COMMAND/POST selected to manage Siemens' operation; Complete end-to-end management of Siemens IT enterprise.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)--March 13, 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 its 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. COMMAND/POST has been chosen by Siemens Austria, Europe's largest Siemens subsidiary, to increase applications availability and provide a consolidated business view of Siemens' heterogeneous IT infrastructure and the IT infrastructures of its multiple clients. The single view of its complex distributed enterprise will enable Siemens Austria to focus on service and become more efficient at managing resources. COMMAND/POST will consolidate and manage the events from a wide range of standard and non-standard platforms. "Our new control center is the hub of managing the operations of Siemens and our clients," said Erwin Chladek, IT director for Siemens Austria, in regards to the new control center opened in January 1997 by the company's President. "COMMAND/POST allows us to view all of our IT enterprises from a single console instead of having separate consoles overseeing each individual environment, significantly increasing the productivity of the control center and increasing the availability of all our systems. "Using COMMAND/POST, we can be more proactive by being alerted to and correcting potential problems before they impact our customers, thus maximizing availability of all of our systems." COMMAND/POST manages the existing Siemens-Nixdorf TransView data center system as well as its HP OpenView HP OpenView was a Hewlett Packard product range consisting of an extensive portfolio of network and systems management products. In 2007 the entire HP OpenView portfolio was rebranded under the strengthened HP Software name. IT operations management Operations management is an area of business that is concerned with the production of goods and services, and involves the responsibility of ensuring that business operations are efficient and effective. systems, HP-Network Node Manager together with Paradigm, a Help Desk operation system. 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) 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. and Siemens BS2000 mainframes, Digital OpenVMS platforms and multiple Banyan Vines Banyan VINES (for Virtual Integrated NEtwork Service) was a computer network operating system and the set of computer network protocols it used to talk to client machines on the network. , 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). and Windows NT servers are also managed, as are SAP R/3 applications. "COMMAND/POST uses a unique combination of intelligent agents and a high-powered message-based interface to allow our clients to manage their complete IT infrastructure from a business perspective," said Gary Read, senior director of client/server marketing at Boole & Babbage. "Independent research has shown that Boole & Babbage enjoys a market leadership position in the burgeoning end-to-end availability management marketplace and we have more than 500 leading clients from around the world who are gaining significant benefits from the rapid implementation of the end-to-end management solution." Siemens Austria is the largest European Siemens operation and one of the largest users of IT in Europe. 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 applications 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, systems and networks from the data center to the desktop. For more information, visit us on the Web at www.boole.com or call 800/544-2152. -0- Note to Editors: Boole & Babbage is a registered trademark of Boole & Babbage, Inc. COMMAND/Post is a trademark of Boole & Babbage, Inc. All other trademarks used herein are the property of their respective owners. CONTACT: Boole & Babbage U.S. Shelly Gordon, 408/526-3430 sgordon@boole.com or Insight Marketing Concepts (For Boole & Babbage Europe) Teresa Horscroft, +44-1344-874004 teresah@insightgroup.co.uk |
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