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Businesses are increasingly migrating to service-oriented architecture-based environments to leverage infrastructure investments and deliver services to users within and beyond the enterprise. These loosely coupled services are creating new management challenges, since they're not hard-wired to specific enterprise infrastructure elements as are client-server applications, Gupta said. Web Services Distributed Management 3.1 addresses the challenges by automatically discovering services and their dependencies, while providing the reporting and altering functions to ensure best-practices monitoring and troubleshooting, he said.

Key features of the new release are support for a range of platforms and protocols, centralized management with advanced reporting and predictive analysis capabilities, automatic service detection and cataloging, and a Observer Development Kit to ease integration with third-party solutions.