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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
1998-0127

Release of Policy-based Enterprise system management software, SystemWalker based on new concept of PSM (Policy-based System Management)

Tokyo, June 23, 1998 --- Fujitsu Limited today announces SysetmWalker which is a successor of proven integrated system & network management software : MpWalker, and the enhancements of the product lineup to meet with the new business demand in Enterprise system environment from June 23, 1998 in Japan and from the middle of September, 1998 for overseas.

As a new computing paradigm, Network computing system has taken the place of Client/Server and is growing its size by tightly cooperating with internet environment. Also by new requirements for multimedia data handling such as photo, sound or animation, the number of data type and the amount of data have also been increasing dramatically. This caused new challenges to manage whole IT environment easily and effectively. For such requirements, SystemWalker provides new solution concept, PCM (Policy-based System Management) and solves customers' demands in system management.

Features

  1. Provides New concept, PSM (Policy-based System Management)
    SystemWalker provides the best system management solution with the following three business logic;

    - - Policy management;
    For the strategic business operation, SystemWalker defines the operational environment as policies and monitors the operating condition.

    - - Service management;
    For the improvement of serviceability, SystemWalker provides various solutions for each business.

    - - Life-cycle management;
    For the operational cost reduction, SystemWalker secures a whole system life cycle like deployment/setup, monitor, recovery, and evaluation.

  2. Collaboration
    Fujitsu reinforces the relation with other vendors such as CISCO, Intel, NetScout, Oracle, Microsoft, and Lotus. With this collaboration, we provide the best system & network management solution jointly.
  3. Globalization
    As one of the world class solution vendors, Fujitsu promotes system & network management business worldwide. SystemWalker enables to manage even complicated system environments of multinational companies beyond geographical or time constraints.

Products line up and price of SystemWalker

- - Life-cycle management
SystemWalker/CentricMGR WE(Workgroup Edition) V4.0L10 : \298K
SystemWalker/CentricMGR SE(Standard Edition) V4.0L10 : \440K-
SystemWalker/CenticMGR EE(Enterprise Edition) V4.0L10 : \2,020K-
SystemWalker/NetPrism V4.0L10 : \1,000K
- - Service management
SystemWalker/OperationMGR SE(Standard Edition) V4.0L10 : \220K-
SystemWalker/PerfMGR V4.0L10 : \99K
SystemWalker/PrintMGR SE(Standard Edition) V4.0L10 : \200K-
SystemWalker/ListWORKS SE(Standard Edition) V4.0L10 : \419K-

Release shedule

In Japan; from the beginning of August, 1998
Overseas; from the end of October, 1998

Sales prospects

1500K licenses (including server and client) worldwide for three years
Effective prices will be available through our local representatives in each area.

Fujitsu has sold 25,800 server licenses to 3,550 companies of MpWalker in Japan since December 1995 and taken No.1 market share. We renew the product lineup as SystemWalker and provides a new concept to entry the global market competition. SystemWalker enables to manage heterogeneous system environment by the standard framework of SystemWalker. As a small system solution, Workgroup edition enables to install SystemWalker easily and reduce the time for setting up (12 min. for the installation to PC server with Pentium 200MHz)
As strategic collaborations, we developed the relation with CISCO's products like Cisco Works for Switched Internetworks(CWSI) and Cisco Resource Manager(CRM) and Intel's WfM.: Wired for Management, NetScout Systems's NetScout Manager Plus. We also have a plan to enhance integration functions with industrial standard products like Oracle, Microsoft's WBEM: Web Based Enterprise Management or Lotus's Notes.

Wired for Management solution of Intel targets to improve the system maintenance environment, take a quick action to the business environment change and reduce the TCO (Total Cost of Ownership). By tight relation with our product, user can expect a big advantage. The seamless integration with Cisco Assured Network Services of Cisco and Application Flow Management Solution of NetScout also can be expected big effectiveness.

* All company / product names mentioned may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and are used for identification purpose only.

Attachements

- - Product outline of SystemWalker
- - Comments from third vendors



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Press contact

Fujitsu Limited, Public Relations
Toshiaki Koike
Tel: +81-3-3215-5236 (Tokyo)
Fax: +81-3-3216-9365

 Customer contact

Fujitsu Software Corporation
Shun Fukushima,
Tel: +1-408-456-7227
e-mail: shun@fsc.fujitsu.com

 Marketing, Fujitsu Limited, Marketing
Hideo Hoya,
Tel: +81-3-3215-5237
e-mail: soft@ign.hon.fujitsu.co.jp

Terms

*1:Inventory information
Information for H/W and S/W of PC. H/W information includes CPU, Memory, available Disk space, Network card, etc. S/W information includes OS's version, installed application, etc.

*2:Network traffic
The amount of transferred data on the line within a certain term

*3:RMON (Remote network MONitoring)
Functions to collect the traffic information on the transmission

*4:SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol)
One of TCP/IP network management protocols *5:MIB (Management Information Base) Basic information in SNMP network. This manages the information for configuration and performance of network

(Functions)
- - SystemWalker/CentricMGR
SystemWalker/CentricMGR enables to reduce the operation cost and provides the stable system environment. This also supports a wide rage of system environment from Workgroup to Enterprise with the following functions;

- - Deployment
Software distribution and remote installation with Pull and Push methods
Central management of user or organization information
Collect the inventory information for servers and clients and manage those information centrally
Remote install and setup of SystemWalker itself

- - Monitoring
Network traffic monitoring
Condition monitoring of internet server
Security monitoring (e.g. Attack monitoring for internet server) and Virus detection

- - Recovery
Remote operation of troubled PCs
Automatic command issuing and trouble notification with mail or voice

- - Assessment
Accumulation of help desk information like Q&A or know-how
License management by checking the number of install
System evaluation based on help desk information or license information

- - Framework
Provides common framework. This collects the network or system information and stores that into a repository and enables to operate the entire system seamlessly. This also enables to reduce TCO by the tight relation with ISV products like CRM or CWSI of Cisco and WfM of Intel.

SystemWalker/NetPrism
Enables to arrange and show the independent management view of hardwares and softwares distributed on the network on the SystemWalker/CentricMGR's managing display. Also enables easy code less application developing, with only defining SNMP's MIB information which hardware and software has, on the certain image picture over a graphical builder.

SytemWalker/OperationMGR
Enables to schedule from turning on the server, activating the service, job scheduling, stopping the service, and to turning off the power. It can schedule the standard jobs such as daily jobs, and monthly jobs as a Job net on the visual display.

SystemWalker/PerfMGR
With the agent function, it collects the computer's performance information and center controls with the manager function. The data stored and processed can be reported with the exclusive report function which enables high quality data analyzing/proceeding function.

SystemWalker/PrintMGR
This print base system enables high reliable basic job printing. It totally controls plural server's spools and printers such as printing recovery, savin/reloading of printing data on one display.

SystemWalker/ListWORKS
Enables retrieving alphabets and numbers, displaying only the required information and delivering the data to the word processors/ sheet calculating software the data form out putted from global server by double displaying with the overlay pattern on the PC display.

Comment from partners

Cisco Systems
"Fujitsu is a valued, global system integrator for Cisco," said Bill Ahlstrom, director of marketing for Cisco's Network Management Business Unit.
"Our common customers have appreciated Fujitsu's integration of CiscoWorks for Switched Internetworks and Cisco Resource Manager with Fujitsu's network management platform, and will continue to benefit from Fujitsu's expansion of their end-to-end solution with Cisco products."
Bill Ahlstrom
Cisco Systems
Director of marketing for Network Management Business Unit

Intel Corporation
Intel appreciates that Fujitsu Inc. supports the Intel's Wired for Management(WfM) Initiative and this WfM-enabled management application software announcement.
The WfM solutions help companies gain control of their computing environment and reduce TCO. The WfM solutions provide centralized management, which enables asset management and off-hours maintenance, and simplifies new system setup by using the management application software such as Fujitsu's SystemWalker.
WfM solutions help IT deploy systems and applications quickly, giving corporations greater flexibility to anticipate and plan for changing business conditions. Now, more than 130 WfM-enabled desktop and notebook PCs based on Pentium(R) Processor and Pentium(R)II Processor are shipping from the 26 PC makers in the world. Then, the management application SWs are shipping also.
Widely supported by key hardware and software vendors, WfM solutions are interoperable, allowing freedom of choice between systems and leading management applications. And, the WfM solutions are available today at a full range of performance levels.
Terry Dickson
Intel Corporation
Wired for Management Marketing Manager

Lotus Development Japan, Ltd.
The market demand for total information system management software is increasing these days as the e-mail and Groupware became more popular. SystemWalker V4.0 has enhanced the integration with Lotus Notes and Domino, the global standard of Groupware which has more than 20 million users world wide, and this is a good news for all Notes and Domino users.
Lotus will support the product development of SystemWalker that provides the advanced environment of system management.
Lotus Development Japan, Ltd
Makoto Yasuda
Managing Director

Microsoft Co., Ltd.
Microsoft believes that SystemWalker will provide Enterprise customers with robust and integrated system management solution, which realizes the integrated solution with Microsoft(R) Systems Management Server as well as the interoperability with Microsoft(R) BackOffice(R) platform.
Shoji Hasegawa
Microsoft Co., Ltd.
Managing Director, Board Member

NetScout Systems, Inc.
"NetScout believes that its Application Flow Management solutions offer a great complement to SystemWalker in both the Service Management and Life Cycle Management components," said Michael Szabados, vice president of marketing for NetScout Systems, Inc.
"Through its wide range of network probes and its leading-edge NetScout Management Plus console software, NetScout Systems provides vital information on the performance of business-critical applications across the network. Application Flow Management is essential to effective troubleshooting, establishing SLA baselines, measuring network performance, planning future capacity and analyzing the return on investment in network infrastructure."
"SystemWalker is one of the most comprehensive solutions to the problems of enterprise network management," commented Michael Szabados of NetScout Systems. "We are excited to work with a leader in solving the needs of the enterprise in the Internet Era's new challenges. NetScout Systems expects to dramatically increase its business in Japan and worldwide through working with key international partners such as Toyo."
Michael Szabados,
Vice President of Marketing,
NetScout Systems, Inc.

Oracle Corporation Japan
Oracle Corporation Japan welcomes and congratulates Fujitsu's announcement of SystemWalker V4.0.
Oracle and Fujitsu have been developing close partnership world wide on the issues such as improving the user support with QAP(Quality Alliance Program), and improving product quality with jointly developing organization in Oracle US (Fujitsu SBU).
Oracle Japan expects that with this total system management software SystemWalker V4.0, we can jointly provide solutions of even higher reliability, and together can contribute to business' TCO(Total Cost of Ownership) reduction.
Masaaki Shintaku
Oracle Japan
Managing Director