Conference azur::mcc

533.0. "BJ's speech to Citicorp senior managers" by BSYBEE::EGOLF (John C. Egolf LKG2-2/T02 x226-7874) Mon Dec 10 1990 09:05

                          SCRIPT FOR B.J.'S SPEECH ON

                        HETEROGENEOUS NETWORK MANAGEMENT
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	DIGITAL is committed to providing platforms and applications to
	manage our customers'  heterogeneous  enterprise-wide networks.
	At  DECworld'88,  we  announced    our   Enterprise  Management
	Architecture (EMA) which defined our  philosophy  and framework
	for  managing  heterogeneous  networks.  In  November  '89,  we
	announced  the  DECmcc family of products which  implement  the
	Enterprise  Management  Architecture,  along  with  the  DECmcc
	Systems Reference Manual (SRM) which specifies the Applications
	Programming Interfaces (API)  to DECmcc systems.  Using the SRM
	and  the  DECmcc Toolkit,  other  vendors  can  develop  DECmcc
	modules to manage their unique  environments through the DECmcc
	system.  To date, twenty vendors  have publicly announced their
	support  for EMA/DECmcc together with plans to  develop  DECmcc
	modules.  We expect the number of vendors  endorsing  DECmcc to
	rapidly increase over time. 

	I am pleased to announce that EMA-based DECmcc products shipped
	on  schedule  last  month  (November  1990).   Through a single
	DECmcc  system,    you   can  now  manage  not  only  DIGITAL's
	traditional  DECnet/Ethernet/FDDI  networks,  but  also  TCP/IP
	networks.  In addition, we recently announced an agreement with
	Systems Center Inc.  (SCI) to jointly develop products to allow
	interoperation of DECmcc systems with IBM's  NetView  and SCI's
	Net/Master    SNA  Management  products.    So,  through    one
	DECwindows-based  graphical  user-interface you will be able to
	monitor  and  manage    heterogeneous  networking  environments
	consisting of DECnet, TCP/IP and SNA nodes.  It should be noted
	that  DECmcc  is not limited  to  just  managing  heterogeneous
	networks;  DECmcc is also the  vehicle  for systems management.
	With that end it mind, we have  submitted  DECmcc  to  OSF  for
	adoption  as  the  network  and  system management platform  of
	choice.    DECmcc  products  are  already  shipping on the  VMS
	operating  system,  and  will be available on the ULTRIX opera-
	ting system within one year.