AlterPoint Announces New Network Lifecycle Management Capabilities
NetworkAuthority Lifecycle Transforms Business, Engineering and
Operations Data into Actionable Asset Management Information
AUSTIN, Texas (Business Wire EON) April 29, 2008 --
AlterPoint, Inc. (www.alterpoint.com)
a leading provider of open
network management software, today announced NetworkAuthority
Lifecycle 6.5, a groundbreaking network analytics solution that
empowers companies to reduce overspending on hardware replacement and
maintenance contracts. One AlterPoint customer has seen demonstrable
savings of more than $1.6 million on maintenance and device replacement
expenditures, and is projecting savings of more than $5 million over the
next few years.
“Ask any CIO if they are overspending on
hardware maintenance, or have an incomplete picture of their network
inventory status, and you will probably get an earful," said Larry
Burton, senior analyst with Enterprise Management Associates. “The
proliferation of network devices in today’s
enterprises, coupled with a lack of automated collection controls, makes
it difficult for companies to maintain an accurate picture of their
network assets, or to understand their relationships to costs, contracts
and business services. By giving customers a complete view of their
network assets, AlterPoint is helping enterprises understand how
maintenance and replacement decisions affect larger business objectives.”
Traditional network management products only provide reporting on the
state of the network from an engineering and operations perspective.
This ultimately leads to problems that include over-
and under-buying of network assets, expensive off-contract and
fragmented procurement, excess maintenance and support costs, and
inadequate total-cost-of-ownership (TCO) data for budgeting, purchasing
and planning.
NetworkAuthority Lifecycle 6.5 includes new capabilities that enable
analysis and management of complex networks at a much finer level of
granularity and precision:
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Automated site standardization allows classification, analysis
and management of devices based on geography, business unit or other
similar preset or custom attributes.
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Automated device criticality classification allows
classification, analysis and management of devices based on a
criticality rating scheme that is dynamically applied to all devices
in the network. Device criticality settings update automatically based
on network infrastructure changes –
eliminating manual maintenance.
Together, these capabilities enable companies to more effectively
provision, manage and optimize network devices based on factors such as
criticality to the business, or logical or physical sites. By helping
network managers make better business decisions about network asset
aging, maintenance contracts, capacity management and site
standardization initiatives, NetworkAuthority Lifecycle enables customers
to:
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Reduce overspending on hardware - know when critical devices
reach end-of-life (EOL) or end-of-service (EOS); and proactively plan
device replacement based on automated device criticality and site
standardization calculations.
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Reduce overspending on maintenance contracts - reconcile actual
network device inventory with hardware vendor estimates; stop paying
maintenance on out-of-service devices or devices that are already
under contract; stop paying for high levels of service on non-critical
devices; and find critical devices with incorrect or no maintenance
coverage.
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Plan and implement site standardization policies - determine
how much a site deviates from the baseline across inventory, change
and policy metrics; see the at-a-glance status of standardization
efforts across sites, inventory, change and policies; and correlate
sites with a high level of policy violations to issues with their
inventory and change count.
“Time and again we see the two of the biggest
areas of waste are inaccurate maintenance contracts and the premature
replacement of less-critical devices,” said
David Cramer, vice president of marketing. “AlterPoint
is helping customers reconcile the differences between their network
device inventory and the estimates provided to them by hardware vendors
so they can make smarter, most cost-effective business decisions.”
NetworkAuthority Lifecycle will be generally available beginning May 1,
2008.
About AlterPoint, Inc.
AlterPoint open network management solutions optimize network spend and
better align IT with business imperatives. The world’s
most respected enterprises rely on AlterPoint to curb hardware
over-provisioning, reduce specialized labor, lower the cost of
compliance, and improve the availability of network services. AlterPoint’s
open, comprehensive network CMDB combines operational and business data
to automate, analyze and optimize network change, compliance, security
and equipment lifecycles. Multiple stakeholders benefit from AlterPoint’s
customizable analytics and dashboards for impact assessment, faster
troubleshooting, compliance scorecards and trend analysis. Founded in
2001, AlterPoint is headquartered in Austin, Texas. For more
information, please visit http://www.alterpoint.com.
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Rights Reserved. AlterPoint, NetworkAuthority, DeviceAuthority, and
their respective logos are trademarks of AlterPoint, Inc. in the United
States and other jurisdictions. All other company or product names
mentioned are used only for identification purposes and may be
trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
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