Tek-Tools Allies With 3PAR

ORLANDO, Fla. and DALLAS -- Tek-Tools Software, a leading provider of IT resource management software solutions, today announced its alliance with 3PAR, the leading global provider of utility storage, a category of highly virtualized tiered-storage arrays built for utility computing. Under the agreement, Tek-Tools’ Storage Profiler™, a high-performance, Web-based storage management solution, adds support for 3PAR InServ® Storage Servers.

Profiler provides 3PAR customers with comprehensive data storage information in both physical and virtualized IT environments. Tek-Tools software enables organizations with 3PAR InServ Storage Servers to manage their assets and storage utilization across the enterprise. With Tek-Tools software, IT management can create trending and forecasting reports across multi-vendor products and can monitor events on mission-critical storage devices and applications.

Customers have been using the Profiler for 3PAR module in production environments for a single pane-of-glass view of their storage infrastructure, reclaiming terabytes of over-allocated storage, capturing performance data, and optimizing capacity planning, avoiding unnecessary IT purchases and unplanned outages.

"3PAR and Tek-Tools provide our company with a simple and efficient storage and storage monitoring and management infrastructure," said Ryan Bonnett, IT Administrator for The Generations Network, parent company of leading online family history resource Ancestry.com. "The visibility provided by Tek-Tools Profiler into our 3PAR InServ® Storage Servers offers valuable information to optimize our storage investment without sacrificing performance."

Tek-Tools Inc.