Cereva Implements Micromuse's Netcool Suite; The Netcool Suite Provides Proactive Management of Enterprise Storage Systems.Business & Technology Editors SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 11, 2002 Micromuse Inc. (Nasdaq: MUSE), the leading provider of service and business assurance software, today announced that Cereva Networks, a developer of next-generation storage systems for large enterprises, service providers and carriers, has implemented Micromuse's Netcool(R) suite. Enabling fault monitoring and trend analysis of the enterprise storage systems at Cereva's customer's data centers, the Netcool suite is an essential component of Cereva's customer support capabilities. "We required a comprehensive management solution that is easy to use, rapidly deployable and scalable," said Charles Lenis le·nis adj. Articulated with relatively low pressure of the airstream below the glottis, as English (b) and (d) compared with (p) and (t). [Latin l , Cereva's Vice President of Sales, Customer Service & Business Development. "The Netcool suite's ability to consolidate status information from our storage devices enables us to quickly react to problems that might affect the uptime of services, and provides us with a centralized view of performance and capacity data that allows us to serve as 'on call' storage experts for our customers." After an analysis of available technologies and proof of concept, Cereva implemented Micromuse's flagship Netcool/OMNIbus(TM) application to consolidate and filter event information from its storage systems. The Netcool/OMNIbus application allows for end-to-end monitoring and management of the storage infrastructure, providing Cereva support personnel with visualization of the status of the entire storage device. The Netcool suite can be integrated closely with Cereva's existing event management and tracking applications, including Clarify trouble-ticketing solutions, via Netcool Gateways(TM) products. "The integration of the Netcool suite further advances Cereva's capabilities to provide a world-class storage system," said Katrinka McCallum, Micromuse's Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. . "With its scalable architecture, the Netcool(R) suite allows Cereva to expand its customer base while sustaining consistent service assurance and system reliability." Red Rock Technologies, L.L.C., an Authorized Micromuse Reseller(TM), was instrumental in licensing and implementing the Netcool software to Cereva Networks. About the Netcool Suite Micromuse's Netcool(R) software suite provides businesses with the assurance that their networks, services and applications are working. By allowing our customers to see what's happening throughout the infrastructure in realtime, Netcool applications enable them to respond to problems before they cause network-based business services to go down. Netcool suite applications install out-of-the-box, deploy rapidly and scale as networks grow. Micromuse's flagship, Netcool/OMNIbus(TM) application, includes a library of off-the-shelf software modules that allow our customers to collect and consolidate fault information from more than 300 popular environments spanning voice and IP, cable/broadband, switches and routers, and enterprise management systems. About Cereva Networks Cereva Networks Inc., founded in 1998 and headquartered in Marlborough, MA, is delivering the industry's first storage system to enable large enterprises, service providers and carriers to greatly accelerate content delivery while simplifying data center infrastructures. Cereva's investors include Matrix Partners, North Bridge Venture Partners, Oak Investment Partners, Goldman Sachs The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., or simply Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) is one of the world's largest global investment banks. Goldman Sachs was founded in 1869, and is headquartered in the Lower Manhattan area of New York City at 85 Broad Street. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : GS), Intel Corporation (company) Intel Corporation - A US microelectronics manufacturer. 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About Micromuse Micromuse Inc. (Nasdaq: MUSE) is the leading provider of service and business assurance software. Micromuse's recent list of awards include the Crossroads A-List Award for Best IP Network Diagnosis Product for the Netcool(R)/Visionary(TM) application. In addition, Micromuse was recently recognized in the Forbes 500, Bloomberg's Tech 100, the Barron's 500, the Business Week Info Tech 100, Deloitte & Touche's Technology Fast 500, the San Francisco Chronicle The San Francisco Chronicle was founded in 1865 as The Daily Dramatic Chronicle by teenage brothers Charles de Young and Michael H. de Young.[2] The paper grew along with San Francisco to become the largest circulation newspaper on the West Coast of the 500 and Network World's NW200. Micromuse customers include AT&T, BT, Cable & Wireless, Cellular One, Charles Schwab, Deutsche Telekom, Digex, EarthLink, GE Appliances, ITC ITC (Brit) n abbr (= Independent Television Commission) → Fernseh-Aufsichtsgremium ITC n abbr (BRIT) (= Independent Television Commission) → DeltaCom, J.P. Morgan Chase, One 2 One and Verizon. Headquarters are located at 139 Townsend Street, San Francisco, Calif. 94107; (415) 538-9090. The Web site is at www.micromuse.com. Micromuse and Netcool are registered trademarks of Micromuse Ltd. All other trademarks and registered trademarks in this document are the properties of their respective owners. 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