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EMC Ionix offers the next generation in automated compliance, change and configuration management with solutions that deliver industry-recognized best practices, a collaborative network infrastructure design, controlled change processes, network device and service configuration transparency, and compliance with corporate and regulatory requirements — to advance automated Network Change and Configuration Management (NCCM) to the next level.

• Compliance
• Security
• Change Automation & Best Practices
• Extending Network Management
• ROI/Cost Reductions

Change Automation and Best Practices (ITIL, ITSM, CoBiT, Six Sigma)

Businesses and IT departments have recognized that the ITIL framework provides the best methodology for achieving visibility and control to ensure the reliability and availability of business services provided by the IT infrastructure. EMC Ionix Network Configuration Manager (formerly VoyenceControl) provides an ITIL-framework compatible change, configuration and release management system to meet those needs.

 Federated CMDB

• Network Configuration Manager is integrated into leading CMDBs as a Federated portion of those CMDBs. Network Configuration Manager manages the CIs for all the network's infrastructure devices, which provide the backbone of business services.
• Network Configuration Manager also integrates with service impact managers to assist in the IT staff’s understanding of the impact of proposed changes on business services to the network environment.

 ITIL-Compatible Change Management

• Standard change forms—based on your defined golden configs for class and type of device—ensure that initial configurations meet your defined policies and standards.
• Automatic audits of all proposed changes to device configurations ensure that non-compliant changes don’t enter the operational network.
• Multilevel workflows ensure that standard, non-standard and urgent changes follow corporate processes and are ITIL compatible.

 ITIL Recommend Build, Test and Implement

• Network Configuration Manager’s unique Virtual Design Workspaces allows network designers, architects and engineers to build designs from scratch or based on existing designs. This may be done collaboratively with full change processes and role-based security to allow different departments to work in unison without the risk of security violations. Further designs may be audited for compliance with corporate policy and standards, government regulatory requirements and security compliance.

 ITIL-Compatible Release Management

• Network Configuration Manager provides an ITIL-compatible Definitive Software Library (DSL) for the firmware and OS images of the network infrastructure devices that comprise your network. Updating and changing the firmware and OS images for those devices follows ITIL-defined processes and your corporate workflow and approval processes.

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.