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SMARTS UNVEILS END-TO-END MGMT OF WebSphere ENVIRONMENTS

SMARTS, a leading provider of automated real-time business assurance solutions, unveiled InCharge for Application Servers -- WebSphere Edition. Further extending InCharge's ability to intelligently analyze and holistically manage mission-critical application services, the newest solution provides total real-time visibility into the IBM WebSphere environment -- pinpointing critical problems affecting complex, distributed WebSphere-based applications by correlating application performance with the health of the surrounding application, server and network infrastructure.

InCharge is the industry's only solution with the ability to automatically discover the WebSphere and network environment, and to conduct cross-domain correlation to isolate Authentic Problems impacting application performance, regardless of whether they originate in the network, the server or WebSphere itself. With InCharge for Application Servers -- WebSphere Edition, IT operations teams get the real-time actionable information they need in order to maximize the performance and availability of production applications and the business services they support.

"Applications based on products like WebSphere have become the basis for many business-critical applications," said Glenn O'Donnell, META Group. "The power of the application server unfortunately magnifies the complexity of managing the resulting business services. If IT organizations can tap into the additional components and relationships and properly leverage them in their management systems, they will take another important step toward the elusive nirvana of end-to-end business service management."

"To effectively optimize business performance, there must be a tight linkage between application management and infrastructure management," said SMARTS Director of Product Marketing Carl Coken. "What's needed is a solution that can automatically correlate information across the application stack, and pinpoint the true root cause of problems so users know exactly what they need to fix to keep services up and running. InCharge for Application Servers -- WebSphere Edition is that solution."

Core to the effectiveness of the new InCharge solution is its ability to automatically discover, model, monitor, and analyze information across all components of the WebSphere infrastructure, including: Web servers, load balancers, applications servers and back-end databases and the relationships between them. While other solutions monitor individual application servers, InCharge's ability to correlate information across all components of the operations environment provides a unique, holistic, end-to-end perspective to drive successful delivery of WebSphere-based services.

InCharge For Application Servers -- WebSphere Edition -- Primary Capabilities

InCharge for Application Servers -- WebSphere Edition provides immediate, out-of-the-box discovery, modeling, monitoring and analysis for IBM WebSphere environments. While capable of seamlessly integrating with existing management solutions, InCharge is also a fully-functional, standalone solution that delivers end-to-end application services management.

Driven by patented Codebook Correlation Technology for intelligent analysis and the InCharge Common Information Model for holistic modeling of the web of infrastructure, applications, and business processes, the newest InCharge solution offers the following primary capabilities:

• Auto-discovers the total WebSphere environment, including the surrounding network.
• Automatically isolates the Authentic Problems that affect WebSphere-based applications, whether they originate in the network, system, database or Java component.
• Identifies root cause problems down to the individual java component, distinguishing them from their symptoms.
• Pinpoints the impact of each problem on other parts of the WebSphere Application Server environment.
• Provides detailed dynamic maps of exactly what components exist in the environment and the interdependencies between them. This includes network devices, hosts, operating systems, Web and application servers, database servers, and key Java components such as JVM and Java servlets.