ORLANDO, Florida and CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, June 23 /PRNewswire/ --

- Application Performance Management; Security and Compliance; WAN
Management; CMDB Discovery; and Data Center Consolidation and Migration
Revealed as the Most Pressing Initiatives for IT Executives in 2008;
Checklists Provide Overview of Key Capabilities VPs Need to Address Each
Initiative -

CISCO LIVE 2008 -- Mazu Networks, the leading provider of behavior-based,
enterprise-class performance and availability solutions, today published
VP Checklists to provide an overview of the key capabilities teams need to
address the following IT initiatives: application performance management;
security and compliance; WAN management; CMDB discovery; and data center
consolidation and migration. Identified through extensive customer meetings
during 2007, these five initiatives represent the most pressing for IT
executives in 2008 to improve the performance and availability of business
services.

"Last year we met with our customers to learn what major initiatives they
were tasked with in 2008 and how Mazu Profiler could help them work toward
their key challenges," said Paul Brady, CEO Mazu Networks. "There were five
main initiatives that topped the list for IT executives with whom we spoke
and Mazu Profiler provided them with the ability to address their issues in a
way no other product on the market could. We published a VP checklist for
each IT initiative in an effort to further support our customers by providing
them with the guidance needed to meet their respective objectives."

As a performance and availability solution based on Network Behavior
Analysis (NBA), Mazu Profiler offers organizations a new way of looking at
the IT infrastructure. By analyzing network traffic to provide valuable
information about the interactions of and dependencies between users,
applications and systems, Mazu Profiler enables IT organizations to manage,
secure and optimize the availability and performance of business services.
Providing organizations with this new perspective enables IT executives and
their teams to meet the demands of application performance management;
security and compliance; WAN management; CMDB discovery; and data center
consolidation and migration. The checklists are succinct, one-page documents
that provide VP-level information on how to effectively address the
challenges associated with these five IT initiatives.

The VP Checklists available from Mazu Networks are as follows:

    Checklist for VPs Responsible for Performance and Availability 
    Provides an overview of key capabilities IT teams need to meet the 
    following application performance management goals:
    -- Proactive service assurance
    -- Faster problem resolution
    -- Effective WAN management


    Checklist for VPs Responsible for Security and Compliance 
    Provides an overview of key capabilities IT security teams need to meet 
    the following goals:
    -- Detect the broadest range of security threats and vulnerabilities
    -- Improve threat alerting and corrective actions
    -- Automate compliance-readiness planning
    -- Automate regulatory and policy enforcement
    -- Reduce the effort and cost required to support audits


    Checklist for VPs Responsible for WAN Management 
    Provides an overview of key capabilities IT teams need to meet the 
    following WAN management goals:
    -- Ensure WAN performance and availability meet service level objectives
    -- Maximize technology and resource investments
    -- Measure and demonstrate achievement of goals and return on investment


    Checklist for VPs Responsible for Business Service Management 
    Provides an overview of key capabilities IT teams need to meet the 
    following CMDB discovery goals:
    -- Ensure complete discovery and dependency mapping for the CMDB
    -- Enable continuous CI dependency discovery
    -- Optimize the use of scanning and agents for maximum productivity and 
       minimum impact on performance


    Checklist for VPs Responsible for Data Center Consolidation and Migration 
    Provides an overview of key capabilities data center teams need to meet 
    the following goals:
    -- Automate and improve the planning process
    -- Minimize implementation disruption
    -- Manage risk on an ongoing basis



Maintaining high network performance and availability is critical to
running a productive business. With Mazu Profiler, companies can address
critical IT initiatives and evolve their networked infrastructures to keep
pace with the speed of business today. For more information on the ways Mazu
Profiler can resolve today's most pressing IT operations challenges, please
visit: http://www.mazunetworks.com/it-initiatives/index.php. To download a
free copy of any of the Mazu Networks VP Checklists, please visit:
http://www.mazunetworks.com/news-events/press-kit.php.

About Mazu Networks, Inc.

Mazu Networks offers solutions that enable IT organizations to manage,
secure, and optimize the availability and performance of business services.
Based on Network Behavior Analysis (NBA), Mazu Profiler provides a new way of
looking at the IT infrastructure by analyzing network traffic to provide
valuable information about the interactions of and dependencies between
users, applications, and systems. This enables enterprise IT organizations to
ensure optimal performance and availability, enhanced protection and support
for regulatory compliance, and informed decision making for IT initiatives.
Only Mazu Profiler offers behavioral analytics, user identification and
application fingerprinting, role-based presentation using common data, and
intelligent operation with other systems in the infrastructure. With Mazu
Profiler, hundreds of customers are able to ensure the availability,
performance, and security of business services as well as to reduce costs and
satisfy regulatory requirements. For more information, please visit
http://www.mazunetworks.com.

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