| Unisys unveils new security and predictive self-healing technologies Unisys has unveiled its new Sentinel software that simplifies server and application management for enterprise solutions based on Microsoft Windows. As part of a broader initiative to deliver industry leading self-managing solutions, new Application Sentinel and Server Sentinel 2.0 products increase availability, manageability, interoperability and security while reducing administration costs and increasing efficiency within the network. "The industry has recognised the future promise and benefits of self-management software," said Jon Burns, director, Unisys Sentinel Program. "Unisys is delivering viable, interoperable self-managing solutions today. The Sentinel product line delivers real, ready-to-run solutions that minimise the complexity of server and application management and provide immediate results and cost savings." Equipped with application workload management, performance monitoring, cluster workload management, application optimisation and application discovery and management, Application Sentinel offers the capability to consolidate and simplify the administration of multiple, mixed workloads from a central source. Application Sentinel comprises three modules that customers can license separately on a per-processor basis depending on their needs. These are: * Application Sentinel Server for Consolidation - helps network administrators map and track critical applications across the network, test for interoperability or conflicts and deploy or migrate applications to their new Unisys servers. * Application Sentinel for Resource Management - helps administrators manage workloads and allocate appropriate resources for mission-critical applications to ensure optimum performance. * Application Sentinel for SQL Server - optimises SQL database performance and includes sophisticated monitoring and diagnostics tools to ensure high availability. Server Sentinel 2.0 delivers a ‘new level of expanded functionality for simplified server management’. Featuring self-management and self-healing features, the latest release of this software adds major security enhancements, including service processor intrusion prevention, firewall and system-level vulnerability assessment. In addition, Server Sentinel provides cluster verification and predictive fail-over capabilities that improve system availability, a new enterprise management interface as well as an enhanced navigation GUI interface. Server Sentinel continues to deliver automated maintenance facilities, systems inventory and round-the-clock system monitoring. Server Sentinel incorporates NetIQ AppManager to analyse and optimise the performance of Unisys servers and provide Sentinel with compatibility to more than 50 cross-platform application management modules for AppManager. This combination delivers proactive monitoring and quick diagnostics and recovery of the physical hardware and operating system as well as business-critical server applications, such as Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server and Active Directory.
•Date:
25th March 2003 •Region: North America •Type:
Article •Topic: IT
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