Novadigm Raises the Bar for Data Center Automation
22 December 2003
Novadigm(R), Inc. (NASDAQ:NVDM), a leading provider of adaptive software change and configuration management solutions, today announced significant enhancements to its Radia(R) Server Management solution to address one of the biggest challenges facing enterprise IT organizations: effectively managing the constantly changing software configurations for data center servers. The enhanced Radia solution enables IT organizations to integrate and automate operational processes for reliably provisioning, updating and patching the increasing complex server environments that their businesses depend upon.
"Novadigm is already the recognized leader in managing server software with proven success in production at customer sites worldwide," said George Kellar, vice president of marketing for Novadigm. "With these data center enhancements we are once again raising the bar in providing customer value through unprecedented levels of automation, integration and cost-effectiveness. IT organizations can now provision and manage servers in the data center and anywhere in the world with greater speed, security and reliability."
According to Paul Mason, group vice president of infrastructure software for industry research firm, International Data Corporation (IDC): "Building a service-centric computing environment requires that IT support more-streamlined, agile business processes, while continuing to provide expected IT services by automating data center and server management. Novadigm is a pioneer and leader in this area, and its unique management approach using a policy-based desired-state model is particularly powerful as it helps speed provisioning and ensures configuration compliance even at large scale."
Novadigm has been recognized by IDC as the revenue share leader in the server provisioning and management software market. IDC's February 2003 "Worldwide Server Provisioning and Management Software Forecast and Analysis, 2002-2007," which forecasts growth for data center and distributed server market at a compound annual growth rate of 59.4%, indicates Novadigm "has long been a technology leader," and cites the successful implementation of many Novadigm customers for server provisioning and management "in some cases to manage 5,000 or more servers."
One of Novadigm's enterprise customers, 7-Eleven, relies on the Radia solution to manage 5,800 servers, helping to support business strategies by improving server availability and reducing administrative costs. "The ability to effectively manage servers is important to 7-Eleven's success," said Keith Morrow, CIO, 7-Eleven, Inc. "With Novadigm Radia, we have a single, comprehensive software management solution -- one-change control process -- addressing our needs, and we can realize greater efficiencies in staff training and costs."
Data Center and Distributed Server Management with the Radia Solution
Novadigm's Radia Server Management solution provides comprehensive management of operating systems, applications, and patches across Windows, UNIX and Linux platforms throughout the entire software lifecycle. At the core of the solution is Radia's adaptive configuration technology with its imbedded intelligence and reusable "building-block" configuration modules, which automate the management of the operating system, application and patch software "layers" for any number of data center or distributed servers. It also provides seamless integration of configuration activities across the software layers for each server, enabling a significantly higher degree of IT management process automation.
About NovadigmNovadigm is a leading provider of software and content management solutions for enterprise and Internet computing environments that enable organizations to reduce software management costs, speed time-to-market, expand marketing channels and open new sources of revenue. Novadigm's suite of integrated products, based on the company's adaptive management technology, work seamlessly together as the only end-to-end solution that can efficiently, reliably and scalably deploy and manage the full range of today's software and content, personalized for a wide range of computing devices, across virtually any network. Novadigm customers -- Global 1000 business enterprises, software vendors and service providers around the world -- report software management savings of 80 percent or more, time-to-market improvements of 70 percent or more, and reliability typically greater than 99 percent. For more information on Novadigm, please visit www.novadigm.com or call 800-626-6682.
