NetIQ AppManager Suite Adds Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS; NetIQ Joins Red Hat Ready Program for Greater Linux Manageability.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 28, 2003 NetIQ Corp. (Nasdaq:NTIQ), a leading provider of Systems & Security Management and Web Analytics solutions, today announced support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Red Hat Enterprise Linux (often abbreviated to RHEL) is a Linux distribution produced by Red Hat and targeted toward the commercial market, including mainframes. Red Hat commits to supporting each version of RHEL for 7 years after its release. AS providing greater Linux manageability to customers of NetIQ(R) AppManager(R) Suite. NetIQ also announced that it has joined the "Red Hat Ready" independent software vendor application program designed to further establish Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a standard enterprise computing Refers to information technology in the larger company. See enterprise data and enterprise networking. platform. META Group projects that 40 to 45 percent of new Intel-based servers shipped by 2006 through 2007 will be Linux-based. "Linux requires the same level of support as an any other production-level platform, thus requiring organizations to invest in staff skills, management processes and management tools," said Corey Ferengul, vice president and principal analyst, META Group. "To be successful with any Linux deployment, management must not be an afterthought."(a) AppManager is the only integrated solution to provide monitoring, diagnostics and recovery, reporting and analysis and automation for mission-critical Windows, Linux and UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). distributed systems. NetIQ first introduced Linux management capabilities in February 2002 with AppManager for Red Hat Linux Red Hat Linux, assembled by Red Hat, was a popular, "middle-aged" Linux distribution (not as old as Slackware but older than Ubuntu) upon its discontinuation in 2004.[1] Red Hat Linux 1.0 was released on November 3, 1994. . Today, AppManager supports a broad array of Linux modules to manage Web servers (Apache, IBM HTTP Server IBM HTTP Server (IHS) is a web server based on the Apache Software Foundation's Apache HTTP Server that runs on AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris, Windows NT, and z/OS. It is available for download and use IBM HTTP Server free of charge but without IBM support. , Sun ONE Web Server See Sun Java System Web Server. ); J2EE application servers (BEA WebLogic, 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) WebSphere); as well as messaging and middleware servers (IBM WebSphere MQ, Sendmail). "As our customers add Linux to their Windows- and UNIX-based IT infrastructure, it's imperative that NetIQ delivers the management capabilities they need quickly and easily," said David Giannini, director of cross-platform systems management products at NetIQ. "AppManager assures the performance and availability of Linux-based systems and applications by providing comprehensive event management and consolidated reporting as part of the overall IT environment." Pricing and Availability NetIQ's AppManager for Red Hat Linux solution supports versions 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 8.0 and AS 2.1. It is shipping now and priced from $750 per server. About NetIQ AppManager Suite NetIQ AppManager Suite assures the performance and availability of mission-critical servers and applications across Windows, Linux and UNIX platforms through proactive monitoring and quick diagnostics and recovery. It also helps optimize the utilization and productivity of IT resources through advanced reporting, analysis and automation. In addition to delivering the broadest and deepest management view into the IT infrastructure, AppManager provides a robust architecture that is easy to use, quick to deploy and capable of scaling to thousands of servers. About NetIQ Founded in 1995, NetIQ Corp. (Nasdaq:NTIQ) is a leading provider of Systems & Security Management and Web Analytics solutions. Historically focused on the Windows management market, NetIQ now delivers cross-platform solutions that enhance business performance resulting in higher returns on infrastructure and Web investments. NetIQ products are sold across all continents directly and through a network of authorized NetIQ partners and resellers. The company is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., with development and operational personnel in Houston, Texas; Raleigh, N.C.; Bellevue, Wash.; Auckland, New Zealand New Zealand (zē`lənd), island country (2005 est. pop. 4,035,000), 104,454 sq mi (270,534 sq km), in the S Pacific Ocean, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) SE of Australia. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland. and Portland, Ore. For more information, please visit NetIQ's Web site at http HTTP in full HyperText Transfer Protocol Standard application-level protocol used for exchanging files on the World Wide Web. HTTP runs on top of the TCP/IP protocol. ://www.netiq.com or call 888-323-6768. NetIQ and AppManager are trademarks or registered trademarks of NetIQ Corporation in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. (a) Linux Management, META Practice 2056, 26 June 2003, Corey Ferengul |
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