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Opsware Inc. (NASDAQ: OPSW), the leading provider of Data Center
Automation software, today announced a major update to its
ground-breaking online subscription service for compliance and
vulnerability management, The Opsware Network. Available immediately,
The Opsware Network 2.0 includes thousands of additional security and
compliance checks, as well as a new Opsware community element that
provides a portal to community forums and projects and access to
additional content available for download to the Opsware Data Center
Automation suite.
The industry’s only subscription service for
automating software and content delivery to servers and network devices,
The Opsware Network helps customers using Opsware’s
Server and Network Automation Systems keep their IT infrastructure
up-to-date with the latest vulnerability alerts and compliance policies.
As new alerts and policies are issued, The Opsware Network automatically
determines which of these are relevant to a customer’s
specific environment, and then applies those updates dynamically to the
vulnerable or non-compliant data center infrastructure. Opsware is the
only vendor to offer such an automated and dynamic compliance and
vulnerability management service. This automates what is otherwise a
massive and lengthy manual task for many IT departments for whom it is
otherwise prohibitively difficult and expensive to stay current.
Traditionally, vulnerability management has been a manual process
beginning with email notifications from the individual vendors whose
products are used in a data center. Deciphering such emails from
multiple vendors and determining whether or not they apply to a unique
IT environment, which in a large organization might include many
thousands of servers and network devices, can take days or even weeks,
all the while leaving the environment in a vulnerable state.
Furthermore, the remediation steps to fix these vulnerabilities are not
always clear and notifying the appropriate parties can be challenging.
The Opsware Network keeps customers informed and up-to-date by
delivering actionable vulnerability alerts and compliance policies for
Opsware’s software, ensuring that security and
policy violations impacting the IT environment can be immediately
rectified.
The Opsware Network service consists of two components: The Opsware
Network Subscription Service and The Opsware Network Community.
The Opsware Network Subscription Service delivers critical vulnerability
and compliance content to Opsware’s Server
Automation System and Network Automation System. It establishes a direct
link to customers, delivering late-breaking updates and remediation
solutions that are applicable to their unique environment. The service
helps ensure that vulnerable IT assets are quickly identified, the right
parties are notified and necessary information is readily available to
those who need it. The service also includes compliance policies for
industry and regulatory standards such as PCI, HIPAA, SOX, and FISMA.
More than 2,000 compliance checks have been added to the latest version
of The Opsware Network.
The Opsware Network Community is a portal to Opsware-delivered content
that facilitates a cooperative environment across the Opsware user
community. It delivers essential automation content across the Opsware
product family, including industry-standard security best-practices
policies for operating systems, network devices, and applications.
Community users can monitor and contribute to user forums and submit
projects to The Opsware Network Community. This open forum allows the
users to share automation content and leverage the combined intelligence
of the Opsware community.
“Anyone who has ever managed enterprise
initiatives like security and compliance understands that they require
continuous maintenance and attention to detail,”
said Tim Howes, CTO at Opsware Inc. “By
distilling the onslaught of security updates that fill a typical IT
manager’s inbox on a daily basis, and
providing the tools to take action on those updates, The Opsware Network
delivers valuable cost savings and peace of mind.”
About Opsware Inc. (NASDAQ: OPSW)
Opsware, the world’s leading IT automation
company, unlocks the promise of technology by accelerating IT to zero
latency. The company’s software, the Opsware
System, automates the entire data center, from provisioning to patching,
configuration to compliance and discovery to deployment, turning data
center operations into a competitive advantage for business. Opsware’s
technology is used by hundreds of companies worldwide including banks,
service providers, retailers, manufacturers and Internet companies with
IT environments ranging from hundreds to tens of thousands of servers,
network devices, storage devices and IT processes. For more information
on Opsware Inc., please visit our Web site at www.opsware.com.
Opsware is a service mark and trademark of Opsware Inc. All other
product names, service marks, and trademarks mentioned herein are
trademarks of their respective owners.
This press release contains forward-looking statements regarding the
benefits and capabilities of our software products. These statements are
subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to
differ materially from these statements, including the risk that the
assumptions underlying our current business strategy may change, that
our experience operating as a software company is limited, and that the
products may not perform as described. More information about these and
other factors that could affect our business are included in our Form
10-K filed with the SEC on April 14, 2006 under the headings “Risk
Factors” and “Management’s
Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations”
and the Forms 10-Q and 8-K that we file during the fiscal year.
The determination of when the new automation capabilities described in
this release will be made generally available, if ever, remains at the
sole discretion of Opsware Inc.