Amdahl Introduces EnView for Automated Application Response Monitoring.SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 8, 1998-- Industry-leading technology provides early warning system for management of end-user service levels. Amdahl Corporation (company) Amdahl Corporation - A US computer manufacturer. Amdahl is a major supplier of large mainframes, UNIX and Open Systems software and servers, data storage subsystems, data communications products, applications development software, and a variety of educational and today introduced EnView(tm) by Amdahl, a systems management solution that proactively measures business application availability and response time. Unlike traditional component-based performance tools, EnView enables service level management based on actual end-user experience, offering real-time reporting through visual displays and audible alarms. This new Amdahl solution is based on technology recently acquired from Bell Atlantic, which promoted the product under the name Sentinel. EnView is unique in that it was developed by Bell Atlantic to meet its need for managing service levels based on the actual application response times experienced by its end-users. Bell Atlantic had sold the product to major companies in the telecommunications, computer leasing, and health insurance industries. "EnView is unlike any other tool that measures application availability and response time," said Fabio Leoni Leoni can refer to:
"EnView allows us to keep in touch with our end-users' availability and response time. We know the minute when the end-user is experiencing a problem," says Gerry Higgins, vice president of data center network distributed resources for Bell Atlantic. "This allows us to close the gap between IT Management and the end-user's perspective. Through the use of EnView, end-to-end availability of our business applications has been significantly enhanced." EnView is an important addition to help accomplish Amdahl's strategy of providing mission-critical business applications throughout the enterprise. This is enabled by applying Amdahl's 26 years of experience in the largest global computing environments to a variety of hardware, software and service offerings from Amdahl and its technology partners. Distributed system See distributed computing. distributed system - A collection of (probably heterogeneous) automata whose distribution is transparent to the user so that the system appears as one local machine. service levels must be managed. In the absence of appropriate tools, companies have sought to manage on the basis of infrastructure resources rather than from an end-user perspective. EnView provides information required to truly manage end-user experience, based on unique end-to-end resource monitoring. It is a tool that helps IT organizations determine what levels of service are being provided, whether service is being degraded de·grad·ed adj. 1. Reduced in rank, dignity, or esteem. 2. Having been corrupted or depraved. 3. Having been reduced in quality or value. at the present time, and where the problem exists -- whether in the data center, the WAN, or the LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. . It provides the ability to manage based on total response time from the distributed desktop to the data center and back, accurately reflecting user experience. Service level metrics metrics Managed care A popular term for standards by which the quality of a product, service, or outcome of a particular form of Pt management is evaluated. See TQM. that include a measure of end-to-end application availability and response time can be a valuable asset in a business environment. Until recently, however, measurement has been primarily a reactive process. Tools like EnView, which capture response time from the end-user perspective without application instrumentation, are just emerging. The strength of EnView is its ability to process real transaction samples (i.e., from the eyes of the user). EnView software has the proven capability to identify: Applications that are not operational prior to the start of the new business day Applications experiencing slow response times Applications not meeting service level objectives Network congestion In data networking and queueing theory, network congestion occurs when a link or node is carrying so much data that its quality of service deteriorates. Typical effects include queueing delay, packet loss or the blocking of new connections. Differences among similar applications running at different computer centers EnView software is installed at end-user locations where it simulates business critical transactions, performing representative end-user transactions. Response time data is collected and transmitted to a central location where a real-time view of application performance is displayed on the EnView Monitor. Service level data generated by EnView may be stored in a central reporting repository for historical reporting by application and by location, enabling service level trending for IS management and the user community. About Amdahl Amdahl Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fujitsu Limited, provides integrated enterprise computing Refers to information technology in the larger company. See enterprise data and enterprise networking. solutions designed to meet the needs of the leading, most compute-intensive environments around the world. Amdahl has over 25 years of experience with large-scale computing solutions and client/server technology. The company supports heterogeneous architectures found in mission-critical customer environments that blend MVS (Multiple Virtual Storage) Introduced in 1974, the primary operating system used with IBM mainframes (the others are VM and DOS/VSE). MVS is a batch processing-oriented operating system that manages large amounts of memory and disk space. , UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). (R), and Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. (R) operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. . Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California Sunnyvale ([sʌniveil]) is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States. It is one of the major cities that make up the Silicon Valley. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 131,760. , Amdahl combines hardware and software products and services methods with best-of-breed offerings to create customized solutions that help clients gain a competitive advantage in their industries. Amdahl offers software and services that satisfy large enterprise requirements for solutions that deploy and manage business-critical applications, solving large-scale infrastructure challenges across multiple technical platforms. Key solution areas include service level, asset, storage and configuration and change management. For the Year 2000 compliance status of this offering and any others, visit the Amdahl Year 2000 Web site at: http://www.amdahl.com/y2k/ Amdahl is a registered trademark and EnView by Amdahl and EnView are trademarks of Amdahl Corporation. MVS is a registered trademark of IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) Corporation. UNIX is a registered trademark in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and other countries, licensed exclusively (except in Japan where such license is non-exclusive) through X/Open Company, Limited. Windows NT is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation (company) Microsoft Corporation - The biggest supplier of operating systems and other software for IBM PC compatibles. Software products include MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, Microsoft Access, LAN Manager, MS Client, SQL Server, Open Data Base Connectivity (ODBC), MS Mail, . All other trademarks and product names are property of their respective owners. NOTE TO EDITORS: Amdahl news releases are available on the Internet at http://www.amdahl.com , the Amdahl Corporation home page. The Amdahl site provides current, in-depth information on Amdahl offerings and solutions for enterprise computing.
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