Open Delivers Netcool Ready Solution.Business/Technology Editors WESTBOROUGH, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 19, 2002 Integrated Netcool(R) and NerveCenter(TM) Solution Extends Infrastructure Event Management Capabilities of Complex IT Environments OpenService(TM), Inc. (Open), a pioneer in network security management software, today announced that Open's NerveCenter(TM) has been certified as a Netcool(R) Ready(TM) application. The integrated solution helps enterprises and service providers enhance their monitoring and management capabilities of large, complex IT infrastructures, including disparate security environments. "Netcool and NerveCenter are the centerpiece of our fault management system, providing us with complete visibility and insight into how our systems are performing," said Vincent Stephens, vice president of the Network Control Center for Countrywide coun·try·wide adv. & adj. Throughout a whole country; nationwide: launched a fundraising campaign countrywide; a countrywide search. Adj. 1. Credit Industries Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CCR 1. CCR - condition code register. 2. CCR - (Database) concurrency control and recovery. ), a Fortune 500 company providing mortgage banking and diversified financial The diversified financial services segment includes a range of consumer and commercially-oriented companies offering a wide variety of products and services, including various lending products (such as home equity loans and credit cards), insurance, and securities and investment services in domestic and international markets. "With this integrated offering in place, we can easily measure and manage both internal and external devices, encompassing thousands of routers, switches and servers, to quickly identify performance issues, drill down to determine the root cause of those issues and resolve the situation." Micromuse Inc. (Nasdaq: MUSE), the leading provider of business and service assurance software, developed the integration with support from Open to enable IT staff to manage NerveCenter-collected infrastructure events in the Netcool EventList(TM). The integration, which deploys out of the box, enables NerveCenter to forward events and alarms to Micromuse's Netcool/OMNIbus(TM) where the status of enterprise-wide faults can be consolidated and managed along with other Netcool-collected data. By providing a concise view of event data from across the infrastructure, the combined solution helps service providers and corporate IT enterprises streamline the management of their operations environments. "NerveCenter complements Netcool's ability to collect, consolidate and correlate network event information from mixed-vendor environments in real time and enables IT staff to quickly prioritize pri·or·i·tize v. pri·or·i·tized, pri·or·i·tiz·ing, pri·or·i·tiz·es Usage Problem v.tr. To arrange or deal with in order of importance. v.intr. infrastructure problems," said Ted Joseph, chairman and 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 Open. "Since Open became a member of the Micromuse Alliance program, more than 40 enterprises and service providers have already benefited from the integration of the Netcool suite and NerveCenter, and we look forward to introducing this powerful technology combination to new customers." "Open and our other alliance partners enable us to provide tightly integrated solutions that help our customers meet the challenge of deploying new services with fixed resources," said Mike Donohue, Micromuse's senior VP, Global Sales & Business Operations Business operations are those activities involved in the running of a business for the purpose of producing value for the stakeholders. Compare business processes. The outcome of business operations is the harvesting of value from assets . "The event information provided by NerveCenter complements the Netcool solution's `manager-of-manager' capabilities and helps our customers manage increasingly complex IT operations environments." About the Micromuse Alliance(TM) Program The Micromuse Alliance Program(TM) provides Micromuse and its alliance members with the resources to cooperatively pursue business, technical and marketing opportunities. A significant number of hardware and software companies have joined the Micromuse Alliance Program to develop and provide off-the-shelf integrated solutions for mutual customers. Toward that end, Micromuse actively enlists best-in-class solutions providers offering applications complementary to the Netcool suite. Micromuse provides its approved Netcool Ready(TM) program members with the Netcool/Software Developers Kit(TM) (Netcool/SDK(TM)) application. Provided in CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). format, the Netcool/SDK provides the tools necessary to develop integration modules for Netcool software. About NerveCenter NerveCenter increases network and application availability through automated event filtering and corrective actions A corrective action is a change implemented to address a weakness identified in a management system. Normally corrective actions are instigated in response to a customer complaint, abnormal levels if internal nonconformity, nonconformities identified during an internal audit or . Its scalable client/server architecture An environment in which the application processing is divided between client workstations and servers. It implies the use of desktop computers interacting with servers in a network in contrast to processing everything in a large centralized mainframe. See client/server. correlates across network devices, systems and applications. Built-in reporting capabilities and a central Web-based alarm console add flexibility for simplified, proactive management. NerveCenter uses sophisticated behavior models to filter through voluminous network, systems and applications information, pinpointing critical problems and automatically launching appropriate corrective actions based on customer-defined policies. Through NerveCenter's integration with leading enterprise management platforms, events from many diverse sources may be correlated to identify the root cause of problems that previously required operator analysis. Typical installations range from $30,000 for mid-size businesses to $100,000 for larger businesses. About the Netcool(R) Suite Micromuse's Netcool(R) software suite provides businesses with the assurance that their networks, services and applications are working. By allowing our customers to see what's happening throughout the infrastructure in real time, Netcool applications enable them to respond to problems before they cause network-based business services to go down. Netcool suite applications install out-of-the-box, deploy rapidly and scale as networks grow. Micromuse's flagship, Netcool/OMNIbus(TM) application, includes a library of off-the-shelf software modules that allow our customers to collect and consolidate fault information from more than 300 popular environments spanning voice and IP, cable/broadband, switches and routers, and enterprise management systems About Open Open develops and sells network security event management software to enterprises and service providers. Unlike traditional point solutions for security or networking, Open's event management software provides the ability to collect, consolidate and correlate event data from leading security (firewalls, VPNs, IDS, AV) and networking (bridges, routers, hubs) products. More than 400 customers are using Open's SystemWatch and/or NerveCenter(TM) for network security event management. Open's products are available globally through a network of VARs and direct sales. A privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. based in Westborough, MA, Open is backed by venture capital and an equity stake taken by VERITAS Software Veritas Software Corp. was an international software company that was founded in 1983 as Tolerant Systems, renamed Veritas Software Corp. in 1989, and merged with Symantec in 2005. It was headquartered in Mountain View, California. . For more information, please call 800-892-3646, or visit www.open.com. About Micromuse Micromuse Inc. (Nasdaq: MUSE) is the leading provider of service and business assurance software. Micromuse's recent list of awards include the Crossroads A-List Award for Best IP Network Diagnosis Product for the Netcool(R)/Visionary(TM) application. In addition, Micromuse was recently recognized in the Forbes 500, Bloomberg's Tech 100, the Barron's 500, the Business Week Info Tech 100, Deloitte & Touche's Technology Fast 500, the San Francisco Chronicle The San Francisco Chronicle was founded in 1865 as The Daily Dramatic Chronicle by teenage brothers Charles de Young and Michael H. de Young.[2] The paper grew along with San Francisco to become the largest circulation newspaper on the West Coast of the 500 and Network World's NW200. Micromuse customers include AT&T, BT, Cable & Wireless, Cellular One, Charles Schwab Charles Schwab can refer to:
ITC n abbr (BRIT) (= Independent Television Commission) → ^DeltaCom, J.P. Morgan Chase, One 2 One and Verizon. Headquarters are located at 139 Townsend Street, San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , Calif. 94107; (415) 538-9090. The Web site is at www.micromuse.com. Micromuse and Netcool are registered trademarks of Micromuse Ltd. All other trademarks and registered trademarks in this document are the properties of their respective owners. Any statements contained in this press release that do not describe historical facts may constitute forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995. Any forward-looking statements contained herein are based on current expectations, but are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties. The factors that could cause actual future results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements include the following: fluctuations in customer demand, the Company's ability to manage its growth (including the ability to hire sufficient sales and technical personnel), the risks associated with the expansion of the Company's distribution channels, the risk of new product introductions and customer acceptance of new products; the rapid technological change which characterizes the Company's markets, the risks associated with competition, the risks associated with international sales as the Company expands its markets, and the ability of the Company to compete successfully in the future, as well as other risks identified in the Company's Securities and Exchange Commission Filings, including but not limited to those appearing under the caption "Risk Factors" in the Company's most recent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q Form 10-Q See 10-Q. and on Form 10-K Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission and available on the Company's Web site. |
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