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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
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Applications:
BORLAND EXTENDS APPLICATION
LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT LEADERSHIP
Borland Software Corp announced the launch of Deployment Op-Center, a new
cross-platform infrastructure software management solution, introduced to help
businesses to control costs, manage change and increase reliability in their
IT operations. Deployment Op-Center is designed to reduce the complexity and
high operational overhead associated with controlling the availability and
continued "health" of software infrastructure, applications, and services in
today's highly distributed and heterogeneous IT environments. By automating
the complex manual processes of deployment, configuration and control,
Deployment Op-Center significantly increases the productivity of IT staff. The
solution is designed to address collaboration issues between software
development and deployment teams that can lead to software failures and
revenue loss. Deployment Op-Center also extends the Borland Application
Lifecycle Management strategy to the operational lifecycle of applications in
production environments.
"Success in the production environment is the true measure of software
success. Once an application is defined, designed, developed and tested, it
still must be rolled out on time, within budget and in line with end user
expectations," said Boz Elloy, senior vice president of software products at
Borland. "Deployment Op-Center creates visibility into and manageability of
the heterogeneous deployment topology that all enterprises have today. It
helps applications not only stay up and running cost-effectively, but also
helps manage any changes quickly and predicatably to reduce downtime and
maximize ROI."
While Deployment Op-Center addresses critical management functionality for
cutting-edge platforms such as J2EE and Microsoft .NET, CORBA management is a
high priority requirement addressed by Deployment Op-Center. "As a leader in
the CORBA market, with a strong installed base of Borland VisiBroker
customers, we are addressing a critical need to manage existing
mission-critical CORBA applications in production, specifically within the
telecommunications and finance verticals," added Thanh Tran, vice president
and general manager of the deployment solutions group at Borland. "Deployment
Op-Center is already gaining interest in these Borland customer
organizations."
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Market Need For Infrastructure Software Management
Infrastructure software management addresses the need to control IT
operation
costs and risks posed by application downtime. Analyst firm META Research
Group addresses the need for infrastructure software management within the
category of Intelligent Configuration Management, which they estimate will
become a major component of most Global 2000 infrastructure and application
management environments by 2007.
META estimates that the challenges associated with infrastructure software
management are heightened by the continued transition toward grid computing
environments and Service-Oriented Architectures, as organizations strengthen
their ability to cost effectively remain agile to business changes.
"Applications today are becoming increasingly complex and distributed. This
augments the challenge of isolating and fixing failures to protect application
availability and dramatically increases the complexity of deploying and
managing applications," commented Thomas Murphy, senior program director at
META Group. "Traditionally, solving this problem has required specialized and
expensive skills with complicated manual processes. In addition, there is a
growing need to enable improved communications between the development and
operations staff, extending ALM from a development viewpoint to encompass
deployment and management."
Bridging The Gap Between Development And Deployment Teams
Taking a holistic approach to infrastructure applications management, the
Borland vision is to offer a formalized mechanism for the transfer of
deployment-related information from development to deployment teams.
Developers are able to document core application deployment requirements for
distribution and configuration. Deployment Op-Center provides an XML based,
template-driven user interface to assist the collaboration between development
and deployment teams.
Deployment Op-Center offers IT managers centralized automation and control
over an organization's infrastructure applications utilizing the following key
features:
- IT Inventory management: the definition, modeling, and mapping of
models
to
define logical and physical associations between applications and
infrastructure resources
- Application infrastructure configuration management: middleware (J2EE,
.NET, and CORBA), messaging (TIBCO, SonicMQ), Web servers and database
servers
- Automatic failure detection, isolation and recovery
- Configuration templates that provide developers with a mechanism to
document critical deployment information
- SNMP based connectivity with network and system management products
(such
as HP OpenView and IBM Tivoli).
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