Symantec has unveiled a new release to its Veritas CommandCentral 5.0 product family, a key component to its Storage United Initiative to help enterprises address their most pressing storage challenges with a unified, software-oriented approach. The Veritas CommandCentral 5.0 family includes Veritas CommandCentral Storage 5.0, Veritas CommandCentral Enterprise Reporter 5.0 and Veritas Process Automation Manager Symantec has unveiled a new release to its Veritas CommandCentral 5.0 product family, a key component to its Storage United Initiative to help enterprises address their most pressing storage challenges with a unified, software-oriented approach.The Veritas CommandCentral 5.0 family includes Veritas CommandCentral Storage 5.0, Veritas CommandCentral Enterprise Reporter 5.0 and Veritas Process Automation Manager 5.0. With the release of this integrated solution set, the company claims that Veritas CommandCentral becomes the only comprehensive storage resource management (SRM) solution in the market to optimize storage utilization, automate storage processes and align storage with business goals.The proliferation of virtualization technologies introduces new challenges in storage management. Veritas CommandCentral offers the unique ability to address these challenges by providing end-to-end visibility in both virtualized server and storage environments. New in the latest release is advanced support for VMware, HDS TagmaStore and IBM SAN Volume Controller. This advanced support gives IT organizations the ability to effectively manage storage capacity at an application level in virtual environments, which hasn’t been possible until now. Average storage utilization rates across data centers are disconcertingly low, typically hovering at 30 – 40 percent, according to Symantec research. CommandCentral Storage 5.0 analyzes end-to-end storage consumption in both physical and virtual heterogeneous environments, identifies storage that can be reclaimed and enables organizations to increase storage utilization levels by up to 40 percentage points. By driving up utilization and providing organizations with flexibility and choice of storage hardware, CommandCentral Storage helps customers reduce their storage spend. This includes data center space, power and cooling costs, which are scarce resources and an increasing percentage of the IT budget.The Veritas CommandCentral 5.0 product family is licensed per server. Veritas CommandCentral Storage 5.0 and Veritas Process Automation Manager 5.0 are now generally available. Veritas CommandCentral Enterprise Reporter 5.0 is planned to be generally available in the next 60 days. The Storage Assessment Program is available now at a fixed price of $25,000.To find out more about the CommandCentral Storage 5.0 launch, you can check out this recorded Podcast. Software Development