Panacya Taps John Liccione as Chief Technology Officer; Systems Management and IT Services Technology Veteran to Spearhead Solutions for Growing Messaging Management Market.

COLUMBIA, Md. -- Panacya Inc., a leading provider of next-generation systems management solutions, today announced that it has appointed John Liccione as the company's Vice President and Chief Technology Officer. Liccione will be responsible for Panacya's product and technology strategy, including the company's transformative new solutions to prevent downtime and optimize the performance of enterprise messaging systems.

"John Liccione has proven himself a thought leader and visionary in the high-availability messaging space," said Alan Snyder, CEO of Panacya. "As email and messaging systems have become mission-critical, we see strong growth in solutions that can boost uptime to 99.9 percent and beyond, while decreasing intolerable delivery latencies. John possesses the leadership qualities, determination, and domain experience to deliver the next generation enterprise messaging management technology the marketplace demands."

"At most organizations, email has eclipsed the phone in importance, creating the need for consistent, reliable 'mail tone,'" said Liccione. "This trend - plus the increasing complexity of email ecosystems due to spam and virus threats - is challenging the ability of corporate IT departments to deliver against higher email uptime objectives. I am excited to help Panacya lead in delivering breakthrough downtime prevention technology for the types of complex, multi-vendor email ecosystems we are now seeing as standard fare in the enterprise."

In his new role at Panacya, Liccione draws on more than two decades of high-availability systems management and IT service provider expertise. Prior to joining Panacya, he was co-founder and CTO of Evergreen Assurance, a provider of high-availability and real-time disaster recovery services for Microsoft(R) Exchange and other Microsoft Windows Server applications. He also invented and brought to market the world's first enterprise Disaster Recovery Management System (DRMS), named by SC Magazine as the "Best Disaster Recovery Service" of 2004.

Previously, Liccione served as Vice President and General Manager of the managed hosting business unit at USinternetworking (USi), a pioneer Application Service Provider (ASP). In 1997, he designed and launched the ARINC private IP network service for the U.S. commercial airline industry. He holds a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland and has served in the U.S. Air Force and at the National Security Agency (NSA) as an intelligence analyst.

About Panacya Solutions for Enterprise Messaging Systems

Panacya solutions for enterprise messaging system management deliver the end-to-end visibility truly needed by corporate IT to prevent downtime and optimize the performance of multi-vendor email ecosystems - including wireless email and external email service providers. Rather than focus on the performance of just one or a few components in the messaging infrastructure, Panacya solutions correlate the end user experience with the performance of all messaging components and service providers, to better ensure that email uptime and delivery times meet SLA objectives.

About Panacya Inc.

Columbia, Maryland-based Panacya Inc.'s software solutions provide enterprise IT organizations with the early warning needed to prevent crippling system downtime. Its flagship solution - Panacya Service Center(TM) - delivers proactive downtime prevention and detection along with root-cause analytics that can be deployed faster and require fewer people to maintain than traditional enterprise systems management suites. Built with autonomic time-series performance baselining, behavioral-based problem detection and alerting, real-time, cross-tier root cause analytics and agentless data acquisition, the solution instruments network, server, application, and session and transaction layers in 360 degrees. Armed with comprehensive, end-to-end performance analysis and unsurpassed downtime prevention and detection capabilities, Panacya users find they can more easily align IT performance with key business metrics and internal service level agreements. Panacya's customers include companies from the financial services, healthcare, retail, telecommunications, and other industries that rely heavily on business-critical, revenue-generating applications for business execution and growth. For more information about Panacya, go to www.panacya.com.

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