Abilitec Seminar

Welcome and introduction, an update on the Abilitec.

Abilitec is a leading independent systems integrator , advising and implementing complex solutions that embrace network and managed service integration including comprehensive training, consultancy and support services, for a diverse range of FT500 customers; from Telco's to Banks, Supermarkets to Government. Our unique ability is to integrate "best of breed" products to create an optimised platform that ensures total integrity for your management systems, so providing a consolidated Dashboard view of the entire enterprise

Q . IBM are to aquire Micromuse, what are the time scales and what how will this strengthen the product portfolio. ?

Micromuse is the leading provider of business and service assurance solutions. Designed to help organizations optimize the availability and performance of the IT infrastructure and revenue-driving services, Micromuse offers solutions for specific IT domains, consolidated operations, and business service management. Micromuse's Netcool suite offers the industry's fastest, most scalable engine for event collection, consolidation, and correlation. Combining realtime IT monitoring with business impact analysis, the Netcool suite helps organizations proactively manage critical applications and services and control operations costs.

Q . What applications are running across the network and who uses them, what is the cost (can you charge back), what is the real user experience, are you meeting their SLA?

Compuware Vantage is a recognized leader for providing robust end-user monitoring and application performance analysis management to IT organizations all over the world. Vantage simplifies the service level management (SLM) process for its customers by continuously monitoring application performance and availability on a 24x7 basis. End-user monitoring, integrated with end-to-end application performance analysis, enable IT managers to proactively identify and rapidly resolve tough application performance problems and meet service-level agreements (SLAs).

Q . What's the actual configuration of your servers, are they at the correct revision/patch level, when was the last planned change, did it work? Is it all licensed? Do you have spare licenses that are costing money?

Tideway's products provide organizations with complete transparency of their complex IT environments. They enable organizations to model distributed business applications and link them to their supporting infrastructure, serving as a cornerstone of integrated enterprise systems management solutions and for implementing IT best practices. Configuration management databases can be implemented with ease, automating and centralizing the resource-intensive tasks of discovery and fingerprinting of application infrastructure.

Q . Is your network working as you think it is configured, you might have made the connections but are they being used? Do you have true redundancy or just think you do? Can you play back what happened the last time there was a failure?

Packet Design's solutions, based on break-through route analytics technology, help network engineers provide a predictable IP service infrastructure for increasingly demanding and sensitive converged applications. By providing unprecedented visibility, analysis, troubleshooting and planning of the dynamic interactions within IP networks, Route Explorer allows network engineers to understand and tame mysterious and unpredictable network behavior, and help achieve their customers business and productivity goals. The result is lowered operational costs, higher productivity and improved network availability