“Gain Clarity into the Critical Components of Your IT World”: APTARE

Rick Clark co-founded APTARE in 1993 and set out to build a successful, collaborative, employee-owned consulting company, which remains the core of the company’s DNA. Rick assembled a talented team focused on a business model driven by customer needs and priorities. Even its company name, APTARE was chosen for its Latin root word—meaning to adapt, to fit, to apply.

After 10 years as a profitable consulting company, APTARE adapted its product delivery strategies to fit the expanding needs of its customers. From its roots in providing large-scale, customized implementations, APTARE expanded its business to include enterprise-ready IT analytic solutions so that customers could realize immediate value and benefit.

Since 2003, APTARE has continued to increase its unique market position as a global leader in analytic solutions for heterogeneous IT infrastructure. Customers rely on APTARE as the industry's only objective, open and extensible IT analytics platform that supports current storage and backup systems, as well as emerging technologies such as OpenStack, software-defined storage, flash, and hybrid infrastructures.

APTARE has achieved an amazing record of over 20 years of sustained profitability based solely on organic growth of the company. Today, APTARE is still completely employee-owned. Each member of the APTARE team is dedicated to its singular mission of helping customers adapt their data centers for future technologies and keep pace with ever-changing IT trends.

APTARE Solutions

Protect the existing and evolving IT investments with the broadest and deepest support for your storage and data protection systems.

Without metrics and usage visibility across complex infrastructures, exploding data and indiscriminate backups strain over-burdened IT resources. In addition, countless compliance and capacity requirements force IT organizations to constantly wrestle with these challenges:

• How much storage capacity do we have?
• Who's consuming it and at what rate?
• How can we avoid overprovisioning storage and buying more too early?
• Were backups completed successfully, and did they meet compliance requirements?

APTARE^® StorageConsole offers you unmatched and comprehensive IT analytics. It's the only open, extensible platform and product suite you need to optimize your infrastructure, meet compliance and SLA requirements, and reduce costs.

• IT as a Service: Discover true data usage for accurate chargeback to business units and customers.
• Storage Efficiencies: Optimize capacity, utilization, and performance across heterogeneous IT environments
• Backup Compliance: Gain confidence in backup audits and SLAs with analytics that proves a success.

APTARE IT Analytics Platform and Product Suite

APTARE^® Console is the only vendor-independent solution that gives high-definition visibility. Its purpose-built from the ground up to deliver high scalable IT analytics across your complex, global, and heterogeneous environments. You gain a single-pane-of-glass insight that empowers you to optimize your infrastructure and investments.

Unlike proprietary solutions from infrastructure vendors, Console gives you the deep analytics and interconnected insights across your entire data center. This way, you can navigate the path from disk to switch to VM to the application.

The new Console 10.2 brings you broader support for new storage technologies, including OpenStack, software-defined storage (SDS), Flash, and hybrid infrastructures. As your enterprise environment expands and changes, APTARE's new Software Development Kit (SDK) enables you to onboard and integrates leading-edge systems with ease.

With Console's dynamic charting engine, you can easily generate reports that overlay business data—by department, ownership, location and more—for all assets in your data center inventory. Now, with clarity, you can manage what's important to your business.

• Backup Manager: Are your backups completing successfully? Are they in compliance? Backup Manager gives you confidence in backup audits and service level agreements (SLAs) with analytics that prove a success.
• Capacity Manager: Get the holistic view you need to pinpoint allocation, consumption, and capacity, so you can reclaim storage space and enable chargeback management to run your IT as a service.
• Fabric Manager: Visualize your entire SAN topology from a single dashboard—regardless of platform. Discover the location of bottlenecks and hot spots to clearly delineate your storage pathways.
• File Analytics: Gain visibility into your structured and unstructured data, enabling you to reclaim your storage space, make smarter purchasing decisions, and reduce manual administration.
• Replication Manager: Proactively view and monitor storage replication environments, and determine if they're aligned with your policies and SLAs. Safeguard your organization by ensuring compliance with business continuity plans for your mission-critical data.
• Virtualization Manager: Get a clear view of your entire virtual storage infrastructure and actual usage to effectively manage chargebacks and forecast future needs.

The Man Behind the Success

Richard Clark, President, and CEO: Rick has more than 20 years of leadership experience in the enterprise software industry. He founded APTARE in 1993 with the sole purpose of developing scalable web-based applications for large enterprises. As CEO, Rick is responsible for setting the strategic vision and direction of the company. Previously Rick served as chief information officer for Sanrise, a leading storage service provider, where he was responsible for the strategic direction of the company’s solutions. Rick holds several patents covering web-based architectures for enterprises.

Rick holds a Bachelor of Commerce Degree from Auckland University, New Zealand.

“We know more about heterogeneous storage and backup than any other company, with analytics that scale from dozens to thousands of hosts, arrays, and backup servers to improve efficiencies, reduce costs and propel your business forward.”