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CommentsOpsware Inc. (www.opsware.com), a provider of IT automation and utility computing software, today introduced from Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2005, Opsware's Network Automation System (NAS) 4.5, offering a new set of capabilities for managing the largest and most complex distributed IT environments.
Already ranked the best network configuration management solution based on winning all comparative product reviews conducted in 2004 and 2005, NAS 4.5 now provides tighter integration between disparate IT systems and sophisticated automation capabilities that deliver greater control over network management.
As enterprise IT continues to increase in complexity with over 39 million network devices installed worldwide, organizations are demanding a greater level of control and visibility over their network infrastructure.
NAS 4.5 builds upon its award-winning capabilities to provide powerful network automation features including intelligent auto-discovery, policy prioritization and risk assessment, a new Web Services API and JMS Connector for quicker and more powerful integrations, and internationalization to support Opsware's growth in Asia Pacific and EMEA.
Gartner's Hype Cycle for IT Operations Management report (July 20, 2005) states, "Network device configuration management has primarily been a manual process involving typing commands into vendor-specific command line interfaces or creating homegrown scripts to ease retyping requirements. Little consideration has been given to rigorous change management or disaster recovery rollback processes."
Opsware's Network Automation System addresses this issue head on by automating all the tasks that are error-prone and typically done manually. Automation is proving to increase network uptime significantly and improve overall quality of operations.
One of the biggest challenges with auto-discovery of network devices in large environments is that devices have multiple interfaces each of which shows up in discovery reports as a separate device.
NAS 4.5 intelligently uses heuristic rules to automatically identify devices with multiple interfaces and then choose the primary management IP for each device. With NAS 4.5, customers dramatically improve the accuracy of their information and virtually eliminate the manual reconciliation required with traditional discovery tools.
NAS 4.5 introduces a new Web Services API and JMS Connector to facilitate deeper and quicker integration with ticketing, monitoring and other IT systems. These two-way integrations are critical to customers because they enable true, closed-loop configuration and change management.
Enterprise environments can have hundreds or thousands of compliance policies to administer. Traditionally, users must manually sort through each policy and violation to determine the best course of action. NAS 4.5 automatically prioritizes violations based on a policy's risk rating and can automatically remediate critical violations to bring devices back into compliance.
"Enterprises are increasingly turning to Opsware automation as their IT infrastructures continue to grow in size and complexity," said Eric Johnson, vice president of development at Opsware Inc.
Opsware NAS automates more than 500 network devices types from over 30 vendors, and has won every competitive review over the last year and in 2004. Opsware Network Automation System 4.5 is available immediately.
Gartner Symposium/ITxpo is the IT industry's largest and most strategic conference, providing business leaders with a look at the future of IT. For more than 10,000 IT professionals from the world's leading enterprises, Gartner's annual Symposium/ITxpo events are key components of their annual planning efforts.
Opsware Inc. (www.opsware.com) is the world's leading IT automation and utility computing software company. The growth of the Internet is driving a shift from client/server computing to Web architecture. With this shift comes an overwhelming proliferation of servers, networking devices and applications, creating massive complexity that makes an automated IT model a necessity.
Opsware automates the complete IT lifecycle and delivers utility computing by enabling IT to automatically provision, patch, configure, secure, change, scale, audit, recover, consolidate, migrate, and reallocate servers, network devices and applications.
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