Cargill Selects HP OpenView for Enterprise Systems Management; International Food Marketer to Standardize on HP OpenView Enterprise-management Solutions.PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 3, 1998--Hewlett-Packard Company today announced that Cargill, an international marketer of agricultural, food, financial and industrial products, has selected the 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. enterprise-management portfolio, which provides improved systems management and increased availability, to support its business applications. In a project to create a systems-management model for its enterprise architecture, Cargill will implement HP OpenView solutions at five business units: Financial Markets Group, Food Sector, Corporate, Northstar Steel and Europe. Cargill says it intends to standardize stan·dard·ize v. 1. To cause to conform to a standard. 2. To evaluate by comparing with a standard. on HP OpenView solutions to manage its worldwide infrastructure, which includes 1,800 servers on a range of platforms, including Novell, Microsoft(R) 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. (R), 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). (R) system and 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) AS/400 platforms. Cargill is extending its use of HP OpenView solutions to include HP OpenView IT/Operations to manage the company's 470 UNIX and Windows NT systems and networks, and HP OpenView IT/Administration for software distribution to approximately 300 UNIX system Noun 1. UNIX system - trademark for a powerful operating system UNIX, UNIX operating system operating system, OS - (computer science) software that controls the execution of computer programs and may provide various services servers and some software inventory. Cargill already has deployed HP OpenView Network Node (networking) network node - (node) An addressable device attached to a computer network. If the node is a computer it is more often called a "host". Manager for its network management. "HP OpenView solutions provided the openness we needed to build our enterprise-management architecture in a flexible way," said Carla Hawley, Systems Management Environment (SME (1) (Small and Medium-sized Enterprise) See SMB. (2) (Subject Matter Expert) An individual who is well-versed in the policies and procedures of a particular department or division. ) program manager at Cargill. "The HP OpenView building-block architecture and open-systems approach ensured that we could implement the solution as we needed. In addition, HP is a strategic partner for Cargill, and the company works with us to implement a best-in-class solution." HP OpenView IT/Operations Ensures Service Levels are Met Cargill's goal in implementing HP OpenView solutions was to meet the service levels the Cargill IT organization had established with the business units it supported. HP OpenView IT/Operations, an end-to-end operations and availability management solution, uses a common user interface to provide Cargill IT staff with immediate access to the status of mission-critical systems, network infrastructures and business-critical applications. HP OpenView IT/Operation's automated actions and intelligent event-management capabilities enable Cargill IT staff to identify, correlate and resolve problems before end users are affected, enabling continuous delivery of expected service levels. HP OpenView IT/Administration Enables End-to-end Inventory Another goal for Cargill was to gain insight into end-to-end inventory, which it has achieved by integrating HP OpenView IT/Administration with several other products. HP OpenView IT/Administration provides user, software, inventory and system administration for mixed UNIX system and PC environments. Its powerful query, and automatic discovery and change detection capabilities provide Cargill with accurate views of and control over all of its managed systems, including hardware inventory, installed software and configurations. About Cargill Cargill, a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. with 1998 sales of $51 billion (fiscal year ended May 31, 1998), is ranked sixth among the world's top food companies. Its market segments are organized into five product areas -- Food, Agricultural, Trading, Animal Nutrition & Meat, and Worldwide Steel -- that cover more than 40 product lines. About HP OpenView HP is one of the world's largest providers of integrated network-, application-, storage-, security-, deployment- and service-management solutions. HP OpenView solutions are at work in more than 100,000 multivendor distributed computing environments See DCE. Distributed Computing Environment - (DCE) An architecture consisting of standard programming interfaces, conventions and server functionalities (e.g. naming, distributed file system, remote procedure call) for distributing applications transparently across networks worldwide. Together with offerings from more than 200 partners, HP OpenView offers a complete portfolio of services and management solutions on all major platforms. Information about HP OpenView solutions can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.openview.hp.com. About HP Hewlett-Packard Company is a leading global provider of computing computing - computer , Internet and intranet solutions, services, communications products and measurement solutions, all of which are recognized for excellence in quality and support. HP has 127,200 employees and had revenue of $42.9 billion in its 1997 fiscal year. Information about HP and its products can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.hp.com. Note to Editors: UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group. Microsoft is a U.S. registered trademark of Microsoft Corp. Windows NT is a U.S. registered trademark of Microsoft Corp. |
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