Computer Associates brings predictive management to Microsoft Exchange 2000

Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA) has announced a new version of the Unicenter TNG Microsoft Exchange Option that ensures higher availability and performance of the Microsoft Exchange platform for email, scheduling, custom collaboration, and messaging-service applications.

According to Andrea Lodolo, consulting director: Field Services Group, CA Africa, the Unicenter TNG Microsoft Exchange Option 2.0 delivers substantial enhancements enabling organizations to increase service and reliability of the Exchange environment through both extended performance monitoring and centralized reporting. "The new version enables predictive analysis of Microsoft Exchange through Neugents, CA`s patented predictive intelligence technology," reveals Lodolo. By analysing hundreds of different parameters, the Neugents can predict when problems with Microsoft Exchange may occur.

"With the launch of Exchange 2000, customers will be looking to CA`s Unicenter TNG Microsoft Exchange Option 2.0 to not only ensure availability and reliability, but have the added assurance of predictive intelligence for optimum performance," says Stan Sorensen, group product manager, Server Applications at Microsoft.

Additional highlights of Unicenter TNG Microsoft Exchange Option 2.0 include:

• Enhanced performance monitoring including additional Exchange-specific parameters and collection of historical application performance metrics Centralized performance management reporting to monitor and manage overall performance including analysis of current and historical usage Simplified administration in a cluster environment when mixing Windows 2000 and Windows NT environments.

• Enhanced administrative capability to monitor top senders, top receivers, top folders, top domains and inactive mailboxes Lodolo adds that ease of use is enhanced through Unicenter TNG`s autodiscover feature that automatically detects all Microsoft Exchange servers.

"Because it is highly customisable, IT departments can add additional Unicenter TNG functions - such as cross platform and cross application user administration, end-user response time, backup and restore, antivirus protection, and software distribution - to handle Microsoft Exchange deployment and administrative tasks," he concludes.