Maintaining today’s increasingly heterogeneous IT environments is no easy task. In January 2002, the first meetings between REALTECH Spain and Gonvarri clearly showed that Gonvarri was facing exactly this problem. The company was monitoring all of its applications and systems manually – a time-consuming and costly process.
Gonvarri needed a solution that would maximize uptime by increasing the effectiveness of management and monitoring activities, while freeing staff from routine tasks. Most importantly, the company required coverage for its operations across three different continents.
The project
In February 2002, Gonvarri decided to implement theGuard! ApplicationManager. The REALTECH Solution enables 24x7 monitoring of the entire IT infrastructure from a single point of control. Importantly, Gonvarri systems administrators no longer have to work through the night to monitor for the company’s Brazilian subsidiary. TheGuard! ApplicationManager informs administrators immediately in the event of problems, and automatically proposes remedies.
Key information on operating systems, databases and other mission-critical applications is displayed and tracked centrally. TheGuard! ApplicationManager even detects potential systems faults before they occur, and alerts the administrators via e-mail or SMS text message. As a result, administrators no longer need to be on-site at data centers to keep an eye on systems.
In light of the resounding success of theGuard! ApplicationManager, Gonvarri decided to implement a second REALTECH solution, TransportManager.
About Gonvarri
Founded in 1958 as a steel service center, the Gonvarri group is now market leader in the Spanish steel industry. The company has facilities and offices throughout the European Union, as well as in the Mercosur (the common market between Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay), and Africa. The group’s 2,000 employees generate annual revenues of around 1.15 billion euros (figures for fiscal 2002).