BSM

Netuitive, a provider of self-learning performance management software, today announced it has integrated its predictive analytics capabilities with HP Business Service Management (BSM) technology for an automated and adaptive BSM solution. Netuitive is now a Gold Enterprise Management Application Partner of HP’s and has been invited to join the HP Software Marketplace Referral Program.

Netuitive helps customers increase the value of their existing BSM tools. Business users benefit from increased service availability and avoidance of revenue loss and end-user productivity loss, while IT is better equipped to identify and act upon problems before affecting the end user. Both business and IT users benefit with a unified BSM toolset that enables successful BSM implementations and provides a better understanding of how IT operations and infrastructure performance affect business services.

At a more granular level, the combination of Netuitive’s automated performance management technology and HP’s leading BSM technology addresses common IT operational issues. These include too many fragmented domain tools; the inability to prioritize issues based on business impact; and, slow, inefficient problem identification and resolution processes.

Novell today announced a definitive agreement to acquire the business service management leader Managed Objects. The acquisition will extend Novell’s portfolio of data center solutions by adding tools to provide a unified view of all information and workloads.

“The acquisition of Managed Objects by Novell illustrates Novell’s commitment to an expanded management strategy and makes them a strong competitor in the service management market,” said Tim Grieser, program vice president, enterprise system management Software, IDC. “Managed Objects is a recognized player in BSM and has a proven track record with some of the largest companies in the world. With Managed Objects, Novell can more easily have business conversations in the data center with CIO’s, line of business managers, and key business stakeholders. This new service management focus represents a step in the right direction for Novell and adds significant credibility to Managed Objects customers that may have had concern about a smaller company.”

The Managed Objects products complement and extend Novell’s existing workload management and virtualization solutions by adding flexible service modeling, leading Configuration Management Data Base (CMDB) technology, advanced analytics and unique Web 2.0-based visualization technology. Customers can extract IT configuration and workload information in near real-time into a robust CMDB, model how the IT configuration provides business services, and then generate visualizations and dashboards that dynamically show how IT aligns to business services. By providing a single view of data center workloads across any physical or virtual environment, system administrators can understand and respond to issues in a business context reactively, pro-actively, or automatically.

Novell will acquire Managed Objects for an undisclosed sum using current cash. The acquisition is expected to close during Novell’s first fiscal quarter 2009 subject to the satisfaction of closing conditions. Managed Objects will be fully integrated into Novell’s Systems and Resource Management business unit.

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