HP And Sun Deliver Unified Solaris Management Solution Through Integration of Leading Systems-management Products - HP OpenView IT/Operations, Sun Management Center 2.1 network management systems - Company Business and Marketing

Edge: Work-Group Computing Report, Nov 8, 1999

Hewlett-Packard Company and Sun Microsystems, Inc. Monday announced the integration of their systems-management solutions -- HP OpenView IT/Operations and Sun Management Center 2.1. The new integrated solution provides customers with an advanced tool for managing heterogeneous systems as part of their complex mission-critical IT environments.

Together, HP OpenView IT/Operations and Sun Management Center 2.1 (formerly Sun Enterprise SyMON) provide customers with a single point of control for in-depth management of their heterogeneous environments. The new integrated solution joins HP's expanding portfolio of HP OpenView solutions designed specifically for the Solaris operating environment. The integration capabilities are scheduled to be included with HP OpenView IT/Operations within the next 60 days.

"We are excited to offer customers a comprehensive systems-management solution based on our own leadership solution, HP OpenView IT/Operations, and Sun's newest offering, Sun Management Center 2.1," said Olivier Helleboid, acting vice president and general manager of HP's OpenView Software Business Unit. "Monday's announcement strengthens our commitment to managing operating environments based on the Sun Solaris platform. In addition, it extends our e-services management initiative to a broader customer base."

HP's flagship operations- and availability-management product, HP OpenView IT/Operations, provides application-service management for mission-critical IT environments. It offers sophisticated management functions that ensure uptime of all layers of today's distributed IT service environments, including networks, systems, databases and applications. Dynamic configuration capabilities make it easy to configure, deploy and maintain management infrastructures consisting of up to tens of thousands of elements.

"The integration of our products represents a great market opportunity for HP and Sun, and gives our customers the comprehensive systems-management solution they've been asking for," said Andy Ingram, director of marketing for the Enterprise Server Products Group at Sun Microsystems. "The combination of Sun Management Center 2.1 with HP OpenView IT/Operations provides customers with a robust solution that manages not only their Sun systems down through the application and database levels, but also their heterogeneous enterprises. This is a necessity in the world of e-commerce and 24x7 operations."

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The integration capabilities will be incorporated into HP OpenView IT/Operations at no additional cost to the customer.

Sun Management Center 2.1 offers the simplicity of single-point management for all Sun servers, desktops, selected storage systems, the Solaris operating environment, software applications and data center services. In addition, the software's framework can be expanded by way of a third-party integration modules, and it can be customized via the new Sun Management Center 2.1 Developer Environment. Other features include an improved, lightweight agent that reduces CPU/memory consumption and speeds response times; an enhanced Java-based GUI for ease of navigation; predictive failure analysis, which helps minimize unplanned downtime; active/dynamic configuration management controls unique to Sun's UNIX-based product line; and user-defined alarm parameters with access control and authentication mechanisms.

FMI: visit http://www.sun.com/sunmanagementcenter for detailed product and licensing information.

Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision, "The Network Is The Computer," has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc., to its position as a leading provider of high quality hardware, software and services for establishing enterprise-wide intranets and expanding the power of the Internet. With more than $11 billion in annual revenues, Sun can be found in more than 150 countries and on the World Wide Web at http://www.sun.com.

HP is one of the world's largest providers of integrated management solutions for applications, systems, networks, software, desktops, security, storage and IT services. HP OpenView solutions are at work in more than 120,000 multivendor distributed computing environment worldwide. Together with offerings from more than 200 partners, HP OpenView offers a complete portfolio of services and management solutions on all major platforms.

More information about HP OpenView solutions is available on the Web at 7http://www.openview.hp.com.

HP has 123,500 employees worldwide and had total revenue of $47.1 billion in its 1998 fiscal year. Information about HP, its products and the company's Year 2000 program can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.hp.com.