CA announces Open Desktop Management Initiative.NETWORLD+INTEROP INTEROP Interoperability INTEROP Interoperational , ATLANTA--September 18, 1996--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- ABN-AMRO Services Company: "CA's ODMI Will Help Us Cost-Effectively Manage And Control Thousands Of Desktops" CA-Unicenter To Provide Industry's First Fully Bi-Directional Approach To Managing Desktop Information Computer Associates International, Inc. today announced The Open Desktop Management Initiative, a multi-faceted program that centers on CA's new open desktop management interface, allowing the integration of information from DMI-compliant third party tools into CA-Unicenter. The CA Open Desktop Management Initiative also features a joint effort between CA and Microsoft to utilize HyperMedia hypermedia: see hypertext. The use of hyperlinks, regular text, graphics, audio and video to provide an interactive, multimedia presentation. All the various elements are linked, enabling the user to move from one to another. Management (HMM HMM heavy meromyosin. ) technology to provide a mission-critical infrastructure for managing enterprise applications, including those on the World Wide Web, and an alliance with Intel Corp. that provides for advanced management of Pentium Pro-based servers. As part of the initiative, CA is joining the Desktop Management Task Force, whose DMI (Desktop Management Interface) The first desktop management standard from the DMTF. Enabling PCs to be monitored from a central console, it was superseded by the DMTF's Common Information Model (see CIM). (Desktop Management Interface) 2.0 is reaching critical mass, to ensure that CA clients can perform full desktop management using industry standards. "CA's Open Management Desktop Initiative will dramatically lower the total cost of ownership of both desktops and servers by delivering an open management environment," said Sam Greenblatt, CA vice president of advanced technology. "And as an open initiative, it allows our clients to leverage management technology they already have in place." "We have large 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. environments and more than 200 branch locations. Capturing management information in an environment like this has been a problem. CA's ODMI will help us cost-effectively manage and control thousands of desktops," said Bruce Jacobs, group senior vice president at ABN-AMRO Services Company, Inc. in Chicago. CA's new Open Desktop Management Interface expands on the DMI 2.0 specification and integrates critical information on the desktop with other enterprise data to provide a complete view of the IT infrastructure. Through this interface, CA-Unicenter provides the industry's first fully bi-directional approach to managing desktop information, as well as the ability to gather information from and perform proactive management on desktop assets. CA-Unicenter clients can completely integrate the desktop manager of their choice without writing any code. "Computer Associates is leading the effort to deliver pragmatic end-to-end enterprise management by building an economical bridge between the client and server management environments," said Brandon Musler, analyst at Illuminata Inc. in Nashua, NH. "CA's Open Desktop Management Interface will simplify use and management of desktop assets for end-users and IT professionals respectively. This step not only demonstrates CA-Unicenter's flexibility by incorporating information from the spectrum of installed PC agents, but also invites increasing third-party participation in the evolution of that architecture." CA-Unicenter will now manage information from a wide range of DMI-compliant tools including: Attachmate's NetWizard; CapaCity's NetCon; Compaq's Insight Manager; Hewlett-Packard's OpenView; IBM's NetView for OS/2; IBM's SystemView Common Agent, Intel's LANDesk Manager; Microsoft's System Management System; Novell's ManageWise; Symantec's Norton Administrator; and SunSoft's SunNet Manager. Unlike framework-based approaches that require vendors to adapt their tools to custom interfaces, CA's approach provides a ready-made way for its central management platform to access local management tools without requiring special effort by clients or vendors. "With the Open Desktop Initiative, CA is responding to industry conditions and supporting customers' system management needs," said Sue Aldrich, senior consultant and editor, Patricia Seybold Patricia B. Seybold, CEO of Patricia Seybold Group, is the author of Customers.com, The Customer Revolution, Outside Innovation, and co-author of Brandchild. Her books, (particularly Customers. Group. "This initiative leverages customer investment by making use of existing desktop agents, rather than expanding the population which would create another management headache. The initiative also demonstrates CA's ability to extend existing CA and DMI capabilities to new technologies, such as the Pentium Pro The sixth generation of the Intel x86 family of CPU chips. The term may refer to the chip or to a PC that uses it. Introduced in 1995 as the successor to the Pentium, models from 150 MHz to 200 MHz were released. ." "The ODMI solidifies CA-Unicenter's position as a strategic end-to-end management solution to incorporate our entire environment," said Harry Banks Harry Banks, born 16 March, 1896 in Yorkshire, England (although other sources suggest that his name was "Harry Band" and that he was born in Montrose, Scotland in August 1885), was an Allied soldier serving in the Canadian Army who may have been crucified with bayonets or combat , IS Manager at Best Products, Inc., a nationwide $1.5 billion retail operation specializing in fine jewelry and decorator home furnishings. In July, HMMS HMMS Hypermedia Management Schema HMMS Hazardous Material Management System HMMS Hampden, Monroe, Middlesex, and Silver Spring (soccer club, Pennsylvania) HMMS Helmet-Mounted-Mobility Sensor HMMS Hyper Media Management Schema and HMMP HMMP Hypermedia Management Protocol HMMP Hazardous Materials Management Plan HMMP Hazardous Material Management Program (US military) HMMP Hazardous Materials Management Process HMMP Hyper Media Management Protocol were proposed as part of an industry-wide effort to define cross-platform Web-based enterprise management (standard, system management) Web-Based Enterprise Management - (WBEM) A DMTF management standard using the Common Information Model to represent systems, applications, networks, devices and other managed components; developed to unify the management of distributed computing . During a keynote address keynote address n. An opening address, as at a political convention, that outlines the issues to be considered. Also called keynote speech. Noun 1. by Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates (person) Bill Gates - William Henry Gates III, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft, which he co-founded in 1975 with Paul Allen. In 1994 Gates is a billionaire, worth $9.35b and Microsoft is worth about $27b. at CA-World '96 last month, Bob Kruger, Microsoft's General Manager of System Management System and 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. Server Group, demonstrated CA's HyperMedia Management interface to CA-Unicenter utilizing CA-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) . In addition, CA and Intel have created the first integrated solution that consolidates data from Intel's Pentium Pro processor-based servers and correlates it into useable management information. The new solution tightly integrates CA-Unicenter TNG with built-in board level hardware and software instrumentation, eliminating the need for clients to maintain custom interfaces for server management. "We're excited to be an integral part of CA's Open Desktop Management Initiative which enables enterprise management for our Microsoft Windows NT customers running CA-Unicenter," said Jay Amato, Vanstar president and COO. "The rapid advancements in technology and the need to reduce the cost of technology ownership is driving an increase in corporations' use of outsourcers. For PC network outsourcing, Vanstar is focused on creating advanced PC networked management solutions through national consultancies which includes our recently announced management offering for CA-Unicenter. Vanstar will continue to expand its service and delivery capabilities with new offerings and thousands of experts in client/server technology." CA Representatives are available to answer questions and conduct product demonstrations at Booth 6042 at Networld+Interop. 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 9,000 people in 130 offices in 40 countries and had revenue of more than $3.5 billion in fiscal year 1996. 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. -0- All referenced product names are trademarks of their respective companies. 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