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Incipient Software - Data Mobility without Disruption


The Incipient suite of software solutions improves data mobility in large SAN environments by simplifying operations and minimizing business disruption. Today's SAN environments are mostly proprietary and complex infrastructures where even small changes can be operationally disruptive. Incipient's intelligent automation and device abstraction technologies enable seamless data mobility in use cases such as data center consolidation, storage array technology refreshes and storage tier optimization. Incipient software helps storage IT teams tackle even the most daunting data mobility projects.

Incipient Software Product Suite


Incipient offers two enterprise-class software products both managed by a common administrative console called Incipient Storage Administrator (iSA);

  • Incipient Automated Data Migration (iADM) software
  • Incipient Network Storage Platform (iNSP) software


Incipient Automated Data Migration Software


Designed for customers that need an immediate solution for their data migration projects such as data center moves, storage array refreshes, application tiering, or storage resource balancing. iADM offers an entirely new approach to planning and executing large-scale data migrations. Through intelligent automation of end-to-end migration processes, iADM reduces complexity, duration and cost, while minimizing application downtime.

iADM Software:

  • Supports heterogeneous SAN environments: Cisco, Brocade/McDATA
  • Supports leading storage vendors: 3PAR, EMC, Engenio, HDS, HP, IBM, STK, & Sun
  • Operates on off-the-shelf servers and designed to automate both end-to-end workflow and provisioning tasks associated with data migration processes.
  • Does not require storage virtualization

With iADM Software, you can:

  • Perform data center moves and technology refreshes with reduced downtime
  • Improve productivity by orchestrating all data migrations from a single console
  • Improve IT staff efficiency
  • Reduce or eliminate costs associated with outsourcing data migrations projects

Incipient Network Storage Platform Software


Designed for customers that have ongoing data mobility needs and have little to no downtime available. iNSP combines storage virtualization technology with robust management allowing customers to move data across their SAN environment without any downtime. iNSP resides within a director-class SAN switch and provides a suite of universal network based storage services software that can be deployed SAN-wide, across heterogeneous storage arrays. These services include non-disruptive data migration, network volume management, storage provisioning and point-in-time copy. iNSP abstracts the SAN data path, eliminating the application downtime normally associated with data migrations and device reconfigurations. This enables storage administrators to build SAN storage tiers with zero planned downtime.

iNSP Software:

  • Supports Cisco MDS 9000 SAN switches
  • Supports leading storage vendors: 3PAR, EMC, Engenio, HDS, HP, IBM, STK, & Sun

With iNSP Software, you can:

  • Migrate data with absolutely no disruption to applications and hosts
  • Increase storage utilization
  • Enable storage tiering and cross-tier copy services
  • Eliminate planned downtime for storage changes
  • Reduce CapEx for multipathing s/w, volume managers and array copy services
  • Improve storage IT staff efficiency
  • Accelerate new technology adoption

Incipient software is available direct from Incipient or through its Channel Partners.