Computer Associates and Apple to Enable Management of MacOS and Rhapsody Systems Through
Unicenter TNG
Business Wire - July 14, 1997 17:29
MacOS Desktops to Manage The Enterprise
Apple to Make Unicenter TNG Strategic Enterprise Management Platform
Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA) and Apple Computer, Inc. today
announced that they are working together to enable the enterprise-wide
management of Apple systems, including MacOS and Rhapsody, by CA's
industry-leading Unicenter TNG solution. For the first time, users will be
able to manage their entire IT infrastructure from MacOS desktops using
Unicenter TNG's Java-based Web browser interface.
"Integrated management is a fundamental requirement for the effective use of
Apple systems in today's enterprise IT environment," said CA Chairman and
CEO Charles B. Wang. "Unicenter TNG will enable IT managers to monitor and
administer Macintosh desktops and servers with the same ease and precision
as the rest of their computing resources."
"By incorporating management by and for the MacOS and Rhapsody, CA will make
Unicenter TNG an excellent solution for managing heterogeneous Mac-and-PC
computing environments," said Apple Executive Vice President of Marketing
Guerrino De Luca. "Working with Unicenter TNG as our strategic enterprise
management platform will greatly assist in integrating Apple computers into
the corporate infrastructure, and allows users to maintain the low
cost-of-ownership for the platform."
CA will enable Unicenter TNG to monitor the same parameters on MacOS systems
as it does on other platforms, including CPU utilization, memory
utilization, file and disk usage and drive failures. It will also provide
Macintosh-specific instrumentation. Apple supports CA's Unicenter TNG object
model for IT resource management.
Apple expects Rhapsody, its next generation object-oriented operating
system, to provide customers with an environment that delivers
industrial-strength performance, stability and new classes of software for
computing into the next century, while preserving customers investment in
hardware and software. Customers in markets such as print publishing,
multimedia, Internet/intranet Web authoring, corporate application
development, higher education and engineering/scientific will quickly
benefit from the advantages of moving to the Rhapsody platform.
Unicenter TNG is an integrated enterprise management solution that enables
organizations to manage all IT resources, encompassing heterogeneous
networks, systems, applications, and databases. It provides comprehensive
end-to-end enterprise management for TCP/IP, SNA, IPX/SPX and DECnet
networks, and 40 platforms including desktops, Windows NT, UNIX, AS/400,
NetWare and mainframe environments. Unicenter TNG is the only fully
integrated management solution covering network discovery, topology,
performance, events and status, security, software distribution, storage,
workload, help desk, change management and other functions for traditional
and distributed computing environments, as well as for the Internet and
intranets. Unicenter TNG's intelligent manager/agent technology delivers
highly scalable management of the entire computing environment, including
hardware and software.
Computer Associates International, Inc. (NYSE: CA), with headquarters in
Islandia, N.Y., is the world leader in mission-critical business software.
The company develops, licenses and supports more than 500 integrated
products that include enterprise computing and information management,
application development, manufacturing and financial applications. CA has
nearly 10,000 people in 160 offices in 40 countries and had revenue of $4
billion in fiscal year 1997. CA can be reached by visiting
cai.com on the World Wide Web, emailing info@cai.com or calling
1-516-342-5224.
Apple Computer, Inc., a recognized innovator in the information industry and
leader in multimedia technologies, creates powerful solutions based on
easy-to-use personal computers, servers, peripherals, software, handheld
computers and Internet content. Headquartered in Cupertino, Calif., Apple
develops, manufactures, licenses and markets solutions, products,
technologies and services for business, education, consumer, entertainment,
scientific and engineering and government customers in more than 140
countries.
CONTACT: Computer Associates Bob Gordon, 516/342-2391 bobg@cai.com or for
Apple Computers, Inc. Frank O'Mahony, 415/326-5501 frank@liffey.com |
