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Breaking News - Operating Systems
& Middleware:
CA's Unicenter WSDM Delivers
State-Of-The-Art .NET Management
Computer Associates International Inc (CA) announced it will provide
administrators of Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2000 with visibility into
the health and status of enterprise Web services, enabling them to track and
manage business processes across .NET environments.
The new integration capabilities, to be provided in the Unicenter Web
Services
Management Pack for Microsoft Operations Manager, are a significant advance in
the management of enterprise Web services.
"Today's heterogeneous Web services environments require advanced
management
capabilities to support business functions that span multiple enterprises,"
said David Hamilton, director of the Enterprise Management Division at
Microsoft Corp. "Microsoft is pleased to announce we are working closely with
CA, a leader in specialized Web services management, to ensure inclusion of
functionality in Microsoft Operations Manager 2000 through integrated
Management Packs, delivering our mutual customers best-of-breed management for
heterogeneous environments."
Unicenter WSDM delivers complete business-level and IT-level management of
.NET Web services environments, including real-time alerts and proactive
management tools. Microsoft Operations Manager provides event and performance
management for Windows Servers and .NET environments.
By linking Unicenter WSDM's capabilities to MOM, the new CA management pack
delivers state-of-the-art management of. NET-enabled business systems --
enabling Microsoft customers to instantly detect any problems that could
threaten performance or availability of critical services. This management is
essential for maximizing the business value that organizations realize from
Web services technology.
"CA is aggressively addressing our customers' requirements for ensuring the
effective implementation and ongoing management of Web services," said Dmitri
Tcherevik, director of Web services at CA. "By delivering integration between
Unicenter WSDM and MOM, we are enabling IT managers to optimize performance
and minimize costs by taking control of the .NET Web services they
deploy."
CA has already delivered integration between MOM and Unicenter NSM,
enabling
Unicenter NSM to act as a heterogeneous "manager of managers," receiving
alerts and management data from MOM and other management resources across the
enterprise. Unicenter WSDM is scheduled for general release in Q4 03; the
Unicenter Web Services Management Pack for Microsoft Operations Manager is
scheduled to ship in the following quarter.
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