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Applications:
COLLATION LAUNCHES CONFIGNIA
2.0
Collation Inc, a pioneer of top-down application management solutions for
the
enterprise, launched the third major release of its market-leading Confignia
configuration management software for distributed data center applications.
The new product release, Confignia 2.0, builds on Collation's patent pending
agent-free auto-discovery engine, built-in Data Center Reference Model, and
innovative user interface to provide IT Operations personnel with complete
top-down understanding of applications and their infrastructures.
"The demand for this product is clear; in a recent survey of IT directors
and
managers at 35 large enterprises, 90 percent said understanding the run-time
infrastructures and the dependencies of component-based applications was
critical," said Robert Roblin, CEO of Collation. "Providing this level of
visibility is central to our vision. As a result, Confignia provides a
top-down view of the availability, dependencies and cross-tier configurations
of applications. Without this automated view, IT staff can't meet the
service-level needs of the business."
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The Collation Application Status Manager, an add-on module to Collation
Confignia, integrates component level events from products such as IBM Tivoli
and Micromuse NetCool. It then uses the dependencies and application
topologies provided by Confignia to determine the application impact of these
component level events. This allows IT operations staff to know about
application availability problems much sooner, and prioritize the fixing of
component problems based on the application impact. This top-down approach
takes the guess work out of understanding and assessing which components
problems have actual business impact.
Confignia 2.0 ensures application availability by rapidly and dynamically
mapping all run-time application components, attributes, interdependencies and
change history and by providing accurate run-time application views of the IT
infrastructure. By enabling customers to see the structure, context and status
of business applications, IT operational staff can better understand,
prioritize, solve and prevent problems. Confignia 2.0 continues to provide the
most rapid time to value of any product in its class. Customers deploying
Confignia can begin using it to manage applications the day of
implementation.
In addition to the Collation Application Status Manager, Confignia 2.0 adds
the following new capabilities:
- The most comprehensive and extensible agent-free data center discovery
available. This includes the ability to rapidly develop new Discovery Sensors
on demand via the Collation Sensor Factory, a flexible resource to meet the
specific needs of customer's datacenters.
- Data, process and event APIs to enable greater levels of automation
through
integration with other management products.
- An improved set of analytics for troubleshooting and change planning,
including application and datacenter drift reports.
"With the growing complexity of applications in the infrastructure, and the
increased difficulty of managing them, automating configuration management is
more critical than ever," said Mary Johnston Turner, vice president of Summit
Strategies. "With each product release, Collation has continually delivered on
the next level of customer need, and Confignia 2.0 is no exception."
The release of Confignia 2.0 caps a busy six months for Collation. Since
releasing Confignia 1.5 in September of 2003, Collation has added customers in
financial services, media and other industries, announced partnerships with
leading technology companies including Micromuse, and launched new solutions
including e-ITIL and datacenter consolidation.
"It's more critical than ever to stay on top of managing n-tier
applications
today, as the number of components and interdependencies between servers,
software and applications has skyrocketed," said Kim Ross, CIO of Nielsen
Media Research. "Confignia cuts right to the heart of this need and as a
result will help us manage our applications to deliver the service level that
our clients not only need, but demand."
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