Boole & Babbage MainView Selected to Manage ABN AMRO Bank's Advanced 'Enterprise Server' Operations.SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 24, 1997--Boole & Babbage, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : BOOL), the leader in end-to-end availability management for distributed systems Distributed systems (computers) A distributed system consists of a collection of autonomous computers linked by a computer network and equipped with distributed system software. , today announced that Amsterdam-based ABN AMRO ABN AMRO Algemene Bank Nederland-Amsterdam Roterdam Bank (Dutch bank) Bank N.V., a leading bank in Europe with a large international network, has purchased MainView(R) to monitor and manage the bank of the Netherlands' complex MVS-based systems. By taking advantage of the integrated MainView product architecture, the bank will be able to expand its Parallel Sysplex IBM's System/390 clustering architecture. It allows multiple System/390 computers to work together as a single system. It supports data sharing with guaranteed integrity, extensive resource sharing and sophisticated workload balancing. environment. The company will also gain a consistent management interface for added simplicity while substantially reducing system resource requirements The components of a system that are required by software or hardware. It refers to resources that have finite limits such as memory and disk. In a PC, it may also refer to the resources required to install a new peripheral device, namely IRQs, DMA channels, I/O addresses and memory for managing performance and availability of its existing MVS-based systems. "By using Boole & Babbage's MainView technology, the challenges of managing our sophisticated Enterprise Server environment can be met without an increase in complexity," said Koos Molendijk, vice president of Development Corporate Functions within the IT Solutions Division at ABN AMRO. After completing an internal survey, the bank officials elected a Parallel Sysplex strategy in 1995 to facilitate their future operations' activities. At the same time, they broadened their focus from IMS (1) See IP Multimedia Subsystem. (2) (Information Management System) An early IBM hierarchical DBMS for IBM mainframes. IMS was widely implemented throughout the 1970s under MVS and continues to be used under z/OS. and DB2 with MQSeries to accommodate their expanding hardware developments. After a careful comparison to their existing supplier's product, the bank selected MainView as the best choice to support their plans because of its unique management capabilities such as Single System Image, Parallel Sysplex support, and ease of installation and implementation. "Managing an advanced operation of ABN AMRO's magnitude requires a close relationship not only with 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) but also with the key suppliers of the supporting software," said Mike Bunyard, senior director of marketing at Boole & Babbage. "We are delighted to support the bank in achieving its vision of a Parallel Sysplex-based Enterprise Server." ABN AMRO has implemented all components of the MainView architecture to manage its many 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. , CICS (Customer Information Control System) A TP monitor from IBM that was originally developed to provide transaction processing for IBM mainframes. It controls the interaction between applications and users and lets programmers develop screen displays without , DB2 and IMS environments. The bank also intends to adopt MainView for MQSeries and AutoOPERATOR(TM) for MQSeries to manage its future MQSeries environment. MainView products have embedded capabilities that allow them to support and exploit parallel processing environments with no modifications necessary. MainView products for MVS, MQSeries, CICS, IMS, DBCTL DBCTL Data Base Control and DB2 are the only fully integrated systems management tools available that can concurrently support Parallel Sysplex and traditional mainframe environments. MainView technology also provides the enabling architecture for IBM's CICSPlex System Manager to support many regions of CICS in Parallel Sysplex environments with sophisticated capabilities such as Single System Image and single point-of-control. With a total balance sheet value at more than 595 billion Dutch Guilders and more than 66,000 employees, ABN AMRO Bank conducts business in 1,011 offices in the Netherlands and over 700 foreign offices throughout 69 countries. Additionally, The bank is one of the 15 largest banks in the world and the largest foreign bank operating in North America. About Boole & Babbage Boole & Babbage is the worldwide leader in availability, performance and storage management solutions for distributed systems. Its Enterprise Automation solution set manages application availability from end-to-end, maximizing uptime and reducing operational costs for even the most complex IT enterprises. Through advanced interoperability with leading frameworks and a flexible architecture easily scaled to customer requirements, Boole & Babbage products provide a comprehensive systems management and automation solution for all applications, system and networks -- from the mainframe to the desktop. For more information, call 800/544-2152 or access the World Wide Web at www.boole.com . -0- Note to Editors: Boole & Babbage and MainView are registered trademarks of Boole & Babbage, Inc. AutoOPERATOR is a trademark of Boole & Babbage, Inc. All other trademarks used herein are the property of their respective owners. CONTACT: Boole & Babbage, Inc. Janet Martin, 408/526-3487 jamartin@boole.com http://www.boole.com |
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