By Kathleen Lau

December 19, 2008 Cupertino, Calif.-based Symantec Corp. announced Monday enhancements to its storage optimization software suite that include “agentless” capabilities designed to help enterprises simplify deployment and ongoing management of their storage environments.

The Veritas CommandCentral suite’s existing Storage tool, which helps increase storage utilization and demand by mapping storage consumption to business applications, has been updated to include agentless functionality so that in an environment with a centrally managed server, software won’t have to be deployed on additional servers.

While deploying agents can work for some organizations, said Sean Derrington, Symantec’s director of storage management and availability, “many times, organizations don’t want to deploy an extra piece of software unless they have to.”

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