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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / SEPTEMBER 29, 2003: VOL. 2 NO. 39
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BIBLIOTHEQUE NATIONALE DE FRANCE
DEPLOYS MICROMUSE'S NETCOOL
Micromuse Inc, a leading provider of business and service assurance
software,
announced that the Bibliotheque nationale de France (BNF), the national
library and printed materials repository for France, has deployed the Netcool
suite across its enterprise infrastructure to streamline IT management and
provide a centralized view of its operations systems. The BNF is renowned for
its rich historical collections, as well as for its modern information
technology resources.
The BNF uses Netcool enterprise solutions to collect and consolidate event
data from across its IT infrastructure, regardless of whether that data is
network-, security-, systems- or applications-based. Additionally, the
solution allows BNF to effectively monitor and view the entire enterprise
infrastructure, including existing tools such as HP OpenView and other
third-party applications, via one consolidated management dashboard. This
allows IT staff to more efficiently address performance and availability
issues, such as traffic overloads, before they impact the quality of service
to the end-user.
"The BNF is a public institution that aims to be accessible to all, using
the
latest approaches and technologies," said Adote Chilloh, head of the support
and production and deputy manager of information systems at the BNF. "The
library's main site is open to the public seven days a week, 11 hours a day,
with an average 3,500 visitors a day. Our catalogues and online information
system consists of huge databases, a dedicated Gigabit Ethernet backbone,
dozens of routers and switches, and hundreds of servers. To ensure the
required level of service availability and performance, we needed the ability
to pinpoint potential service disruptions before they impact the visitors'
experience. The Netcool solution provides a proven and reliable monitoring
backbone that ensures BNF's world-class reputation for innovative use of
information technology."
Netcool helps BNF manage the availability of the IT systems and
applications
which support numerous online resources, including a catalogue of more than 10
million printed volumes, 350,000 periodical titles, 95,000 digital documents
and 250,000 digital still images, plus more than 21 million miscellaneous
documents and items that are available in specialized collections. The BNF
collections are available both onsite in Tolbiac, Paris and over the Internet
to the general public, students and academics. Using a workstation or
interactive kiosk, visitors to the BNF can access electronic versions of
ancient books, technical or scientific works, or multimedia documents.
"The BNF has some of the World's largest databases and servers in
operation,
and the carrier-class scalability of Micromuse's Netcool solution provides BNF
with greater control of these resources through more automated management and
centralized operations," said Richard Lowe, Micromuse's senior vice president
of business operations for the Europe, Middle East and Africa region. "The
Netcool enterprise solution, provides an essential management platform for
applications, systems, and servers, and was able to deliver a cost effective
solution - the project implementation which started in January 2003 was
completed and delivering value by June 2003."
Worldwide, Netcool solutions are helping public sector organizations ensure
the reliability, performance and fault tolerance of electronic information
resources. Netcool solutions deliver cost-effective, end-to-end monitoring and
management of critical applications and network-based systems to help ensure
government-to-government and government-to-citizen communications. Designed
for flexibility, Netcool brings realtime monitoring to the entire enterprise
to support critical public sector functions such as eGovernment, homeland
security and defense.
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