marketing for the ASM tool said; "Release 11.1 of the Unicenter Advanced Systems Management software supports virtualized and clustered servers through a single interface" She also added that this command tools can be as useful in managing systems equipped with technology from vendors such as VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Red Hat Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM and Hewlett-Packard Co. as well. A lot useful than the old version f ASM, Release 11, which has a very limited capabilities. The upgrade also relies on Microsoft’s SQL Server database as its central data repository instead of the Ingres open-source database that CA still offers in an earlier version, Daley said.Among other things that Coleman said are about the Dynamic Management that the upgrade will give. "Every virtualization vendor has a different management console, making a tool like ASM valuable in a mixed-systems data center such as WellSpan’s. He also said it will come in handy when the health care provider, which owns two hospitals and a variety of other facilities, needs to reallocate computing tasks to different virtual machines based on changes in user demands".
“With virtualization, you don’t have the physical equipment to touch for management, and things are always in constant flux,” He added. Rich Ptak, an analyst at Ptak, Noel & Associates in Amherst, N.H. also has a say in the matter "A lot of folks in IT assumed that just implementing virtualization was going to solve all their problems, when, in fact, it introduces the need for even more management".
He believes that maybe for now, CA maybe the leader in this innovation, coming up with an all in one package. But its just like they paved the way for all competitors to follow as well.
ASM price starts at a whopping $30,000 and requires users to also have CA’s Unicenter Network and Systems Management tool, which is an all together product costing starts at $10,000. There is definitely a lot of room for more improvement in this one.
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