14 DAY TRIAL // The EMC Smarts network discovery and health monitoring technology will become an integer part of the forthcoming release of Microsoft System Center Operations Manager, the Redmond Company's end-to-end service monitoring solution. Microsoft has announced that it will be licensing the EMC Smarts network technology.
The systems and network management technology licensing and collaboration partnership inked by Microsoft and EMC aims to deliver a network-aware, end-to-end service management through the bundling of their respective solutions. EMC network management and analysis technology will also find its way into System Center Operations Manager.
"System Center Operations Manager gives customers an integrated, end-to-end service management solution that helps increase efficiency and allows for greater control of the IT environment," said Bob Muglia, senior vice president of the Server and Tools Business at Microsoft. "By integrating EMC's market-leading network management technology into Operations Manager and collaborating with EMC to develop a new cross-domain behavioral model that will enhance our management pack schema, we are able to give customers a true network-aware service management solution and improve operations management across disparate devices and systems to help pinpoint the root cause of service-affecting problems."
The first results of the partnership will be delivered starting with May 2007. In just under two months, EMC Smarts Connector for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 will be made available in phases.
"The only way to achieve end-to-end service visibility and control across today's complex information infrastructure is to model and manage the behaviors among components, with a cross-domain model that focuses on elements and how they interact with one another," said EMC's Howard Elias, executive vice president, Global Services and Resource Management Software Group.