Seagate Technology Inc, Scotts Valley, California, is folding its Boston-based Frye Computer Systems acquisition into Seagate Enterprise Management Software, the former NetLabs Inc unit, which also includes the NetWork Computing Inc and Creative Interaction Technologies, companies gathered up on Seagate’s software acquisition spree. The combination says it is preparing a number of products for event correlation and correction, inventory and automation in 1996, including NerveCenter version 2.5 due out this quarter. Enhancements will include better fault resolution; it is being integrated with Hewlett-Packard Co’s Operations Center for systems management, presumably under NetLabs’ prior agreements with Hewlett-Packard. The AshWin job scheduling application and Palindrome’s Backup Director back-up and storage management product, will also be integrated with NerveCenter. Seagate LAN Alert NetWare and Windows NT server management applications will be consolidated to provide alerts to NerveCenter 2.5. Seagate will consolidate the asset and inventory management products, Seagate Asset Manager and Frye LAN Directory for Windows, by the middle of the year. These products enable users to share information over an enterprise, Seagate says; each workgroup can see local assets and forward them to the database for inventory and asset management. Officials were unsure as to whether the firm will bundle the products or sell them separately. Asset Manager presently runs under SunOS, Solaris and HP-UX, with support for AIX due in version 2.1, to be released in February. Seagate will add support for Oracle in addition to present support for Informix and Sybase. Seagate Software Europe, with headquarters in Paris and offices in London and Dusseldorf, will serve as the common distribution arm.
