LOS ANGELES, Oct. 29, 2003 — As part of the Dynamic Systems Initiative, Microsoft Corp. today announced new partners for Microsoft®
Operations Manager (MOM) 2000, addressing the management challenge for enterprise customers by providing interoperable support for a variety of platforms and applications.
“Today at PDC (Microsoft Professional Developers Conference), we are announcing a number of exciting partner efforts that offer enterprise customers advanced management functionality,” said David Hamilton, director of the Enterprise Management Division at Microsoft Corp. “Through a new Web services-based MOM Connector Framework and range of new Management Packs from our industry partners, MOM helps keep mission-critical applications and systems running smoothly.”
MOM Connector Framework
The Web services-based MOM Connector Framework (MCF) allows customers to integrate MOM with third-party management tools. The MCF enables full bidirectional alert forwarding and synchronization, providing increased management benefits for customers.
Working with leading management vendors, Microsoft today unveiled the first wave of MOM Connectors for Aprisma Management Technologies, Computer Associates International Inc., HP, IBM Corp.’s Tivoli Systems Inc. Software Division, Maranti Networks Inc., MetiLinx Inc., Micromuse Inc., NetIQ Corp., SMARTS (System Management ARTS Inc.) and Skywire Software.
Management Packs
Microsoft today launched a new Management Pack catalog for Microsoft Operations Manager that offers vital information about new Management Packs from leading application vendors, including Dell Inc., eXc Software LLC, HP, NetIQ Corp. and VERITAS Software Corp.
Also today at PDC, Actional Corp., AmberPoint, Inc., Computer Associates International Inc. and Service Integrity Inc. are announcing the availability of Management Packs specifically oriented toward Web services management. These companies are enabling customers to integrate MOM with their specialized Web services management tools to deliver broad enterprise solutions.
About Microsoft Operations Manager
Microsoft Operations Manager delivers enterprise-class operations management by providing comprehensive event management, proactive monitoring and alerting, reporting, and trend analysis. Management packs provide product information for a range of Microsoft and partner applications to help reduce the day-to-day support costs associated with running applications and services in a Microsoft Windows®
-based IT infrastructure. More information on Microsoft Management initiatives can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/management/ .
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Industry Partners Support Microsoft Operations Manager
Actional
“Actional and Microsoft share a common vision of dynamic systems management, as illustrated by the synergy between our product offerings. Actional’s integration with Microsoft Operations Manager, fueled by the powerful self-healing capabilities of our Service Stabilizer technology, enables organizations to create and deploy Web services applications that are designed to be managed. This not only increases operational responsiveness and reduces overall management costs, but also enables Visual Studio®
.NET developers to spend their cycles developing applications, not infrastructure.”
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Frank Bergandi
CEO
Actional Corp.
AmberPoint
“Through its Microsoft Operations Manager 2000 and its close work with industry partners, Microsoft is enabling organizations to achieve reliable, self-managing IT systems. The MOM Connector Framework is a flexible platform for integrating MOM 2000 with our comprehensive Web services management solutions. Our shared customers benefit from holistic views of their IT environments and automated management tasks across IT landscapes that include heterogeneous Web services-based systems.”
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Paul Butterworth
Chief Technology Officer
Aprisma
“Aprisma sees tremendous value from the bidirectional Microsoft Operations Manager Connector Framework. It will benefit customers by increasing IT operations efficiency and improving business services as MOM and SPECTRUM exchange real-time information to better inform our respective analysis of end-to-end service quality.”
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Chris Crowell
Chief Technology Officer
Aprisma Management Technologies
Computer Associates
“CA is aggressively addressing our customers’ requirements for ensuring the effective implementation and ongoing management of Web services. By delivering integration between Unicenter Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM) and MOM, we are enabling IT managers to optimize performance and minimize costs by taking control of the .NET Web services they deploy.”
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Dmitri Tcherevik
Director of Web Services
Computer Associates
Dell
“Reducing the number of tools required to manage customers’ datacenters enables them to lower their costs of ownership for scalable enterprise systems. The Dell Management Pack for MOM enables customers to integrate management consoles and simplify the IT monitoring process, underscoring Dell’s and Microsoft’s commitment to standardizing overall systems management for greater customer value.”
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Neil Hand
Director of Worldwide Enterprise Product Marketing
Dell Inc.
eXc Software
“Microsoft’s vision for MOM encompasses the ability for its Windows customers to extend systems management across the entire myriad of devices that make up an enterprise. OEM vendors can seamlessly integrate their non-Windows offerings into MOM in order to meet enterprise-level management requirements. Based on decades of experience in the systems management arena, eXc Software opted to seize this opportunity to fully integrate into what it believes to be the best-of-breed systems management product available on the market today. eXc Software’s sole mission is to extend MOM functionality to allow enterprisewide systems management.”
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Norm Freedman
Co-Founder
eXc Software LLC
HP
“HP delivers the servers, enterprise management tools and services customers require to build and manage an adaptive enterprise. Microsoft’s Operations Management Connector framework enables us to evolve our MOM integration with HP Insight Manager and with HP OpenView Service Desk to provide deep hardware monitoring for HP servers and a real-time, bidirectional event integration platform for MOM users. In this way, HP and Microsoft continue to add value to our mutual customers by enabling them to deploy a truly adaptive and well-managed infrastructure.”
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David Gee
Vice President, Marketing
HP Adaptive Management
Maranti Networks
“Today’s growing enterprise storage environments require a tremendous amount of effort to manage all of the disparate resources within the data center. By leveraging the Microsoft Operations Manager Connector Framework, Maranti’s adaptive storage service solutions can be rapidly integrated into a consolidated network management environment, providing centralized management across heterogeneous storage and server infrastructures.”
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Kuldeep Sandhu
President and CEO
Maranti Networks Inc.
MetiLinx
“Simplifying and automating the task of managing a heterogeneous data center is the ultimate goal of our customers. With MetiLinx inclusion into the MOM Connector Framework, we are closer to this goal. Extending Microsoft Operations Manager to include MetiLinx’ systems intelligence and health metrics for Linux, UNIX and legacy Windows (Windows NT®
4) servers satisfies what our customers have asked us to provide in a Microsoft systems management environment.”
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Carlos Collazo
Chairman and Founder
MetiLinx Inc.
Micromuse
“The successful penetration of Netcool solutions in the enterprise requires that organizations be able to effectively consolidate their Windows management with event management information from applications, systems and networks across the infrastructure. We are committed to developing a value-added, bidirectional integration with Microsoft MOM and look forward to providing our mutual customers with a best-of-breed offering for managing Windows as part of a holistic and centralized event management solution.”
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Darin Layman
Vice President of Alliances
Micromuse
NetIQ
“MCF is based on Web services technology that enables more efficient development of connector applications. As a result, we are able to update our AppManager Connector for MOM quickly, providing increased management benefits to users of both MOM and AppManager, including comprehensive management of Web services.”
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David Pann
Vice President of Product Management, Systems Management Group
NetIQ Corp.
Service Integrity
“Service Integrity’s tight integration with Microsoft Operations Manager provides our customers with real-time visibility into their IT and business processes. Providing a business context for monitored IT data and a framework for analysis of these data streams is the basis of our joint work with Microsoft.”
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Jothy Rosenberg
CEO and CTO
Service Integrity Inc.
Skywire Software
“Companies have an enormous need to integrate Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2000 with third-party systems in today’s marketplace. Skywire Software’s iWave Integrator leverages the MOM Connector Framework to provide a fast, comprehensive integration point between MOM 2000 and one or more systems. Using iWave Integrator’s large repository of prebuilt, bidirectional adapters, companies can integrate help desk and/or enterprise network system management applications with MOM 2000 across multiple operating systems.”
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Patrick Brandt
Founder and CEO
Skywire Software
SMARTS
“Microsoft Operations Manager is an extremely powerful solution for managing Windows-based systems. Microsoft is leading the charge in recognizing the increasing importance of systems manageability. We are proud to join forces with them in combining the power of MOM with the automated intelligence of our InCharge suite, delivering to our joint customers the actionable intelligence essential for assuring business-critical services.”
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William J. Conners Jr.
Vice President of Strategic Business Development
SMARTS
VERITAS Software
“A tight interoperability between VERITAS Backup Exec software and Microsoft Operations Manager will enable customers to improve operations management and efficiency, while simultaneously maximizing application availability. As a leader in data protection in the Windows market, we partner closely with Microsoft to deliver quality products that customers can rely on to lower costs and help them meet their business objectives.”
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Bob Maness
Senior Director of Product Marketing
VERITAS Software
