Sandpiper Storage Resource Management (SRM)

Sandpiper is the recognized leader in developing creative and innovative solutions to address age-old storage resource management challenges.  Sandpiper's storage architects and developers essentially identified and created the market for SRM in the early 1980's.  Our developers have contributed to, designed and supported many of the SRM tools on the market today.  Sandpiper also is heavily involved in the business and legal issues surrounding data, document and email/IM archival and management, and we designed our solution to also consider these aspects for our customers.

We understand that many of the current tools on the market are based on older, outdated technology and concepts, so we developed an entirely new approach to SRM.  We wanted to provide an easy interface for storage administrators to control disparate platforms, such as zOS, zLinux, zVM, Windows, Linux, HP-UX, Solaris, AIX, mid-range, and so on.  We have also included a variety of controls and automation features with regards to management policies, regulatory compliance, litigation support, accounting and chargeback along with overall cost controls.

Sandpiper delivers the first Java-enabled enterprise SRM solution that simplifies the administration and management of distributed and mainframe storage resources across the entire enterprise, from a single point of control. Sandpiper SRM helps you plan more effectively, lower administration costs, and puts you in complete control of your storage environment. Its reliable, easy-to-use centralized administration interface improves storage utilization of your existing storage assets, automates repetitive tasks, and helps control future storage expenditures through accurate trending and forecasting of storage growth.

Independent of an operating system, file system and hardware storage vendor, Sandpiper SRM enables you to centrally manage storage in any combination of complex heterogeneous environments - including DAS, NAS, SAN and Mainframe-attached storage.  Sandpiper's unified solution maximizes the value of your storage network in all phases of storage management: assessment, monitoring, configuration, allocation, and planning and is totally hardware and platform independent.

Sandpiper SRM enables you to:

  • Manage all distributed platforms as well as z/OS from a common interface. This easy to use interface provides Detail and Summary reporting, History and Trending capabilities as well as Saved User Views and print publishing facilities.
  • Schedule major collections of data on z/OS with Sandpiper SRM Subsystem Address Space
  • Process automation IF statements against data collected within the z/OS environment to determine whether further actions are deemed necessary
  • Capture history data in the Sandpiper SRM suite for views and graphs within the interface
  • Report on the composition of each volume DAS, SAN, or NAS (CIFS, NFS or zNAS)
  • Interrogate valid and non-valid entries in the storage subsystems to quickly detect invalid status and submit corrective action
  • Control batch or automated actions against the selected objects
  • View an application set of data that spans all media types (disk, tape, hsm) within the z/OS storage environment
  • Define logical groups of data (dynamic groups) based on how the organization report on business units can now dynamically reflect changes of the data usage patterns.
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  • Groups may have alerts setup through Sandpiper SRM when thresholds are violated and automatically issue warnings.
  • Apply policies against groups, for example, apply a policy to a group to email a warning when the group contains more than 2,000 files
  • Provide accurate reporting of Volume mounts when collecting data from complex RAID or striping environments

 

Supported Platforms:

  • IBM z/OS, V1R1 and later
  • Microsoft Windows, Server 2003 Standard Edition (32 bit) and Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition (32 bit)
  • Microsoft Windows, Server 2000 and Windows Advanced Server 2000
  • SUN Microsystems Solaris, 2.8, 9, and 10
  • IBM AIX, 5.3
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2, AS and ES
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, AS and ES
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, AS and ES
  • HPUX and Polyserve