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Mazu Networks Publishes VP Checklist Series on the Five Key IT Initiatives Critical to Improving the Performance and Availability of Business Services

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, ORLANDO, FLA. and CAMBRIDGE, MASS. - June 23, 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 performanc
  • 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 www.mazunetworks.com.