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Cloud Services Beg for Nimbler Management
March 31, 2011 - Read more at SearchCloudComputing.com
"...it's about squeezing more and more automation into existing infrastructure. BECU uses workload automation tools from UC4 to manage some of its important financial systems, and Gauthier said that a new release (Automation Platform v9) from the vendor is a step in that direction."
The Maturation of IT Automation
March 24, 2011 - Read more at Channel Tech Center
"Longer term, Liu says that he expects IT organizations to move beyond automating basic tasks by automating the entire decision-making processes within the IT department, including whether and application should be deployed in a public or private cloud based on the attributes of that application...the complex event processing (CEP) technology that is at the heart of the ONE Automation architecture will capture that information and then apply it against a set of policies created by the IT department to automate those types of decisions."
UC4 Unifies Enterprise Automation
March 22, 2011 - Read more at eWeek Europe
"UC4 joins enterprise application and infrastructure automation functionality onto a single console that eliminates the complexity of managing multiple tools, frees staff for more productive work and improves service delivery by creating more responsive IT infrastructure." [Jason Liu]
UC4 Adds New Functionality to Automation Software
March 21, 2011 - Read more at eWeek
"To frame its ONE Automation software, UC4 announced the release of Automation Platform v.9, which supports most databases, applications and operating systems, and provides an alternative to other end-to-end data center automation packages provided by general systems vendors."
UC4 Software Updates ONE Automation
March 18, 2011 - Read more at Enterprise Systems
"ONE Automation eliminates the cost and complexity of managing multiple tools, frees staff for more productive work, and improves service delivery by creating more agile and responsive IT infrastructure."
“One of our strengths is that we can perform predictive remediation so that potential problems don’t turn into actual problems. We can perform many of the steps ourselves -- especially the ones that would not alarm an IT professional..." [Jason Liu]
Westfield State University: A UC4 Customer Profile
March 16, 2011 - Read more at ZDNet
“UC4 is one of the few management technology suppliers that offer products that address the needs of users of mainframes, Linux and Windows.”
“It would be worth knowing UC4 if your challenges include managing a heterogeneous systems environment.”
“…Westfield State University’s Information Technology department is also proud to be the first UC4 client worldwide to install it in a production environment!”
UC4 Announces ONE Automation and the UC4 Automation Platform
March 16, 2011 - Read more at ZDNet
“…UC4 Automation Platform supports a large list of databases, applications and operating systems. It offers the promise of a single tool to help organizations manage quite a number of resources. If one considers how complex today’s datacenter has become, anything that offers simplicity will be quite welcome.”
BECU Deploys UC4’s ONE Automation
March 16, 2011 - Read more
“BECU said it has implemented UC4’s One Automation Version 9, which allows enterprises to deploy, manage and extend automation technology across the enterprise.”
“…The UC4 Automation Platform will greatly simplify our automation road map through its ability to accomplish all areas of IT automation with one tool…” [Eric Gauthier]
UC4 ONE Automation Unifies Job Scheduling and Distributed Server/ Workload Automation
March 15, 2011 - Read the entire IDC analyst report
"Using the UC4 Automation Platform Version 9, enterprises can rely on just one tool to build and schedule work flows, then monitor and govern their performance by identifying patterns in events that could affect service delivery against established policies and rules."
"The ability to provide a single unified solution that spans business services, middleware and infrastructure automation positions UC4 not only as an automation provider but as a cloud orchestration engine."
"UC4 aims to use the ONE Automation vision powered by the UC4 Automation Platform to help customers reduce costs and operational complexity by replacing (or avoiding buying) as many as 10–15 existing job scheduling, server and VM provisioning, application release, application management and file transfer tools."
UC4 Software Extends IT Automation
March 15, 2011 - Read more at CTOEdge
“…Liu says that he expects IT organizations to move beyond automating basic tasks in a way that starts automating entire decision-making processes within the IT department, including whether an application should be deployed in a public or private cloud based on the attributes of that application.”
“…the company today rolled out a ONE Automation architecture that is anchored by version 9 of the UC4 Automation Platform, which adds support for automating run books in data centers and tighter integration with virtual machine software and the VMware vSphere management platform.”
UC4 Enables End-to-End Automation
March 15, 2011 - Read more at Network World
“…enterprise IT managers have been somewhat limited in just how automated they can get. Automating across the application environment, using job scheduling and run book tools, for example…UC4, a pure-play automation company, aims to change that.”
“In other words, IT managers can use UC4 to first architect and control the execution of application process flows, then to orchestrate the underlying infrastructure to meet required service levels.”
UC4 Says Cloud Is Infiltrating the Enterprise, Like It or Not
March 10, 2011 - Read more at CBR
“…UC4 will move its portfolio on another notch…With the next version we will address the six key areas of automation…No one else does this. Rivals have point solutions but we will be the only firm with complete integration.”
Q&A with UC4 on the Future of Workload Automation
March 8, 2011 - Read more at IT Jungle
“Virtualization and cloud computing are making IT a very complicated place…one vendor that's working on forward-looking workload automation tools is UC4.”
UC4 Software Pushing Automation Into The Data Center
February 28, 2011 - Read more at CRN
“…A proprietary technology called complex event processing enables UC4's platform to anticipate alerts and issues before they happen by factoring external intelligence into the mix.”
Public Cloud Set to Be a Private Golf Club Business Model
February 24, 2011 - Read more at CIO
“…Liu sees automation and cloud technology as intrinsically linked to the CIO role because both are about lowering the cost of service delivery, which is done by removing the opportunities for human error.”
The Holy Grail of Automated Management
February 2, 2011 - Read more at eWeek
“I talked with UC4 today about their upcoming launch of a workload automation tool set currently scheduled for March 15. They seek the holy grail of predictive workload management, automating the allocation of scarce storage, network, computer resources along with complex job scheduling.”
