Aperture announces integration.(IT News and Products)(Brief article)

Aperture have announced the integration of its IT management software application with HP Universal Configuration Management Database (UCMDB) at HP Software Universe 2009. Aperture VISTA data center service management software has been integrated with HP UCMDB, enabling IT organizations to map the topology of their logical and physical data center infrastructures down to Level Zero. The integration allows users to identify relationships and interdependences between IT systems and the underlying data center infrastructure by expanding the UCMDB visibility down to physical assets including equipment, space, power and environmentals. The solution produces a complete visualization of logical assets mapped to the physical infrastructure supporting each one, providing top-down visibility into the cause-effect relationship at one level of the IT organization and cascading down across the supporting systems.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida began testing the most recent integration in May, and has used the increased visibility to enhance troubleshooting, investigating alarms across the layers of its IT infrastructure to determine the root cause of a failure.

The integration is an expansion of a reseller agreement between Aperture and HP signed in 2008 to allow Aperture VISTA's incorporation into HP Asset Manager software, part of the HP IT Service Management offering. The integration with HP Asset Manager helps users manage both physical and virtual IT assets, optimizing server utilization in the data center and reducing overall energy costs.

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