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N+I - Cabletron Plans Data Warehouse, Unveils Mining Partners
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Date: Thursday, May 8, 1997
Source: Newsbytes
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LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, U.S.A., Newsbytes via Individual Inc. : At Networld +
Interop, Cabletron has unveiled plans tointroduce a data warehouse and
associated data mining tools for its Spectrum Enterprise Management
Software later this year, in addition to three partners in the new
initiative: Thinking Machines, Syllogic BV, and GK Intelligent Systems
(GKIS).
"All three of our partners have lots of expertise in data mining tools for
applications like retail, marketing, and financial analysis. Now, Cabletron
has recognized a need for similar technology in the enterprise management
space," asserted Lundy Lewis, an architect for Spectrum applications, in a
briefing today for Newsbytes.
In a "classic" data mining application, he noted, an organization might
establish customer profiles of buying habits, using this information to
make business decisions about customer-targeted mailing lists.
Similarly, Cabletron's new tools will let administrators establish
profiles, to be known as "behavior models," for use in monitoring and
troubleshooting network devices, systems, and database applications, for
example.
Lewis divulged that Spectrum's forthcoming data warehouse, now in testing
with selected customers, will be "huge" in capacity, with the ability to
run either in a central location or in distributed fashion, as well as to
be used as the basis for smaller, departmental data marts.
An organization might establish a specialized data mart for accounting
information only, he continued.
The first release of Spectrum's data warehouse will be based on Oracle7,
but the second edition will support all major RDBMS (relational database
management systems), Newsbytes was told.
Lewis added that Cabletron is also readying a component called the
distributed data manager (DDM) for scrubbing operational data from
applications such as RMON (remote monitoring) and SNMP (Simple Network
Management Protocol) network management systems, and for subsequently
moving this information into Spectrum's data warehouse.
Also in the works is a related "decision tree," designed to show the
administrator the various parameters involved in making a particular
systems management decision, graphically representing the relative
importance of each parameter, according to the applications architect.
Lewis maintained that the forthcoming data mining tools from Cabletron and
its partners will be aimed at use in situations where network or database
administrators know what problems are being experienced, but are uncertain
which factors are to blame.
To illustrate, he used the example of a situation in which a database is
not meeting a Service Level Agreement (SLA) guaranteeing that up to ten
simultaneous users can access the database "without the system going down,
and without any (user) getting kicked off."
After the administrator describes this problem, the new data mining tools
will glean historical information in Spectrum's new data warehouse to find
the related parameters (such as "CPU usage over 50 percent") in past
instances of the problem, and to rank these parameters in terms of probable
relevance.
Also at Networld + Interop this week, one of Cabletron's new partners,
GKIS, is giving first-time demos in the Cabletron booth of the Smart
Behavioral Model Manager, a tool intended to use data mining for building
and analyzing behavior models.
As previously reported in Newsbytes, Thinking Machines, another newly
announced Cabletron partner, produces the Connection Machine parallel
processing supercomputer.
In recent years, Thinking Machines has added Darwin, a multiplatform data
mining software environment. Darwin uses technologies such as neural
networking and decision trees, Thinking Machines officials said, at a press
conference attended by Newsbytes in Cambridge, Massachusetts upon Darwin's
initial launch. Thinking Machines has since moved its headquarters from
Cambridge to Bedford, Massachusetts.
Syllogic, BV produces Adaptive Enterprise Management (AEM),a tool designed
for associating service levels with software applications. Syllogics is
based in the Netherlands, Lewis observed.
(19970507/Reader Contact: Cabletron Systems, 603-332-9400; Press Contacts:
Dennis Drogseth or Ann Kelly, Cabletron,603-332-9400; Reported by Newsbytes
News Network: http://www.newsbytes.com )
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