Onaro SANscreen Recognized as “Most Valuable Product” Finalist In 2006 MVP Awards
BOSTON, MA – May 1, 2006 – Onaro, Inc., the leader in Storage Service Management (SSM), announced today that SANscreen has been named a finalist in the “Storage Management Software” category of the Most Valuable Product (MVP) Awards sponsored by InfoStor magazine and the Association of Storage Networking Professionals (ASNP).
“We are proud to have been selected as a finalist for this prestigious award as it recognizes the ‘best of the best’ of storage management software products in the industry,” said Doug McNary, president and CEO, Onaro, Inc. “It is an affirmation that SANscreen enables storage teams to do something truly unique – manage their storage environment as an end-to-end service. As all of IT moves in the direction of becoming a service provider to the business users, few products actually enable this transformation.”
“InfoStor congratulates all of the MVP Finalists, and thanks the industry analysts and ASNP members that helped with the selections,” said Dave Simpson, editor-in-chief of InfoStor. “Final voting is now in the hands of end-users, who are best equipped to determine the most valuable products according to their criteria.”
“The ASNP congratulates all the MVP Finalists. We are pleased to be co-sponsoring these awards with InfoStor and look forward to the award presentation at Storage World Conference in June,” said Daniel Delshad, chairman of ASNP.
The MVP Awards Program recognizes the “best of the best” of storage networking products in the industry, as determined by storage end users. This prestigious awards program is co-sponsored by two user-focused organizations: InfoStor magazine, the leading storage-specific publication for enterprise storage professionals, and the Association of Storage Networking Professionals (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 among InfoStor’s end-user readers and ASNP’s 2,000+ members.
Recognition as a finalist in the MVP Awards follows several other prestigious industry accolades for Onaro, including:
- Finalist in eWEEK’s 2006 Excellence Award program;
- Top Ten Private Companies in Spring 2006 by Byte and Switch;
- 2006 Network Storage Conference Award Finalist;
- Placed in the visionary quadrant in Gartner’s ‘Magic Quadrant for Combined Storage Resource Management and SAN Management Software' report for 2005.
Onaro SANscreen enables the management and delivery of storage as a service and reveals the impact of change on those services. Each and every day, storage teams must deliver storage services to their application customers. When they try to manage and deliver those services, however, they are faced with a device-centric view of their environment. There is a gap between this device-centric view of the world presented by common SRM tools and the services view to which storage teams must manage. SANscreen fills this gap by providing a service-centric view of storage. Agentless by design, SANscreen provides immediate measurable value for even the largest SANs in a matter of days.
MVP Award winners will be announced on June 20, 2006 at the Storage World Conference in the morning keynote session at the Long Beach Convention Center in California and will be featured in articles in InfoStor magazine and www.asnp.org
About ASNP
The ASNP’s mission is “to build a worldwide community of storage networking users and to provide members with valuable educational programs and professional development opportunities.” ASNP provides an open forum for members to discuss real-world problems and solutions related to storage networking. Through its regional chapters, annual meeting, and online portal, ASNP offers extensive training and professional development opportunities. For more information, please visit www.asnp.org.
About InfoStor Magazine
InfoStor is the leading monthly publication dedicated solely to storage coverage. Its worldwide audience of 50,000 readers includes IT storage managers and storage professionals in the channel, including value-added resellers (VARs), storage/systems integrators, and OEMs. For more information, please visit www.infostor.com.
About Onaro, Inc.
Onaro is the leader in Storage Service Management (SSM) enabling enterprises to increase service quality, return on storage, and compliance by managing storage as a service. Unlike traditional SRM applications which are device centric, Onaro provides a clear service view into a SAN’s access paths, redundancy, replication and performance. SANscreen is being used by the world’s largest companies in banking, retail, entertainment, data communications and wireless telecom. A partial customer list includes AOL, CareGroup Healthcare System, Countrywide Financial Corporation, JetBlue Airways, Priority Healthcare, State Street Global Advisors, and Wyeth Pharmaceuticals. For more information, please visit www.onaro.com.
