Recent case studies featuring Autonomic Software, Inc.

Microsoft:

“Openwave, which provides software and services for more than 70 mobile operators, more than 50 handset manufacturers, and 22 broadband suppliers worldwide, struggled to track and update its hardware and software assets.  Despite yearly inventories and hours of labor, the company’s asset records weren’t accurate enough to satisfy financial audit requirements.  Openwave also spent hundreds of hours each year manually updating its software.  After evaluating options to automate these task, Openwave chose the Autonomic Network and System Administration (ANSA) asset and update management solution built on the Microsoft .NET Framework.  ANSA reduced the financial liability caused by inaccurate asset reports, eliminated the need for a dedicated employee to update systems, and cost hundreds of thousands of dollars less than comparable solutions.” 

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Forrester Research Group:

“Change and configuration management is clearly emerging as one of the top investment areas for IT Operations. Management software vendors have been quick at picking up the trend, as witnessed by their acquisitions of smaller players in the space. Typical recent examples are Novadigm’s acquisition by HP Openview and Marimba’s purchase by BMC Software .

In many companies, keeping track of configurations, planning changes and insuring that only authorized persons correctly apply all patches to operating systems and applications has become increasingly difficult due to the sheer number of servers. Increased security threats and new regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley also contribute to magnify the issue.

Software and patch distribution is regarded as a relatively mature technology, and few innovations have been brought to market in the past few years. Any new entrant in the space must show that they are bringing significant technological and economical advantages to sit at the market table.

Autonomic Software just introduced a new lightweight and versatile agent served by an n-tier architecture, which promises to bring a new level of automation, agility and scalability at a fair price. Forrester interviewed several Autonomic Software clients to understand what perceived technological and economical advantages were driving their choices.” 

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