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Breaking News - Operating Systems
& Middleware:
CA Ships Innovative Solution To
Monitor, Manage Web Services
Computer Associates International Inc (CA) announced the general
availability
of Unicenter Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM), the first complete
solution for monitoring and managing Web services across and beyond the
enterprise.
Unicenter WSDM is the latest addition to CA's portfolio of end-to-end
management solutions that help customers build enterprise-class reliability
and security into their Web services applications and supporting
infrastructure. By automatically discovering, testing and monitoring Web
services, Unicenter WSDM enables IT organizations to closely track a full
range of performance indicators and rapidly respond to service
interruptions.
Web services are emerging as key business enablers for efficiency of
business
processes within the enterprise, and to facilitate commerce beyond the
enterprise. Effective management of Web services is therefore essential for
ensuring the reliability and performance of on-demand computing
environments.
MapPoint, the technology behind Microsoft's mapping and location services
platforms and applications, plans to use Unicenter WSDM to provide visibility
into 15 million daily transactions.
"Microsoft MapPoint views the ability to provide personalized support and
care
of its customers as essential in the competitive services business," said Jeff
Carson, group operations manager of the MapPoint Business Unit at Microsoft
Corp. "With Unicenter WSDM, MapPoint is able to provide detailed,
customer-specific help and analysis during customers' development and
production life-cycle phases."
Managing J2EE and .NET Web services natively at the services network level,
Unicenter WSDM:
- Optimizes performance of Web services through real-time monitoring of
metrics such as response times, transaction volume and message size
- Speeds deployment of management capabilities through automatic
detection,
discovery and cataloging of newly-deployed Web services in the
enterprise
- Improves application availability by ensuring that Web services are
responsive and performing at appropriate service levels
- Reduces costs and complexity of Web services by providing a central
point-of-management with advanced reporting and predictive analysis
capabilities
- Increases enterprise responsiveness through non-intrusive monitoring
and
automatic detection of problems and service failures, real-time alerts and
self-configuration capabilities.
"To effectively manage Web services in an on-demand environment, IT needs
visibility into and control over individual Web services, the
interdependencies between Web services, and the underlying infrastructure,"
said Dmitri Tcherevik, vice president of Web services at CA. "With Unicenter
WSDM, CA is helping our customers make a smooth transition to service-oriented
enterprise architectures."
CA's end-to-end management solutions help customers build enterprise-class
reliability and security into their new deployments, empowering dynamic
allocation of infrastructure resources to Web services and other critical
applications driven by changing business requirements.
Unicenter Management for WebSphere and Unicenter Management for WebLogic
provide in-depth visibility and control over the performance of the underlying
application infrastructure, including application servers, back-end messaging
and database systems, application components, and Web transactions. CA's
eTrust Directory provides the first truly enterprise-ready UDDI implementation
for large-scale Web services deployments.
CA also is utilizing Web services technologies to enhance product synergies
and to facilitate tighter integration with third-party management
applications
Unicenter WSDM runs on Windows 2000/XP, Linux and Solaris. More information
about Unicenter WSDM and CA's other Web services management solutions is
available at ca.com/webservices.
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