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Enterprise Management Theater
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Summit '94)
Tue Sep 27 06:04:04 1994
To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: 27 Sep 1994 06:54:41 GMT
From: summit@ix.netcom.com (Summit '94)
The Enterprise Management Summit '94 will feature a live theater
where leading vendors will compete to present the most effective
enterprise management solution. In this theater will be a live
enterprise computing environment. Networks will include SNA,
DECNet, NetWare, and TCP/IP. Systems will include MVS, VMS, DOS,
OS/2 and UNIX. Windows, NT, desktops, distributed applications and
databases will also be present along with enterprise management
platforms and applications.
During Summit '94, we will attempt to "break" this network by
introducing a series of hazards. These include (but are certainly
not limited to) traffic congestion alarm floods, broadcast
storms, applications that hang mysteriously, lost host
connections, locked terminals, and forgotten passwords. Each
vendor in the theater will have their chance to show how their
enterprise management platform and applications deal with these
hazards.
The theater works like this:
1) Each vendor will have 90 minutes to present their solution.
2) No demos will be allowed. Each vendor must respond to the
scenarios that have been given them by Summit '94. (see below)
3) The audience will evalute each presentation. Vendors will be
evaluated on how well their solution dealt with each hazard; how
easy or hard to implement the solution appears to be; how
technically advanced the solution is; and the completeness of the
solution.
The scenarios are grouped as follows:
I Asset Management - Auto Discovery; Inventory
II Fault Management - Network Analysis; Multiple Alarms;
Management of Disk Space; Data Base Management; Problems with
DECNet/SNA, NetWare; Trouble Tracking & Ticketing
III Administration - Security, Productivity Tracking,
Configuration Management, Software Distribution
Participating vendors in the theater are:
* Bull
* Computer Associates International
* Digital Equipment Corporation
* Hewlett-Packard
* IBM
* NetLabs
* Objective Systems Integrators
Summit '94 will take place this November 14-18 at the Santa Clara
Convention Center. For more information, call 1-800-340-2111
(415-512-1325 outside the US). Email: emiinc@mcimail.com or
summit@ix.netcom.com
