Autonomic Computing Closer to Reality with Netuitive Trusted Triggers(TM); Netuitive to Provide 'Missing Ingredient' for Autonomics.

RESTON, Va. -- Forward thinking businesses are beginning to consider autonomic computing strategies to better and more cost-effectively manage their IT infrastructure, but they lack the confidence to introduce self-governing autonomics into their environments. Netuitive, Inc., the leader in real-time analysis software for business service management (BSM), today announced an initiative to develop "Trusted Trigger" technology to support the emerging field of autonomics.

Manual control over business-critical environments is time consuming, expensive and error prone -- the increasing system complexity has reached a level beyond human ability to manage and secure effectively. This challenge has given rise to increasing automation for change, configuration, incident and problem management, along with the rapid advancement of virtualization for networking, storage and servers. The notion of autonomic computing integrates all of these innovations -- enabling a system to self-optimize, self-configure and self-heal.

However, autonomic computing systems will be ineffective or even disastrous if self-healing actions are based on faulty assumptions. Thus the information that triggers a corrective action must be fact-based and trusted. Netuitive Trusted Triggers solve one, if not the most complex, challenge in materializing even the most simplistic vision for autonomics.

"Netuitive is already proven to automate business service monitoring -- and now our most sophisticated customers are asking for more," says Daniel Heimlich, vice president of marketing at Netuitive. "They're asking us to take our cross-platform solution one step further by integrating with their existing change and configuration management tools. They see Trusted Triggers as the 'missing ingredient' for closing the autonomics control loop."

Trusted Triggers are the first mathematically-verified alerts of their kind, leveraging Netuitive's Real-time Analysis Engine technology. The Real-time Analysis Engine has been developed during more than fifteen years of academic and commercial research, is backed by eight U.S. patents and is the underlying technology for Netuitive's popular Netuitive SI and Service Analyzer products.

Netuitive's real-time analysis software determines the health of IT environments using self-learning mathematical algorithms, and automatically isolates the root-cause of a service degradation. When root-causes are identified, Netuitive delivers a Trusted Trigger to existing change and configuration management tools to initiate a remedial action. The resulting alarm/trigger is trusted because it is based on learned behavior patterns and defined by business policies set by IT administrators that direct specific IT actions. Netuitive plans to integrate its technology with leading change and configuration management solutions in the industry, in the very same way that it integrates with best-of-breed monitoring tools today.

About Netuitive, Inc.

Netuitive is the leading provider of real-time analysis software for business service management (BSM). Netuitive's products automate the deployment and administration of BSM, enabling organizations to guarantee service levels and significantly lower IT operational costs. Netuitive software automatically analyzes and correlates all of an organization's performance monitoring data in real-time, requires no manual configuration or specialized programming and delivers Trusted Alarms(TM) -- the industry's most reliable indicators of impending service problems. Netuitive partners with leading BSM vendors, including BMC, NetIQ, HP, Microsoft and Mercury and has Global 1000 customers, generally realizing a return on investment in less than two months, such as Dow Jones, BlueCross BlueShield, Harley Davidson and Priceline.com. For more information, please visit www.netuitive.com.

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