CANDLE EXTENDS ITS UNIX SOLUTIONS TO CA-UNICENTER.NEW ORLEANS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 17, 1995--Candle Corporation, the leading supplier of solutions for systems, network, and console management across the enterprise, today announced that it is extending its set of 19 multi-vendor enterprise systems management products based on its object-oriented Candle Technologies(tm) (CT) infrastructure to support Computer Associates' CA-Unicenter. Through this integration, customers who use Candle Command Center(tm) for 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). solutions and CA-Unicenter now have even greater power for managing their growing network and systems management resources, as well as innovative tools for managing availability of mission-critical applications. "Many commercial information processing information processing: see data processing. information processing Acquisition, recording, organization, retrieval, display, and dissemination of information. Today the term usually refers to computer-based operations. sites today use a combination of Candle and Computer Associates systems management products, so making them interoperable is a major step in open, distributed, client/server computing," said Aubrey Chernick, chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Candle Corporation. Launching the Candle Command Center from CA-Unicenter/STAR is as simple as pointing and clicking on an icon. Once the Candle Command Center is launched, users can access the power of Candle performance data and alerts across both distributed and mainframe environments. Alert Integration The next phase of Candle-CA integration, which is currently under development, will be the ability of the Candle Command Center to capture specific CA-Unicenter alerts from areas such as security or backup/restore. Candle will create alert adapters as a means to bring alerts from CA-Unicenter into the object-oriented Candle Technologies infrastructure. Once alerts are brought in, they can be combined with other Candle alerts via Candle's visual programming and alert correlation technologies. Visual programming is accomplished on an OS/2-based Candle Management Workstation. Alert correlation occurs in the Candle Management Server. New CT-Based Solutions Candle is introducing a large number of Candle Command Center solutions, which are based on the CT infrastructure. Over the next 12 months, Candle will introduce the following distributed and mainframe CT-based solutions. Distributed -- Candle Command Center for AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. -- Candle Command Center for HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. -- Candle Command Center for SunOS -- Candle Command Center for Oracle -- Candle Command Center for Sybase -- Candle Command Center for 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. -- Candle Command Center for Netware -- Candle Command Center for Netview -- Candle Command Center for CA-Unicenter -- Candle Command Center for Distributed Console Management Mainframe -- Candle Command Center for Sysplex -- Candle Command Center for CICSplex -- Candle Command Center for MQSeries -- Candle Command Center for IMSplex -- Candle Command Center for DB2plex -- Candle Command Center for Mainframe Console Management The Candle Command Center solutions for UNIX (AIX, HP-UX and SunOS), Sysplex and CICSplex are currently in the first customer ship phase at 40 customer sites worldwide and are expected to become generally available in August. Large-Scale UNIX Scalability Testing Scalability Testing, part of the battery of non-functional tests, is the testing of a software application for measuring its capability to scale up or scale out [1] Candle is also in the process of testing the scalability of its Candle Command Center solutions for UNIX. The testing is being done on a 512-node IBM SP (IBM Scalable POWER) A family of massively parallel (MPP) computer systems from IBM based on its RS/6000 (pSeries) models that incorporate various POWER and PowerPC CPUs. First introduced in 1993, SP configurations support from two to 512 processors. 2 RISC RISC in full Reduced Instruction Set Computing Computer architecture that uses a limited number of instructions. RISC became popular in microprocessors in the 1980s. parallel processor. As the testing progresses, Candle will provide status updates. "Candle is serious about both integration and scalability in our systems management products," according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Chernick. "Our work on a massively parallel See MPP. RISC machine will help us push the limits of large-scale systems management." Company Background Candle Corporation is the world's leading independent developer and supplier of software solutions that manage the availability and performance of critical systems, network and console resources, as well as business applications, spanning the enterprise. Since its founding in 1977 by Chairman and CEO Aubrey Chernick, Candle has developed a complete line of solutions for enterprise availability management, including automation, status management, application integration, and database management. The company is in the process of delivering its Candle Command Center products. These solutions are essential in helping customers make the transition to large multi-vendor enterprise production environments composed of both mainframe and client/server applications that are key to supporting business operations Business operations are those activities involved in the running of a business for the purpose of producing value for the stakeholders. Compare business processes. The outcome of business operations is the harvesting of value from assets . CONTACT: Candle Corporation Philip Little, 310/582-4725 email: philip_little@smtpgwy.candle.com or Miller Communications Wendy Allen/Chris Gunning, 310/822-4669 wallen@millerwest.com cgunning@millerwest.com |
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