Proxima Technology Announces SLA Management Solution for Microsoft Windows Management Interface.Business Editors & Technology Writers DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 23, 2001 Proxima Technology Inc., supplier of solutions that improve business services through service-level measurement, reporting and alert notification, today announced support for Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. Management Interface (WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) A programming interface (API) in Windows that allows system and network devices to be configured and managed. WMI is based on WBEM, which stores all definitions in a CIM database. ). Proxima's Active Adaptor for WMI retrieves management information from Microsoft Windows 2000 and then uses this information to calculate service levels at any given point and alert administrators where service breaches occur. "WMI is an important development in the systems management industry," said Bernd Hammann, Vice President of R&D for Proxima Technology. "Organizations no longer have to purchase data collectors from third-party management vendors. They no longer have to incur massive implementation costs installing agents on every remote machine running Windows. Microsoft products are essentially self-instrumenting. The issue for organizations today is interpreting this pool of data and being able to take better management actions as a result. For example, correlating information from 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. and Exchange to present a picture of service as experienced by users and customers." Hammann also explains that Proxima's 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. management solution installs once, centrally, and then establishes connections to WMI agents running on the remote servers to retrieve management data. "Not only can WMI users have an SLA management solution up and running at a fraction of the cost of proprietary products, HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. SLA reports can be available to IS staff and business executives in a matter of minutes A Matter of Minutes is an episode from the television series The New Twilight Zone. Cast
About Proxima Technology Proxima Technology Inc. provides software and services that improve business service and accountability through service-level measurement, reporting and notification in distributed computing environments See DCE. Distributed Computing Environment - (DCE) An architecture consisting of standard programming interfaces, conventions and server functionalities (e.g. naming, distributed file system, remote procedure call) for distributing applications transparently across networks . For more information about Proxima Technology, please call 720-946-7200 or visit http://www.proxima-tech.com/. Availability and Pricing The Active Adaptor for WMI is generally available and a 30-day trial can be downloaded from http://www.proxima-tech.com. Prices for the WMI SLA management solution range from $100 to $1,875, depending on server capability. |
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