November 22, 2004
Analyst Insight: The Enterprise Management Next Big Thing

By Richard Ptak

Ptak, Noel & Associates

The challenge of providing safe, secure, reliable and robust networked communications in the enterprise continues to escalate in complexity. The emergence of on demand and adaptive strategies are just a few of the factors challenging the foundations of traditional management tools.

As the vision of the dynamic enterprise begins its path to realization, everything involved in the delivery of services-from the network to the data center to the embedded applications-will be changing.

The Enterprise Management Challenge

The network itself will be adapting its behavior in real time to meet the needs of dynamically changing business priorities, utilization patterns and user demands. As Web services and Web-based applications begin to make their appearance in the enterprise environment, management that is focused along horizontal lines of control will prove inadequate.

Today's network management solutions assume a level of stability in operating environment, infrastructure, application and service that simply does not exist today. Tomorrow the challenge will be even bigger.

As VoIP, MPLS and VLAN initiatives expand into enterprise networks, this fuels further growth in enterprise technologies and services. Enterprises need to prepare for this explosive growth. Industry pundits are recommending that plans be developed to prepare the network for the anticipated application and service load.

Automate and Win

We believe that enterprises need to begin automating their network management environment today. Intelliden is one of the leading network management vendors that is poised to help enterprises strengthen their operational environment via its device automation software suite called the Intelliden R-Series.

Every day Intelliden's software is used to automate enterprise network configuration, network compliance, network provisioning and network security initiatives.

Intelliden works at the leading edge, combining technology with a focus on addressing today's pressing operational needs. Here's some of what Intelliden offers via its open and extensible APIs or GUI:

Auditing Engine - when network performance is critical, the Intelliden Auditing engine automatically discovers and documents your infrastructure, giving you full visibility to all network assets and changes to ensure conformance with existing policies.

Configuration Engine - Intelliden's Configuration engine provides intelligent, automated, simultaneous configuration and control of routers, switches, firewalls and optics. This provides more reliable, efficient and accurate network device management to eliminate a major source of network problems.

Provisioning Engine - the Intelliden Provisioning engine permits automated new service definition and implementation by translating service orders into specific network changes. Intelliden integrates service activation with existing operational support systems (billing, customer care, etc.) to ensure seamless and error-free access to and implementation of services.

Security Engine - Intelliden's Security Management engine responds to the dramatic increase in network security breaches and attacks. Through consistent application of policies for access and authentication, the Security Management engine allows tracking and control of who makes what changes to the network. Attacks are becoming more sophisticated and frequent. Intelliden's approach allows intelligent, automated definition and application of policies that can be easily modified to protect against the most recent threats.

With the Intelliden R-Series® software suite, enterprises become more intelligent and efficient by allowing their networks to dynamically respond to important business priorities. This level of flexibility and business agility is a powerful differentiator for both the enterprise and Intelliden.

In fact, if enterprises haven't already started to do so, they should quickly begin assessing their network automation strategy. This will allow them to ride out and remain in control of the massive data wave that is heading their way in the form of an ever-expanding data network that has outgrown its manual management boundaries.

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