CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, August 18 /PRNewswire/ --

- Mike Bartlett to Lead Mazu Networks' Aggressive Growth in the
Application Performance Management Market for Enterprise IT -

Mazu Networks, the leading provider of behavior-based, enterprise-class
performance and availability solutions, today announced the addition of Mike
Bartlett to the management team as vice president of sales. Bartlett joins
Mazu Networks from HP Software where he continued his executive leadership
position as vice president of sales after the acquisition of Mercury
Interactive Corp(1). Bartlett will lend his strong background in executing
successful sales campaigns in the application performance management market
to his new role leading the Mazu Networks sales organization.

"Following strong company performance and technology advancements that
have significantly changed the competitive landscape in the application
performance market, we are excited to announce the addition of Mike to the
Mazu Networks management team," said Paul Brady, CEO, Mazu Networks.
"Securing someone with Mike's experience and market insight to lead our sales
organization will only prove to add to our successes and further solidify
Mazu Networks' leadership position in the performance and availability
space."

In his role as vice president of sales at Mazu Networks, Bartlett is
responsible for the success of the company's direct, channel and
international sales programs. He will lead the Mazu Networks sales team while
overseeing and growing the company's prospect pipeline. Bartlett is also
responsible for managing Mazu Networks' existing customer base of more than
200 organizations from both the United States and European markets.

Prior to joining Mazu Networks, Bartlett held a series of positions of
increasing executive sales responsibility. Most recently, he served as vice
president of sales for the Eastern region of HP's software division. In this
position he managed a 120-person sales team and was responsible for the
go-to-market sales model and integration of the Mercury and HP sales
teams. Prior to the HP merger, Bartlett's position as vice president of sales
for the Northeast business unit of Mercury was preceded by expanding sales
management roles within the company. Bartlett has also held a vice
president-level sales position at Radview Software Ltd. and sales management
positions at Silicon Graphics, Inc. Bartlett holds a master's degree in
marketing and a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Drexel
University

With his deep understanding of and experience in the application
performance management space, Bartlett both understands and will help further
Mazu Networks' efforts in educating the market on the benefits of
behavior-based analytics. Through the company's product, Mazu Profiler,
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. With many companies already adopting this new
approach to application performance management, Bartlett will be tasked with
continuing Mazu Networks' dynamic momentum.

The Mazu Networks U.S. headquarters are located in Cambridge, Mass. with
regional offices servicing the East Coast, West Coast, Midwest, Mountain and
mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. Mazu Networks' international
office is located in London and supports customers from EMEA.

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.

(1) http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press_kits/2006/mercury

Web site: http://www.mazunetworks.com