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of planning, deploying and operating clusters. Compaq's strong commitment to industry standards will help customers establish a more flexible and cost-effective computing environment that integrates with all Compaq supported environments and allows them to take advantage of emerging capabilities. By combining their Cluster Management Vision with the E2000 Platform Architecture, Compaq has provided customers unparalleled choice, flexibility, scalability, availability, and cost effectiveness. Compaq clearly gets it when it comes to the issues and benefits of good Enterprise Systems management techniques and they have effectively transferred that knowledge into the Intelligent Cluster Administrator and Cluster Monitor products. They have leveraged the technologies, knowledge and experience of their Digital and Tandem divisions to extend the functionality of their system management products to include MSCS clusters today, with a well defined plan to include all supported cluster environments in the future. Additionally, the integration with the Insight Manager XE suite of applications provides a consistent set of interfaces and standards that Compaq customers can utilize to reduce learning, reduce their cost of ownership and make their most crucial operations activity even easier. Compaq's new cluster administration and monitoring tools are a significant step towards reducing system management costs, improving administrator efficiency, and minimizing system downtime. Harvard Research Group is an information technology market research and consulting company. The company offers highly focused market research and consulting services to vendors and users of computer hardware, software, and services. For more information contact Harvard Research Group as follows: Harvard Research Group Box 297 Harvard, MA 01451 USA Tel. (978) 263-3399 Fax (978) 263-0033 E-mail [email protected] http://www.hrgresearch.com HARVARD RESEARCH GROUP  Box 297  HARVARD, MA 01451 USA  http:/www.hrgresearch.com 11