Enterprise Management Summit

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Subject: Enterprise Management Summit
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                      Enterprise Management Theater
                    --------------------------------

The Enterprise Management Summit '94 is around the corner!

Summit '94 will feature a live theater where leading vendors will
compete head-to-head to see who has the best enterprise
management solution. In this theater will be a live enterprise
computing environment. Networks will include SNA, DECNet,
NetWare, and TCP/IP. Systems will include MVS, VMS, DOS, OS/2 and
UNIX. Windows, NT, desktops, distributed applications and
databases will also be present along with enterprise management
platforms and applications.

During Summit '94, we will "break" this network by introducing a
series of hazards. These include (but are certainly not limited
to) traffic congestion alarm floods, broadcast storms,
applications that hang mysteriously, lost host connections,
locked terminals, and forgotten passwords. Each vendor in the
theater will have their chance to show how their enterprise
management platform and applications deal with these hazards.

The theater works like this:

1) Each vendor will have 90 minutes to present their solution. 

2) No demos will be allowed. Each vendor must respond to the
scenarios that have been given them by Summit '94. (see below)

3) The audience will evalute each presentation. Vendors will be
evaluated on how well their solution dealt with each hazard; how
easy or hard to implement the solution appears to be; how
technically advanced the solution is; and the completeness of the
solution.

The scenarios are grouped as follows: 

I    Asset Management - Auto Discovery; Inventory
II   Fault Management - Network Analysis; Multiple Alarms;
     Management of Disk Space; Data Base Management; Problems
with
     DECNet/SNA, NetWare; Trouble Tracking & Ticketing
III  Administration - Security, Productivity Tracking,
     Configuration Management, Software Distribution

Participating vendors in the theater are:
* Bull
* Computer Associates International
* Digital Equipment Corporation
* Hewlett-Packard
* IBM

Summit '94 will take place this November 14-18 at the Santa Clara
Convention Center. For more information, call 1-800-340-2111
(415-512-1325 outside the US). Email: emiinc@mcimail.com or
summit@ix.netcom.com