Enhanced Support: OEM Ops Center 12c
Toronto, Canada - Apr 30, 2012 - Halcyon announces the availablilty of an upgrade for Halcyon Neuron Management Suite to support the latest version of Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center 12c. This enhancement unlocks the event and job status data feeds from Ops Center to provide centralized event management and notification, and an easy way to integrate OEM Ops Center with wide range of third party applications.
Please contact Halcyon to learn more about how to acquire the upgrade.
Solaris in the Datacenter: Market Survey
Toronto, Canada - Oct 7, 2011 - To help us stay ahead we periodically canvas customers, partners, and newsletter subscribers to gain insight into areas of Solaris management that they're most sensitive to, passionate about, or that currently causes them the most pain. The results of such surveys directly influence future products, services and support offerings.
In appreciation of your feedback, Halcyon is pleased to offer all survey participants a free 1-year subscription to the Neuron Solaris Management Pack of your choice (pick one of: Inventory, Configuration, Health, or Performance).
Please click here to fill out our 4-question, 30-second survey.
Active Support Dates Extended for all PrimeAlert Customers
Toronto, Canada - Sept 29, 2011 - To assist customers with their migration from Sun Management Center, Halcyon has extended Standard and Gold support availability for the PrimeAlert line to the middle of next year: June 30, 2012. This provides an additional 6 months of active assistance for accounts that will still be using Sun Management Center after it has transitioned to Sustaining Support (end of December, 2011). More details can be found here.
Halcyon also announces additional Expert Services for Sun Management Center, and enhanced migration services for all current PrimeAlert customers who are upgrading to Neuron technology for their IT monitoring and management. Please contact Sales@HalcyonInc.com to learn more.
Unapproved Change: Configuration Management in the Datacenter
Toronto, Canada - Aug 9, 2011 - Managing approved and unapproved change on IT systems is critical for the early detection of configuration issues, and to help determine the root-cause of application failures. This is especially important in virtualized Solaris environments, where systems can easily be resized on-the-fly to alleviate problems on one virtual machine, which may inadvertently impact the performance of another.
Halcyon introduces Neuron Configuration Manager, as a core component of the Halcyon Neuron Management Suite, to automate the collection of configuration metrics for a wide range of IT assets and quickly identify the most important changes. Staff receive in-browser and email reports of assets that have stopped tracking approved profiles, and interactive and CLI-based snapshots allow them to quickly compare them with known-good configurations. Neuron Configuration Manager also includes a highly adaptable analysis and export engine, making it easy to integrate with other CMDB and archival tools. Learn more and download now.
Unlock the Potential of the Latest Solaris Virtualization Features
Toronto, Canada - Jan 14, 2011 - Halcyon extends their Neuron Management Suite to include support for the latest features of Oracle Solaris Zones/Containers and Oracle VM for SPARC (LDOMs). Advanced discovery options allow users to map out system topology and virtual-to-physical relationships for all their Solaris servers, easing the daily management of large volumes of virtual machines. Graphical mapping of these parent-child relationships also aids in root-cause analysis of performance problems common to virtualized systems.
Enhancements have also been added for the latest versions of Oracle Solaris 10 and Oracle Solaris 11 Express to include tracking of ZFS filesystem health and performance. This includes performance tuning information about the Adaptive Replacement Cache (ARC) as well as tracking of more advanced space-saving options such as deduplication. Improved ZFS visibility allows administrators to squeeze the most out of their storage infrastructure, and provides early-warning of bottlenecks that may impact several systems in highly consolidated environments.
For more information about the Neuron Management Suite and to download a 30-day trial, click here.
Optimize Solaris Zone Performance and Increase Server Utilization
Toronto, Canada - Oct 8, 2010 -
Halcyon's Neuron Performance Manager aggregates Solaris zone performance data to proactively monitor overall server utilization and quickly identify bottlenecks and excess capacity. This solution enables organizations to optimize their virtual environment to improve service levels, reduce costs, and increase availability of critical business applications.
Unlike traditional reporting tools, Neuron Performance Manager automatically collects important Oracle Solaris performance data such as CPU and memory usage from Zones and Containers and aggregates them into a single graph. This allows administrators to view historical trends and predict future capacity needs on both physical and virtual hosts. For more information, screenshots, and to download this solution with free pre-sales technical support, click here.
Visit Halcyon in the Solaris Pavilion at Oracle OpenWorld - September 20 to 22
Toronto, Canada - Aug 31, 2010 -
Halcyon will be showcasing Neuron virtualization management solutions for Solaris 11 at Oracle OpenWorld. Come and visit us in the Solaris Pavilion, booth #3447 to learn how to achieve peak performance in the Solaris virtual datacenter.
Halcyon is giving away a limited number of OpenWorld Discover passes. Please contact your Halcyon account manager if interested. Passes will be offered on a first come first serve basis.
Halcyon Enables Optimization of Virtual Workloads with Neuron Performance Manager
Bellevue, WA - Aug 9, 2010 -
Halcyon is pleased to announce the release of the Neuron Performance Manager, a graphical reporting tool geared for measuring and comparing resource utilization of workloads in physical and virtual Solaris environments. Enterprises leveraging Solaris virtualization technologies such as Zones, Containers, and Oracle VM Server for SPARC (LDoms) can now collect, store, and graph system and application performance trends to predict future capacity needs and improve service levels of critical business services.
For additional features, benefits, screenshots, and to download the solution, please click here.
Beta Now Available! Performance Monitoring for OpenSolaris
Bellevue, WA - June 1, 2010 -
Due to popular demand and limited availability of monitoring tools for OpenSolaris, Halcyon is pleased to announce its Neuron Agent now provides support for OpenSolaris.
This beta release goes above and beyond the existing Neuron Agent for Solaris v3.2 to provide instant out-of-the-box monitoring of the health, performance, and availability of OpenSolaris. This includes pre-canned thresholds to proactively monitor CPU, memory, swap, ZFS filesystems, log files, processes, and directories. Administrators can automatically receive email notifications of problems detected and/or forward these events to SNMP-compatible frameworks. They can also graph up to 5 years of monitored data and extend the monitoring capabilities via integration of custom scripts/utilities.
Halcyon Releases Capacity Planning Solution for Sun Management Center
Bellevue, WA - June 1, 2010 -
Enterprises will be pleased to hear Halcyon's PrimeAlert Enterprise Reporter version 1.1 is now available. This solution enables Sun Management Center customers to collect, store, and graph system and application performance trends to predict future capacity needs and improve service levels of business services.
This release includes several user interface and performance enhancements enabling Enterprises to more effectively compare utilization across multiple hosts and in virtual environments. For additional features, benefits, screenshots, and to download the solution, please click here.
Halcyon Releases Monitoring and Performance Reporting for Solaris Zones & Containers
Bellevue, WA - May 13, 2010 -
Enterprises utilizing the Solaris operating system will be pleased to hear Halcyon's Neuron Agent for Oracle Solaris 3.2 now includes monitoring and performance reporting of Solaris Zones and Containers. This release includes several new zone utilization metrics that proactively monitor CPU, memory, and the number processes running inside each zone. Performance data is also automatically collected and stored for up to 5 years and is useful for viewing aggregated graphical reports of overall server utilization in virtualized Solaris environments. This enables administrators to quickly gain visibility into the health and performance of their datacenter to improve services levels and increase availability.
For additional features, benefits, screenshots, and to download the solution, please click here.
Halcyon Releases Systems Management Data Integration Solution
Toronto, Canada - February 26, 2010 -
Enterprises using multiple systems management tools need centralized visibility to heterogeneous data to simplify the complexity in the datacenter. Halcyon's Neuron Integration solution is a highly scalable, lightweight framework that seamlessly integrates asset, configuration, event, and performance data between help desk tools and system s management software.
This solution includes data integration adapters enabling instant out-of-the-box setup for popular tools including IBM Tivoli, HP Openview, Sun Management Center and Ops Center. For additional features, benefits, screenshots, and to download the solution, please click here.
Halcyon Provides Audit Services for Sun Ops Center
Toronto, Canada - January 5, 2010 -
Halcyon's Audit Service for Sun Ops Center ensures customers have optimally architected, deployed, and configured Ops Center to realize the maximum benefit. This service is based upon Halcyon's best practices, ITIL methodology, and extensive experience architecting, designing, and customizing innovative solutions for Ops Center environments.
For more information, please contact Halcyon at info@HalcyonInc.com.
Halcyon Releases Centralized Network Monitoring for SNMP Devices & Applications
BELLEVUE, WA - November 16, 2009 -
Halcyon is pleased to announce the availability of the Neuron Network Monitor, a highly scalable, lightweight, centralized event management framework for monitoring SNMP compatible hardware devices and applications. This solution enables administrators to quickly load MIB text files to intelligently and automatically generate rules to efficiently and effectively monitor the health of their datacenter to ensure availability of critical business services.
Neuron Network Monitor customers can also leverage Halcyon's Neuron Event Manager to forward and integrate captured events with 3rd party Enterprise Management Frameworks.
Sun Management Center Training in Toronto, Canada
Toronto, Canada - September 30, 2009 -
Halcyon will be delivering its next training course for Sun Management Center 4.0 in Toronto, Canada on November 24 - 27, 2009. Major topics include installation and deployment, container manager, performance reporting and application monitoring via modules.
Developed and taught by Halcyon, the co-developer of Sun Management Center technology, this course has been delivered to Sun Professional Services as well as Fortune 500 companies worldwide. To register contact Halcyon at 1-877-932-4643 or email us at info@HalcyonInc.com.
Halcyon Announces VAR Status for Sun xVM Ops Center
Toronto, Canada - July 09, 2009 -
Halcyon is proud to announce their capability to provide a comprehensive range of xVM Ops Center solutions and services, as a Sun Value Added Reseller (VAR). This enables Halcyon to better serve enterprise customer needs through the resale of xVM Ops Center software, supported by full professional services for the delivery of onsite POCs, solution design, deployments, and custom configurations.
Halcyon further enhances and extends xVM Ops Center through off-the-shelf monitoring, and enterprise integration solutions, which fall under the Neuron brand.
Halcyon Achieves Certification in the Sun xVM Ops Center Specialty Program
Toronto, Canada - June 26, 2009 -
Halcyon is pleased to announce their accreditation as a partner in the Sun xVM Ops Center specialty program. Accreditation under this program places a seal of quality on the installation, configuration, and integration of xVM Ops Center solutions through Halcyon professional services.
"Halcyon is enthusiastic about the visible value that xVM Ops Center brings to customers, establishing greater consistency, efficiency, and manageability of the physical and virtual datacenter", says Iain McKone, CTO of Halcyon. "As a longtime Sun Principal Partner specializing in infrastructure management, Halcyon brings a unique mix of resources, skillsets, and experience to the xVM Ops Center Specialty Partner community. Combining xVM Ops Center deployment services with our existing product solutions will allow us to optimally assist our customers as they embark on their virtualization initiatives."
Halcyon is currently offering 2, 5, and 10 day pre-packaged professional services for Sun xVM Ops Center.
Monitoring for Solaris, AIX, Linux, and Windows in 5 Minutes or Less with Neuron Agent 3.0
Toronto, Canada - May 15, 2009 -
Halcyon's release of Neuron Agent 3.0 enables organizations to quickly gage the health, performance, and availability of critical business services and the underlying infrastructure without the need of a framework. Neuron Agent is a lightweight intelligent stand-alone agent with a web GUI that annunciates events through email in addition to integrating with existing ticketing and event management frameworks such as BMC Remedy, IBM Tivoli TEC, and Nagios.
The installation takes no more than 5 minutes and provides out-of-the-box hardware, OS, and performance reporting for the Sun Solaris, IBM AIX, Linux, HP Tru64, and Microsoft Windows operating systems.
Read the full story here.
Halcyon Monitoring Solutions and SWI Form Strategic Partnership
Toronto, Canada - May 11, 2009 -
Halcyon and Systemware Innovation (SWI) are proud to announce the formation of a strategic partnership. Under this agreement, SWI becomes an authorized reseller of Halcyon's infrastructure management solutions. The partnership also extends Halcyon's professional services capability by providing access to SWI's large team of skilled consultants.
Read the full press release here.
Halcyon Enables Deep Hardware Monitoring for Sun xVM Ops Center Environments
Toronto, Canada - Apr 06, 2009 -
Enterprises with Sun hardware will be pleased to learn Halcyon has announced advanced in-depth server hardware monitoring for datacenters utilizing Sun xVM Ops Center. Halcyon's Neuron Hardware Monitoring for Sun xVM Ops Center provides centralized visibility into the health and status of all Sun servers, from the desktop to the M-Series class of machines. This solution proactively detects hardware component failures on Sun servers and instantly presents the details of these events in Sun xVM Ops Center.
Neuron Hardware Monitoring for Sun xVM Ops Center is the newest edition to the Neuron Suite of products and is bundled with Neuron Integration for Sun xVM Ops Center. This solution leverages Sun's most advanced server hardware monitoring tool, Sun Management Center.
Halcyon Neuron Integration Featured on Sun's xVM Blog
Toronto, Canada - Apr 03, 2009 -
Owen Allen discusses Halcyon's Neuron Integration and xVM Ops Center in Sun Microsystems' xVM blog. The blog also features screenshots of Halcyon's Neuron Integration for Sun xVM Ops Center in addition to many other blog entries related to Sun xVM.
Halcyon Announces Neuron Integration for Sun xVM Ops Center
BELLEVUE, WA - Mar 04, 2009 -
Halcyon Monitoring Solutions, Inc, a leader in Infrastructure Management solutions, today announced availability of Neuron Integration for Sun xVM Ops Center. Using Neuron, IT organizations can seamlessly integrate critical health events and performance data from locally managed systems with Network Operations Center (NOC) frameworks such as IBM Tivoli or BMC Enterprise Manager reducing system downtime through early detection of resource bottlenecks and impending hardware failures.
Read the full press release here.
Halcyon Featured in InfoWorld Webcast
BELLEVUE, WA - Feb 23, 2009 -
Sun Microsystems and Halcyon present the solutions available, which assist customers to realize datacenter efficiency, within a virtual landscape. Join Mike Barrett, Sun Virtualization Technologist and our very own Iain McKone, CTO in this 30 minute on-demand InfoWorld webinar that describes how to Increase Data Center Visibility with Sun xVM Ops Center and Halcyon.
Watch the webcast here. (Registration required).
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