Integrated Systems Management
Job Management Partner 1 : Issues

More Flexible and Scalable IT Strategy in Age of Change
-Job Management Partner 1

To help companies build IT infrastructure able to cope with this age of change, Job Management Partner 1, an integrated system management suite, has added enhanced automatic operations. It makes companies' information infrastructure more flexible and improves business operation.

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Job Management Partner 1: Flexibility and Scalability for IT Strategy in this Age of Change

Job Management Partner 1 V9 implements agentless monitoring to provide customers with immediate access to the operational status of remote servers.
Agentless monitoring and conventional agent-based monitoring can be flexibly combined according to the needs of the server.

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Integrated Systems Management Software, Job Management Partner 1 - Client Security from Four Perspectives

Job Management Partner 1 implements effective security measures to suit different ways of using systems and provides corporate information systems with appropriate protection from various threats that could affect business activity.

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Integrated Systems Management Software, Job Management Partner 1 - a Key Element in Secure Information Systems

Job Management Partner 1 provides protection from a variety of security risks, including measures for preventing information leaks and unauthorized operations.

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The Best Choice for Evolving Information Systems - Integrated Systems Management Software, Job Management Partner 1

Job Management Partner 1 greatly enhances the reliability of an enterprise and its business by controlling IT assets centrally and by providing an environment that is prepared to respond quickly to any situation.

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Job Management Partner 1 Version 8: Autonomous Operation Management Realized from a Business Standpoint

Job Management Partner 1 provides cutting-edge autonomous operation management technology that enables one to automate sophisticated operations according to conditional changes to information systems in response to changes in the business environment.

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Job Management Partner 1 Version 7i: Moving Toward Management of Autonomous IT Systems that React to Business Changes

The latest edition of Hitachi's Job Management Partner 1 allows users to pre-define policy scenarios that compensate for system failures or heavy loads on systems and to enable those policy scenarios to be carried out automatically.

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Job Management Partner 1 Version 7i: Moving Towards Achievement of Policy-based Autonomous Operations Management

The latest edition of Hitachi's Job Management Partner 1 provides the first step in a series of enhancements for achieving policy based autonomous operations management.

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Integrated System Management Software to Support Information Systems in the Broadband Era: Job Management Partner 1 Version 6i Advanced Edition

This edition aims to ensure even higher quality by paying special attention to three concepts - service ability, service security, and service cost.
Also, Job Management Partner 1 provides: (1) Availability management, (2) Service management, (3) Integrated security management, and (4) Storage management.

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Issue 8 Highlights

1. Topics - Focusing on Corporate Internal Controls
2. New Book Recommendation - The Speed of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything
3. Case Study - The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd.
4. Marketing Activities - Information-based Approach of the Insurance Industry: Focusing on Centralized Management and Risk Control
5. Taking a Tour of Job Management Partner 1's Homeland - Girls' Day and Boys' Day in Japan
6. Prize Quiz

Issue 7 Highlights

1. Topics - Intelligent Monitoring of Virtual IT Systems
2. Lifestyle Tips - What's a Healthy Way to Eat on the Spring Equinox?
3. Case Study - Korean Company D
4. Marketing Activities - Hitachi Job Management Partner 1 and Fudan University Cooperatively Establish IT Operation Management Courses
5. Prize Quiz

Issue 6 Highlights

1. Topics - Focusing on Green IT
2. New Book Recommendation - Getting Naked: A Business Fable About Shedding the Three Fears That Sabotage Client Loyalty
3. Case Study - Yasukawa Electric
4. Marketing Activities
   • Job Management Partner 1 Hosts the Experience Exchange Forum of IT Operational Risk Management in the Financial Industry
   • Hitachi Job Management Partner 1 Ranked No. 1 for the Second Consecutive Year in Market Share of Global Job Management Software
5. Taking a Tour of Job Management Partner 1's Homeland - How the Japanese Welcome the New Year
6. Prize Quiz

Issue 5 Highlights

1. Topics - Indispensable IT Asset Management
2. Lifestyle Tips - Eight Natural Detoxifying Foods - Are You Getting Enough?
3. Case Study - Power Company E
4. Marketing Activities
   • Beijing Red Flag Software and Hitachi Information Systems (Shanghai) Reach Strategic Cooperation Agreement
   • Newly Listed Job Management Partner 1/Open Job Entry for Midrange Computer
5. Taking a Tour of Job Management Partner 1's Homeland - Japanese Hot Springs
6. Prize Quiz

Contents

1. Why we need batch job management?
2. Where are we now?
3. What we can do for you?
   --> Smart, Simple, and Safe.
4. Case Study

Issue 4 Highlights

1. Topics - How to Ensure Stable System Operation?
2. New Book Recommendation - Steve Jobs's Management Journal
3. Case Study - Beijing Capital
4. Marketing Activities - Job Management Partner 1 Appearance at the Financial Exhibition
5. Taking a Tour of Job Management Partner 1's Homeland - Japanese Fall Foliage
6. Prize Quiz

Issue 3 Highlights

1. Topics - How to Enable Effective System Operation
2. Marketing Activities - Hitachi Job Management Partner 1 Appearance at the 2010 Seminar on Information-based Approaches to the Chinese Securities Industry
3. Lifestyle Tips - Summer Diet
4. Case Study - An Airline Company
5. Taking a Tour of Job Management Partner 1's Homeland - Summer Fireworks Festivals in Japan
6. Prize Quiz

Issue 2 Highlights

1. Topics - How Far Are We from "Systematic Operation"?
2. Marketing Activities - Hitachi Job Management Partner 1 Appearance at the 6th Annual Summit on Information Application in Chinese Rural Financial Institutions
3. Technology Explanation - Hitachi Job Management Partner 1 Further Automates and Simplifies Operation Management in Complex Environments
4. New Book Recommendation: Kazuo Inamori
5. Taking a Tour of Job Management Partner 1's Homeland - Tokyo Impressions
6. Prize Quiz

Issue 1 Highlights

1. Getting to Know Job Management Partner 1
2. Topics - Are You Ready for Virtualization?
3. Marketing Activities - Hitachi Job Management Partner 1 V9 New Product Exhibition Tour Successfully Started
4. Technology Explanation - Appeal of Job Management Partner 1 V9
5. New Book Recommendation: Lightweight Companies
6. Taking a Tour of Job Management Partner 1's Homeland - Customs of Cherry Blossom Festivals in Japan
7. Prize Quiz

The proliferation of Job Management Partner 1 in Chinese data centers
Providing Japanese companies with high-quality operation monitoring

TIS, Japan's leading system integrator of financial systems, has established Tianjin TIS Hi-tech Information System Service Co., Ltd. (Tianjin TIS Hi-tech) through a merger with Hi-tech Holding Group Co., Ltd. in Tianjin City. Very few Japanese companies are like Tianjin TIS Hi-tech, in that Tianjin TIS Hi-tech has data centers (hereafter DCs) all over China that have been completely planned and built by Tianjin TIS Hi-tech themselves. Tianjin TIS Hi-tech, whose motto is "Japanese Quality with Chinese Standards", uses Job Management Partner 1, Hitachi's integrated operational management application, in their data centers. TIS, with its detailed operation monitoring services, which are made possible through its knowledge of DC operations, supports Japanese companies trying to emerge in Chinese markets.

Robust local support for the overseas expansion of Japanese companies
Job Management Partner 1 in Asia

Due to the new opportunities provided by global markets that are rapidly growing in Asian countries, Japanese companies are accelerating their overseas expansion. Given maturing domestic markets, this expansion into overseas markets is expected to continue growing and is an important choice for increasing revenue. One issue that always comes up when companies globalize is system operation management for overseas locations. For 10 years, Hitachi has provided Job Management Partner 1 for integrated system operation management, to help support the overseas expansion of Japanese companies.

Hands-on Open Middleware sessions
Answering user questions

Q) We want to set up remote sites in Asia, but worry about asset management and security for computers and servers

A) We recommend using Hitachi support, which has developed knowledge over many years of helping companies expand overseas, and Job Management Partner 1, which conforms to global standards.

Introducing the latest solutions through Job Management Partner 1 and Cosminexus
HITACHI Open Middleware World 2008 Autumn Event

The "HITACHI Open Middleware World 2008 Autumn" event was held on November 17 and 18, 2008 in Tokyo's Roppongi Academy Hills, with many participants on both days. The first day, Job Management Partner 1 Day, focused on operation management in virtual environments and green IT, while the second day, Cosminexus Day, focused on demonstrations of Hitachi's latest SOA solutions as well as real-life use cases.

Globalization for Japanese companies
Demonstrating the power of Job Management Partner 1 for operation management in China

With the advancement of globalization, Japanese companies are proactively expanding operations to high-growth Chinese markets, and putting their energy into the utilization of IT services. Hiromi Beppu of Hitachi Research Institute and Akio Takahashi of Hitachi, Ltd. discussed what kind of efforts are needed for such activities, and what has proven successful.

Open Middleware Report (Vol. 37)

Effective management and operation of the information system for the Japanese companies in Europe

Job Management Partner 1 case studies in overseas and business development
Newton Information Technology Ltd. which deals with IT services in London, England, uses Job Management Partner 1 for monitoring and operations support services of the information system. Currently, Job Management Partner 1 is being used by many Japanese companies in Europe.

Job Management Partner 1 strongly supports customers engaged in global business in worldwide

Hitachi actively promotes Job Management Partner 1 which continues to hold de facto position in the systems management software market of Japan since the 1990s, and strongly supports with various problem solving for both Japanese companies in overseas and local companies.

Job Management Partner 1 is gaining momentum in Asia.
A site manager in China points out:

"No matter where the customer’s site is located, our strength is to be able to provide the same level of service quality as in Japan."

Our company creed: Providing reliable, high quality services to customers of companies affiliated with Japan
A message from one of our workers in China

"A co-worker, who is very proficient in his Japanese and IT skills and deals with a wide variety of challenges, told us about how enthusiastically devoted he is to the Job Management Partner 1 solution."

Supporting the IT governance of the Hitachi Group
JP1 advances the global security infrastructure

Raising the bar for a global IT infrastructure, Job Management Partner 1 is used to "visualize and standardize" IT business processes, and provides a reliable IT security environment.

Hitachi Job Management Partner 1/Software Distribution can always be kept the latest applications and patches within user's PCs, properly carries out mission-critical work between SCAS and related companies in Southeast and Southwest Asia. It solves customer problems immediately as well.

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