Peakstone Selected by Gandiva to Deliver Business-Driven Internet Application Service Quality.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 17, 2001

Pioneering Systems Integration Management Provider Enforces SLAs

for its ASP Service with Peakstone eAssurance Solution

Peakstone(TM) Corporation, the creator and leader of a new category of Internet service assurance solutions called eAssurance(TM), today announced that Gandiva, a pioneering provider of Systems Integration Management (SIM) products and services, has selected the Peakstone eAssurance solution to deliver on its Service Level Agreements (SLAs) to customers. Gandiva provides its products as a licensed software suite as well as a hosted ASP service. With Peakstone eAssurance, Gandiva is able to commit and deliver strong performance based SLAs -- that go far beyond simple availability and uptime based SLAs for its application service. Peakstone eAssurance solutions and services enable eBusinesses to assure and deliver predictable, committed, and differentiated services in the face of dynamic and unpredictable Web site traffic.

Gandiva has chosen Peakstone eAssurance to guarantee application service response times, quantify and report the customer experience, and automate the delivery of consistent, predictable site response times. Peakstone eAssurance correlates application traffic with capacity utilization and response-time behavior of an internet application, and dynamically provisions the site to meet service level objectives. With this capability, Gandiva, can assure committed service levels to customers, even as the eBusiness or application grows or changes dramatically.

"There is literally nothing more important in the fast-growing ASP space than delivering guaranteed performance levels, and Peakstone allows us to guarantee the level of performance that Gandiva is able to deliver," said Ram Nidumolu, founder and CEO, Gandiva. "With Peakstone, we can automatically analyze response times and capacity utilization, provision infrastructure resources, control capacity in real time, and avoid down time due to server and site meltdowns. We are able to exactly map our business objectives to the type of service our customers expect and receive."

"Peakstone is delighted to add Gandiva as a customer to its rapidly growing list of customers in the Application Service Provider space. Gandiva clearly understands how critical it is to deliver leading-edge service quality," said T.M. Ravi, founder and CEO of Peakstone. "Peakstone is the critical enabler of stringent performance based SLAs that are critical for the survival and growth of ASPs."

About Gandiva, Inc.

Headquartered in San Jose, California, Gandiva is the pioneer in providing Systems Integration Management (SIM) products and application service solutions for IT service firms such as systems integrators, IT departments and professional service units of software vendors. Gandiva's software, whether licensed or delivered as an application service, enable systems integrators and other IT consulting firms to accelerate their systems deployment and scale their business rapidly, thereby increasing their revenues and margins while dramatically reducing their clients' time-to-market. For more information, call 408/278-1783 or visit the Web site at www.gandiva.com.

About Peakstone Corporation

Peakstone has pioneered a new category of Internet Service Assurance solutions for proactive delivery of web site service quality in line with business objectives. Peakstone's solutions are the first to enable e-businesses to deliver predictable, committed and differentiated response times, improving the customer experience. Peakstone eAssurance provisions site capacity where it is needed, when it is needed, in order to meet business objectives for service quality, in real time. Network World named Peakstone eAssurance as a "2000 Category Breaker" and "Best Product" in November 2000. Founded by a team of Internet experts in 1999, Peakstone is funded by Advanced Technology Ventures (ATV), Bay Partners, JAFCO, and Internet industry luminaries. Peakstone is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with regional offices throughout the United States. For more information about Peakstone products and services visit www.peakstone.com, send email to [e-mail], or call 408/752-1020.

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