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EMC Ionix Network Configuration Manager (formerly VoyenceControl): Providing the Next Generation of Model-Based, Automated Network Compliance, Change, and Configuration Management

EMC Ionix Network Configuration Manager (formerly VoyenceControl)—the industry’s only model-based, automated network compliance, change and configuration management solution—delivers features, advantages, and benefits that ensure the compliance, operational efficiency, security, and availability of your network. EMC Ionix Network Configuration Manager makes this possible—and gets you up and running quickly and easily—by supplying industry-recognized best practices, enhancing collaborative network infrastructure design, verifying controlled change processes, providing network device and service configuration transparency, and ensuring compliance with corporate and regulatory requirements. In addition, EMC Ionix Network Configuration Manager now includes extensible, hybrid modeling capabilities, true multiconfiguration file support, and enhanced compliance and reporting.

Managing to the Network Infrastructure Lifecycle

EMC Ionix Network Configuration Manager automates support for all facets of the network infrastructure lifecycle by seamlessly integrating critical compliance, change, and design management requirements, including:

 Compliance

• New compliance engine enables cross-vendor tests, tracking of rule severity, ability to test against hardware and diagnostics
• Abstract device configurations and write compliance rules that work across multiple hardware vendors’ devices
• Test for compliance on hardware data—as well as on diagnostic results
• Avoid costly penalties—and the overhead associated with audits—by quickly demonstrating, with a single click, that your network is compliant
• Take advantage of customized solutions for the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI), Sarbanes Oxley (SOX), Gramm-Leach-Bliley (GLB), the Statement on Auditing Standards (SAS 70), and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
• Design, enforce, and report on adherence to complex policies
• Enforce policies over the entire domain—or just one network, site, or subnet
• Demonstrate on-demand compliance, as well as its related change and control processes
• Report on historical compliance of the managed infrastructures using the configurations and policies in place on the date selected

 Change

• True multiconfiguration file support:
• Independently capture and revision multiple configuration files from a device
• Gain a complete understanding of the configuration state of a device at any time
• Realize significant improvements in the availability and constancy of services
• Use “Golden Configs” to create templates for new device deployments
• Virtually eliminate standard change errors
• Complete routine and complex tasks with ITIL-compliant change processes and workflow approvals

 Design

• Design new virtual networks based on existing designs with Network Configuration Manager’s exclusive Virtual Design Workspace
• Collaborate securely in real time thanks to complete, role-based security
• Employ intelligent automation to create large-scale designs—error-free, in a fraction of the time
• Audit designs—before deployment—to ensure their complete compliance with governance policies, government and industry regulatory standards, or both
• Adapt the configuration tool to your processes with integrations to popular workflow, trouble ticketing and help desk solutions

 Security

• Respond rapidly to network vulnerabilities and threats from viruses and worms
• Deploy security-related updates in minutes per network, instead of minutes per device

 Availability

• Use integration with your existing fault and performance monitoring systems to dramatically reduce the man-hours required to investigate and resolve trouble ticket issues
• Avoid service-affecting network outages and associated SLA penalties by controlling change—60 to 80 percent of service-affecting network outages are caused by change

 Model-Based Management

• Combine the advantages of managing and modeling information in a vendor-neutral manner with detailed text-based configurations of vendor-specific information
• Manage change and configuration of legacy and breakthrough technologies from one system—Network Configuration Manager
• Simplify management, improve efficiency, decrease costs, and increase visibility into disparate parts of the network

 Automation

• Perform commonly-executed IT network management task in a fraction of the time
• Meet the ideal frequency of credential, ACL, and OS updates for your entire network—while spending less than you do today

 Growth

• Leverage your existing infrastructure staff over significantly more devices—without increasing headcount

For More Information

EMC Ionix is EMC's family of next generation IT management solutions created to support you on your journey from physical IT, to virtual IT, to the cloud. Unlike existing management tools, EMC Ionix was built with virtualization and the next-generation data center in mind and leverages EMC's expertise across the data center. EMC Ionix solutions allow you to efficiently and effectively manage the full virtual and physical data center ecosystem across networks, storage systems, servers, applications, as well as the IT services that rely on these infrastructure elements. With Ionix solutions working for you, you can solve today's management challenges, meet increasing service-level requirements, deploy virtual data centers faster, and be confident that you're completely enabled for your journey from physical IT, to virtual IT, to the cloud.

To learn more about how EMC Ionix Network Configuration Manager (formerly EMC VoyenceControl) and other EMC Ionix Data Center Automation and Compliance solutions can help you address business-critical compliance, best practices, and management initiatives, contact your local EMC sales representative, or call toll free in North America: 1-866-464-7381 or 1-508-435-1000; In Europe, call +44 (0) 208 758 6755.