Novadigm Raises the Bar for Data Center Automation
22 Décembre 2003 - 2:45PM
PR Newswire (US)
Novadigm Raises the Bar for Data Center Automation Market-Leading
Radia Server Management Solution Enhanced With Data Center
Capabilities MAHWAH, N.J., Dec. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
Novadigm(R), Inc. , a leading provider of adaptive software change
and configuration management solutions, today announced significant
enhancements to its Radia(R) Server Management solution to address
one of the biggest challenges facing enterprise IT organizations:
effectively managing the constantly changing software
configurations for data center servers. The enhanced Radia solution
enables IT organizations to integrate and automate operational
processes for reliably provisioning, updating and patching the
increasing complex server environments that their businesses depend
upon. "Novadigm is already the recognized leader in managing server
software with proven success in production at customer sites
worldwide," said George Kellar, vice president of marketing for
Novadigm. "With these data center enhancements we are once again
raising the bar in providing customer value through unprecedented
levels of automation, integration and cost-effectiveness. IT
organizations can now provision and manage servers in the data
center and anywhere in the world with greater speed, security and
reliability." According to Paul Mason, group vice president of
infrastructure software for industry research firm, International
Data Corporation (IDC): "Building a service-centric computing
environment requires that IT support more-streamlined, agile
business processes, while continuing to provide expected IT
services by automating data center and server management. Novadigm
is a pioneer and leader in this area, and its unique management
approach using a policy-based desired-state model is particularly
powerful as it helps speed provisioning and ensures configuration
compliance even at large scale." Novadigm has been recognized by
IDC as the revenue share leader in the server provisioning and
management software market. IDC's February 2003 "Worldwide Server
Provisioning and Management Software Forecast and Analysis,
2002-2007," which forecasts growth for data center and distributed
server market at a compound annual growth rate of 59.4%, indicates
Novadigm "has long been a technology leader," and cites the
successful implementation of many Novadigm customers for server
provisioning and management "in some cases to manage 5,000 or more
servers." One of Novadigm's enterprise customers, 7-Eleven, relies
on the Radia solution to manage 5,800 servers, helping to support
business strategies by improving server availability and reducing
administrative costs. "The ability to effectively manage servers is
important to 7-Eleven's success," said Keith Morrow, CIO, 7-Eleven,
Inc. "With Novadigm Radia, we have a single, comprehensive software
management solution -- one-change control process -- addressing our
needs, and we can realize greater efficiencies in staff training
and costs." Data Center and Distributed Server Management with the
Radia Solution Novadigm's Radia Server Management solution provides
comprehensive management of operating systems, applications, and
patches across Windows, UNIX and Linux platforms throughout the
entire software lifecycle. At the core of the solution is Radia's
adaptive configuration technology with its imbedded intelligence
and reusable "building-block" configuration modules, which automate
the management of the operating system, application and patch
software "layers" for any number of data center or distributed
servers. It also provides seamless integration of configuration
activities across the software layers for each server, enabling a
significantly higher degree of IT management process automation.
Unique capabilities of the Radia solution include: -- Desired-State
Configuration Management. Radia's unique desired-state process can
quickly and automatically configure any or all of the operating
system, application and patch software layers. As software
versions, processing requirements and server configurations change,
already-deployed servers can be automatically updated or
reprovisioned to the new desired configuration state, and new or
repurposed servers can be automatically provisioned with the
updated configurations. -- Policy-Based Configuration. Radia's
policy-driven processes allow IT administrators to define
configuration policies in external policy stores, including
Microsoft Active Directory, IBM SecurWay, and Sun ONE Directory
Server, to control operating system, application and patch
configurations for different servers or server types. Subsequent
changes to policies cause the right software to be automatically
installed or updated for all deployed, new or repurposed servers.
-- Scalable Infrastructure. Radia's "n-tier" highly scalable
architecture, with comprehensive bandwidth optimization
capabilities such as multicasting and distributed caching, enables
the management of very large numbers of servers and applications
across complex global operations, with administration from any
location. -- Configuration Repository. Radia's configuration
repository contains all of the information necessary to manage
operating system, application and patch software, and includes
detailed software, hardware and configuration data for managed
servers. This comprehensive collection of configuration data
provides visibility and control over existing and planned server
software configurations, and allows comprehensive impact analysis
and reporting for IT assets. -- Secure Role-based Administration.
Radia's Management Portal provides role-based workflow tasks and
dialogs for consistent and secure server administration and
operations. The Portal can automate the discovery of existing or
newly installed servers on the network, and the provisioning and
updating of operating system, patch and application software on
discovered servers. Key Enhancements to the Radia Server Management
Solution The Radia Server Management solution has been enhanced to
provide even greater levels of control and automation for data
center servers through: -- Increased Automation of IT Operations --
Increased automation enables coordination of configuration
management processes spanning data centers, servers, and load
balancers and across the entire software stack. Dynamic scheduling
and sequencing of configuration activities enables automated
provisioning as well as complete life-cycle management of
business-critical servers. Automation of operations such as
quiescing, starting and stopping of application and database
services as well as reboot management is provided through
"production-safe" interaction with load balancers, application
subsystems and operating system services. -- Streamlined
Configuration Management of Data Center Applications -- New
application templates enable rapid installation and adaptive
configuration management of common web, middleware, directory and
database server applications, such as Apache, Microsoft IIS, BEA
WebLogic, IBM WebSphere, Microsoft Active Directory, Sun ONE
Directory Server, Microsoft SQL Server, and Oracle 9i. These
pre-configured, highly reusable templates provide administrators
the ability to systematically provision applications to Windows,
UNIX and Linux platforms across the data center.
Application-specific probes provide detailed inventory,
configuration and patch information that can be leveraged for
configuration management, compliance and impact analysis. --
Enhanced Server Configuration Analysis, Baselining, Tracking and
Reporting -- The ability to identify and analyze the impact,
conflicts and dependencies related to configuration changes
shortens testing and integration time and reduces the risk related
to changes by identifying the affected areas. Configuration
baselining and enhanced reporting provide improved visibility and
tracking of server configurations. -- Integrated Provisioning and
Patching -- Integrated application of patches during server
provisioning ensures that servers become activated with correct
patch levels based on policies. IT administrators can automatically
acquire patches, conduct vulnerability assessments, deploy approved
and pre-qualified patches and continuously and automatically verify
that servers remain in compliance as prescribed by policy. --
Extended Platform Support -- New support for native operating
system installers, including HP-UX Ignite, Microsoft ADS, and
Solaris Jumpstart provides policy-based control and seamless
process integration of those installers with Radia inventory,
application and patch management, resulting in a highly automated
"top to bottom" provisioning processes. New support for Intel-based
blade servers from Dell, HP, and IBM enables policy-based
provisioning and configuration by rack, chassis or slot. In
addition, new support for Alteon, Cisco, and F5 load balancers
enhances automation and enables production-safe configuration
changes. Availability and Pricing The Radia Server Management
solution enhancements will be available during the first quarter of
2004, with pricing dependent on customer configurations. About
Novadigm Novadigm is a leading provider of software and content
management solutions for enterprise and Internet computing
environments that enable organizations to reduce software
management costs, speed time-to-market, expand marketing channels
and open new sources of revenue. Novadigm's suite of integrated
products, based on the company's adaptive management technology,
work seamlessly together as the only end-to-end solution that can
efficiently, reliably and scalably deploy and manage the full range
of today's software and content, personalized for a wide range of
computing devices, across virtually any network. Novadigm customers
-- Global 1000 business enterprises, software vendors and service
providers around the world -- report software management savings of
80 percent or more, time-to-market improvements of 70 percent or
more, and reliability typically greater than 99 percent. For more
information on Novadigm, please visit http://www.novadigm.com/ or
call 800-626-6682. NOTE: Novadigm, Enterprise Desktop Manager, and
Radia are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Novadigm,
Inc. All other product, trademark, company or service names
mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners. This
press release contains forward-looking statements within the
meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section
21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These forward-looking
statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that
could cause actual results to differ materially from historical
results or anticipated results. All forward-looking statements
included in this release are based upon information available to
Novadigm as of the date of the release, and we assume no obligation
to update any such forward-looking statement. Such forward-looking
statements are subject to risks and uncertainties which could cause
actual results to differ materially from those anticipated. The
matters discussed in this press release also involve risks and
uncertainties described from time to time in Novadigm's filings
with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In particular, see the
Risk Factors described in the Company's Form 10-K for the fiscal
year ended March 31, 2003 and Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter
ended September 30, 2003. DATASOURCE: Novadigm, Inc. CONTACT:
Andrew Miller of Fleishman-Hillard San Francisco, +1-415-318-4166,
or , for Novadigm, Inc.; or investors, Kathy Price of
Lippert/Heilshorn & Assoc., Inc., +1-212-838-3777, ext. 6621,
or , for Novadigm, Inc. Web site: http://www.novadigm.com/
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