Global Alliances - EMC

EMC Smarts Solution

EMC Smarts management solutions deliver the intelligence network managers need to ensure that network issues don't escalate into business issues. Smarts' model-based technology is the foundation for operational actions such as configuration discovery, event correlation, automated root cause analysis, impact analysis, and operational triage automation. With Smarts, network administrators can simplify operations and ensure high availability of network services.

By certifying the interoperability of Foundry switches and routers with EMC Smarts, the partnership ensures that customers who deploy this joint management and infrastructure solution can maximize the performance and management of mission-critical IT resources.

Foundry Networks and EMC Smarts Joint Solution

EMC and Foundry Networks bring customers a joint solution that combines EMC's industry-leading Smarts management tool with Foundry's rich product portfolio. With EMC Smarts and Foundry's high performance networking platforms customers can simplify network operations and management for improved uptime and availability, while reducing the cost of maintaining complex, dynamic, and distributed environments.

EMC and Foundry help customers quickly automate the end-to-end management of advanced high-performance networking infrastructures, as well as optimize network performance, reliability and availability.

Together EMC Smarts and Foundry Networks bring you these combined benefits:

• End-to-end management of the network infrastructure
• Network performance optimization
• End-to-end visibility and control of critical business services
• Automatic modeleling of components and their relationships across networks for a better understanding of their effect on IT services
• Analysis of data from multiple sources to pinpoint root cause problems – automatically, and in real time