For network managers, Jiro technology helps simplify storage management and reduces the costs and complexity of overseeing a highly distributed environment.

• Simple Manageability - by enabling creation of automated and policy-based management functionality to handle routine administrative tasks
• Greater Interoperability - through platform-independent components and interfaces that simplify integration with other management solutions
• Dynamic Service Availability - through a central management domain accessible to all Jiro technology-enabled resources on the network
• Improved Uptime - by enabling devices to perform intelligent self-monitoring and corrective actions without waiting for human intervention

Intelligent Management Technology for Storage Networks
The more sophisticated networks become, the more difficult it is to manage the diverse systems attached to them. Management applications must be tailored to recognize each new device-whether that device is a disk array, server, database, router, or other application. And because there are few industry-standard infrastructures for developers to leverage, creating new management applications or maintaining support for large numbers of devices becomes increasingly time-consuming and challenging.

JiroT technology makes it possible to deliver intelligent management services for networked devices through a platform-independent, industry-defined development environment. Using the principles of JavaT technology, Jiro technology provides an innovative architecture for connecting and managing complex distributed environments such as storage networks. With its network- centric model for development and deployment, Jiro technology brings higher levels of interoperability, adaptability, and manageability to today's enterprise networks.

Dynamic Resource Management
Jiro technology introduces the concept of a standard management domain that includes base management services such as events, logging, lookup, scheduling, security, and transactions. It provides a standard interface for locating and communicating with these services as FederatedBeansT components. In addition, Jiro technology provides a dynamic services model to support the deployment, updating, and recall of complete distributed management applications composed of FederatedBeans components. By handling communication, persistence, security, and other difficult aspects of distributed applications, Jiro technology eases the creation of automated and policy based management applications that solve the problems of configuring, monitoring, diagnosing and troubleshooting network devices, software, systems, and storage in an intelligent and automated fashion.

Simplifying Application Development and Deployment
Application developers can take advantage of Jiro technology to boost the functionality and cross-platform compatibility of their management applications. By using the base management services provided by Jiro technology, developers can spend less time coding for basic functionality and instead focus their efforts on creating value-added services for their applications.

For network managers, Jiro technology opens the network for more streamlined management and more cost effective operations. The dynamic management services approach lets managers automatically deploy FederatedBeans components, or beans, on the network to where they are needed, without time consuming and costly manual intervention. Applications enabled with Jiro technology make it easier to solve the problems of configuring, monitoring, diagnosing, and trouble-shooting today's sophisticated networks.

Innovation Direct from the Industry
As a leader of the open systems movement and the source of the Java platform and JiniT technology, Sun Microsystems brought together a group of industry technical experts to create a new architecture for intelligent resource management.

The result of this collaborative effort is the industry-defined Federated Management Architecture (FMA) specification. Jiro technology is a productized implementation of the FMA specification developed and supported by Sun.

JIROT TECHNOLOGY IN ACTION

Jiro Technology Benefits Developers:
Jiro technology is a platform-independent infrastructure for developing interoperable and automated management solutions.

• Implementation of an industry defined standard
• Eliminates need to port to multiple APIs and interfaces
• Reduces investment required for infrastructure development
• Simplifies integration with other management solutions
• Enables rapid development of more innovative applications and services

Jiro Technology Benefits System and Network Managers:
Jiro technology is a Java technology-based infrastructure for streamlining the complexity inherent in managing distributed networks.

• Simplifies and automates administration of network resources
• Reduces cost of storage network management
• Accelerates deployment of resources, services, and updates
• Offers flexibility to change network structure as needed
• Makes new resources and functionality instantly and dynamically available

Jiro Software Development Kit and Jiro Runs-on-Kit
Multiple Sun products will soon be available to facilitate the creation and deployment of applications enabled with Jiro technology, including a Jiro Software Development Kit (SDK), a Jiro technology runtime environment, publicly available source code, and a Jiro Runs-on-Kit (ROK), enabling developers to test compatibility of FederatedBeans components with the technology.

How To Start Developing with Jiro Technology:

• Review the final versions of the Federated Management Architecture (FMA) specifications, the industry-defined standard on which Jiro Technology is based.
• View the Developer's Release from Sun, with examples, tools, and source code for FederatedBeans component development.

For More Information
For the latest updates on Jiro technology and FederatedBeans component development, visit the Jiro technology Web site at www.jiro.com.