Agentless Monitoring Success Fuels Growth for Heroix; Longitude Software Sales Drive Quarterly Revenue up 25% Year Over Year.NEWTON, Mass. -- Heroix (http://www.heroix.com), a leading provider of application performance monitoring software, today announced that overall revenue for Q1 of 2006 was up 25% over Q1 of last year. Heroix officials attributed the increase to sales momentum from the company's Longitude longitude (lŏn`jĭt  d'), angular distance on the earth's surface measured along any latitude line such as the equator east or west of the prime meridian. agentless application monitoring software, which was first introduced in May of 2005. "Longitude answers a need in the marketplace for agentless monitoring software with comprehensive application support, rich reporting and graphing, and multiplatform coverage, that is also less expensive, easier to use, and quicker to deploy than traditional agent-based monitoring software," said Heroix CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and Founder Howard Reisman. Heroix recently released Longitude V3 (http://www.heroix.com/news/news_press157.htm), featuring several significant enhancements that help IT staff understand the business impact of technical events, including: --Advanced event correlation Event Correlation is the processes involved with reducing a large number of incident alerts to a much smaller, more manageable number within automated monitoring and incident/problem management in a Support Management System. --Baseline workload data for tailoring thresholds --Scalable notification and action capabilities --Monitoring of Dell OpenManage, HP Systems Insight Manager, Cisco devices and other SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) A widely used network monitoring and control protocol. Data are passed from SNMP agents, which are hardware and/or software processes reporting activity in each network device (hub, router, bridge, etc. devices Longitude has won praise for its unique combination of robust monitoring and usability. Tom Harrop, Project Manager at Fallon Clinic, who uses Heroix software products to manage a 2000-user network and extranet, said, "Longitude was easy to install and use. We felt Longitude gave us the best monitoring value for our investment. The use of Heroix products helps us support the company's strategic initiative to become a nearly paperless clinic." Jasmine jasmine (jăs`mĭn, jăz–) or jessamine (jĕs`əmĭn), any plant of the genus Jasminum of the family Oleaceae (olive family). Noel of Ptak, Noel & Associates, wrote recently that Longitude "neatly handles the technological complexity found in both mid-sized enterprises and large departments of global enterprises ... Yet Longitude is also very quick to implement because of its agent-less data collection architecture and its integration of monitoring, alerting, SLA (1) (StereoLithography Apparatus) See 3D printing. (2) (Service Level Agreement) A contract between the provider and the user that specifies the level of service expected during its term. , reporting, and graphing into a single package." (http://www.heroix.com/downloads/pdf/Noel_2006.pdf). Pricing and Availability Longitude V3 is available now. Pricing for basic OS monitoring starts at $299 per monitored system. Heroix offers a 14-day free trial of Longitude (http://www.heroix.com/v3pr.asp). About Heroix Heroix delivers award-winning software products that help organizations optimize the availability and performance of applications, databases, systems, and IT infrastructure running across multiple platforms Refers to two or more operating environments, which typically include the CPU family and operating system. For example, if versions of a program run on Windows and the Macintosh, the software is said to support multiple platforms. . Today, with a presence in over 40 countries, Heroix has delivered performance management solutions to over 1,000 organizations worldwide, including Fallon Clinic, Horizon Lines, Kaiser Permanente Kaiser Permanente is an integrated managed care organization, based in Oakland, California, founded in 1945 by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser and physician Sidney R. Garfield. , Honeywell, Tembec, Motorola, Inc., and Boston Sand & Gravel Company. |
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