NEW YORK, March 10 /PRNewswire/ --

- Company's Business Transaction Management Software is the First 
Solution to Provide IT with True Business Visibility into Virtualized
Environments

OpTier(TM), the leader in Business Transaction Management (BTM), today
announced that its CoreFirst software is the first product to extend
transaction visibility to virtual environments to help IT meet dynamically
changing business needs. CoreFirst provides organizations with the insight
and stability required to manage mission-critical applications running in
production within virtualized environments.

According to a November 2007 IDC white paper titled "Business Transaction
Management: Facilitating the Management of Virtual Environments," BTM
software like CoreFirst will be a key factor in the successful deployment of
new computing platforms based on virtualization.

As organizations increasingly turn to virtualization technology to more
economically manage and consolidate their IT resources, visibility into the
datacenter is obscured. OpTier's CoreFirst BTM technology -- which is
deployed in some of the largest companies in the world -- provides
organizations with visibility and control over their business transactions in
virtualized and non-virtualized environments. Working in conjunction with
virtualization solutions from partners such as DataSynapse and Sun
Microsystems, CoreFirst can be used by companies to add transaction
visibility across the many complex layers of disparate production systems and
applications created by virtualization.

"While virtualization is a valuable tool for maximizing the efficiency of
IT resources, the layer of abstraction it introduces can make it difficult to
ensure that service delivery requirements are met," said Dan Yachin, research
director at IDC EMEA Emerging Technologies. "The visibility that OpTier's BTM
software provides can help address this challenge by assuring IT managers
that all applications are running smoothly and that business-critical
applications are receiving the resources they need to run properly."

CoreFirst provides several unique capabilities within virtual
    environments including:

    -- Cost and performance improvements -- CoreFirst can help organizations
       to further capitalize on the cost and performance benefits of a 
       virtual environment by allowing them to understand the relationship 
       between the configuration of their virtual environment and the service 
       levels such configurations provide for transactions flowing through 
       the environment.

    -- Enhanced user experience -- Application contention is a big challenge
       within virtualized environments because applications hosted on the 
       same system are forced to compete for the same resources. As a result,
       business critical transactions can be compromised when one application
       consumes more resources. With CoreFirst, organizations can monitor
       critical business transactions to identify, isolate and resolve these
       contention issues as they occur and before users are negatively
       affected.

    -- Better flexibility as business needs change -- Because virtualization
       allows transactions to traverse over multiple servers for improved
       utilization, it becomes challenging for IT to understand where within
       the datacenter business transactions are being executed at a given
       moment. CoreFirst's granular, cross-tier visibility helps managers 
       gain insight into IT transactions so they can accurately meet service 
       level goals and better align IT with business priorities.



"The functionality that CoreFirst offers represents a missing link that
many of our customers have been looking for to make their virtualization
efforts more successful," said Vijay Sarathy, senior director of marketing
for Sun xVM, Sun Microsystems. "By combining CoreFirst with Sun's
virtualization technology, IT organizations can quickly and more confidently
shift resources within their virtualized datacenter to meet the changing
needs of business."

"As IT continues to consolidate and centralize, the level of complexity
within IT soars. Our Fortune 500 customers have recognized the value of using
CoreFirst's BTM capabilities within virtual environments just as they have
used it to gain visibility into the disparate silos created by their SOA
initiatives," said Israel Mazin, CEO and chairman of the board at OpTier.
"With multiple applications from multiple business units all competing for
resources, the ability to track transactions through the many layers of a
virtual datacenter is a strategic advantage that helps companies to better
align IT with business goals. We will continue to work with our partners to
explore new opportunities to meet the needs of our customers working on
consolidation and virtualization projects."

About OpTier

OpTier(TM) provides software solutions that dynamically link business
services to underlying IT infrastructure, assuring service delivery and
optimizing IT resources. Its unique Business Transaction Management(TM)
technology -- which delivers end-to-end visibility and control of all
business transactions -- makes effective Business Service Management a
reality. OpTier tracks and monitors all business transactions -- across all
tiers, all the time. It identifies and isolates performance problems as they
develop, thus minimizing the cost to resolve them. OpTier generates
intelligence, for more effective testing, capacity planning, provisioning and
decision-making. It can further prioritize transaction resource allocation
based on business needs. For more information, visit http://www.optier.com.

OpTier, CoreFirst and "Putting First Things First" are trademarks of
OpTier.

Sun and Sun Microsystems are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun
Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries.

Contacts:
    Lindsay Diamond                     Avi Dines or Jennifer Barlow
    OpTier                              Schwartz Communications, Inc.
    +1-212-679-2700                     +1-781-684-0770
    lindsay.diamond@optier.com          OpTier@schwartz-pr.com