InfoVista Joins Forces with EMC to Deliver Highly Synchronized Fault and Performance Management Solution

InfoVista (NASDAQ: IVTA; Euronext IFV - FR0004031649),
the leading service-centric performance management software company,
today announced a comprehensive technology integration and
cross-marketing and selling agreement with EMC. Through the agreement,
the companies have combined intelligent, automated fault management
capabilities of EMC Smarts software with the performance management
expertise of InfoVista. This combination will enable customers to take
a highly proactive, cost-effective approach to service assurance.
   "As companies drive towards achieving more effective service
delivery models, being able to monitor, predict, and isolate IT
infrastructure problems is essential," said Bill Nelson, Senior Vice
President, EMC Software. "By pairing the patented root cause analysis
and correlation technology of EMC Smarts with the sophisticated
performance data collection and trend analysis of InfoVista, our joint
customers will benefit from an integrated fault and performance
management value chain, ensuring optimal service delivery across their
IT infrastructure."
   The combined discovery, fault and performance management solution
offers powerful capabilities including predictive performance and
capacity alerts; real-time, historical and forward-looking visibility;
insightful service level reporting; targeted troubleshooting and
end-to-end service level management. Joint customers can conduct
proactive capacity planning, receive early warnings of performance
problems and gain powerful insight to prevent potential SLA
violations.
   "Under this agreement, we will have a single source for all of our
service management needs," said Neil McRae, Director of Network
Architecture at COLT, a leading European provider of business
communications. "By having access to this extensive portfolio of
service assurance solutions, we're able to better manage service
delivery and increase operational effectiveness."
   "The agreement with EMC further demonstrates our commitment to
providing enterprise and service providers with solutions that address
their needs for superior service delivery and monitoring," said
Jean-Luc Valente, Senior Vice President of Global Marketing and
Strategic Alliances for InfoVista. "With EMC Smarts, users gain
complete operational workflow and planning views into the health of IT
services and supporting infrastructure - allowing them to proactively
predict, identify and resolve service problems before those problems
impact the business."
   The InfoVista-EMC agreement includes joint marketing,
cross-reference selling, and cross-training of sales teams, and a
continued commitment to R&D integration to deliver new products to
market. The joint solution will be available by the end of the year.
For more information, visit www.infovista.com/smarts or
www.smarts.com.

   About InfoVista

   InfoVista is the service-centric performance management software
company that ensures the optimal delivery of business-critical IT
services. Driven by a uniquely adaptive and real-time technology
foundation, InfoVista solutions improve business effectiveness, reduce
operating risk, lower cost of operations, increase agility and create
competitive advantage. Eighty percent of the world's largest service
providers as ranked by Fortune(R), as well as leading Global 2000
enterprises, rely on InfoVista to enhance the business value of their
technology assets. Representative customers include ABN AMRO,
Allstream, Banques Populaires, AXA, Banque de France, Bell Canada,
British Telecom, Broadwing Communications, Cable & Wireless, Com Hem,
Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), Deloitte & Touche, Deutsche
Telecom, France Telecom, Savvis Corporation, SingTel, Telefonica, and
US Cellular. A Software Magazine 500 company, InfoVista stock is
traded on the NASDAQ (IVTA) and on Eurolist by Euronext
(FR0004031649). For more information about the company, please visit
www.infovista.com.