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VOYENCE ACHIEVES “DESIGNED FOR EMC SMARTS” STATUS

Brings Together Premier Network Change and Configuration Management Capabilities of VoyenceControl with Advanced Correlation and Analysis of EMC® Smarts® Software

Richardson, Texas, May 9, 2007 – Voyence, a pioneer in automated network change and configuration management solutions, today announced that VoyenceControl software has achieved “Designed for EMC Smarts” status – EMC’s premier recognition of quality and value for service assurance management software. This solution, which is available to members of the EMC Smarts Application Developer Program, demonstrates VoyenceControl has successfully met EMC’s comprehensive criteria for software quality design, development and implementation.

By combining VoyenceControl with EMC Smarts software, enterprise IT organizations and service providers can tightly link fault and configuration management. The technologies complement one another, providing closed-loop infrastructure management, enabling customers to pinpoint the root cause of problems and automatically remediate issues caused by misconfigurations. More specifically, the combination allows customers to:

• Automate the network management lifecycle, including fault, change and compliance.
• Understand how network configuration changes affect the delivery of mission-critical services.

“Voyence is extremely pleased to join the EMC Smarts Application Developer Program, and proud to achieve ‘Designed for EMC Smarts’ status for VoyenceControl,” said Darren Orzechowski, Voyence Vice President of Marketing. “According to industry analysts at Enterprise Management Associates, over 60 percent of infrastructure problems today are caused by misconfigured devices, and 90 percent of network fault, performance or security-related events require changes to the network configuration.”

Orzechowski continued, “This technology integration attacks that problem directly by providing customers with a closed-loop management system that measures and analyzes the root cause of problems using EMC Smarts software, while leveraging the award-winning technology of Voyence to update and change misconfigured devices.”

“We are excited about the opportunity to expand our relationship with Voyence – now providing VoyenceControl as a packaged offering based on the EMC Smarts platform,” said Bill Nelson, EMC’s Senior Vice President, Resource Management Software. “The offering’s ‘Designed for EMC Smarts’ status enables our joint customers to leverage a highly powerful fault and configuration management solution, providing a single, actionable view into the health of IT resources with direct correlation to the availability of critical business services.”

The EMC Smarts Application Developer Program helps ISVs, VSPs and SIs target, design, develop and go to market with successful offerings based on the Smarts platform. As members, partners can submit their offerings to be considered for “Designed for EMC Smarts” status, which ensures their offerings have met all requirements for accreditation on the Smarts platform. To learn more about EMC Smarts and the EMC Smarts Application Developer Program, please visit http://www.emc.com/products/software/smarts/smarts_family/index.jsp

Smarts software is a key piece of EMC’s resource management portfolio. EMC’s resource management solutions empower IT today at thousands of enterprise and midsize companies to optimize the delivery of services to the business. EMC’s market-leading solutions in storage, network and application management are widely recognized today as the leading applications for resource management.

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, helps organizations drive out operational costs, increase availability, improve security, and demonstrate regulatory compliance. VoyenceControl 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.

EMC and Smarts are registered trademarks of EMC Corporation and its subsidiaries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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