Wednesday June 23, 4:13 pm Eastern Time
Company Press release
Datametrics ViewPoint Provides Performance Management of SAN at Gartner Group Storage 99 Conference
ViewPoint uniquely able to monitor and analyze all components of
Sequent's switched-fabric SAN
Delivers proof of performance gains and cost-saving benefits
Fairfax, VA - June 23, 1999 - Datametrics" Systems Corporation announced today that ViewPoint" performance management software was selected by Sequent to monitor the industry's only multi-path, switched-fabric fibre channel Storage Area Network (SAN). On view in a live demo at GartnerGroup's Storage 99 conference in Scottsdale Arizona last month, the SAN was developed by Sequent and partners EMC, Emulex, and Brocade Communications Systems Inc. It was configured as a geographically
separated, clustered system with 8 kilometers of single mode fibre connecting four cascaded switches, providing multiple redundant paths from the cluster through the switched fabric to the storage devices.
ViewPoint enabled attendees who viewed the SAN demonstration to directly observe the performance of the entire SAN demonstration environment, including the NUMA-Q systems (CPU, memory, I/O), fibre channel host adapters, Brocade switches, EMC storage and Oracle database software.
"This conference was an ideal venue for demonstrating not only the capabilities of the SAN, but also the critical importance of being able to measure the performance of the SAN as well as those components that rely on it," says David Freund, vice president of marketing for Datametrics. "It also provided the first glimpse of ViewPoint's expanding capabilities enabling unified, sophisticated performance analysis for groups of hardware and software components as they are increasingly being deployed by IT departments worldwide."
"Sequent's switched-fabric fiber channel SAN is literally years ahead of the competition and offers high-speed access to enterprise storage, centralized management, and non-disruptive scalability," says Jeff Pancottine, vice president worldwide marketing, Sequent Computer Systems. "Datametrics' ViewPoint software enables IT organizations to monitor complex environments and is an essential component of our SAN
solution."
ViewPoint is a multi-platform performance management and analysis
product for the entire enterprise that automatically monitors, analyzes and correlates thousands of performance metrics simultaneously and at blazing speed, alerting and reporting problems before they become critical. It also provides trend analysis, prediction, and simulation modeling for capacity planning - anticipating problems before they even occur. ViewPoint can be used throughout a distributed computing
environment and provides detailed performance management of
business-critical systems running Compaq OpenVMS, Unisys Corporation 2200 and A Series, Windows NT and many UNIX platforms including Sun, HP and IBM. A leader in Windows-based performance analysis, ViewPoint is poised to exploit the evolving WBEM and CIM standards by already using Java technology to present critical performance analysis information over the Internet.
ViewPoint's advanced intrinsic analysis features include:
AutoAlert notifies users when systems violate set thresholds of acceptable performance
AutoAnalyze examines problems and recommends solutions
AutoCorrelate detects causes of performance problems by automatically discovering cause-and-effect relationships
AutoInvestigate systematically identifies abnormal conditions
AutoReport schedules and prints detailed system performance reports at periodic intervals or for a specific case
AutoWeb enables users to view system performance from a Web browser
Data Dictionary multi-platform knowledge base supplying variable definitions
EventScope exposes processes or programs using excessive system resources
DrillDown allows users to select specific items for progressive discovery
AutoVariable builds custom dynamic variables using mathematical expressions
ViewPoint has an open data collector interface which enables hardware vendors, software vendors and customers to add their own performance metrics modules, providing automatic integration with the rest of ViewPoint's performance management capabilities. And since ViewPoint can integrate with any SNMP-based management framework, custom metrics can be readily used with the event automation features in Enterprise Management environments such as BMC Patrol, Tivoli Enterprise, CA
Unicenter TNG, or HP OpenView.
About Datametrics
Datametrics Systems Corporation is a global company providing IT
professionals with multi-platform software and services to keep
business-critical systems, databases, and applications running at peak performance. Datametrics is the leading developer of automated performance analysis and correlation software to solve computer performance problems. Datametrics has been delivering performance solutions to customers in over 25 countries since 1980 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Zitel Corporation (Nasdaq:ZITL). Visit Datametrics at datametrics.com.
About Sequent Computer Systems, Inc.
Sequent Computer Systems (Nasdaq: SQNT), the leader in Intel-based solutions for the data center, is committed to the success of its end-user and system integrator customers. Sequent's platform architectures and services are optimized for the scalability, availability and manageability requirements of large, growing corporate infrastructures leveraging Internet technologies, database technologies and best-of-breed partnerships.
Sequent supports more than 10,000 installations worldwide, including many of the world's largest and most sophisticated e-commerce, CRM and business intelligence environments. For further information, phone Sequent at (503) 626-5700 or (800) 257-9044, or visit our Web site at www.sequent.com.
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