Aprisma Invests in Application Management Technology.Business/Technology Editors DURHAM, N.H.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 3, 2000 Minority Investment in Dirig Software, Inc. Strengthens SPECTRUM'S E-Business Infrastructure Management Solution Aprisma today announced that it has made a minority investment in Dirig Software, Inc., a developer of leading-edge applications management software for e-business. The investment, made by Aprisma's parent company Cabletron Systems, Inc., will secure a closer integration of Dirig's applications management technology with Aprisma's SPECTRUM(R) suite - an integration that bridges the gap between legacy network management platforms and technology point tools, providing corporations and service providers crucial visibility and pre-emptive control of today's e-business networks and applications. Aprisma's SPECTRUM integrates Dirig's Proctor(TM) technology solution to provide IT and network managers with real-time feedback and automatic corrective actions to ensure application and system uptime and maximize application performance and availability. "Aprisma's investment in Dirig marks a strategic evolution for our SPECTRUM solution," said Aprisma President Mike Skubisz. "This technology integration, combined with strategic partnerships with other industry leaders, provides our customers a competitive advantage through end-to-end and top-to-bottom visibility of their e-business infrastructure. This unique insight helps to isolate and translate service brown-outs, outages or the possibility of disruptions into critical business data." "An important element of Cabletron's strategy is to make investment, acquisitions and alliances that fuel the rapid expansion of Aprisma and our other new companies in their target high growth markets," said Piyush Patel, Cabletron's chairman and 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. . "Dirig is one in a series of investments in support of the growing Cabletron ecosystem." About Dirig Software, Inc. Dirig Software develops and markets applications management products for e-Business. The product supports systems running on Windows NT, Linux and UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). . The company focuses on providing products that deliver real-time feedback and actions to manage customers' applications and environments, while also making these products easy to install, configure and upgrade. The company's rapid growth is fostered by partnerships with major industry leading organizations including Cabletron Systems (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : CS), Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : PRGS PRGS Phosphoribosylglycinamide Synthetase ) and Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS CTXS Citrix Systems (NASDAQ stock ticker symbol) ). Founded in 1997, Dirig is a privately held corporation Noun 1. privately held corporation - a corporation owned by a few people; shares have no public market close corporation, closed corporation, private corporation headquartered in Nashua, NH. For more information, visit Dirig at www.dirig.com or call 603-889-2777. About Aprisma Aprisma Management Technologies Aprisma Management Technologies was created after Cabletron Systems was broken up into 5 smaller pieces, as the business unit to continue the highly successful SPECTRUM network management suite. It was acquired in early 2005 by Concord, which in turn was acquired by Computer Associates. is a leading provider of intelligent, "night and day" multivendor management solutions that meet the service-level requirements of network, enterprise and service provider customers. Aprisma's SPECTRUM suite of management software offers automated, proactive service availability solutions that are integral components of today's mission-critical business and service provider infrastructures. Aprisma's many SPECTRUM customers include Sprint, Rogers Communications, GTE, Alcatel KE, General Motors, NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. , MCI (1) (Media Control Interface) A high-level programming interface from Microsoft and IBM for controlling multimedia devices. It provides commands and functions to open, play and close the device. (2) (Microwave Communications Inc. WorldCom, Compaq and Earthlink. Additional information on SPECTRUM and related solutions are available at http:www.aprisma.com or by contacting Aprisma sales at +1 (877) 437-0291, as well as contacting authorized SPECTRUM resellers worldwide. SPECTRUM is a registered trademark of Aprisma Management Technologies. All other products or services referenced herein are identified by the trademarks or service marks of their respective companies or organizations. |
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