Russian MARS takes Japan under control
LAC Holdings, based in Japan, is a leading international company in network information security systems, and has recently purchased a license for the MARS monitoring system developed by Devexperts in Russia.
Jun 08, 2012
MARS (Monitoring Analysis and Reporting System) software allows real time monitoring (results being instantly refreshed continuously) of various systems and applicable parameters of software and hardware. Unlike many other monitoring systems, including IBM’s Tivoly, MARS monitoring agents are oriented toward tracking the condition of any device and software which works based on a certain protocol or standard, and is not limited to only monitoring systems by certain manufacturers.
This fact became a crucial argument in favor of replacing the monitoring system previously used in one of LAC Holding’s data centers with MARS, which allows the buyer to easily expand without further investments.
It took two weeks to train the Japanese engineers. On May 20th Japanese technicians completed MARS installation by themselves. The actual implementation took two months because of the so-called localization—that is, adjusting the system for working with data in Japanese.
"This project has opened the doors into the Japanese market for us," noted Mikhail Berman, Devexperts sales director. "Thanks to the trust which has been won by the extensive knowledge of the Russian IT engineers in the Japanese market, we have created a precedent for successful future cooperation. This story is an excellent demonstration of the fact that professionalism and a common goal are capable of overcoming cultural and language barriers."
Japanese side confirm their fully satisfaction with MARS: "MARS is detecting correctly the alert which is not normally detected by the present system. … By using MARS, we could configurate precisely the monitored item according to operation forms by editing configuration file. This led to the high-sensitivity alive monitoring. We can configurate freely several items such as the monitored interval by MARS, but we can just monitor the items which Template can cover by System Answer or Director."
Parallel testing of MARS and IBM’s Tivoly was successfully completed on May 31th. Presently MARS controls 104 devices in the city of Kitakata (Fukushima prefecture). By December, 2012, LAC experts plan to change four more city servers and 50 additional devices to MARS monitoring.
This fact became a crucial argument in favor of replacing the monitoring system previously used in one of LAC Holding’s data centers with MARS, which allows the buyer to easily expand without further investments.
It took two weeks to train the Japanese engineers. On May 20th Japanese technicians completed MARS installation by themselves. The actual implementation took two months because of the so-called localization—that is, adjusting the system for working with data in Japanese.
"This project has opened the doors into the Japanese market for us," noted Mikhail Berman, Devexperts sales director. "Thanks to the trust which has been won by the extensive knowledge of the Russian IT engineers in the Japanese market, we have created a precedent for successful future cooperation. This story is an excellent demonstration of the fact that professionalism and a common goal are capable of overcoming cultural and language barriers."
Japanese side confirm their fully satisfaction with MARS: "MARS is detecting correctly the alert which is not normally detected by the present system. … By using MARS, we could configurate precisely the monitored item according to operation forms by editing configuration file. This led to the high-sensitivity alive monitoring. We can configurate freely several items such as the monitored interval by MARS, but we can just monitor the items which Template can cover by System Answer or Director."
Parallel testing of MARS and IBM’s Tivoly was successfully completed on May 31th. Presently MARS controls 104 devices in the city of Kitakata (Fukushima prefecture). By December, 2012, LAC experts plan to change four more city servers and 50 additional devices to MARS monitoring.