Chisholm Technologies and WHAM form strategic partnership to market distributed resource monitor.AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 21, 1996--Chisholm Technologies Inc today announced a co-marketing agreement with WHAM Engineering and Software Inc. to market WHAM's Distributed Resource Monitor (DRM (1) (Digital Radio Mondiale) A digital audio broadcasting (DAB) system for AM radio in Europe. See HD Radio. (2) (Digital Rights M ), a powerful new tool that aids in performance tuning Performance tuning is the improvement of system performance. This is typically a computer application, but the same methods can be applied to economic markets, bureaucracies or other complex systems. of 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. . This alliance furthers Chisholm Technologies' position as the premier DCE (1) (Distributed Computing Environment) Software from The Open Group that allows applications to be built across heterogeneous platforms in a network. DCE includes security, directory naming, time synchronization, file sharing, RPCs and multithreading services. administration tools provider and is consistent with the marketing goals for Chisholm Technologies' DCE Cell Manager - the industry's first cross platform DCE administration tool. WHAM's DRM provides simultaneous performance information on processes, or groups of processes, on single or multiple servers displayed in text or graphical (GUI (Graphical User Interface) A graphics-based user interface that incorporates movable windows, icons and a mouse. The ability to resize application windows and change style and size of fonts are the significant advantages of a GUI vs. a character-based interface. ) format. The DRM precisely samples and reports statistics for activities such as: CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. usage, real and virtual memory usage, page faults, I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output waits, disk I/O and more. This performance data can be used by information managers for application development, problem diagnosis, trend analysis and to fine tune performance throughout the open client/server architecture. "We welcome the addition of WHAM's DRM to our product line," said Mike Machutt, Chisholm Technologies' president & 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. . "It will provide our customers deploying DCE applications to more effectively monitor and analyze the performance of their distributed applications." Chisholm Technologies Inc (funded by Fujitsu Ltd) is a leading developer and distributor of multi-platform administration products for the distributed computing and intranet markets. The company was the first vendor to offer graphic tools for DCE administration via its DCE Cell Manager - currently employed by 100 of the Fortune 500 companies. Using a Motif-based interface, the DCE Cell Manager eliminates time-consuming command line interaction by combining OSF See Open Group. OSF - Open Software Foundation DCE functions into a single coordinated toolset. For more information about Chisholm Technologies' products, contact the company at 800/762-0253 or 512/834-9962. Visit their World Wide Web page at http://www.chistech.com. "WHAM is excited about this new relationship," said William R. Sullivan, WHAM's president. "Chisholm understands their customers' needs and can effectively relate the value of the DRM in monitoring and tuning of distributed systems." WHAM Engineering and Software Inc. is an independent software consulting and development firm specializing in creating products and solutions for distributed computing environments. Their custom development, consulting services and tools aid system vendors and end users in the deployment and productive use of distributed computing. WHAM provides particular expertise in performance tuning of distributed systems, DCE/DFS and networking. For more information on WHAM's products and services, contact the company at 512/345-9925 or visit their World Wide Web page at http://www.wham.com. CONTACT: McMurrough & Associates P.R. Amy McMurrough, 512/345-4200 mcmurro@onr.com |
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