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APTARE LAUNCHES StorageConsole 3.0

APTARE Inc, a trusted provider of storage software and professional services, has announced the release of APTARE StorageConsole 3.0. This flagship product provides detailed reporting and enhanced control of the enterprise backup environment, making 100% backup and recovery success achievable and cost-effective. APTARE StorageConsole sets a new standard for storage software by being the only product to provide full-text searchable file-level backup reporting. Aimed at significantly reducing backup operational costs while improving data availability, APTARE StorageConsole provides centralized reporting and global management to complement VERITAS NetBackup environments.

"While providing IT consulting services to Global 2000 companies, we consistently found that enterprises lacked the tools necessary to have confidence in their backup processes and their storage management costs were steeply climbing," said Richard Clark, APTARE president and CEO. "APTARE StorageConsole increases backup success rates and realizes significant cost savings by streamlining operational processes and providing detailed metrics on backup infrastructure capital and consumables. Users optimize costs associated with running a VERITAS NetBackup environment, improve overall backup performance and reduce tape media, drive, library, and vaulting costs resulting from ineffective utilization."

To provide significant return on investment (ROI), APTARE StorageConsole utilizes a highly customizable, user-friendly reporting and navigation structure to enable a host of advanced features, including:

• Real-time notification and visualization of the global backup environment
• Backup usage and charge-back reporting
• Point-n-click end-user restore wizard
• Success and failure metrics with drill-down to individual files or folders
• Service level tracking, reporting, and personalized notifications
• Tape media, drive and library utilization reporting and optimization
• 100% browser-based client with no Java applets

By implementing this software, SecureData, Australia's largest information availability company and one of several initial APTARE StorageConsole users, realized immediate backup pain reduction. "APTARE StorageConsole is a revolutionary backup resource management product that provides exceptional real-time reporting, visualization, and policy management," said David Solsky, Director of Sales and Business Development, SecureData. "APTARE StorageConsole is a new class of tools that significantly reduces the cost to manage your enterprise backup and restore environment."

A Free 30-day Trial of APTARE StorageConsole 3.0 is currently available, contact info@aptare.com for details.