IBM and Novell Announce NetView for UnixWare: A Comprehensive Network Management Solution

Strategic Insights -

The joint announcement by IBM and Novell highlights the release of NetView for UnixWare, a powerful network management solution that extends the rich functionality of NetView to run on UnixWare, Novell's premier application server for business-critical solutions. This collaboration brings the industry-leading network and systems management platform to UnixWare customers, providing a cost-effective, scalable, and industry-standard solution for controlling enterprise-level resources.

Key Takeaways:

  • The new NetView for UnixWare product represents one of the industry's most comprehensive and interoperable network management solutions, providing integrated fault, performance, configuration, and operations management for all Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) devices.
  • The product includes an integrated database that supports topology displays, real-time network status, historical data collection, and the capability to create trouble tickets used to track problems through to resolution.
  • Novell's UnixWare 2, released in December 1994, builds on the latest UNIX System V technology and provides a reliable, cost-effective application server platform running on industry-standard hardware.
  • The combination of UnixWare 2 and NetView is expected to benefit customers seeking to increase their use of UNIX-based systems in their multi-operating system networks.
  • IBM's NetView product has won a clear-cut victory in competition with other network management platforms at the Enterprise Management Summit '94 conference in Santa Clara, Calif.
  • NetView for UnixWare is available through Novell's authorized distributors, with English, French, Italian, German, and Spanish versions available starting in March 1995.

Statistics:

  • The Enterprise Management Summit '94 conference took place on November 15-17 in Santa Clara, Calif.
  • Novell's UnixWare 2 was released in December 1994, with the worldwide rollout beginning in the same month.
  • UnixWare 2 delivered peak throughputs exceeding many RISC-based platforms, establishing the highest system performance in its class according to the SPEC (SDM 057.SDET) benchmark.
  • IBM's NetView product has been recognized as a leading enterprise management solution, with the NetView family being part of the SystemView family of products.

Sources:

  • BUSINESS WIRE, January 24, 1995
  • Enterprise Management Summit '94 conference, November 15-17, 1994
  • Novell, Inc.
  • SPEC (Standard Performance Evaluation Corp.)
  • XYZ (Aberdeen Group)
  • SysView (IBM Corp.)