EMC Fine Tunes Its Management Software Portfolio
EMC announces its Ionix IT management software suite that the vendor says will help customer more easily manage physical, virtual and cloud IT environments.
While Ionix would likely increase competition among EMC and management market leaders BMC, CA, HP and IBM, the vendor will still have to overcome challenges to be chosen as a primary management vendor. In an analysis of the management software market, Forrester Research commended EMC's progress and pointed out that more work needed to be done.
"EMC's recent acquisitions, such as nLayers and Voyence, have placed it as a leading configuration vendor, but broader management coverage is questionable. It has some great weapons in its arsenal with Smarts and now Infra, but it must accelerate its M&A expansion and internal development to capitalize on its assets and enter the elite class of anchors," reads the report "Managing the IT Management Software Portfolio," which was published prior to EMC's Configuresoft acquisition.
Updates, integrations and common platform support will be included in EMC Ionix products immediately.
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