REMINDER/New Operational Demands Require Augmentation, Not Replacement, Of Existing Infrastructure Management Tools, Says ProactiveNet VP Marty Hollander.Business/Technology Editors REMINDER...for Tuesday (Sept. 11) Networld+Interop Atlanta 2001 --(BUSINESS WIRE) Who: Marty Hollander, Vice President, Marketing, ProactiveNet, Inc. What: Panel remarks, "Service Delivery Platforms: Upstarts Versus Traditionalists" When: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 11:30am-12:30pm Where: Networld+Interop, Atlanta, Georgia World Congress Center The Georgia World Congress Center or GWCC is the major convention center in Atlanta. It is the fourth-largest convention center in the United States at 1.4 million ft2 (130,000 m2) and hosts more than a million visitors each year. , Room 257W Details: Traditional management platforms or frameworks have long been criticized for lengthy deployments, excessive costs and rudimentary rudimentary /ru·di·men·ta·ry/ (roo?di-men´tah-re) 1. imperfectly developed. 2. vestigial. ru·di·men·ta·ry adj. 1. (and often incomplete) functionality. At the same time, a new breed of service management platform, specially targeted to improve the performance of web sites and browser-based applications, has entered the market. The availability of new technology begs the question: Is it best to dump framework-based infrastructure in favor of upon the side of; favorable to; for the advantage of. See also: favor a next generation platform, or is it more cost-effective to integrate the two types of management platforms? ProactiveNet VP of marketing Marty Hollander says, "Great new technology has always been developed by companies who naively na·ive or na·ïve also na·if or na·ïf adj. 1. Lacking worldly experience and understanding, especially: a. Simple and guileless; artless: a child with a naive charm. b. expected customers to throw-off their existing products for the latest and greatest. This is no different with the vendors of network management frameworks. Experience has shown that it's almost impossible to dislodge dis·lodge v. dis·lodged, dis·lodg·ing, dis·lodg·es v.tr. To remove or force out from a position or dwelling previously occupied. v.intr. a product, if that product is providing some functionality (however basic that may be). In today's economic climate, innovative solutions that extract information from the traditional frameworks and deliver new functionality from these existing investments are the choice for operations teams. If a framework is already in place, users should find a solution with industrial-strength analytical analytical, analytic pertaining to or emanating from analysis. analytical control control of confounding by analysis of the results of a trial or test. capability to deliver the real-time, actionable Giving sufficient legal grounds for a lawsuit; giving rise to a Cause of Action. An act, event, or occurrence is said to be actionable when there are legal grounds for basing a lawsuit on it. information that IT operations groups need to be effective. That's not too much to expect, they're out there." Action: Marty Hollander will be available for a limited number of one-on-one appointments in Atlanta from Monday-Wednesday, Sept. 10-12. To book an appointment, contact: Marty Hollander, 650-279-3167 (anytime, cell), (Marty@proactivenet.com) Mark Benvegnu, 408-935-6872, (mbenvegnu@proactivenet.com) or Ed Bride, 413-442-4718 (Ed@edbride-pr.com) |
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