I've just heard from Jalasoft that they are currently putting the finishing touches to SP2 of Xian Network Manager IO. Information about the new service pack is detailed below but the key point is that the product will be made much more scalable. For those of you who have used Xian IO, you'll know that the only thing that undermines the excellent user interface and brilliant OpsMgr integration is the current scalability limitations. According to the service pack notes, this has now been addressed. Can't wait for a demo copy!!!
Santa Clara, September 11, 2008-- Jalasoft announced today that soon it is going to be releasing service pack 2 for their monitoring solution Xian Network Manager Io for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007. At this moment SP2 is undergoing heavy testing for large environment scalability in their labs. The most important new feature in addition to many smaller performance enhancements is that Xian no longer uses the SDK (root management server) of Operations Manager to forward alerts and performance data. Instead, it now connects directly to any OpsMgr2007 Management Server. Thanks to these enhancements, Xian is now able to send many more counters and alerts to Operations Manager without consuming valuable resources on your root management server. Also Xian can easily be scaled up by adding new management servers. "Customers told us that they do not always want new visible features, they just want something that is stable, fast and scalable. The real power of SP2 is under the hood. Users will experience more than a 400% performance improvement" States Arnold Hagens, Product Marketing Manager at Jalasoft. Aside from the connection with OpsMgr2007, SP2 also runs improved management packs and a more robust SNMP module. All to guarantee a better user experience. In the next days a beta version is going to be available. Anyone who is interested can obtain this version by contacting Jalasoft. The RTM of SP2 is planned for end November 2008.
For more information contact:
Claudia Ricaldez, Claudia.Ricaldez@jalasoft.com, +1 888 402 6717
About Jalasoft
Jalasoft provides advanced systems management solutions for the heterogeneous computing environment. Xian Network Manager Io, in combination with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager or Microsoft System Center Essentials, is designed to proactively monitor and manage critical infrastructure components such as network devices and UNIX servers to increase availability and accelerate problem detection and resolution with the objective of improving the ROI customers realize from their infrastructure.
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