CA'S Unicenter TNG Wins DBMS Magazine's Readers' Choice Award as Top-Performing Systems Management Solution.ISLANDIA, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 20, 1997-- "Chaos Would Result Without The Rock Solid Management Unicenter TNG TNG Training TNG The Next Generation TNG Tongue TNG The Newspaper Guild (Union) TNG Transitional National Government TNG Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (national facility of the Italian astronomical community) Excels At" Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA) today announced that DBMS (DataBase Management System) Software that controls the organization, storage, retrieval, security and integrity of data in a database. It accepts requests from the application and instructs the operating system to transfer the appropriate data. magazine readers have selected Unicenter TNG as the top-performing IT solution for systems management. The award is the latest in a series of editorial accolades for CA's flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. . "By winning the 1997 DBMS Readers' Choice Award, Unicenter TNG has earned the respect of a demanding group of enterprise developers and managers," said Maurice Frank, editor-in-chief of DBMS magazine. "These professionals know that chaos would result without the rock solid management Unicenter TNG excels at." DBMS asked its 86,000 readers to select their favorite software products in 20 different categories, basing preferences on hands-on, day-to-day usage of business solutions critical to their success as IT professionals. "The Readers' Choice Award from DBMS magazine is especially important because it is based entirely on users' positive real-world experiences," said Yogesh Gupta, CA senior vice president of product strategy. "This honor is yet another affirmation that we are responding to client and market demands for mission-critical enterprise computing." The DBMS Magazine award closely follows Communications Week's coveted cov·et v. cov·et·ed, cov·et·ing, cov·ets v.tr. 1. To feel blameworthy desire for (that which is another's). See Synonyms at envy. 2. To wish for longingly. See Synonyms at desire. "MAX" award, based on outstanding network management test scores Unicenter TNG received in the course of the publication's comparative review of competitive solutions. In addition, Unicenter TNG has been named best systems management software and one of the top new products for 1997 by Datamation Magazine, and one of 25 winners of IndustryWeek magazine's "Technology of the Year" award. Other honors include CIO CIO: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. (Chief Information Officer) The executive officer in charge of information processing in an organization. Magazine's Reader's Choice Award for UNIX System Security, 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. Magazine's Product of the Year Award, Datamation's "IS Managers' Choice for Product of the Year" in 1996 and 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). Review's "Outstanding Product Award." Winners of the 1997 Readers' Choice Awards will be announced in the December 1997 issue of DBMS. With a circulation of approximately 86,000, DBMS Magazine is the largest database and application development magazine in the world. Published monthly by Miller-Freeman, Inc., DBMS provides editorial for teams of IS managers and professionals who design and build enterprise database applications, including Internet, intranet, extranet, and electronic commerce systems. DBMS focuses on tools and strategies for designing, building and deploying corporate applications that deliver data to users inside and outside corporate walls. Unicenter TNG is an integrated enterprise management solution that enables organizations to manage all IT resources, encompassing heterogeneous networks, systems, applications, and databases. It provides comprehensive end-to-end enterprise management for TCP/IP TCP/IP in full Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol Standard Internet communications protocols that allow digital computers to communicate over long distances. , SNA (Systems Network Architecture) IBM's mainframe network standards introduced in 1974. Originally a centralized architecture with a host computer controlling many terminals, enhancements, such as APPN and APPC (LU 6. , IPX/SPX See IPX. and DECnet networks, and 40 platforms including desktops, Windows NT, UNIX, AS/400, NetWare and mainframe environments. Unicenter TNG is the only fully integrated management solution covering network discovery, topology, performance, events and status, security, software distribution, storage, workload, help desk, change management and other functions for traditional and distributed computing environments, as well as for the Internet and intranets. Unicenter TNG's intelligent manager/agent technology delivers highly scalable management of the entire computing environment, including hardware and software. Computer Associates International, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : CA), with headquarters in Islandia, N.Y., is the world leader in mission-critical business software. The company develops, licenses and supports more than 500 integrated products that include enterprise computing and information management, application development, manufacturing and financial applications. CA has over 10,000 people in 160 offices in 40 countries and had revenue of $4 billion in fiscal year 1997. CA can be reached by visiting http://www.cai.com on the World Wide Web, emailing info@cai.com or calling 1-516-342-5224. All referenced product names are trademarks of their respective companies. CONTACT: Computer Associates International Inc., Islandia Ilona Mohacsi, 516/342-2542, mohil01@cai.com |
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