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Integrien Announces Fourth Generation Integrity Mgmt System

Integrien Corp, a provider of Integrity Management solutions for enterprise systems, announced the fourth generation of its flagship product for monitoring, management, repair and recovery functions of enterprise systems. Combining the high impact of a holistic, intelligent monitor with the low load of an agentless architecture, Alive 4.0 alerts, repairs, recovers, and warns of looming threats in the IT eco-system so an enterprise can remain "Always On".

Integrity Management

Integrien pioneered the concept of Integrity Management, modeled after the energy industry's "Operations Integrity," which defines management for the safe operation of mixed technology systems. In the energy industry, the systems are electrical, computing, plumbing, chemical, refining, etc. Integrien has applied this approach to IT management, putting dissimilar hardware, software, physical and virtual systems on the same management plane in a common view.

This new wave of management solutions requires a holistic approach to IT management. By providing an integrated single view of the entire enterprise IT ecosystem, customers gain visibility, insight and actionable information about the dependencies between IT system components and their operating health. In addition to visibility, integrity management solutions identify problems and provide automated, "self-healing" responses to events.

Distributed computing, multi-tier application deployment and adoption of service oriented architecture (SOA), have created new enterprise vulnerabilities in today's complex IT infrastructure. Dependencies exist between servers, networks, software & appliances, threatening the continuity of business operations. The first threats to IT operations' integrity often originate in these inter-system dependencies.

Integrity Management solutions address vulnerabilities created by complex IT dependencies by providing a holistic view and management of the entire IT ecosystem equally across all functional stacks for continuous operation and transactional accuracy. Many current management systems view infrastructure from a "silo approach," giving deep information about each system, application, etc., but don't provide a comprehensive view of the dependencies between them.

"The complexity of IT systems, and a lack of comprehensive management, results in most companies typically spending between 60 and 70 percent of their IT budget on systems upkeep. To lower total cost of ownership, and to gain better sustained performance at higher utilization rates, administrators need better insight into entire infrastructures. That insight then requires actionable, prioritized information in near real time to produce true predictive management," said Dana Gardner, senior analyst at Yankee Group. "Integrien's Alive provides an intelligent level of actionable, prioritized information -- without degrading systems in the process -- to help quickly triage events, add in auto-response capabilities, and to provide performance tuning benefits across entire IT ecosystems."

Alive 4.0

Integrien Alive is the first comprehensive integrity management solution for enterprise systems. Designed to keep IT in line with business objectives, Alive provides a common view of critical IT systems that support automated business processes for all levels in the enterprise, from managers to CIOs to systems administrators.

More than a monitoring solution, the new Alive repairs & recovers, and offers predictive analysis of enterprise system resources and requirements to allow managers to plan ahead of service-denying constraints. Using the Variable Vantage Management tools, Alive 4.0 assists system operators to proactively analyze and predict system limits that threaten critical operations, warn of looming threats, and identify problems before they deny availability.

Alive 4.0 can monitor and recover unlimited number of servers, system components and network nodes. It monitors key aspects of IT infrastructure performance vital to keeping Web sites and critical applications available and functioning. Alive 4.0 monitors system status and verifies the availability of Web pages, Web applications, Web servers and enterprise applications, as well as internal resources and databases they depend upon. In the event of system failure, Alive 4.0 issues alerts and offers options for human intervention, activation of custom repair scripts, or automatic recovery. Alive 4.0 also includes MIB enhancements that elevate the solution's SNMP capabilities to best of breed.

Alive 4.0's architecture includes multiple advanced engines for comprehensive visibility and management, including:

Alive 4.0 provides the following benefits to an enterprise:

"In today's environment, the network is the business," said Al Eisaian, CEO and co-founder of Integrien. "Maintaining availability for business processes and transactions is paramount to running an enterprise. We've designed Alive 4.0 to address the needs of IT from the executive level to the administrative level. Our solution provides CIOs with visibility into the health of their systems at a high level including key interdependencies, and administrators with the ability to plan ahead and transition away from firefighting to proactive prevention."