Technology
Written by Alma Anonas-Carpio / Correspondent
Wednesday, 05 August 2009 20:16

A UNIFIED software package is now available for enterprise-level businesses seeking to maximize their data centers in the wake of information technology (IT) software infrastructure provider EMC’s acquisition of software maker Configuresoft and its Ionix IT management computer programs.

Instead of adapting existing IT infrastructure models to cloud computing and virtualization, the unified software package EMC has put together is purpose-built to combine Ionix’s automated server compliance and configuration solutions and EMC’s management software portfolio to provide “unparalleled insight” across physical, virtual and cloud IT infrastructures, EMC Philippines country manager Ronnie Latinazo said in a press briefing in Makati City.

Latinazo said EMC has assembled, through acquisition and organic growth, an extensive portfolio of technologies that provide IT management across the data center. He also noted that the acquisition of Ionix “represents a culmination of this strategy [of] bringing together these products under one unified family that offers management capabilities across their physical and virtual IT infrastructures—including servers, networks, storage and applications.”

Enterprise Strategy Group founder and senior analyst Steve Duplessie said in a statement released to the press that “at every major disruption point, huge new market opportunities are created and the eventual winners tend to be the ones that are purpose-built for the new world order, not those who bolt on functions to last year’s model.”

According to Latinazo, EMC’s announcement that it has made new unified software solutions available “comes at a critical time for pace-setting Philippine companies which are moving aggressively to virtualize their data centers. While virtualization holds the promise of increased efficiencies and reduced costs, its dynamic nature forces companies to think differently about management as companies seek new ways to automate, manage and gain control and compliance of the virtualized data center.”

Businesses are now leveraging IT in ways that make them more responsive to customers in real time, greener, more power efficient and more secure, among other things, Latinazo said. Now businesses are looking at virtualization and cloud computing to reduce data center operation costs and carbon emissions, as well as ways to manage and secure these virtual data centers, something legacy data center systems are not built to do.

* Published by BusinessMirror
* I changed the headline from "EMC acquires Ionix, offers unified IT software" to "EMC acquires Configuresoft, offers unified IT software" because the headline is inconsistent with the text of the story.