CSX Implements Trendium's PerforMAX Solution to Manage Performance of Enhanced Railway Information Network.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SUNRISE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 5, 2003 Leading Rail and Freight Transportation Company to Use Trendium's PerforMAX(TM) To Manage Mission-Critical Information Network and Computing Infrastructure in Real-Time Trendium, Inc., the award-winning provider of service intelligence and performance management software, announced today that CSX Corporation CSX Corporation NYSE: CSX was formed in 1980 by the merger of Chessie System and Seaboard Coast Line Industries and eventually merged the various railroads owned by those predecessors into a single line that became known as CSX Transportation. has deployed its PerforMAX(TM) product to proactively manage the performance of its train dispatch and control network and computing infrastructure. CSX Corporation is a multimodal Two or more modes of operation. The term is used to refer to a myriad of functions and conditions in which two or more different methods, processes or forms of delivery are used. On the Web, it refers to asking for something one way and receiving the answer another; for example requesting freight transportation company with principal business units providing rail, intermodal, domestic container-shipping, and international terminal operations The reception, processing, and staging of passengers; thereceipt, transit, storage, and marshalling of cargo; the loadingand unloading of modes of transport conveyances; and themanifesting and forwarding of cargo and passengers todestination. See also operation; terminal. . Ranked #238 on the 2002 Fortune 500, CSX CSX Chessie Seaboard Multiplier (railroad transportation company) CSX Cayman Islands Stock Exchange CSX Changsha, China (Airport Code) CSX Cardiac-Specific Homeobox CSX Seaboard Coastline Railroad generated over $8 billion in revenues in 2001. As part of an effort to enhance its rail transport network 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. infrastructure, CSX has selected Trendium to provide it with state-of-the-art software systems. Trendium's PerforMAX solution will provide CSX with end-to-end management of infrastructure performance across its multi-vendor, multi-technology data and voice network. PerforMAX will also monitor and report on the performance of all Operations desktops and servers (running multiple operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. ) connected to the network. The solution will be used to manage the quality and availability of the extended rail management services that those systems provide. With the new system, the CSX network operations team will have real-time, network-wide performance visibility and problem isolation capabilities 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. "Trendium's PerforMAX system met our unique needs for real-time system and network performance visibility and rapid problem resolution throughout our network," said Dan Pinkley, Director, Network Control at CSX. "We need to manage the performance not only of our standard network, servers and desktops, but also to cover the railway-specific network and computing equipment we have in-house. Trendium's system was readily configured to do just that. We have been impressed with the speed and accuracy of the system deployment The deployment of a mechanical device, electrical system, computer program, etc., is its assembly or transformation from a packaged form to an operational working state. Deployment implies moving a product from a temporary or development state to a permanent or desired state. , and also with the knowledge and dedication of the Trendium team to successfully see our project through." Trendium's PerforMAX software enables customers to consolidate and manage infrastructure performance across multiple technologies and layers. With PerforMAX, customers can monitor, manage and accurately report on infrastructure performance in real-time, thereby ensuring peak performance from networks, systems and applications across the enterprise. "We're very pleased that we were able to meet CSX's needs for such a mission-critical component of their next-generation management infrastructure with PerforMAX," said Andy Aiello, Trendium Executive Vice President, Americas 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 . "CSX is clearly a large and complex enterprise customer, and this successful deployment demonstrates Trendium's commitment and ability to serve this important market. The flexibility and configurability of the PerforMAX product made the rapid and accurate solution implementation possible." About CSX CSX Corporation (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CSX) is a freight transportation company with principal business units providing rail, intermodal, domestic container-shipping, and international terminal operations. Formed in 1980, CSX Transportation "CSX" redirects here. For the parent company, see CSX Corporation. For other uses, see CSX (disambiguation). CSX Transportation (AAR reporting marks CSXT) is a Class I railroad in the United States, owned by the CSX Corporation. operates the largest rail network in the eastern United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . CSX Intermodal provides transportation services across the United States and other key North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. markets. CSX Corporation subsidiaries also perform maritime operations, including domestic container shipping and international terminal management services. About Trendium Winner of the "Best New OSS Oss (ôs), city (1994 pop. 62,141), North Brabant prov., S Netherlands; chartered 1399. It is a significant industrial center. Manufactures include meat products, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, electrical equipment, and metalware. Product - 2002" and "InfoVision 2001" awards, Trendium, Inc. is a software company whose service intelligence solutions and performance management software have been deployed at several leading service providers in the U.S., Europe and Asia and at three of the Fortune 500 companies. Trendium's ServicePATH(TM) software enables service providers to optimize service performance, manage services and SLAs and assure service quality in real time over virtually any infrastructure -- networks, operations systems, applications and business processes. With service intelligence, service providers can create new revenue streams, identify unused service capacity and rapidly prototype and deliver high-margin assured-quality services. Trendium's PerforMAX(TM) software enables enterprises and service providers to monitor, manage and accurately report on network and computing infrastructure performance in real-time. For more information, please visit http://www.trendium.com ServicePATH and PerforMAX are trademarks of Trendium, Inc. The Fortune 500 list is copyrighted by Fortune Magazine. All other trademarks and registered trademarks in this document are the properties of their respective owners. |
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