IBM Corp’s SystemView and the Open Systems Interconnection standard, including CMIP, CMOL and CMOT, have come in in top place in a survey to determine which standards network managers are planning to implement over the next couple of years. The survey was conducted by Datapro across the US. IBM beat OSI by one point – 37% of the 458 respondents said they would comply with SystemView compared with 36% for OSI – but the results do not show how many of those ticked the boxes for both systems. Datapro says 89% of the managers believe that adherence to standards is important – 53% said that standards are extremely important and 36% placed them as very important. After SystemView and OSI, Simple Network Management Protocol received support from 31%, but the Open Software Foundation’s Distributed Management Environment gained just 14%. The US Government Network Management Profile received support from just 7%. Perhaps the most interesting figure for vendors is that almost a that 29% of those surveyed said they undecided on which standards path to take. Other highlights from the survey report that one respondent in four has an enterprise network management system currently installed. 49% say their companies will implement an enterprise network management system. Performance management was cited as the most important function in the selection of a network management system. 52% of respondents with a private rather than a carrier-based network said they plan to have a mixed environment in the next couple of years.
