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Onaro’s SANscreen Recognized as “Most Valuable Product” Finalist in 2005 MVP Awards
Onaro’s SANscreen Recognized as “Most Valuable Product” Finalist in 2005 MVP Awards
Latest Recognition Comes on Heels of Six Major Storage Industry Awards in Six Months for Change Management Pioneer
BOSTON, Mass. – May 16, 2005 – Onaro, Inc., the pioneer of change management software for storage networks, today announced Onaro’s SANscreen Predictive Change Management software has been named a finalist in the “Most Innovative Product” category of the Most Valuable Product (MVP) Awards sponsored by InfoStor and the Association of Storage Networking Professionals (ASNP).
“Change Management is fast becoming the mantra of CIO’s as organizations strive to improve stability and ensure Business Continuity,” said Andrew Bird, vice president of marketing for Onaro, Inc. “Our customers use SANscreen for ‘end-to-end’ application visibility across the Storage Area Network (SAN) and automate many of the manual, error-prone change processes. Listing as a finalist for this prestigious award marks another milestone in the adoption of Predictive Change Management to ensure the highest application availability.”
The MVP Awards Program recognizes the “best of the best” of storage networking products in the industry. This prestigious awards program is co-sponsored by two user-focused organizations – InfoStor, the leading storage-specific publication for enterprise storage professionals, and ASNP, the first worldwide organization dedicated to the needs of storage networking users. This is the only industry awards program where the winners are selected exclusively by end users, who include InfoStor’s 22,800 end-user readers and ASNP’s 2000 members.
Recognition as a finalist in the MVP Awards marks the seventh time SANscreen has been honored by the storage industry since January 2005. Other recent industry accolades for Onaro include:
- eWEEK’s 2005 Excellence Award in Enterprise Storage Software
- 2004 “Product of the Year” for Storage Management by STORAGE Magazine and SearchStorage.com
- Network Magazine’s 2005 Innovation Award for “Most Visionary Storage”
- “Best in Show” in Storage Area Network Management Software at the 2005 Network Storage Conference
- Top Ten Private Companies in Winter 2004 by Byte and Switch
- 2004 InfoWorld 100 award for State Street Global Advisors’ application of SANscreen
Onaro’s SANscreen Monitoring and Predictive Change Management software is used by the world’s leading corporations to manage change and growth in their increasingly complex SANs. SANscreen continuously monitors the SAN, quickly troubleshoots problems, predicts the impact of planned changes before implementation and validates the condition of a SAN throughout changes, migrations and consolidations.
MVP Award winners will be announced at the Storage World Conference awards reception on June 7, 2005 at the Long Beach Convention Center in California. Winners will also be profiled in feature articles in InfoStor, ASNP Digest, and at www.asnp.org.
About InfoStor
InfoStor magazine is dedicated to providing storage professionals with valuable decision-making information to evaluate, specify, integrate and manage enterprise storage products and technologies. Monthly articles provide storage-centric editorial that compares technologies and provides perspective to the process of evaluating, managing, specifying and integrating enterprise storage products and technologies.
About ASNP
The Association of Storage Networking Professionals (ASNP) is a worldwide member organization of storage networking end users. ASNP provides an open forum for members to discuss real-world problems and solutions related to storage networking. Through its regional chapters and annual conference, ASNP offers extensive educational training and networking opportunities.
About Onaro, Inc.
Onaro is the pioneer in Change Management for SANs, enabling enterprises to quickly and effectively manage changes and growth in complex Storage Area Networks with absolute confidence through SANscreen® Monitoring and Predictive Change Management software. SANscreen is currently deployed at some of the world's largest SANs. Onaro is a privately-held company backed by leading investors Newbury Ventures and Cedar Fund. For more information, please visit http://www.onaro.com .
SANscreen is a registered trademark of Onaro, Inc. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.
