CA And Tivoli Gain Add-Ons For Management Software

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September 22, 1997

CA And Tivoli Gain Add-Ons For Management Software

Deals mean added capabilities for TME 10 and Unicenter TNG
By Caryn Gillooly
wo leading enterprise-management providers bolstered their offerings last week. IBM's Tivoli Systems Inc. acquired job-scheduling software through IBM's purchase of Unison Software Inc., while Computer Associates took a stake in Sequel Technology Corp., which specializes in products that report on and manage Internet and intranet usage.
The IBM-Unison deal, estimated to be worth about $170 million, calls for the integration of Unison's Maestro job-scheduling software as well as its output-management and workload-man agement products into Tivoli's TME 10 distributed enterprise-management framework.
Tivoli already has a tight relationship with Unison, under which the Santa Clara, Calif., company's products are tied into TME 10. But Tivoli president and CEO Frank Moss says the Unison products will now be built into the framework, in addition to being sold separately. "In evolving our framework, we need to provide [built-in] scheduled services," which let third-party developers build more-complete applications, Moss says.
Customers will be the ultimate beneficiaries. "It's wonderful that Maestro will be built in. This is the kind of tool we're missing now," says Jeff DeHaven, director of server engineering at @Home Network Inc., a Tivoli customer in Redwood City, Calif. "We'll definitely use it in the next release."
DeHaven's organization currently uses the job-scheduling capabilities offered in Unix, which he says are rudimentary compared to Maestro's. He explains that while @Home Network did look at Unison a wh ile back, distributed job scheduling was not a priority for the Internet service provider at the time. "This is becoming more of a need for us now," DeHaven says.
Separately, CA's deal with Sequel Technology in Bellevue, Wash., calls for the integration of Sequel Net Access Manager product with CA's Unicenter TNG distributed enterprise-management offering. This will let IS managers track end-user access to the Internet and intranets. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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