerous honors, including being named one of the top 10 private companies by Byte and Switch, and winning product awards from the Association of Storage Networking Professionals, eWeek, InfoStor, Network Magazine and Storage Magazine.
SANscreen is a registered trademark of Onaro, Inc. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.
Onaro, Inc.
CONTACT: Matthew Card of SparkSource, Inc., +1-781-418-2411,mcard@sparksource.com