Yamaha Motor Australia Takes Control

Singapore, 2 April 2004 - Equator One Pte Ltd (E1), an emerging leader in infrastructure management solutions, announced that Yamaha Motor Australia (YMA) has selected E1's MAX™ Infrastructure Management Suite to keep track of and manage its networks.

YMA has recently deployed MAXEnterprise to allow them to intelligently manage and monitor the performance of their networks, as the company relies heavily on business-critical applications to serve its customers even after normal office hours, and requires a monitoring tool to keep track of systems around-the-clock--thus alerting the support staff at the earliest time possible if any problem occurs.

Mr. Stephen Suen, MIS Manager of Yamaha Motor Australia, explains that when YMA evaluated a number of network management tools the basic requirement was that it should be able to monitor any failed component on the network. "More importantly, the monitoring tool must also be able to issue warnings when thresholds are exceeded so that preventive action can be taken before any failure actually takes place," he adds. Mr. Suen concluded that MAX is an easy-to-use, cost-effective and versatile all-in-one solution package.

About Yamaha Motor Australia

Yamaha Motor Australia was incorporated in June 1983, becoming part of a large international corporation with subsidiaries all over the world. Yamaha Motor Australia Pty. Ltd. Commenced distribution in New South Wales on July 1st, 1983, and on September 1st, of the same year, took on the Victorian distribution. On April 1st, 1987 and July 1st, 1989 respectively, Yamaha commenced Western Australian and Queensland distribution.

Yamaha purchased the new Spare Parts warehouse at Wetherill Park in April 1989 so that national distribution of spare parts could be centralised. In April 1990, Yamaha Head Office was also relocated to Wetherill Park, adjacent to the National Spare Parts warehouse.

To diversify its activities in Australia, Yamaha proceeded to purchase Rose Bay Marina and Dory's Seafood Restaurant in December 1987. In July 1989, Addfast Accessories (wholesaler of motorcycle accessories) was acquired. In September 1989, Yamaha commenced production of fiberglass boats at its new subsidiary company, Southwind Marine Products Pty. Ltd. Located at Ourimbah, north of Sydney. Further diversification in the marine field took place in April 1990, with the acquisition of Bob McKay International Marinas Pty. Ltd. (marina construction) based in Queensland.

Yamaha has continued over the years to successfully introduce new products into the marketplace. It has always met market demand by offering better quality, higher performance products that fully utilize Yamaha's advanced technology. These products have become part of a wide range of recreational items and industrial products, such as motorcycles, scooters, four-wheelers, snowmobiles, outboards, water vehicles, boats, golf cars, go kart engines, power generators, water and sludge pumps, industrial engines and accessories.

About Equator One

Equator One Pte Ltd (E1) today stands out as an emerging leader in providing IT infrastructure management solutions to enterprises and next-generation service providers, empowering them to optimize the performance and availability of their mission-critical computing infrastructures. E1's comprehensive suite of solutions is based on an open, distributed and scalable architecture, and provides proactive monitoring, measurement and control of IT resources. E1 products also offer service level agreement management, fault management and network performance management of all applications and systems within a network environment. E1 solutions allow customers to simplify management at all points of network congestion, thus reducing the cost of ongoing maintenance, and delivering high returns on investments, as well as lower total cost of ownership. Equator One (www.equatorone.com) is headquartered in Singapore, with liaison offices in Taiwan, the United States and India, and is establishing the US headquarters in San Diego in the near future.