Stories about: Magnum Technologies

Enterprise Management Associates is back again after a year of absence, this time on a monthly basis. We've really missed your dialog and comments, and hopefully we've been missed as well. As before, this column will focus on network management trends as they fit into the bigger IT management landscape - focusing from time to time on application performance, or SLM versus BSM, or new approaches to asset management, or trends like CMDB adoption as they may affect the NOC.

Magnum Technologies this week made available its upgraded Advantage software with enhanced discovery and application mapping capabilities that the company says can now help IT managers better relate how IT service performance affects the business.

Magnum Technologies has introduced Web-based software that lets IT organizations and service providers monitor compliance with service-level agreements. The company's Advantage Software alerts users when any performance thresholds are exceeded. Initially, the software will require Magnum's Cap-Trend performance management tool and Magnum's Coordinator fault/ event correlation and root-cause analysis tool. Advantage Software will also report information to Hewlett-Packard OpenView and Tivoli NetView. Magnum plans to add support for Micromuse's NetCool. Advantage will be available early next year. Pricing, including consulting, will be priced starting at approximately US$30,000.

Officials at enterprise resource planning (ERP) software developer J.D. Edwards & Co. last week said the firm has undertaken a major upgrade of its corporate network to support its international expansion plans and its application hosting business.