AlterPoint, Inc., a leading provider of network governance software, today announced the formation of the ZipTie Open Network Alliance, a community of like-minded technology vendors committed to promoting open manageability and interoperability of multi-vendor networks. Joining AlterPoint in the ZipTie Open Network Alliance are inaugural members Citrix Systems, Force10 Networks, Fortinet, Juniper Networks, Radware, Riverbed Technology and Vyatta.
AUSTIN, Texas (BusinessWire EON) September 25, 2007 --
AlterPoint, Inc., a leading
provider of network governance software, today announced the formation
of the ZipTie Open Network
Alliance, a community of like-minded technology vendors committed to
promoting open manageability and interoperability of multi-vendor
networks. Joining AlterPoint in the ZipTie Open Network Alliance are
inaugural members Citrix Systems, Force10 Networks, Fortinet, Juniper
Networks, Radware, Riverbed Technology and Vyatta.
"As the leader in Linux-based networking, Vyatta feels strongly that
users are best served by open solutions that promote interoperability
and encourage innovation," said Dave Roberts, vice president of strategy
at Vyatta. "As users exercise the option to deploy Vyatta on standalone
hardware, blade servers, and inside virtual machines, the content
generated through the ZipTie Open Network Alliance will provide the
perfect complement to help them manage the resulting network
infrastructure."
The first initiative of the ZipTie Open Network Alliance is to leverage
ZipTie, the open source project for network management, to provide:
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An open, multi-vendor framework for network inventory management that
can be used by any network administrator
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Device-independent tools to discover, back-up and manage configuration
details for any IP-networking device, including routers, switches,
firewalls, load balancers, VoIP gateways and WAN/application
concentrators
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A free public forum for sharing tools, scripts and best practices
Network equipment providers can choose to incorporate elements of the
ZipTie project to supplement their own management tools, as well as
encourage their customers to use the tools directly from the ZipTie
community.
“Proprietary and non-standard manageability of
networks has been a persistent problem for IT organizations, and it’s
getting worse with the explosion of new device types and technologies in
today's advanced datacenter and operations environments,”
said Dennis Drogseth, vice president at Enterprise Management
Associates. “Well accepted standards to help
organizations monitor the status of devices are fairly pervasive, but
managing the complex configuration and automation tasks that consume the
majority of a network team's time and money are still, in general,
poorly addressed by the industry.”
“Open source projects are gaining increased
traction in the networking world, and for good reason,”
said Scott Harmon, president and CEO of AlterPoint. “Customers
are tired of carrying the load when it comes to integrating and managing
the complex, heterogeneous networks that their businesses depend on. We’re
proud to collaborate with other members of the ZipTie Open Network
Alliance in developing open source solutions and best practices that
will help customers streamline network operations, and redirect critical
enterprise resources toward more strategic business initiatives.”
About ZipTie
In November of 2006, AlterPoint sponsored the ZipTie open source project
and contributed code under the Mozilla Public License (MPL) to offer an
open framework for multi-vendor network inventory management to help
network administrators and engineers, hardware vendors and software
developers break free of limited, proprietary hardware element
management systems. To download the ZipTie toolkit or for more
information about ZipTie please visit http://www.ziptie.org.
About AlterPoint, Inc.
AlterPoint network governance solutions optimize network spend and
better align IT with business imperatives. The world’s
most respected enterprises rely on AlterPoint to curb hardware
over-provisioning, reduce specialized labor, lower the cost of
compliance, and improve the availability of network services. AlterPoint’s
open, comprehensive network CMDB combines operational and business data
to automate, analyze and optimize network change, compliance, security
and equipment lifecycles. Multiple stakeholders benefit from AlterPoint’s
customizable analytics and dashboards for impact assessment, faster
troubleshooting, compliance scorecards and trend analysis. Founded in
2001, AlterPoint is headquartered in Austin, Texas. For more
information, please visit http://www.alterpoint.com.
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