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Novadigm Raises the Bar for Data Center Automation
Market-Leading Radia Server Management Solution Enhanced With Data Center
Capabilities
MAHWAH, N.J., Dec. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Novadigm(R), Inc. , a leading
provider of adaptive software change and configuration management solutions,
today announced significant enhancements to its Radia(R) Server Management
solution to address one of the biggest challenges facing enterprise IT
organizations: effectively managing the constantly changing software
configurations for data center servers. The enhanced Radia solution enables IT
organizations to integrate and automate operational processes for reliably
provisioning, updating and patching the increasing complex server environments
that their businesses depend upon.
"Novadigm is already the recognized leader in managing server software with
proven success in production at customer sites worldwide," said George Kellar,
vice president of marketing for Novadigm. "With these data center enhancements
we are once again raising the bar in providing customer value through
unprecedented levels of automation, integration and cost-effectiveness. IT
organizations can now provision and manage servers in the data center and
anywhere in the world with greater speed, security and reliability."
According to Paul Mason, group vice president of infrastructure software for
industry research firm, International Data Corporation (IDC): "Building a
service-centric computing environment requires that IT support more-streamlined,
agile business processes, while continuing to provide expected IT services by
automating data center and server management. Novadigm is a pioneer and leader
in this area, and its unique management approach using a policy-based
desired-state model is particularly powerful as it helps speed provisioning and
ensures configuration compliance even at large scale."
Novadigm has been recognized by IDC as the revenue share leader in the server
provisioning and management software market. IDC's February 2003 "Worldwide
Server Provisioning and Management Software Forecast and Analysis, 2002-2007,"
which forecasts growth for data center and distributed server market at a
compound annual growth rate of 59.4%, indicates Novadigm "has long been a
technology leader," and cites the successful implementation of many Novadigm
customers for server provisioning and management "in some cases to manage 5,000
or more servers."
One of Novadigm's enterprise customers, 7-Eleven, relies on the Radia solution
to manage 5,800 servers, helping to support business strategies by improving
server availability and reducing administrative costs. "The ability to
effectively manage servers is important to 7-Eleven's success," said Keith
Morrow, CIO, 7-Eleven, Inc. "With Novadigm Radia, we have a single,
comprehensive software management solution -- one-change control process --
addressing our needs, and we can realize greater efficiencies in staff training
and costs."
Data Center and Distributed Server Management with the Radia Solution
Novadigm's Radia Server Management solution provides comprehensive management of
operating systems, applications, and patches across Windows, UNIX and Linux
platforms throughout the entire software lifecycle. At the core of the solution
is Radia's adaptive configuration technology with its imbedded intelligence and
reusable "building-block" configuration modules, which automate the management
of the operating system, application and patch software "layers" for any number
of data center or distributed servers. It also provides seamless integration of
configuration activities across the software layers for each server, enabling a
significantly higher degree of IT management process automation. Unique
capabilities of the Radia solution include:
-- Desired-State Configuration Management. Radia's unique desired-state
process can quickly and automatically configure any or all of the
operating system, application and patch software layers. As software
versions, processing requirements and server configurations change,
already-deployed servers can be automatically updated or reprovisioned
to the new desired configuration state, and new or repurposed servers
can be automatically provisioned with the updated configurations.
-- Policy-Based Configuration. Radia's policy-driven processes allow IT
administrators to define configuration policies in external policy
stores, including Microsoft Active Directory, IBM SecurWay, and Sun ONE
Directory Server, to control operating system, application and patch
configurations for different servers or server types. Subsequent
changes to policies cause the right software to be automatically
installed or updated for all deployed, new or repurposed servers.
-- Scalable Infrastructure. Radia's "n-tier" highly scalable architecture,
with comprehensive bandwidth optimization capabilities such as
multicasting and distributed caching, enables the management of very
large numbers of servers and applications across complex global
operations, with administration from any location.
-- Configuration Repository. Radia's configuration repository contains all
of the information necessary to manage operating system, application
and patch software, and includes detailed software, hardware and
configuration data for managed servers. This comprehensive collection
of configuration data provides visibility and control over existing and
planned server software configurations, and allows comprehensive impact
analysis and reporting for IT assets.
-- Secure Role-based Administration. Radia's Management Portal provides
role-based workflow tasks and dialogs for consistent and secure server
administration and operations. The Portal can automate the discovery of
existing or newly installed servers on the network, and the
provisioning and updating of operating system, patch and application
software on discovered servers.
Key Enhancements to the Radia Server Management Solution
The Radia Server Management solution has been enhanced to provide even greater
levels of control and automation for data center servers through:
-- Increased Automation of IT Operations -- Increased automation enables
coordination of configuration management processes spanning data
centers, servers, and load balancers and across the entire software
stack. Dynamic scheduling and sequencing of configuration activities
enables automated provisioning as well as complete life-cycle
management of business-critical servers. Automation of operations such
as quiescing, starting and stopping of application and database
services as well as reboot management is provided through
"production-safe" interaction with load balancers, application
subsystems and operating system services.
-- Streamlined Configuration Management of Data Center Applications -- New
application templates enable rapid installation and adaptive
configuration management of common web, middleware, directory and
database server applications, such as Apache, Microsoft IIS, BEA
WebLogic, IBM WebSphere, Microsoft Active Directory, Sun ONE Directory
Server, Microsoft SQL Server, and Oracle 9i. These pre-configured,
highly reusable templates provide administrators the ability to
systematically provision applications to Windows, UNIX and Linux
platforms across the data center. Application-specific probes provide
detailed inventory, configuration and patch information that can be
leveraged for configuration management, compliance and impact analysis.
-- Enhanced Server Configuration Analysis, Baselining, Tracking and
Reporting -- The ability to identify and analyze the impact, conflicts
and dependencies related to configuration changes shortens testing and
integration time and reduces the risk related to changes by identifying
the affected areas. Configuration baselining and enhanced reporting
provide improved visibility and tracking of server configurations.
-- Integrated Provisioning and Patching -- Integrated application of
patches during server provisioning ensures that servers become
activated with correct patch levels based on policies. IT
administrators can automatically acquire patches, conduct vulnerability
assessments, deploy approved and pre-qualified patches and continuously
and automatically verify that servers remain in compliance as
prescribed by policy.
-- Extended Platform Support -- New support for native operating system
installers, including HP-UX Ignite, Microsoft ADS, and Solaris
Jumpstart provides policy-based control and seamless process
integration of those installers with Radia inventory, application and
patch management, resulting in a highly automated "top to bottom"
provisioning processes. New support for Intel-based blade servers from
Dell, HP, and IBM enables policy-based provisioning and configuration
by rack, chassis or slot. In addition, new support for Alteon, Cisco,
and F5 load balancers enhances automation and enables production-safe
configuration changes.
Availability and Pricing
The Radia Server Management solution enhancements will be available during the
first quarter of 2004, with pricing dependent on customer configurations.
About Novadigm
Novadigm is a leading provider of software and content management solutions for
enterprise and Internet computing environments that enable organizations to
reduce software management costs, speed time-to-market, expand marketing
channels and open new sources of revenue. Novadigm's suite of integrated
products, based on the company's adaptive management technology, work seamlessly
together as the only end-to-end solution that can efficiently, reliably and
scalably deploy and manage the full range of today's software and content,
personalized for a wide range of computing devices, across virtually any
network. Novadigm customers -- Global 1000 business enterprises, software
vendors and service providers around the world -- report software management
savings of 80 percent or more, time-to-market improvements of 70 percent or
more, and reliability typically greater than 99 percent. For more information on
Novadigm, please visit http://www.novadigm.com/ or call 800-626-6682.
NOTE: Novadigm, Enterprise Desktop Manager, and Radia are either trademarks or
registered trademarks of Novadigm, Inc. All other product, trademark, company or
service names mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners.
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of
Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934. These forward-looking statements are subject to certain
risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially
from historical results or anticipated results. All forward-looking statements
included in this release are based upon information available to Novadigm as of
the date of the release, and we assume no obligation to update any such
forward-looking statement. Such forward-looking statements are subject to risks
and uncertainties which could cause actual results to differ materially from
those anticipated. The matters discussed in this press release also involve
risks and uncertainties described from time to time in Novadigm's filings with
the Securities and Exchange Commission. In particular, see the Risk Factors
described in the Company's Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2003
and Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2003.
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Web site: http://www.novadigm.com/