OPNET Demonstrates New Performance Management
and Capacity Planning Solutions at CMG Conference
Demonstrations of OPNET's new 11.0 product
release, including integrations
with acquired Altaworks technologies
LAS VEGAS, NV – December 09, 2004 – At CMG 2004 this week, OPNET Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: OPNT), a leading provider of management software for networks and applications, is demonstrating major enhancements to its performance management and capacity planning solutions. CMG 2004 is an international event that brings together industry visionaries and technology experts to share ideas and experiences in the performance optimization, resource management, and capacity planning fields.
OPNET’s exhibit features powerful and unique new capabilities:
- New 11.0 release of IT Guru and System
Modeling suites, enabling capacity planning for distributed
systems and mainframe environments. System workload and performance
information can be imported from popular tools by BMC, HP, IBM,
Concord, and NetIQ, as well as from XML.
- New OPNET Commander product (from
the Altaworks acquisition) for active application response time
and availability monitoring. OPNET Commander integrates with OPNET’s
award-winning ACE technology for automated application performance
troubleshooting. ACE is also compatible with popular third-party
application response time monitoring products, such as HP OpenView
Internet Services.
- New OPNET Panorama product (from
the Altaworks acquisition) for realtime application performance
analytics. Panorama simplifies the troubleshooting process for
systems performance specialists, especially for J2EE applications.
OPNET Panorama integrates with ACE to provide in-depth, end-to-end
application performance diagnostics.
- New System Performance Module for HP
OpenView for seamless import of workload data from HP
Openview Performance Manager to support systems planning.
- New ACE Whiteboard for end-to-end
application modeling throughout the application lifecycle, from
design to production.
- MXG import utility for import
of RMF workload data to support mainframe performance and capacity
planning studies.
- New application analysis supported
in ACE for Web Services (SOAP, UDDI, MS .NET) and CORBA.
- New network Planning and Design module for traffic trending, automated resilient link dimensioning, and other valuable design actions.
Tom Thompson, a Principal Technologist at OPNET, stated “OPNET’s unique modeling and analytics capabilities are poised to have a major impact on enterprises seeking more proactive approaches to managing performance costs. OPNET is the only software company that provides a single modeling platform for detailed server, mainframe, application, and network environments. OPNET also believes in interfaces to tools from the leading network and systems management vendors, enabling stronger ROI.”
About OPNET Technologies, Inc.
Founded in 1986, OPNET Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: OPNT) is a leading
provider of management software for networks and applications.
For more information about OPNET and its products, please visit http://www.opnet.com/.
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