NovusCG Sets the Standard for Global Storage Reporting with SERP 4.1.

MANASSAS, Va. -- NovusCG, the leader in the independent data solutions for the global enterprise, today announced the release of SERP 4.1, the next iteration of its flagship software. SERP[TM] (Storage Enterprise Resource Planner) allows customers to gain insight into how their business consumers

SERP accomplishes this by extracting data from existing sources in IT environments including SRM, asset management and other business data sources. Joseph Martins, Managing Director and Analyst for the Data Mobility Group states that "if IT is going to serve a business well, it must understand storage consumption and its supporting infrastructure from a business perspective. SERP is the only tool available on the market today that can truly align IT with a business view. SERP's ability to pull data from multiple systems, both business and IT, and correlate the information is innovative and sets the standard for global storage reporting. NovusCG has absolutely outdone itself again with this release."

"The focus for SERP 4.1 was heterogeneity and usability," stated Kit Linton, Managing Director of Advanced Product Development for NovusCG. "We wanted to increase the number of SRM platforms supported by SERP while also giving the user more flexibility in the reporting layer." As of the latest release, SERP supports all major SRM platforms including EMC ControlCenter[TM], HP Storage Essentials[TM], HDS HSSM[TM], HDS HDvM[TM] and NetApp Operations Manager[TM]. SERP collates data from many instances of SRM and asset management tools and from multiple tools to provide the following functions where the SRM tools do not:

* Capacity Planning

* Configuration Management

* Reclamation & Utilization Improvement

* ILM & Right-Tiering

* Deployment Planning & Reservation

* Troubleshooting

* Financial Transparency

* Chargeback

By providing a fully drillable and flexible web-based interface, SERP allows users to move rapidly from executive-friendly global summaries to detailed information. By correlating the data gathered from these SRM tools with existing sources of business information, SERP enables users to answer questions like "Where do reclaim opportunities exist and whom do I need to contact to capitalize on them?" or "What equipment in which datacenters doesn't meet engineering specifications?" or "What is the trend of storage charges by cost center?". In these cases, business context becomes invaluable.

SERP 4.1 is available immediately.

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