MOONLIGHT SYSTEMS JOINS IBM'S PROJECT ELIZA PARTNER INITIATIVE.Moonlight Systems, Inc., a provider of automated au·to·mate v. au·to·mat·ed, au·to·mat·ing, au·to·mates v.tr. 1. To convert to automatic operation: automate a factory. 2. server management software for enterprises, has announced that it has joined IBM's Project eLiza Partner initiative and will serve as a member of IBM's eServer Tools Network. Project eLiza, IBM's groundbreaking initiative to make IT infrastructures self-managing, is complementary to Moonlight Systems' flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. , Moonlight3, which is designed to automate the costly and time-consuming manual processes required to manage high-end servers. Moonlight and the other Project eLiza Partners accepted in the program must "collectively address the four elements of Project eLiza's self-management requirements: self-configuring, self-healing, self-optimizing and self-protecting." Moonlight's offering addresses the self-configuring component by allowing companies to automate the manual tasks required to manage heterogeneous servers and, configure See configuration. (software) configure - A program by Richard Stallman to discover properties of the current platform and to set up make to compile and install gcc. Cygnus configure was a similar system developed by K. differences between servers on the fly. The product enables IT to control operational complexity, improve system reliability and reduce administration costs. "Without question, managing complex infrastructure and yielding a reasonable return on that investment is one of the most important initiatives for our customers," said Van Symons, IBM's global marketing executive for Project eLiza. "IBM's goal is to make IT infrastructures smarter and easier to manage, and partners like Moonlight Systems are helping to make that goal a reality." "With autonomic computing Refers to computer systems and networks that configure themselves to changing conditions and are self healing in the event of failure. "Autonomic" means "automatic responses" to unpredictable events. and its Project eLiza Partner initiative, 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) is leading the market in terms of providing server management solutions for their customers," said Bobby Mukherjee, 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. of Moonlight Systems. "Moonlight was founded to address many of the same problems that IBM aims to solve with Project eLiza. This initiative underscores an important synergy The enhanced result of two or more people, groups or organizations working together. In other words, one and one equals three! It comes from the Greek "synergia," which means joint work and cooperative action. between our companies and validates our value proposition." Moonlight Systems is a provider of automated server management software and creator of Moonlight3, its flagship product built to address the complex, heterogeneous nature of today's enterprise data centers. By automating the manual tasks of server management activities, Moonlight3 decreases operational complexity, ensures network reliability, and reduces overall management costs.[sections] |
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