Symantec has unveiled Veritas CommandCentral 5.0 product family, a key component of the company’s Storage United initiative to help enterprises address their 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.

Veritas CommandCentral provides end-to-end visibility in both virtualised server and storage environments. New in the latest release is advanced support for VMware, HDS TagmaStore and IBM SAN Volume Controller.

CommandCentral Storage 5.0 claims to analyse end-to-end storage consumption in both physical and virtual heterogeneous environments, identifies storage that can be reclaimed and enables organisations to increase storage utilisation levels by up to 40% points.

CommandCentral Storage 5.0 and Enterprise Reporter claim to deliver global business-level reporting capabilities that provide executives with easily customisable reports. Enterprise Reporter includes a global view of storage with the ability to roll up information from multiple data centres into a single view.

Veritas Process Automation Manager 5.0 enables standardisation of storage management processes, implementation of consistent operational policies and automation of these processes.