Desktalk Systems announces availability of TRENDweb -- cutting-edge Web-based network performance product; company also introduces performance enhancements to existing family of TREND products.WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 3, 1997--Underscoring its role as a leading developer and supplier of network performance management software, Desktalk Systems Inc. today announced the availability of TRENDweb, a web-based management tool allowing users to access reports globally with their web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. . Additionally, the company introduced performance enhancements to TRENDsnmp, a member of Desktalk's industry-leading family of TREND products for sophisticated network management. The new release, TRENDsnmp 3.3.2, provides network managers with added flexibility and scalability for Desktalk's TREND family of products. Desktalk Systems' new products are being demonstrated at ComNet '97, in booth number 1951, at the Washington D.C. Convention Center, February 3-6, 1997. "Desktalk's technology is based on a proactive approach to network performance management," said Steve Challice, vice president of marketing for Desktalk Systems. "These products demonstrate our commitment to providing powerful and flexible solutions to the most pressing problems in the industry including network growth and complexity." Desktalk Systems TRENDweb TRENDweb features browsing of network management reports accessible from any web browser. The product offers both flexibility and portability by allowing users to obtain reports from anywhere in the world. In addition, TRENDweb allows multiple users to view TRENDsnmp generated tabular and graphical reports. "Desktalk's TRENDweb will now allow network managers to avoid being dependent on one particular viewing station platform," said Challice. "This innovative web tool meets the growing demand of our customers towards web-based management." Taking advantage of TRENDsnmp's ability to directly output reports as GIF files, TRENDweb users can easily search for reports that pinpoint problems in the network. Additionally, TRENDweb is extremely flexible -- as new reports become available, they are automatically added to the product's browsing menus. Desktalk Systems TRENDsnmp 3.3.2 Dedicated to addressing the needs of network managers, TRENDsnmp 3.3.2 adds to the scalability and flexibility of the TREND product family. Enhancements include: report chaining, an application enabling users to specify second-level reports to support top-level TRENDsnmp tabular reports; log scale graphing, allowing users to display statistics with wide-ranging values on the same TRENDsnmp graphical report; and bitmap output, enabling report output in BMP (1) (BitMaP) Also known as a "bump" file, it is the native, bitmapped graphics format in Windows. A BMP can be saved in several color options: 1-, 4-, 8- and 24-bit color provide 2, 16, 256 and 16,000,000 colors respectively. BMP files use the .BMP or . and GIF GIF in full Graphics Interchange Format Standard computer file format for graphic images. GIF files use data compression to reduce the file size. The original version of the format was developed by CompuServe in 1987. format for web compatibility. Additional performance enhancements include detailed table information retrieval information retrieval Recovery of information, especially in a database stored in a computer. Two main approaches are matching words in the query against the database index (keyword searching) and traversing the database using hypertext or hypermedia links. , node, view and type importing and timing granularity. "TRENDsnmp 3.3.2 provides functional performance enhancements to TREND, designed to help manage your network more effectively," added Challice. "Desktalk's new version adds to the portability and interoperability of the TREND product family." Accommodating to the realities of dispersed platforms, TRENDsnmp 3.3.2 runs on 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) AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. , HP_UX, Solaris, SunOS, Windows 95 and 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. 3.51 and v4.0 platforms. This new version incorporates Sybase XI as its relational database relational database Database in which all data are represented in tabular form. The description of a particular entity is provided by the set of its attribute values, stored as one row or record of the table, called a tuple. . TRENDsnmp 3.3.2 also offers increased polling and data aggregation performance. Headquartered in Torrance, Calif., Desktalk Systems is a leading developer and supplier of network management solutions. TREND, the company's network performance product family, provides network managers with flexibility, scalability and portability. Desktalk's TREND products are used by numerous prominent corporations worldwide including AT&T, MCI (1) (Media Control Interface) A high-level programming interface from Microsoft and IBM for controlling multimedia devices. It provides commands and functions to open, play and close the device. (2) (Microwave Communications Inc. , Bell Atlantic, Toys-R-Us, Nations Bank and Kaiser Permanente Kaiser Permanente is an integrated managed care organization, based in Oakland, California, founded in 1945 by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser and physician Sidney R. Garfield. . For more information on the company and its products, please visit Desktalk's web site at http://www.desktalk.com . CONTACT: Bock Noun 1. bock - a very strong lager traditionally brewed in the fall and aged through the winter for consumption in the spring bock beer lager beer, lager - a general term for beer made with bottom fermenting yeast (usually by decoction mashing); originally Communications Inc. Christine Bock or Valerie Christopherson, 714/374-3530 chrisbock@msn.com |
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