Intersperse Releases Intersperse Manager 3.5 -- Application Monitoring and Management Software for Production Environments.

PASADENA, Calif. -- Newest Release Decreases System Downtime and Increases Operational Efficiency in the Fortune 500 Enterprise and Large Public Sector Organizations

Intersperse, Inc., a leading provider of management solutions for service-oriented enterprise applications, today announced the latest release of Intersperse Manager(TM) software.

In direct response to the needs of complex Fortune 500 and large public sector IT organizations, this most recent release includes functionality to more thoroughly address the Open Standard, or JMX, approach for J2EE application monitoring and management. Additionally, Intersperse Manager 3.5 extends the custom management framework by allowing users to dynamically create new custom MBeans and attributes for information not currently available from BEA.

Consistent with previous versions, all monitoring data provides a proactive support framework for customers' applications deployed on BEA WebLogic 8.1 applications.

Some specific new features in Intersperse Manager 3.5 include:

--Full SNMP support;

--Support for JMX 1.2 and MX4J open source JMX for enterprise computing;

--The ability for customers to monitor and manage enterprise LDAP servers for performance and availability;

--Advanced instrumentation for web services, servlets, and JDBC components as well as advanced instrumentation for stateless, stateful, and message-driven Beans;

--Enhanced WebLogic Portal 8.1 monitoring.

"With Intersperse Manager 3.5, Intersperse offers the most advanced and robust solution for instrumentation, security, performance, and availability management of SOA applications. As corporations move toward advanced application management and the promise of autonomic computing, Intersperse meets the specific demands that help companies realize this promise," said Martin Milani, CTO of Intersperse.

"Intersperse Manager 3.5 continues to meet the demand for powerful, enterprise-level monitoring and management solutions that support the ultimate business objectives of decreased system downtime and increased operational efficiency," concluded Milani.

Pricing and Availability

Intersperse Manager 3.5 is available immediately. For more information on configurations and pricing, please contact Intersperse sales at 800-340-4553.

About Intersperse

Intersperse(TM) is the leading provider of management solutions for service-oriented enterprise applications. Intersperse Manager is the first and only management tool designed to help master the rapidly growing complexity of SOA business systems. It gives developers, operators, and analysts a comprehensive view of all relevant tiers, the ability to proactively monitor and analyze system performance in business contexts, and the control to automatically or directly correct problems in the production environment. Users can visualize not only application services, but also the ways in which those services are expected to perform, ensuring compliance with previously established service-level agreements (SLAs).

Deployed at Fortune 500 companies across diverse industries and federal government entities, Intersperse Manager provides visibility into software components across application, integration, and process servers, and it can be extended to manage integrated homegrown, legacy, and packaged applications. Product and corporate information can be found at http://www.intersperse.com.

Intersperse and Intersperse Manager are trademarks of Intersperse, Inc. All other product and company names mentioned are the property of their respective owners and are mentioned for identification purposes only.