Being an optimist, I like to think that storage management is or will be getting better. It's hard, however, to ignore the fact that many admins don't know much about what's going on in the storage boxes they are sitting on. And it's not their fault, as management has been the Cinderella of storage apps for many years, and she hasn't found a prince to rescue her quite yet.

Well, until now, that is, because Aptare StorageConsole has the potential to be crowned prince of storage management applications if its promise is fulfilled.

Let me start with a clarification: "StorageConsole is not an application," explains Tony Wessels, vice president of marketing at Aptare. "Think of it as an OS or a Web-based platform where you run applications."

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