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Subhash Tantry, executive vice president of engineering and operations at CenterBeam Inc., said the San Jose-based IT outsourcing vendor wants to use Systems Insight Manager in its data center, which houses hundreds of servers for the company's North American customers. CenterBeam runs HP's Insight Manager 7 tool now but needs the new software's cross-platform capabilities.
"We service the midsize market, and the diversity of hardware and software is huge," Tantry said. "We prefer to have one [management tool] that is extensive and monitors multiple nodes." Systems Insight Manager also has a "more intuitive and process-oriented interface," he added.
Because of the nature of its business, CenterBeam has tried to keep abreast of all the management products from HP and its competitors, such as Computer Associates International Inc. and IBM's Tivoli software unit, said Brian Johnson, director of public relations at CenterBeam.
"HP is on the right track" by attempting to bring all its management tools under its autonomic computing strategy, Johnson said.
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