NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: AUDREY RASMUSSEN ON NETWORK/SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT 10/13/04 Today's focus: IBM attacks management broadly
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It's IBM's intention that the Omegamon products and brand will continue. The integration of the Candle product lines into IBM's product families will enhance IBM's offerings for mainframe management, performance, middleware management, automation, database, storage and Web-based applications. The zSeries announcements show IBM leveraging the strengths of its mainframe platform, in support of an on-demand operating environment. The high availability of the zSeries platform, coupled with its scalability, helps IBM position the zSeries as a potential central coordination point for recovery based on business priorities, an enterprise trust authority, a secure vault, end-to-end workload management based on business policy, and the zSeries Application Assist Processor for WebSphere. IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Transaction Performance (TMTP) picks apart transaction response times to help identify performance bottlenecks and the causes of slow performance. The new release of TMTP provides a transaction topology view that includes Web services, Web servers, CICS, IMS, DB2, Siebel 7.7 and SAP back-end services. IBM has also worked with Siebel Systems to integrate TMTP with Siebel 7.7, by instrumenting Siebel 7.7 to provide more transaction specific information to diagnose performance issues for Siebel 7.7 transactions. The IBM ThinkPad T42 now sports a fingerprint reader that can be used in place of passwords for user authentication. It also has a security chip that stores passwords and does VPN encryption. The embedding of security in the ThinkPad moves IBM in the direction of securing mobile endpoints. In addition, a few months ago IBM announced that it was joining the Cisco Network Admission Control (NAC) program. The NAC program allows access to networks and resources based on the security status of an endpoint, like a PC or server. IBM and Cisco have now announced that they have integrated Tivoli software to provide remediation if the endpoint doesn't comply with IT security policies. Then once the non-compliant PC has been brought into compliance, the PC can regain access to the network and resources. There is huge potential in the IBM/Cisco relationship for their customers, as these two giants combine their strengths and continue to integrate their security and automation strategies. These are just a handful of IBM's fall announcements. All of the announcements address such a wide span of products and services, yet they are all positioned to support On Demand. IBM continues to deliver more capabilities that bring its On Demand and autonomic computing strategies closer to reality. RELATED EDITORIAL LINKS IBM, partners roll out ID management suite IDG News Service, 10/06/04 http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1006ibmpartn.html IBM Tivoli digs deeper into app transactions Network World, 10/04/04 http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/100404tivoli.html HP keeps pace with policy-based wares Network World, 10/11/04 http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/101104hpswitch.html Technology Insider: ILM Network World, 10/11/04 http://www.nwfusion.com/techinsider/2004/1011techinsider.html _______________________________________________________________ To contact: Audrey Rasmussen Audrey Rasmussen is a vice president with Enterprise Management Associates <http://www.enterprisemanagement.com/> in Boulder, Colorado, a leading industry analyst firm focusing exclusively on all aspects of the management of information technology. Audrey has more than 25 years of experience working with distributed systems, applications and networks. Her current focus at EMA is system management, application management and enterprise management technologies. Reach her at <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. _______________________________________________________________ This newsletter is sponsored by Veritas Meta Group Whitepaper Database Infrastructure Performance Challenges: Approaches to Better Manage Application Database and Storage Subsystem Performance Corporate relational databases now manage the majority of business-critical data within the enterprise. IT organizations face continuing challenges in managing increasingly complex, data-driven application environments. Read this white paper to discover several factors which will converge to challenge the IT organization's ability to manage its database software infrastructure. http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=84680 _______________________________________________________________ ARCHIVE LINKS Archive of the Network/Systems Management newsletter: http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/nsm/index.html _______________________________________________________________ FEATURED READER RESOURCE THE NEW DATA CENTER Today's top companies are accelerating toward Web-based computing. That means building the new data center -- where grids, virtualization, autonomic computing and other big changes shatter the traditional boundaries on applications and information, and bring the extended enterprise to life. 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