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Success and Safely Embracing Virtualization Initiatives COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Systems management technology innovator Configuresoft, Inc. today unveiled its Configuration IntelligenceT initiative ? a breakthrough technology that correlates diverse configuration, provisioning and service desk information into actionable analytics needed to optimize and secure IT investments and services. Much in the same manner that business intelligence solutions mine diverse information from disparate data warehouses, Configuration Intelligence delivers a new set of IT analytics that correlates and reports systems behavior. Developed jointly with Configuresoft customers ? some of the largest enterprises in the world ? these analytics not only validate rapid systems changes, but also highlight trends, signal potential problems and better prepare organizations to capitalize on new technologies like virtualization and Service Oriented Architectures (SOA). These advanced analytics bring a new level of insight into enterprise IT infrastructure, enabling users to ask and answer questions that simply were not possible or even considered within the limitations of older management systems. "At ConocoPhillips, we constantly search for ways to improve efficiency and stability across the IT infrastructure," said Michael Malaby with ConocoPhillips Global Information Services. "I believe the ability to easily correlate systems configuration data with event and performance data is a significant step forward, and will provide us with the opportunity to take our infrastructure to a higher level of optimization and further align systems management with strategic business initiatives." How Configuration Intelligence Works The first product release under the Configuration Intelligence initiative adds tight integration between Configuresoft's award-winning Enterprise Configuration Manager (ECM) product line and BMC Remedy (service desk), Microsoft SMS (provisioning), and EMC VMware (virtualization) software. More importantly, it mines, normalizes and correlates information stored both in the ECM configuration database and other service desk, provisioning and management systems. Configuration Intelligence then delivers a series of "Intelligence Briefs" critical to enterprise-wide systems management. The briefs:
Opens Eyes to Virtualization Complexity and Management Struggles According to IDC Research, the virtualization market will reach $20 billion by 2010.1 The new technology promises to cut server costs and optimize existing hardware for enterprises. At the same time, virtual systems introduce vast new levels of complexity and rapid, dynamic change that create significant systems management challenges. "Just when organizations thought they had systems configuration management and compliance stabilized and under control, virtualization burst in, changing everything and injecting widespread complexity as virtual systems flip on across the enterprise," said Dennis Moreau, CTO of Configuresoft. "Virtual environments rapidly accelerate change, requiring a dramatic shift in management practices to keep up and prevent organizations from slipping into chaos. You simply need more intimate operational and strategic insight into how these virtual configurations are inter-related across operating systems, application and resources." Armed with ECM and Configuration Intelligence, organizations gain deep insight into how new initiatives like virtualizations are faring --- and how to best stabilize, secure and optimize these new environments. It helps organizations stay ahead of rapidly changing virtualized systems and business critical applications and the associated systems configuration changes. About Configuresoft Configuresoft is an innovator in systems management technology, delivering the enterprise Configuration IntelligenceT to effectively and efficiently manage today's heterogeneous computing infrastructures. Spanning both security and operations, the Company's configuration management, compliance and remediation products are used by 12 of the world's 25 largest companies to keep their critical systems properly configured, while ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements such as Sarbanes-Oxley, FISMA, GLBA, Basel II, HIPAA and DISA, and industry standards such as ISO 27001, PCI DSS and Microsoft Security Hardening Guides. To contact Configuresoft, please call (888) U-CONFIG or visit www.configuresoft.com. ____________________________________________________ Brant Caraberis Account Executive --------------------------------------------------------------- Schwartz Communications, Inc. THE PREMIER PR AGENCY FOR TECHNOLOGY & HEALTHCARE PROSPECT PLACE, 230 THIRD AVENUE WALTHAM, MA 02451 P 781 684.0770, F 781 684.6500 WWW.SCHWARTZ-PR.COM
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