Opsware Wins eWEEK Excellence Award; Opsware Network Automation System Wins Ninth Industry Award Based on Superior Network Compliance and Change Management Capabilities.SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Opsware Inc. (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 :OPSW), the leading provider of IT Automation software, announced today that eWEEK, a Ziff Davis Media (Ziff Davis Media Inc., New York, www.ziffdavis.com) A leading integrated media company that serves the computer, videogame and consumer lifestyle markets. Its offerings include PC Magazine and the PCMag.com Network, which includes PCMag.com, ExtremeTech. publication and one of the industry's leading enterprise IT magazines, has named Opsware Network Automation System a winner in eWEEK's Sixth Annual Excellence Awards program in the Networking & Management tools category. An Excellence Awards special report -- providing details on the winning products and their value to the enterprise -- will appear in the June 19th issue of eWEEK and online at eWEEK.com. This is the ninth industry award where Opsware Network Automation System has been selected as the leading solution in network compliance and configuration management. Opsware Network Automation System was selected as the winner over BladeLogic's Operations Manager 6.3 and Levanta's Intrepid M 1.0. Opsware Network Automation System allows organizations to ensure best practices and compliance across tens of thousands of network devices, spanning the broadest array of devices (routers, firewalls, load balancers, etc.) and the most advanced network infrastructures including VoIP, wireless and Virtual Private Network (VPN (Virtual Private Network) A private network that is configured within a public network (a carrier's network or the Internet) in order to take advantage of the economies of scale and management facilities of large networks. ) environments. With deployments across all major vertical markets, the system automates IT's strategic priorities including regulatory and process compliance policies such as Sarbanes-Oxley, COBIT (Control OBjectives for Information and related Technology) A business-oriented set of standards for guiding management in the sound use of information technology from the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) (www.isaca.org). , and ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library, www.itil.co.uk) One of the more comprehensive as well as non-proprietary and publicly available sets of guidelines for "best practice" IT services management, owned by the British Office of Government Commerce (OGC). . Together with Opsware Server Automation System, the award-winning Opsware Network Automation System provides IT with the most comprehensive IT automation solution available today. "We are honored to receive the eWEEK Excellence award. Since winners are selected in part by IT professionals who use the candidate products in real-world IT environments, we are particularly proud to have been selected as a product delivering unmatched value to customers," said Tim Howes, CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. of Opsware Inc. "This prestigious award recognizes the technical achievements of our IT automation software, and the unrivaled capabilities and cost savings Opsware has proven to deliver to enterprise IT." The eWEEK Excellence Awards program provides enterprise professionals with a comprehensive benchmark for assessing a wide range of technology products and services. Evaluating the entries is a panel of experts including eWEEK Labs analysts and eWEEK Corporate Partners -- senior enterprise IT professionals who act as reader representatives. "New technology creates opportunities for vendors to react proficiently to the rapidly evolving demands placed on enterprise IT managers," said Eric Lundquist, Editorial Director. "eWEEK is proud to offer our readers solid recommendations for new innovative products that respond to these increasingly complex demands." About Opsware Inc. Opsware Inc. is the world's leading IT Automation software company. The growth of the Internet is driving a shift from client/server computing to Web architecture. With this shift comes an overwhelming proliferation of servers, networking devices and applications, creating massive complexity that makes automated IT operations a necessity. Opsware automates the complete IT lifecycle and enables IT to automatically discover, provision, patch, configure, secure, change, scale, audit, recover, consolidate, migrate, and reallocate Verb 1. reallocate - allocate, distribute, or apportion anew; "Congressional seats are reapportioned on the basis of census data" reapportion allocate, apportion - distribute according to a plan or set apart for a special purpose; "I am allocating a loaf of servers, network devices and applications. Over 350 of the world's largest companies, outsourcers and government agencies use Opsware to deliver this new, automated model of IT. For more information on Opsware Inc., please visit our Web site at www.opsware.com. About Ziff Davis Media Inc. Ziff Davis Media is a leading integrated media company serving the technology and videogame markets. The Company is an information services See Information Systems. provider of technology media including publications, websites, conferences, events, eSeminars, eNewsletters, custom publishing, list rentals, research and market intelligence. In the United States, the Company publishes 7 magazines including PC Magazine, eWEEK, CIO CIO: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. (Chief Information Officer) The executive officer in charge of information processing in an organization. Insight, Baseline, Electronic Gaming Monthly Electronic Gaming Monthly (often abbreviated to EGM) is an American video game magazine. It is published by Ziff-Davis as part of the 1UP Network and releases 12 issues a year (and an occasional extra "13th" issue for the Christmas season, also known as the , Computer Gaming World Computer Gaming World (CGW) was the first magazine devoted exclusively to computer games. CGW was founded in 1981 by Russell Sipe as a semi-monthly publication. and Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine (often abbreviated to OPM) is a now-defunct international video game magazine, originally published by Ziff Davis Media. . The Company exports the power of its brands internationally, with publications in 48 countries and 19 languages. Ziff Davis leverages its content on the Internet with a network of highly-targeted technology and gaming sites including PCMag.com, eWEEK.com, ExtremeTech.com and 1UP.com. The Company also produces highly-targeted b-to-b and consumer technology events including DigitalLife. With its main headquarters and PC Magazine Labs based in New York, Ziff Davis Media also has offices and lab facilities in the San Francisco and Boston markets. Additional information is available at www.ziffdavis.com. |
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