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Powerful New Voyence Release Provides Closed-Loop Network Change and Configuration Management

VoyenceControl NG 3.6 Delivers “CMDB Ready“ Functionality, Industry’s Most Flexible API, and Unmatched Device and OS Support

Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, Orlando, FL., October 9, 2006 – Voyence, a pioneer in automated network change and configuration management (NCCM) solutions, today raised the bar for data center automation with the next release of its acclaimed VoyenceControl NG platform at the Gartner Symposium ITxpo. VoyenceControl NG 3.6 further eases the costly and time–consuming task of configuring a complex network infrastructure, and closes the loop on configuration management by tightly integrating compliance and remediation tasks into a single, automated process.

“Network device configuration management has primarily been a manual process involving typing commands into vendor–specific command line interfaces or creating homegrown scripts to ease retyping requirements. Little consideration is given to rigorous change management or disaster recovery rollback processes. A new generation of network configuration management vendors is creating tools that operate in multivendor environments and bring a more rigorous change management process and audit capability,“ Hype Cycle for Networking and Communications 2006, Debra Curtis et al., July 14, 2006.

“Change and configuration management is at the core of next–generation management strategies,“ said Darren Orzechowski, Voyence’s VP of Marketing. “VoyenceControl NG 3.6 was engineered to help customers realize the benefits of data center automation strategies, through tight integrations with fault management, service desk, and CMDB frameworks, and an open and flexible API that provides the facilities necessary to drive change through the entire IT management lifecycle.“

New VoyenceControl NG Features:

• “CMDB Ready“ Functionality – Voyence is the only company to offer deep integrations with today’s leading CMDB initiatives, including HP Active CMDB and BMC Atrium CMDB.

• Increased Automation – While competing products still require customers to manually conduct compliance and remediation tasks, Voyence has extended its closed–loop compliance management capabilities with enhanced scheduling options that allow customers to not only create compliance tests, but also automatically remediate faulty devices – resulting in the industry’s best ROI.

• Industry’s Broadest and Deepest Device Support – Voyence has the industry’s largest breadth of supported devices. Support covers over 1,250 devices and thirty-six plus classes including routers, firewalls, load balancers, storage directors, traffic shapers, VoIP switches, VPN concentrators and others. VoyenceControl NG is currently managing over 500,000 devices worldwide.

• Industry’s Broadest Integration – Voyence continues to drive in-depth integration into industry-leading management platforms including: HP OpenView Network Node Manager, BMC Remedy/CMDB/Service Impact Manager, CA Unicenter NSM r11, CiscoWorks RME, EMC Smarts, IBM Tivoli/Netcool. Additionally, VoyenceControl NG continually scans for deviation from defined corporate standards, policies and regulatory standards such as SOX, SAS-70, PCI, HIPAA and others.

• Expanded Platform Support – Supporting Voyence’s recent OEM agreement with HP, Voyence has also announced expanded platform support with the addition of Microsoft Windows Server 2003 operating systems to its current family of supported platforms that include: Red Hat Linux ES/AS 3 and 4, and Sun Solaris 10 OS.

• Expanded API Coverage – Utilizing its web services API, Voyence now makes it easier for programmers to write their own applications to integrate with VoyenceControl NG. The expanded API coverage also future proofs engineering investments by ensuring all work will be compatible with future releases of VoyenceControl NG.

• Internationalization – Through internationalization, VoyenceControl NG is now ready for global deployment, with support for non-English operating systems and supporting local IT environment settings.

About Gartner Symposium/ITxpo
Gartner Symposium/ITxpo is the IT industry’s largest and most strategic conference, providing business leaders with a look at the future of IT. For more than 10,000 IT professionals from the world’s leading enterprises, Gartner’s annual Symposium/ITxpo events are key components of their annual planning efforts. Attendees are responsible for more than $35 billion in IT spending for their respective companies, and rely on Gartner Symposium/ITxpo to gain insight into how their organizations can use technology to address business challenges and improve operational efficiency. For more information please visit www.gartner.com/symposium/us.

About Voyence
Voyence is the leading provider of configuration and change management solutions that automate critical change, compliance and activation processes. The company’s solution, VoyenceControl NG, helps organizations drive out operational costs, increase availability, improve security, and demonstrate regulatory compliance. VoyenceControl NG is the only configuration and change management solution based on a multi-tiered architecture that can effectively manage tens of thousands of devices across heterogeneous infrastructure. For more information please visit www.voyence.com.

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