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Companies using today’s solutions and existing methods to mange their SAN will continue to experience an increase in cost and complexities as SAN infrastructures expand in size. Problems will involve scalability, storage changes, cost (capital and operational expenditures), availability and compliance. Today’s host-based and array-based solutions do not adequately address these challenges.

Independent third party analyst firms with an expertise in storage, storage virtualization and other storage-related products performed product validations of Incipient software by conducting hands-on testing and analysis in a data-center class environment.

The goal of these reports is to educate the end-user community about Incipient software. These reports are not meant to replace the necessary evaluation process of Incipient software that end-users should conduct before making a purchasing decision, but rather to provide insight into the value and functionality that Incipient software products offer.

Taneja Group Technology Validations are a hands-on exercise by the experts at the Taneja Group, a storage focused analyst consulting firm. Technology analysts test infrastructure technology in real-world scenarios, in simulated environments and end-user production environments to report on product capabilities and performance.

In this Technology Validation report, the Taneja Group examines the time and effort surrounding manual data migration, compared to data migration with Incipient software. In the course of their analysis, they performed a manual data migration and a transparent, on-line non-disruptive data migration using Incipient software. They also evaluated the potential costs of both approaches over time.

Highlights from report:

  • Incipient software reduced the time and effort required for traditional data migration by 89%
  • Possible savings in for:
    • Elimination of professional services costs
    • Reduction of operational costs that are incurred when old arrays remain online to support data migration long after new arrays are implemented
    • Reduction in the costs created by the excessive purchase of unnecessarily high performance storage. Easy data migration enables better utilization of tiered storage than previously possible
    • Elimination of application downtime costs created by traditional data migration

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ESG Labs, part of the Enterprise Strategy Group, is an expert third party perspective on the Incipient software based on their own-hands on testing. This ESG Lab report presents the results of hands-on testing of the capabilities of Incipient Network Storage Platform (iNSP) software including on-line migration, copy services and centralized heterogeneous storage provisioning. Enterprise-class fault tolerance, serviceability and the savings that can be achieved by moving storage services to Incipient software embedded on an intelligent Fibre Channel switch are also examined.

Highlights from report:

  • Survey: ESG recently asked 45 large Enterprise-class data center managers if and when their organizations would deploy a storage virtualization solution - 80% of the large enterprises we surveyed indicate they will be using a storage virtualization solution in the next 24 months.
  • The Incipient solution platform is the first enterprise-class storage virtualization solution that is entirely switch-resident. This approach, which ESG refers to as storage virtualization 2.0, eliminates the cost and complexity associated with a storage virtualization appliances deployed in the SAN.
  • Ease of installation - Incipient storage virtualization can be integrated into an existing SAN and configured using an intuitive wizard-based GUI in a matter of hours.
  • ESG Lab was especially impressed by the Incipient deep discovery and policy-driven workflow capabilities.
  • ESG Lab feels that the benefits of intelligent network-based storage virtualization can result in adopters achieving sizeable savings.

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