AlterPoint and Entuity Join Forces to Deliver Unrivaled End-to-end Problem Resolution; Combined Technologies Increase Network Visibility and Automate Network Operations for Improved IT ROI.

AUSTIN, Texas & NEW YORK -- AlterPoint(TM), Inc., the leading provider of intelligent network change and configuration management (NCCM) solutions, and Entuity(TM), Inc., the global developer of the Eye of the Storm(R) (EYE) integrated network management suite today announced a partnership that will give customers integrated, real-time and historical insight into a network's configuration and performance. The integrated solution helps enterprises quickly solve problems at the cause rather than manually sifting through the symptoms provided by traditional fault and performance management systems. By combining AlterPoint's DeviceAuthority and Entuity's EYE, companies and service providers can proactively monitor, manage, and enforce compliance, security, change, and inventory to maximize IT performance while reducing cost and risk.

"Our customers depend on IT to satisfy corporate goals, and demand innovative solutions to the complex challenge of network management," said Michael Jannery, president and CEO of Entuity. "But they want proven, easy-to-use solutions with rapid ROI. With this partnership and using Entuity's recently announced Open Modeling Framework and federated CMDB architecture, our two companies have created a seamless configuration and network management solution for organizations to realize business and service level requirements and help companies achieve their ITIL CMDB deployment goals."

Entuity's EYE is a leading network management suite that provides network specialists, planners, application owners and business managers the actionable information needed to manage complex networks and routed environments. AlterPoint's DeviceAuthority provides a comprehensive solution for automating and managing the configurations of routers, switches, firewalls, VPNs, wireless access points, and other network devices. The integrated AlterPoint/Entuity solution will provide:

--Automated problem resolution - As an intelligent NCCM solution, DeviceAuthority notifies EYE when a configuration change or a policy violation occurs. This includes the "who, what, when, and where" of the configuration change. Once identified, problems can be resolved quickly by launching DeviceAuthority and implementing the appropriate configuration change.

--Inventory synchronization - This benefit reduces the effort required to manage multiple inventory sources by automatically seeding DeviceAuthority's inventory with EYE's device list.

--Dynamic topology resolution - EYE's automated, continual discovery of network topology and devices and their attributes provides a real-time, accurate, and detailed network inventory configuration management database (CMDB). When resolved against DeviceAuthority's master documentation of approved devices and configurations, it allows compliance visibility and proactive capacity planning for required configuration changes.

"Effective network configuration and change management within the enterprise is becoming a critical focal point for managing the complexities of a network's infrastructure," said Dave Barry, AlterPoint vice president for business development. "By partnering with Entuity, we can together deliver to our customers deeper, more meaningful device configuration and state information that enhances network availability while decreasing costs."

About AlterPoint, Inc.

AlterPoint develops intelligent network change and configuration management (NCCM) solutions that have pioneered the evolution of network management. Companies worldwide rely on the intelligence and automation provided by AlterPoint's award-winning product, DeviceAuthority Suite, to proactively manage configuration change, compliance and security across their multi-vendor network to maximize the performance and availability of their IT infrastructure. Founded in 2001, AlterPoint is headquartered in Austin, Texas, with offices in Europe and Asia. For more information, please visit www.alterpoint.com.

About Entuity

Entuity, Inc. is a leading provider of network management solutions to optimize the capacity and performance of network resources and availability of mission-critical business applications. Entuity's Eye of the Storm offers the only comprehensive IT management suite providing the advantages of automated discovery, inventory, fault, and performance management through a single interface. EYE deploys rapidly using automated network discovery, creating an up-to-date inventory to map and manage network assets to the applications that power the business. Robust and flexible real-time reporting supports proactive management decisions to maximize performance and minimize service outages. Customers involved with service level management, asset optimization, configuration management database (CMDB) initiatives, Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) best practices, or broader business service management goals all use EYE to achieve their objectives.

Entuity Eye of the Storm customers include Fortune 1000 companies such as ABB, ABN-AMRO, Bloomberg, Cooperative Financial Services, Deutsche Bank, Lloyds TSB, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, SAP, TIAA-CREF, and Verizon. For more information on Entuity, please visit www.entuity.com or call +1.212.489.0559 (North America) or [phone] (Europe).

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