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Solstice Software

"HP, Mercury, and Systinet now provide a strong solution for governance, monitoring, and testing," says Chris Benedetto, Vice President of Marketing for Solstice Software.

"This is good news for HP customers looking to embrace SOA to simplify the complexity in their environments. The next step is to see what solutions they provide for testing and validation of everything that is happening
behind the screens and at the application level. That's the layer that supports the SOA, so it will be interesting to see where they take this," said Bendetto.

"This is a big move for HP. The part that is of interest from the SOA perspective is the Systinet division of Mercury, said Miko Matsumura, VP for Technology Standards at Infravio.

"What does this mean? First of all, it's a huge move for HP and securely puts HP at the center of the Systems Management arena for emerging SOA initiatives. IT tends to be about two fundamental forces, CONTROL and AGILITY. On the agility side are typically distributed business units — which are tied to application platforms and are interested in deploying applications rapidly and with the least possible amount of hassle.

"On the control side are typically central IT people like the CIO. The CIO maintains job security by establishing control of IT systems at all times — this includes visibility but also policy enforcement. From this perspective, the Systems Management assets of HP and the IT Management assets of Mercury (and the SOA Governance capabilities of Systinet) provide the ultimate control suite for SOA as well as IT management assets.

"So this is great, right? HP + Mercury + Systinet = Ultimate Control.

"This is a very, very attractive combination from a value perspective. However, this sale is a very centralized CIO-centric sale. The line of business owners want SOA for AGILITY purposes, and this is where Infravio has had tremendous success and strength —whether it's enabling business to business integration through Service Delivery Contracts(tm) or new business process centric capabilities via BPEL or other process engines. These types of drivers are attractive to lines of business.

"So the turf war between Registry Repository giants continues, with Systinet moving squarely into the network management layer and focusing on control, and Infravio, the strongest independent player focusing on agility and business enablement through SOA Governance."

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Posted by: Eric Roch at July 28, 2006 02:25 PM