Heartland Financial Implements Cirrus Configuration Manager from SolarWinds.Change and Policy Management Features Help Financial Institution Realize Immediate ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). and Comply with Sarbanes Oxley AUSTIN, Texas -- SolarWinds, a leader in network management software, continues to build an impressive portfolio of customers with its recent addition of Heartland Financial USA to its customer list. Heartland Financial, a financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. company providing banking, mortgage, investment, insurance, trust, fleet management and consumer finance services to individuals and businesses in nine states, implemented SolarWinds' Cirrus Configuration Manager (Cirrus) for configuration management of more than 150 multi-vendor network devices across their global network. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Bradley Jones This article is about the football player. For the racing driver, see Brad Jones. Bradley Jones (born March 19, 1982 in Armadale, Australia) is an Australian football player. , network administrator for Heartland Financial, the company has already realized significant cost and time savings. "Cirrus has already paid for itself," said Jones. "The ROI that we are seeing from the solution comes mainly in the form of time savings. I can now focus my time and energy on other strategic issues versus worrying whether or not all of our device configurations are being backed up and managed properly. I simply define and execute scripts in a matter of minutes A Matter of Minutes is an episode from the television series The New Twilight Zone. Cast
Jones also depends on Cirrus to help him comply with federal regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley. "Using Cirrus, we are able to create custom reports that include guidelines guidelines, n.pl a set of standards, criteria, or specifications to be used or followed in the performance of certain tasks. used by auditors when checking compliance for regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley. As we enter audit season, we first run the Cirrus reports against our network to ensure that our configurations are compliant with established standards. Any changes that are required can then be implemented easily through the application." Another critical component of Sarbanes-Oxley is the ability to prove information security. The addition of Secure Shell, (SSH (Secure SHell) A security protocol for logging into a remote server. SSH provides an encrypted session for transferring files and executing server programs. Also serving as a secure client/server connection for applications such as database access and e-mail, SSH supports a ) into Cirrus, ensures the integrity of the information traveling throughout Heartland Financials' network. "I definitely recommend this product to other financial institutions that must protect sensitive customer data," said Jones. "The implementation of the SSH in Cirrus has alleviated any concerns we had about security issues associated with performing configuration changes. We have the solution on a single PC that only a select number of people can log into. The same is true for the database on which Cirrus resides." About Cirrus Configuration Manager Cirrus is a powerful configuration management solution that allows network engineers to easily manage configurations on heterogeneous, multi-vendor networks. Cirrus includes command templates for devices from Cisco, Dell, Foundry, Juniper juniper, any tree or shrub of the genus Juniperus, aromatic evergreens of the family Cupressaceae (cypress family), widely distributed over the north temperate zone. Many are valuable as a source of lumber and oil. , Arris ar·ris n. pl. arris or ar·ris·es The sharp edge or ridge formed by two surfaces meeting at an angle, as in a molding. [Alteration of Old French areste, fishbone, spine , Motorola and others. Cirrus also allows customers to create customized configuration templates and to take control of policy management. Cirrus is available for download on the SolarWinds Website at www.solarwinds.net. For more information and pricing, contact the SolarWinds sales department at 918-307-8100. About SolarWinds SolarWinds is a leading provider of Windows-based network management, network monitoring The term network monitoring describes the use of a system that constantly monitors a computer network for slow or failing systems and that notifies the network administrator in case of outages via email, pager or other alarms. and network discovery software. More than 40,000 customers spanning the military, Fortune 500 companies, government agencies and education institutions have chosen SolarWinds to reduce network downtime The time during which a computer is not functioning due to hardware, operating system or application program failure. , manage network compliance and change and improve staff efficiency. SolarWinds has developed and brought to market award-winning solutions that address the needs of network engineers from performance management to fault monitoring to configuration management. For more information, please visit http://www.SolarWinds.Net. SolarWinds and SolarWinds.Net are registered trademarks of SolarWinds.Net. All other company and product names mentioned are used only for identification purposes and may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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