Red Hat buy may mean speedy services (News.com)

[Posted October 18, 2002 by ris]

News.com reports on Red Hat's acquisition of NOCpulse, a start-up whose server-monitoring software is expected to bolster the services offered through the Red Hat Network. "The move helps advance Red Hat in a popular area of the computing industry: letting customers administer large groups of computers en masse instead of one-by-one as a way to cut administrative costs. This vision includes automated policies that ensure performance, move jobs from one computer to another to accommodate changing demands, or shut down malfunctioning equipment--features that all require monitoring software such as that provided by NOCpulse."