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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / JULY 28, 2003; VOL. 2 NO. 30
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Breaking News - Operating Systems
& Middleware:
Candle Extends Worldwide
Leadership In IBM WebSphere Mgmt
Candle Corporation, a leading enterprise infrastructure management
provider,
announced its continued market leadership and growing market traction in key
application infrastructure management markets. A new WinterGreen Research Inc
report emphasizes Candle's significant role in empowering businesses to
harness the capabilities of their IBM WebSphere infrastructures.
WinterGreen Research reports that Candle has increased its global market
share
in WebSphere MQ management solutions from 61 percent in 2001 to 65 percent in
2002. Additionally, WinterGreen Research states that Candle has achieved a
36-percent worldwide market share in 2002 for management of WebSphere Business
Integration Brokers -- Candle held 19 percent of the market in 2001.
"Middleware continues to be a linchpin for any e-business environment,"
said
Sue Eustis, senior analyst, WinterGreen Research Inc. "Performance tuning and
management for middleware are critical elements in aligning enterprise
infrastructures with specific business processes and applications. We project
continued growing demand for solutions provided by Candle and other vendors to
support each phase of the middleware life cycle."
Candle's significant market share in WebSphere management reflects demand
for
the Candle PathWAI solution portfolio. Offering WebSphere management solutions
across the "build, run and manage" life cycle, Candle PathWAI provides
businesses with the products and services to accelerate and optimize each
phase of WebSphere design, development, deployment and operation.
Specifically, Candle's PathWAI Monitor for WebSphere MQ is the dominant
solution in the mission-critical middleware messaging system management
market, holding 65 percent of the market. Candle is also a category leader in
the application integration systems management market, with a 36-percent
market share.
WinterGreen Research projects that the worldwide mission-critical
middleware
market, currently at $555 million, will reach $4.9 billion by 2008. According
to WinterGreen Research, key drivers for the continued growth of the
middleware market include business requirements to further align front-end
Internet systems with data in back-end systems and the need for added business
process management. The rapidly growing middleware market creates a parallel
growth opportunity for WebSphere MQ management solutions.
"The WinterGreen report validates Candle's market leadership and
underscores
both the rapidly growing demand for WebSphere and the critical requirement for
PathWAI solutions," said David Caddis, vice president, Application
Infrastructure Management Group, Candle Corporation. "PathWAI provides the
gold standard in WebSphere management. Candle offers tailored technologies and
services solutions that empower customers to quickly remove roadblocks and
optimize performance across the WebSphere development, deployment and
management life cycle."
An overview of the entire PathWAI solution portfolio follows:
- PathWAI Architecture for WebSphere -- Combines best practices with
certified WebSphere solution expertise to empower organizations to architect
the application infrastructure, security and monitoring components of complex
applications
- PathWAI Development for WebSphere -- Validates the application
infrastructure design and increases development team productivity. Components
include pilot project capabilities to validate that designs meet business
requirements; tools to develop components and connectors; and a set of
utilities for the development of service-oriented applications and application
services
- PathWAI Deployment for WebSphere -- Provides the testing and tuning tools,
services, and methodologies to empower organizations to optimize WebSphere
Application Server or WebSphere Business Integration Brokers, as well as
services and training to support business performance requirements
- PathWAI Monitor for WebSphere Application Server -- Empowers users to
test,
tune and monitor the performance and availability of the WebSphere Application
Server and its Java-based technologies. The solution provides a central point
of control for intuitive management
- PathWAI Dashboard for WebSphere Infrastructure -- Provides a 360-degree
view of end-to-end application infrastructure efficiency
- PathWAI Monitor for WebSphere MQ -- Delivers a high level of control and
availability across WebSphere MQ infrastructure. The solution is the
market-leading tuning, testing, management and configuration solution for IBM
middleware
- PathWAI Dashboard for WebSphere MQ -- Provides a single-pane-of-glass view
of WebSphere MQ systems management activity, including enterprisewide
configuration for WebSphere MQ
- PathWAI Secure for WebSphere MQ -- Delivers added security to the
WebSphere
MQ environment
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