Massive Scalability
“From working closely with our customers, we’ve seen firsthand their evolving requirements for management, and we release new products to stay ahead of those market needs,” said Paul Butterworth, AmberPoint CTO. “The architectural underpinnings of our management platform remove the burden of implementing our product upgrades. Our customers can add new management capabilities such as interdependency tracking without having to recode their services.”
“Our move to a real-time enterprise is accelerating the need for event-driven interfaces between systems,” said John Schmidt, IS Leader at Best Buy. “As these loosely coupled systems become more widespread, we require additional means of managing them, understanding the dependencies among system components and handling increased traffic. With its new release, AmberPoint is addressing such requirements to help ensure that our systems are reliable business assets.”
The new release of AmberPoint addresses additional requirements of enterprise-wide applications running across service oriented architectures (SOA). For example, AmberPoint now supports real-time management of thousands of active service level agreements across multiple customers and services. To reduce complexity, it automatically discovers services and displays interdependencies across service-oriented systems. To ensure optimal availability and performance of the management layer, AmberPoint has introduced the industry’s first recoverable services management system.
“AmberPoint continues to strengthen its product suite to meet customer requirements,” said Simon Walker, Web services development manager, British Telecommunications Plc. “With its latest release, AmberPoint is delivering capabilities that are important to larger-scale enterprise deployments. The enhancements in AmberPoint will simplify the work of managing and maintaining rapidly growing service oriented environments.”
“As our service-oriented systems continue to grow, we need better ways to manage the mounting complexity of these distributed systems,” said Toby Redshaw, corporate vice president of IT Strategy Architecture and eBusiness, Motorola. “This elevates the role of the management layer. AmberPoint’s new release will enable us to better manage our progressively more sophisticated services-oriented environment and to manage service levels effectively in the face of significant increases to the number of active connections.”
“Whereas a year ago the services-based applications we were called on to manage often had only a dozen services and up to a hundred service agreements, this year it has changed radically,” said Gordon Loudon, vice president of Customer Support and Services, AmberPoint. “This year our customers are rolling-out systems with thousands of endpoints and thousands of active service agreements. And we’re seeing this sort of increase in complexity across a variety of industries, including retail, telecommunications, manufacturing and insurance.”
This new release builds on earlier releases of AmberPoint that greatly expanded the types of SOA software and hardware components that can be managed using AmberPoint, including both SOAP and non-SOAP XML, HTML Web pages, hardware switches and blade servers.
Managing Application Complexity
AmberPoint enables the Operations staff to more easily track services throughout the system. Additionally, AmberPoint uses a patent-pending message tracking technology to discover service interdependencies across platforms (language, application server and operating system) throughout the enterprise.
AmberPoint displays the interdependencies between the components of service-oriented systems.
Managing the Management System
The reliability of the management system itself is critical to the success of Web services-driven business initiatives. AmberPoint has introduced new capabilities that ensure optimal reliability and performance from the management system.
AmberPoint supports high transaction volumes, handling thousands of active service level agreements across multiple customers and services. AmberPoint has also streamlined the user experience for customers with higher transaction volumes by simplifying the creation of policies and allowing for simpler, hierarchical categorization of QoS data. Additional new scalability features include:
Related News
In other news today, AmberPoint announced the close of an $8.2 million funding round (see related release, “AmberPoint Secures $8.2 Million in Third-Round Funding”).
About AmberPoint
AmberPoint is the leading provider of management software for service-oriented architectures (SOA). With its modular, distributed architecture, AmberPoint radically simplifies the management and evolution of service-based business solutions. For more information, contact AmberPoint at 510.663.6300 or info@amberpoint.com, or visit the company website at www.amberpoint.com for a complimentary developer’s edition of AmberPoint software.
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