Walldorf, January 21, 2002. - REALTECH AG, a leading supplier of technology consultancy for mySAP.com and software solutions, has developed a new data collector for EMC Symmetrix® information storage systems, allowing mutual customers to benefit from a unique system management solution that controls the entire system environment - from the applications to storage level - by means of a centralized monitoring unit (single point of control). This relieves the IT department of routine activities and reduces costly downtime.
Through REALTECH's membership in EMC's E-InfostructureT Developers Program, REALTECH has leveraged EMC open application programming interfaces (APIs) to enable EMC Symmetrix monitoring and reporting capabilities integrated within REALTECH's the Guard! ApplicationManager. Designed as a "multithreaded" architecture, it collects detailed configuration and performance data and divides this into categories (events, statistic values, properties, and states). These values can then be used to generate alarms, create reports, and monitor the system. Within theGuard! System Management Suite, the information can also be linked with network and application data, thus providing a complete view of the system as a whole and allowing errors to be tracked and rectified intelligently up to device level.
theGuard! System Management Suite is a family of products for application and system management that detects potential system errors before they occur and thus avoids downtime. As a result, customers can be sure of high availability and performance for critical company applications at all times. The core component is theGuard! ApplicationManager. For the purposes of monitoring, reporting, analysis, and problem-solving, the software uses what are known as data collectors. These enter, correlate, analyze, and filter all relevant data and classify it in accordance with priority levels.
"REALTECH's software products for system and application management are particularly aimed at large enterprises. This is why we are extremely pleased to be able to integrate our software seamlessly with technology from EMC, the recognized leader of enterprise information management systems and software," said Dr. Rudolf Caspary, Managing Director Product Development at REALTECH. "We are thus in a position to provide our shared customers with an extended and transparent view of their IT environment."
"By sharing its open APIs with vendors such as REALTECH, EMC helps customers take full advantage of the leading performance, availability and management features of EMC Enterprise Storage and software, while eliminating costly application creation or customization. As a member of EMC's E-Infostructure Developers Program, REALTECH worked closely with us to integrate our respective technologies to help customers attain high levels of availability and performance," said Linda Wright, Senior Director of EMC's E-Infostructure Developers Program.
