H&W Will Resell and Incorporate mValent Integrity to Enable Efficiency, Compliance and ITIL Best Practices
Burlington, MA and Boise, ID – March 6, 2006–mValent, the leader in automated application configuration management software , and H&W Computer Systems, a leading solutions provider to enterprise data centers, today announced that mValent’s Integrity will be incorporated into H&W services suite for efficient configuration management, audit and regulatory compliance, and IT best practices. H&W chose mValent Integrity to provide the optimal solution for automating the highly complex and error-prone tasks of configuring and maintaining the IT infrastructure underlying business applications.
IT organizations within large enterprises are faced with managing hundreds of applications that are distributed, multi-tiered and running across multiple platforms. The infrastructure that supports these applications, which includes Web servers, application servers, databases and middleware, requires setting and changing thousands of parameters, or “configuration items.” Managing this complex configuration manually is time-consuming and leads to errors and downtime.
“Many of the most acute issues that enterprise IT managers confront, including compliance, privacy risks, access to sensitive data and unplanned downtime, have their roots in the same fundamental problem: lack of visibility into a complex application infrastructure,” said Jamie Nolan, H&W’s practice strategy manager for the Application Infrastructure Management (AIM) division. “mValent Integrity provides an unparalleled level of visibility into the computing environment, as well as control of configurations and changes, which allows our shared customers to automate application configuration management, reduce downtime, accelerate best practices such as ITIL and improve compliance efforts.”
H&W’s AIM is a family of solution offerings that automate various aspects of application infrastructure management. Specific AIM services that will incorporate mValent Integrity include:
- IT Best Practices: The right automation at the right time for best practices in configuration, change and release management. Rapidly integrated solutions provide views that transcend traditional IT silos, and substantially lower the manual effort, cost and risk of managing complex application environments.
- Configuration Management: On-demand, accurate and comprehensive visibility into complex application configurations that spans the IT infrastructure. The ability to model the impact of changes before they are made, to enforce policy automatically and to implement enterprise-wide standards that mitigate the risk of errors and reduce costly downtime.Audits and Regulatory Compliance: Critical and comprehensive understanding of application environments that dramatically reduce the cost of audits and include views that pertain to regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Quickly and inexpensively lower the burden on IT budgets and staff, streamline compliance efforts, and reduce the risk of fines and negative publicity.
“H&W Computer Systems has a reputation for excellence in helping enterprise IT organizations solve complex technology challenges and improve overall business processes,” said Swapnil Shah, mValent’s senior vice president of Strategy and Business Development. “The skills and expertise of H&W’s team in implementation and customization, combined with mValent’s comprehensive solutions for enterprise data centers, will deliver substantial benefits in areas that matter most to IT: cutting operating costs, mitigating risks, reducing errors and downtime, and accelerating the deployment of new applications.”
About H&W
For more than 25 years, H&W has provided quality software solutions that address the complex IT needs of corporate data centers worldwide. Today more than 1,200 corporations, including many Global 500 companies, trust H&W to help them gain the financial and competitive advantages they need from their IT investments. H&W specializes in bridging the gap between data centers’ business requirements and the capabilities they get from their investments in IT. Melding decades of experience in traditional data centers with the innovative technologies of today, H&W is uniquely qualified to solve the IT challenges in the years to come. For more information, visit H&W at http://www.hwcs.com.
