Heroix Longitude Nominated for Systems Management Award.NEWTON, Mass. -- Heroix (http://www.heroix.com), a leading provider of application performance management software, today announced that its Longitude agentless performance monitoring and reporting software has been nominated for the Windows ITPro 2006 Readers' Choice Awards. Longitude has been nominated in the "Systems Management: Monitoring & Alerting Software" category. Voting for the award continues through May 1, 2006 at http://www.windowsitpro.com/readerschoice/. Longitude provides the comprehensive application support, rich reporting and graphing, and multiplatform coverage of high end monitoring and management solutions, with the lower cost, ease of use, immediate deployment, and quicker 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). of lower end tools. Recently Heroix announced Longitude V3 (http://www.heroix.com/news/news_press157.htm), whose new event correlation capability helps customers understand the business impact of technology performance problems and reduce the time required to resolve them. Other newly announced features include: --Enhanced SLA (1) (StereoLithography Apparatus) See 3D printing. (2) (Service Level Agreement) A contract between the provider and the user that specifies the level of service expected during its term. Monitoring, which provides the ability to generate events and perform notifications and actions based on SLA state transitions. --Baseline Workload Data to help users adjust factory threshold settings to different workloads within their environment. --Scalable Notification & Actions, including email notification, SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) A widely used network monitoring and control protocol. Data are passed from SNMP agents, which are hardware and/or software processes reporting activity in each network device (hub, router, bridge, etc. trap notification, and automated corrective actions. Notifications and actions can be defined for a single event or hundreds of events with one simple screen. --Expanded Monitoring Coverage, including Cisco devices, Dell OpenManage, HP Systems Insight Manager, and SNMP device checking. About Longitude Longitude is agentless system and application monitoring software that enables IT organizations to improve performance and monitor Service Level Agreements (http://heroix.com/news/news_press153.htm), without requiring software to be installed on each server. Pre-packaged monitoring solutions are provided for Microsoft Windows(R), RED HAT(R) Linux, SuSE(R) Linux, Sun Solaris(TM), Hewlett-Packard HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. (R), 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. (R), Microsoft IIS, Apache(TM) Web Server, Microsoft SQL Server A relational DBMS from Microsoft that is a major component of the Windows Server System. It is Microsoft's high-end client/server database and is closely integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio and the Microsoft Office System. , Oracle(R), MySQL, Microsoft Exchange Server Microsoft Exchange Server is a messaging and collaborative software product developed by Microsoft. It is part of the Microsoft Servers line of server products and is widely used by enterprises using Microsoft infrastructure solutions. 2000/2003, IBM WebSphere(R), BEA WebLogic(R), JBoss(R), Cisco and other SNMP devices, Dell OpenManage, HP Systems Insight Manager, Active Directory, and DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) Software that automatically assigns temporary IP addresses to client stations logging into an IP network. It eliminates having to manually assign permanent "static" IP addresses. DHCP software runs in servers and routers. . Heroix offers a 14-day free trial of Longitude (http://www.heroix.com/v3pr.asp). About Heroix Heroix delivers award-winning software products that help organizations optimize the availability and performance of applications, databases, systems, and IT infrastructure running across multiple platforms. Today, with a presence in over 40 countries, Heroix has delivered performance management solutions to over 1,000 organizations worldwide, including Fallon Clinic, Horizon Lines, Kaiser Permanente, Honeywell, Tembec, Motorola, Inc., and Boston Sand & Gravel Company. |
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