Sybase Selects Cendura to Streamline IT Operations by Automating Change and Configuration Management

1 January 1970

Cendura, a leader in IT services configuration management solutions for enterprises, (www.cendura.com), today announced that Sybase (http://www.sybase.com) has selected Cendura's Cohesion Suite to further automate the application change and configuration activities in the data center.

"Configuration management is very important to us as we continue to standardize, consolidate, and simplify our computing environment," said T.X. Ho, IT Director for Sybase. "Being able to discover and track configuration settings across multi-tiered and multi-vendor IT service environments will help us to resolve problems quicker and to audit our environment more efficiently."

Cendura's Cohesion Suite automatically discovers and collects all software component settings about every configuration item or parameter used by data center applications, including web servers, application servers, databases and messaging middleware on Windows, Linux, Solaris, HP-UX and AIX platforms. Cohesion includes a library of blueprints that provides out-of-the-box manageability for the most widely-used commercial data center applications. Additionally, Cendura includes a Blueprint Builder that lets IT groups extend the support application library by quickly building blueprint models of their in-house built software components and custom applications so they can be discovered and managed along with the commercial applications.

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Cohesion helps to accelerate software releases by quickly identifying deep configuration differences across a networked IT service. Cohesion can capture complete IT services snapshots that span all servers and their software components across multi-tiered and heterogeneous environments. IT service snapshots can be compared to baseline reference configurations, golden master configurations or against other deployments so IT organizations can quickly identify and isolate differences and changes between deployed instances of software or between complete networked environments. This includes differences between QA and staging, staging and production or production and disaster recovery.

Cohesion also helps to reduce application drift. Application drift can occur during day-to-day activities to improve and update applications -- such as releasing patches, updates, reconfigurations and optimization. After a short period of time, the original known and tested state of the IT service can become unpredictable and can affect the stability, and ultimately the availability, of data center applications. Cohesion can detect application setting changes through automated notifications to systems management consoles or rules compliance reports. Cohesion provides unmatched visibility for the actual configured application setting and changes across the data center.

All capabilities of the Cohesion are accessible to other enterprise applications through standards-based and flexible APIs, allowing developers and systems integrators to create custom adapters to a variety of back-end systems such as IBM Tivoli, BMC Patrol, and HP OpenView.

ABOUT SYBASE, INC.

Sybase is the largest global enterprise software company exclusively focused on managing and mobilizing information from the data center to the point of action. Sybase provides open, cross-platform solutions that securely deliver information anytime, anywhere, enabling customers to create an information edge. The world's most critical data in commerce, communications, finance, government and healthcare runs on Sybase. For more information, visit the Sybase Web site: http://www.sybase.com.

ABOUT CENDURA

Cendura Corporation provides IT Service Configuration Management (ITSCM) software that enables enterprises to dramatically improve the security, compliance, availability and performance of their IT assets. The Company's Cohesion product enables IT organizations to proactively manage and automate changes to the IT infrastructure underlying distributed business applications and services by discovering, mapping, auditing, and correcting configurations of the related IT assets. Cohesion provides a comprehensive "source of truth" of the actual configurations of IT assets comprising a Business Service, enabling companies to rapidly identify and remedy existing or potential Business Service problems.

To find out more about Cendura or arrange for a demonstration, call (866) 263-3911, email sales@cendura.com or visit http://www.cendura.com.

Cendura, Cohesion and Blueprint Builder are trademarks or registered trademarks of Cendura Corporation.

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