CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, July 21 /PRNewswire/ --

- Latest Release Marks the First and Only Solution on the Market to Offer 
Behavior-based Analytics for Performance, Availability, Network Utilization 
and Security -

- Unlike a Manual Threshold Approach, Mazu Profiler Offers Analytics to 
Automatically and Dynamically Monitor the Performance and Availability of 
Business Services across the IT Infrastructure -

Mazu Networks, the leading provider of behavior-based, enterprise-class
performance and availability solutions, today announced response time
analytics in addition to its current application performance, application
availability, network utilization and security analysis capabilities. The
addition of response time extends Mazu Profiler's arsenal of analytics and
makes it the most comprehensive and competitive performance and availability
solution based on Network Behavior Analysis (NBA). Further, Mazu Profiler's
ability to automatically create dynamic activity-baselines across the IT
infrastructure provides users with an effective alternative to the outdated
manual threshold approach.

The status quo approach to performance management requires IT personnel
to determine and manually set what constitutes "good performance" for
applications across a large number of different delivery paths. Setting
manual thresholds on activity within complex IT infrastructures requires
continuous tuning, making traditional solutions impractical in today's
business environment.

"To improve the productivity of the network operations team, network
performance management products should automatically establish a baseline
measurement of "normal" behavior for time of day and day of week, dynamically
set warning and critical thresholds as standard deviations off the baseline,
and notify the network manager only when an exception condition occurs," said
Debra Curtis, research vice president, Gartner, the world's leading
information technology research and advisory company. "A simple static
threshold based on an industry average or a "rule of thumb" will generate
false alarms and waste the network manager's time."

Through Mazu Profiler's comprehensive analytics, IT operations teams gain
a true end-to-end view of the application delivery path from back-end servers
to the users' desktops. Mazu Profiler learns the typical behavior patterns
for hundreds of key performance indicators on the interactions of and
dependencies between users, applications, network and systems. Mazu Profiler
is the only solution that uses advanced behavior-based technologies to
analyze traffic to detect application performance and availability,
congestion and security issues to ensure the constant delivery of critical
business services. These competitive capabilities enable IT organizations to:

-- ensure service levels and address performance issues before users are
affected, thereby minimizing any disruption to business services;

-- populate CMDBs with discovery and dependency information regarding
critical data center resources;

-- provide impact analysis to inform change and optimization initiatives
such as data center moves; and

-- secure assets and information that the enterprise requires to be
competitive and achieve regulatory compliance.

Mazu Profiler provides significant value to network, security and data
center operations teams by offering organizations a new way of looking at the
IT infrastructure. By using Network Behavior Analysis (NBA), Mazu Profiler
analyzes network traffic to provide valuable information about the
interactions of and dependencies between users, applications and systems.
This enables IT organizations to manage, secure and optimize the availability
and performance of business services. This new network perspective enables IT
teams to improve key initiatives including: application performance
management; security and compliance; WAN management; CMDB-discovery; and data
center consolidation and migration.

"Understanding the behavior of the IT infrastructure is the key to
successfully managing, operating and securing today's complex network," said
Charles Kaplan, chief technology strategist, Mazu Networks. "Network Behavior
Analysis is no longer optional; it is a necessity for any organization
running critical business services on their network. From IT operations to
security, Mazu Profiler is the only solution on the market that can apply
behavior analysis to provide intelligence across the IT infrastructure."

Maintaining high network availability and performance is critical to
running a productive business. With Mazu Profiler, companies can address
critical IT initiatives and evolve their network to keep pace with the speed
of business today. For more information on the ways Mazu Profiler can resolve
today's most pressing network operations and security challenges, please
visit: http://www.mazunetworks.com/it-initiatives .

Pricing and Availability

Mazu Profiler is available through Mazu Networks sales channels and
network of value-added authorized resellers, distributors and systems
integrators. Organizations seeking a reseller or distributor should contact
Mazu Networks at: +1-866-354-MAZU or via email: info@mazunetworks.com. Mazu
solutions start at US$35,000 and can scale to meet the needs of any size
network.

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
www.mazunetworks.com.

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