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New Network Automation System 6.0 & The Opsware Network Service
Provide Breakthroughs in Automating Network Compliance and Security
for Large, Distributed IT Environments
Opsware Inc. (NASDAQ:OPSW), the leading provider of IT Automation
software, today introduced at Interop Las Vegas 2006, Opsware Network
Automation System (NAS) 6.0, which provides state-of-the-art network
management and compliance enforcement for large global networks and
complex VoIP, wireless and Virtual Private Network (VPN) environments.
Already ranked by independent testers as the #1 network automation
solution for three years in a row, Opsware NAS 6.0 once again raises
the bar in network compliance and configuration management by
providing new cutting-edge capabilities in the areas of compliance
enforcement, network security management, disaster recovery and
troubleshooting.
With the massive explosion of network devices, today's IT
environments are drastically different than just a few years ago. IT
organizations are under major pressure to ensure that network
infrastructure is in compliance with regulatory and internal policies
and highly secure across distributed, global network environments. In
addition, the scale, multi-vendor nature and increasing heterogeneity
brought about by next-generation infrastructures make today's IT
environments highly complex, vulnerable to security attacks and costly
to manage.
Opsware NAS 6.0 builds upon its enterprise class, award-winning
capabilities to provide powerful state-of-the-art network compliance
and change management. The new product introduces four major
breakthroughs in network automation: (1) a new model for preventing
unauthorized changes from being propagated into the IT environment;
(2) a visual view of the network environment to ease troubleshooting
and change management; (3) new technology for global policy
enforcement and disaster recovery; and (4) a new security service that
automates the process of identifying network vulnerabilities and
closing security loopholes across the network environment.
"With NAS 6.0, Opsware continues to set the pace in network
automation with a robust set of functionality that can help customers
achieve increased efficiencies and higher quality IT operations by
simplifying the management of device types and applications across
highly distributed IT systems," said Elisabeth Rainge, program
director for Next-Gen OSS, Billing and Network Management at IDC. "NAS
6.0 can provide customers with more control over compliance
enforcement and offers a valuable service to automate management of
network infrastructure security through automated identification of
network vulnerabilities."
Highlights of the Opsware Network Automation System 6.0
New Network Compliance Model
Organizations need to track network compliance and security levels
to ensure that the network meets regulatory and internal policies.
However, identifying the problem after it has been deployed to the
network and responding with patches and/or configuration fixes is not
an effective solution. Opsware's new Network Compliance Model
maintains a model of each device's policies and configurations, device
interdependencies and user roles, and prevents administrators from
making changes that deviate from policy.
New Security Service -- The Opsware Network
With NAS 6.0, Opsware introduces a new security service, The
Opsware Network, which automates the identification of security
vulnerabilities across the network environment. The Opsware Network
provides an ongoing stream of vulnerability alerts and remediation in
the form of actionable policies so IT organizations are proactively
informed on where security exposures exist and can immediately act on
fixing the issue through automated remediation capabilities provided
in Opsware NAS. The Opsware Network service is provided in conjunction
with the Opsware Network Automation System.
Visual Analysis of the Global Network Environment
Today's network engineers are limited to managing the network at
the element level, with little understanding of how the devices
interrelate or depend on each other. For example, a user pushes
changes to each device individually with little visibility into what
the downstream effects might be.
Opsware NAS 6.0 introduces unique network visualization technology
which maps the Layer 2 and Layer 3 network to enable deeper
understanding of the network and swifter, more accurate
troubleshooting.
Global Policy Enforcement and Disaster Recovery
Opsware's cutting-edge Multimaster and Satellite technologies,
which have been key to the appeal and rapid adoption of Opsware's
Server Automation System, are now offered in Opsware NAS 6.0.
Opsware's Multimaster and Satellite technologies enable the management
of geographically distributed devices from a centralized location,
allowing global policy enforcement and ensuring operations consistency
across the entire environment. Additionally, Multimaster dramatically
speeds the recovery of a data center environment in the event of a
failure or disaster by enabling the immediate re-creation of device
configurations and firmware levels. Opsware Satellite provides central
management of network devices in complex environments, such as
networks that rely on network address translation (NAT) or networks
with duplicate IP addresses.
Support for VoIP
VoIP has experienced massive growth over the last few years and is
now a critical component of today's business environment. VoIP
requires a stable and reliable network to deploy services such as
video or voice, which are highly sensitive to network instability and
disruption. Support for VoIP in NAS 6.0 provides companies with
extremely short mean time to repair (MTTR) for critical VoIP services.
"Network automation is rapidly becoming part of the management DNA
for IT," said Tim Howes, CTO at Opsware Inc. "In addition to the
award-winning capabilities our customers already rely on, NAS 6.0
delivers a whole new model for proactive compliance enforcement and
fully automated security management with the new Opsware Network
service that brings enormous value and cost savings to enterprise
network environments."
Opsware NAS automates thousands of network devices types from over
35 vendors, and has won every competitive product review consecutively
since 2004. Opsware Network Automation System 6.0 is available
immediately.
About Interop(R)
Interop(R), now part of the CMP Media family of global brands, has
led the revolution and evolution in IP networking for the past twenty
years, and is dedicated to promoting and demonstrating the
interoperability of the converged network, applications and devices to
seamlessly exchange and use information to address the full range of
business challenges facing IT organizations today and tomorrow. As the
leading destination for technology buyers and sellers, Interop has
fostered the growth and evolution of the IT industry for the past two
decades, and remains the most anticipated and only comprehensive IT
event. Through in-depth educational programs, workshops, real-world
demonstrations and live technology implementations in its unique
InteropNet and InteropLabs programs, Interop(R) provides the forum for
the most powerful innovations and solutions the industry has to offer.
Interop(R) Las Vegas will take place at the Mandalay Bay Convention
Center, April 30-May 5, 2006, and Interop(R) New York 2006 will take
place at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, September 18-22, 2006.
For more information about these events, visit www.interop.com.
About CMP Media (www.cmp.com)
CMP Media is a marketing solutions company serving the technology,
healthcare and lifestyles industries. Through its market-leading
portfolio of trusted information brands, CMP Media has earned the
confidence of more professionals and enthusiasts in these fields than
any other media company. As a result, CMP is the premier provider of
access, insight and actionable programs designed to connect sellers
and buyers in each of these industries in ways that yield superior
return on investment. CMP Media is a subsidiary of United Business
Media (http://www.unitedbusinessmedia.com), a global provider of news
distribution and specialist information services with a market
capitalization of more than USD 3 billion.
About Opsware Inc. (NASDAQ:OPSW)
Opsware Inc. is the world's leading IT Automation software
company. The growth of the Internet is driving a shift from
client/server computing to Web architecture. With this shift comes an
overwhelming proliferation of servers, networking devices and
applications, creating massive complexity that makes automated IT
operations a necessity. Opsware automates the complete IT lifecycle
and enables IT to automatically discover, provision, patch, configure,
secure, change, scale, audit, recover, consolidate, migrate, and
reallocate servers, network devices and applications. Over 350 of the
world's largest companies, outsourcers and government agencies use
Opsware to deliver this new, automated model of IT. For more
information on Opsware Inc., please visit our Web site at
www.opsware.com.
Opsware is a service mark and trademark of Opsware Inc. All other
product names, service marks, and trademarks mentioned herein are
trademarks of their respective owners.