g'day all - some news from InformationWeek, but I couldn't find the Webpage. So here is a cut from my Daily [email]:
Enjoy, Bosco
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___Bay Networks Introduces Network Management Cornerstone___
Bay Networks Inc. next week will introduce products and a
strategic direction for addressing network management from an
applications perspective. The plan, called the Network
Management Cornerstone, combines the company's network-
management expertise with new products for service-level
management.
The plan comprises three elements. The first, a new product
called Optivity Configuration that comes from Bay's recent
acquisition of Netsation Corp., will provide a single Web
interface for configuring groups of Bay and Cisco Systems
routers and Bay switches. This offering is due to ship this
summer.
Under an agreement with VitalSigns Software Inc., Bay plans
to ship another new product that combines "bottom up" remote
monitoring (RMON) traffic information with a "top down"
application-centric view to let administrators set thresholds
for service levels. With this combination, an IT manager
could, for example, link a series of RMON protocol-level
statistics to the slowdown of a particular application. The
product, called Optivity Service Level Management, is also
expected to ship this summer.
All the technology will gel in a forthcoming version of Bay's
Optivity management platform. The 9.0 version, to ship in
December, will be built on an object-oriented database that
will serve as the repository for both network and service-
level management information. --Caryn Gillooly
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