Sterling Software Partners With Resonate To Eliminate E-Business Downtime.Business Editors, Technology Writers RESTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 14, 2000 New, Powerful Web Management Solutions Strengthen Sterling Software's E3 Systems Management Strategy for Enterprises Sterling Software, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : SSW SSW abbr. south-southwest Noun 1. SSW - the compass point midway between south and southwest sou'-sou'-west, south southwest ) today announced it has signed a worldwide OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and partnership agreement with Resonate, Inc., a leading provider of Internet Services Management (iSM) solutions. Under the terms of the agreement, Sterling Software will use Resonate's solutions to market and support two best-of-breed products that ensure high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. , performance and control of e-business applications. Sterling Software will market the Resonate solutions as FUSION:Balance and FUSION:Director. This strategic partnership strengthens Sterling Software's end-to-end e-business (E3) systems management strategy, which helps companies optimize uptime and performance for e-business environments. Sterling Software's E3 systems management products -- including network, storage, and Web management -- deliver solutions for the entire enterprise, along with the expertise and discipline developed over 20 years of managing systems for the largest enterprises in the world. Sterling Software leverages Resonate's patented Internet services management technology as the basis for solutions that provide scalability and reliability to e-business applications. The FUSION solutions provide automated service level control for more predictable performance of critical e-business applications. Why Is Web Management So Important? Organizations implementing e-business initiatives may be taking a substantial risk, often putting critical business processes online for the first time. "For successful e-business deployments, continuous availability and high performance of all components in e-business applications and services must be a design goal from the outset rather than as an afterthought," says Richard Villars, vice president, Internet and eCommerce Strategies at IDC. "The Resonate partnership puts Sterling Software in a strong position to help its clients achieve their business objectives of increasing revenue, managing expenses, and strengthening channel relationships through e-business initiatives." How Do Customers Benefit From Sterling Software's Web Management Offering? "Forging this partnership with Resonate helps Sterling Software ensure that its powerful systems management solutions are `nimble enough for the net,'" said Russell Hawkins, president of Sterling Software's Web Management Division. "Customers can leverage the combined power of Sterling Software's leadership in enterprise systems management and Resonate's expertise in performance and availability solutions built specifically for Internet-based applications. As a result, they can optimize the availability and performance of their e-business applications across the enterprise." According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Stan Chin, vice president of business development at Resonate, "Sterling Software is the best strategic partner to take Web management solutions to the enterprise, based on the depth of their systems management experience. Resonate shares Sterling Software's commitment to provide customers with a competitive edge through a complete e-business solution." How Do The FUSION Web Management Solutions Ensure High Availability and Maximum Performance? As a result of the worldwide partnership, Sterling Software will market and support two powerful Web management solutions:
-- FUSION: Balance is a software solution for e-business enterprise
traffic management. Sterling Software will offer a single site
option, as well as a multi-site option for geographically
distributed Internet sites.
-- FUSION: Balance guarantees the maximum uptime and the fastest
performance for e-business applications by balancing traffic
across an e-business infrastructure. Unlike most load balancing
products, FUSION:Balance uses Resonate's patented "TCP Connection
Hop" technology to manage traffic without incurring the overhead
of passing all data through a single distribution point.
FUSION:Balance makes request distribution decisions based on
different classes of service -- the type of transaction, user
types, and platform status to ensure that resources are always
available. Also, with the FUSION:Balance multi-site option, users
can ensure that requests can be satisfied even when a site is down
since it directs traffic to available servers in other geographic
locations, reducing the impact of many Denial of Service (DoS)
attacks.
-- FUSION: Director integrates the key elements of Internet traffic
and systems management to enable monitoring, reporting, and
control of service levels across Internet sites. FUSION:Director
works in conjunction with FUSION:Balance.
In February 2000, Sterling Software announced that Computer Associates International, Inc. is acquiring it. Both of these solutions are complementary to Computer Associates' Web management offerings. Pricing and Availability Sterling Software's FUSION Web management products are now available. In North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , pricing starts at $10,000 (USD USD In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the U.S. Dollar. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. ) and depends on each customer's environment, based on the number of Web servers. For more information about FUSION:Balance and FUSION:Director, visit www.sterling.com/fusion or send an e-mail to fusion@sterling.com. About Resonate Resonate delivers Internet Services Management (iSM) business solutions that ensure high availability, performance and control of e-business applications. Hundreds of customers worldwide such as Amoco (NYSE: BPA BPA British Paediatric Association. ), BankBoston (NYSE: BKB BKB Basler Kantonalbank (Switzerland) BKB Black King Bar (gaming weapon) BKB BV Kwaliteitsverklaringen Bouw (Dutch) BKB BankBoston Corporation ), DoubleClick (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : DCLK DCLK Doubleclick Inc. (stock abbreviation, AMEX) DCLK Deputy Clerk DCLK Digital Clock DCLK Double Click ), E*TRADE (NASDAQ: EGRP EGRP E*Trade Group, Inc. (stock abbreviation, AMEX) ), Federal Express (NYSE: FDX See full-duplex. fdx - full-duplex ), Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ JNJ Johnson and Johnson (stock symbol) JNJ Journal of Nursing Jocularity ), Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Online (NYSE: MDW MDW Midway Airport MDW Meadow (street suffix) MDW Military District of Washington (US DoD) MDW Memorial Day Weekend MDW Medical Wing MDW Chicago, IL, USA - Midway (Airport Code) ), NextCard and others have come to rely on Resonate's patented, distributed software solutions for their mission-critical, e-business initiatives. A privately held corporation Noun 1. privately held corporation - a corporation owned by a few people; shares have no public market close corporation, closed corporation, private corporation , headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Resonate has received investments from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Java Fund, Chase Capital Partners (NYSE: CMV CMV cytomegalovirus. CMV abbr. 1. controlled mechanical ventilation 2. cytomegalovirus Cytomegalovirus (CMV) ), Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC INTC Intel (NASDAQ symbol) INTC Intercept INTC Interrupt Controller ), Flatiron Partners, Lehman Brothers (NYSE: LEH), TechFund and Charter Venture Capital. For more information about how Resonate is "Keeping E-Business Open for Business(TM)" visit http://www.resonate.com. About Sterling Software Sterling Software is one of the world's leading software companies, providing software and services for the application development, business intelligence, information management, storage management, network management, Web management, VM systems management, and federal systems markets. Headquartered in Dallas, Sterling Software has a worldwide installed base of more than 20,000 customer sites and 3,800 employees in 90 offices worldwide. In February 2000, Sterling Software announced that it is being acquired by Computer Associates International, Inc. (NYSE:CA). For more information on Sterling Software, visit the company's Web site at www.sterling.com. Resonate is a registered trademark, the Resonate logo, Keeping E-Business Open for Business, Resonate Central Dispatch, Resonate Commander, Resonate Global Dispatch, Resonate Managed Services, Resonate Services Console, Resonate InterAct Services and Resonate ProAct Services are trademarks of Resonate, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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