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AmberPoint Governance System searches for changes in app environments


By David Worthington
December 8, 2009 — 
AmberPoint has announced AmberPoint Governance System, a SOA governance solution that is designed to automatically discover changes in customers' application environments, and to provide automated policy enforcement.

AmberPoint Governance System, announced today, connects with portfolio management systems and registries to discover information about applications, explained Dhruv Gupta, vice president of product marketing and management at AmberPoint.

The discovery extends beyond services to non-service "cast members" in an application, such as software configuration management systems (SCMs), security settings, application servers and virtual machines, Gupta added. Customers can also define data types for discovery.

The result, Gupta said, is that governance gives visibility into all life-cycle stages in the environment. A console shows which life-cycle stage an object belongs to. There may also be productivity benefits.

"Transactions and dependencies are discovered versus [being] manually modeled, a real time-saver," said Julie Craig, research director at research firm Enterprise Management Associates.

"One key value-add is that this discovery also identifies changes in configurations. Change is a constant thorn in IT's side, as so many application and infrastructure-related changes break production systems."

AmberPoint also provides RESTful (representational state transfer) APIs to enable existing processes to call out to AmberPoint Governance System to obtain information about the application environment.

Integration with SCMs, Craig added, enables AmbertPoint Governance System to pull in dependencies from custom software into the overall service model. "It can become part of a CMDB [Configuration Management Database], a central repository depicting enterprise assets and their interrelationships,” she said.

Once that information is collected, the product can automate policy-based governance and reporting. That enables users to track, manage and govern transactions with very little manual configuration or ongoing maintenance, Craig said.

"We are working on a more agile approach to how governance is occurring," said Gupta. "The automatic collection of information allows for broader types of policies and what things [a policy] can be applied to."

The AmberPoint Governance Starter Kit begins at US$25,000. It includes AmberPoint Governance System for two CPUs, an SDK, and training and consulting services, according to the company. Beyond that, pricing is $5,000 per CPU.


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