products and services, CA Clarity, really a matter of ‘how are we doing agement Center tackles more than
includes software that gives manag- it,’ ‘how can it be done better’ and ‘is just IT governance.
ers real-time controls and custom it being done effectively,’” Landers “We didn’t want to call it ‘HP ITG,’
views of a company’s IT portfolio, said. because we thought that was too lim-financials, business relationships and For its part, HP is aggressively ramp- iting,” Sondergaard said. “P&P 7.1
risk assessments. ing up its IT governance business. The reflects our vie w that I T resource
Clarity also allows managers to company in November rolled out Proj- management also includes data and
map IT costs to services consumed ect and Portfolio Management Center application optimization, Sarbanes-and provides a systematic approach to 7.0, an IT governance product based Oxley compliance, and other manage-managing risk and controls, Landers in large part on what HP gained from ment initiatives, to name a few. Our
said. The software runs on Solaris, Mercury. In March, HP announced center is designed for global use,
HP-UX, AIX, Windows and Linux an upgraded version of the software, unlike others.”
environments. Version 7.1. Project and Portfolio Management
“We’ve been in this business, if you Jan Sondergaard, who came to HP Center 7.1 “sits between IT and the
can call it that, for quite a long time, from Mercury in the merger and who business in order to optimize the busi-and it’s really not a case of ‘should we now is vice president of products at ness result within IT,” Sondergaard
do it or not’ for IT organizations. It’s HP, said Project and Portfolio Man- said. ´
Force10 Networks looks to midrange port to ensure that VOIP
(voice over IP) phones or
WAPs (wireless access
points) that require more
By Paula Musich peer applications, hosted IDC analyst Cindy Borovick. power get what they need.
Force10 networks is applications outsidethe LAN “I agree. The network has “We can lock up power
hoping to leverage its and traffic going from sub- to be responsive to what the to specific ports [at the
reputation for high per- urbs to metro to long-haul, bus needs are. It’s not accept- expense of others] so that
formanceandhighreliability traffic will go every which able for the network to be a WAP port that’s used a
in high-end LAN switching way [not just from client to down anymore.” lot has what it needs. And
to gain a foothold in midsize data center server and back], The C-300, which has we can measure watts per
data centers and enterprise and the concept of always-on eight slots to accommodate port to see what’s currently
campus networks. networkingneedsalways-on being used and plan
Force10, knownprimarily thinking,” Garrisonsaid. for future capacity
as a scientific and grid com- The new chassis-based requirements,” Gar-puting LAN switch supplier, C-300 leverages the fea- rison said.
on May 14 will launch the tures of Force10’s E-Series To set itself apart
C-300, the first of a new C- high-performance data as the best-of-breed
Series of switches designed center switches such as the foil to one-stop shops
to bring the resiliency and modular Force10 Operating such as Cisco Sys-scale of its high-end switches System; redundant power tems, Force10 created
to the wiring closet and mid- supplies, route processor an ecosystem of LAN
size data center. modules and fans; the abil- partners based on an
Changing network traf- ity to swap out components open framework. The
fic patterns and a business’ while a switch is in opera- ecosystem includes
increasing reliance on the tion; a passive backplane Aruba Networks for
enterprise network trans- to eliminate a single point wireless, Avaya and
lates into a greater need for of failure; and the ability to Mitel Networks for VOIP,
network reliability outside perform in-service trouble- and Microsoft and Still-
Force10’s C-300 switch
of the data center, as well as shooting. supports POE on all ports. Secure for security. Force10
greater scalability and more “Essentially, they are and those partners have
flexiblenetworkcontrol, said extending what they believe a mix of 48-port Gigabit conducted interoperability
Stephen Garrison, vicepresi- to be their key attributes for Ethernet and four-port 10 testing of their products,
dent of marketing for the the [large] data center and Gigabit Ethernet, supports can create management
San Jose, Calif., company. making the case that those POE (power over Ethernet) hooks between their devices
“With the increasing use same technologies are on all ports. Power can be and carry out joint selling
in the enterprise of peer-to- needed in the campus,” said centrally controlled to each activities. ´
