Unveiled at the Microsoft Management Summit in San Diego last week, the companies say the alliance will combine technologies for network and systems to deliver network-aware service management software.
At the heart of the announcement is Microsoft’s licensing of EMC Smarts network discovery and health monitoring software to be included in a future version of Microsoft System Centre Operations Manager, the company’s enterprise network management platform.
EMC has already announced an EMC Smarts connector for Operations Manager 2007 as the first deliverable under the alliance. The two-way connector lets Smarts share network discovery, topology and root-cause events with Operations Manager, and for Operations Manager to synchronize alert status and resolution back to EMC Smarts technology.
“System Centre Operations Manager gives customers an integrated, end-to-end service management solution that helps increase efficiency and allows for greater control of the IT environment," Microsoft’s server and tools business senior vice-president Bob Muglia said.
“By integrating EMC's market-leading network management technology into Operations Manager and collaborating with EMC to develop a new cross-domain behavioural model … we are able to give customers a true network-aware service management solution,” Mr Muglia said.
Taking the alliance one step further, EMC and Microsoft said they would collaborate on co-development of a cross-domain behavioural model for Operations Manager to improve information management across disparate devices and systems.
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