Burlington, Mass. – June 18, 2007 – mValent, Inc., a leading provider of automated IT configuration management solutions for managing application infrastructure , today announced the availability of mValent Integrity ™ for Microsoft Servers. Designed for IT teams who implement, support and maintain the application infrastructure on Windows Servers® for their company’s mission-critical, distributed business applications, mValent Integrity for Microsoft Servers enables these teams to optimize configuration, change and release management processes for application infrastructure throughout the application lifecycle – from development, testing and through production.

“With this release, we’ve extended the power of our market-leading application configuration and change management platform to embrace the Windows world,” said Swapnil Shah, Chief Strategy Officer with mValent. “Now, IT teams have a single console to manage Microsoft-based environments as well as Linux and UNIX-based Java application infrastructure and can leverage mValent Integrity’s rich configuration and change management tools to reap the same benefits of improved application uptime and staff productivity, reduced IT fire drills and automated IT audit and compliance reporting.”

mValent Integrity for Microsoft Servers enables IT infrastructure and application support teams to manage the many moving parts associated with application infrastructure – including Web servers, application servers, databases and middleware – by capturing deep insight into configuration settings for IT assets, monitoring them for both authorized or rogue changes and provisioning changes to supported infrastructure assets. mValent Integrity leverages Microsoft’s Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) to collect, distribute and execute configuration data from Windows application infrastructure assets in an entirely agentless fashion. Core capabilities included in this Microsoft-centric release include:

• Support for the Most Popular Microsoft Servers – mValent Integrity for Microsoft Servers includes out of the box support for Microsoft Windows Server, Internet Information Services (IIS), SharePoint® Server and SQL Server™.
• Configuration Management – mValent Integrity for Microsoft Servers delivers a dynamic, model-driven approach to application configuration management that includes in-depth inventory of all configuration settings as well as tools to simplify deployment and enforcement of configuration standards throughout the application lifecycle.
• Change Management – mValent Integrity’s comprehensive Infrastructure Change Dashboard delivers in-depth insight into meaningful infrastructure changes via a simplified graphical interface that enables users to drill-down into configuration changes and track, sort, analyze and report on those changes. Additionally, the software provides powerful version control for configuration settings and a dynamic Compare capability that greatly accelerates the troubleshooting process via thorough analysis of how fine-grained configuration settings have diverged from accepted standards. Users can also run scheduled comparisons and receive alerts highlighting configuration drift.
• Release Management – mValent Integrity for Microsoft Servers enables IT teams to build new application environments efficiently, package and deploy configuration changes completely and validate that changes are made correctly to supported assets.
• IT Audit & Reporting – mValent Integrity for Microsoft Servers automates auditing and reporting on application infrastructure changes, enabling IT teams to ensure that infrastructure changes are introduced and tracked in accordance with regulatory and operational requirements.

IT teams at leading Fortune 1000 companies have repeatedly selected mValent Integrity to manage the application infrastructure supporting the delivery of mission-critical business applications. These companies have reported results that include:

• 72% reduction in time and cost of server upgrades
• 70% reduction in configuration-related downtime
• 50% increase in productivity of IT support staff
• 20% reduction in time-to-market for new applications

mValent Integrity delivers powerful capabilities on a standalone basis as well as in tandem with third-party management tools such as configuration management databases (CMDBs), leading service management systems for closed-loop change management and application release management tools . mValent Integrity is an HP Software Platinum Partner and a Premier Alliance Partner in the category of application configuration and release management for federation with the HP Universal CMDB™. mValent Integrity also features out-of-the-box integrations with service management systems such as BMC Remedy and CA Service Desk for “closed-loop” change management compliance, enabling users to automatically connect the workflow for incident reports with the actual change and resolution. mValent has partnered with Quest Software to deliver the industry’s first integrated solution for managing configuration, change and release management processes across the application lifecycle for code, content and configurations.

Availability
mValent Integrity for Microsoft Servers is available for immediate purchase. For more information on pricing and availability call 781-272-5650 or email info@mvalent.com.

About mValent, Inc.
mValent tackles IT complexity and compliance with automation software that eliminates configuration management chaos in application infrastructure. The company’s flagship product, mValent Integrity, automates application configuration management and is used by leading organizations to manage the build and maintenance of complex application configurations throughout their entire lifecycle – from development to production. mValent Integrity customers include leading companies such as Alltel Wireless, State Street Bank, National Grid, and WorldWinner. The company is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts and is backed by top-tier venture capital firms, including Charles River Ventures, IDG Ventures and Polaris Venture Partners. 

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