Aternity Joins Microsoft System Center Alliance Program

Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager and Operations Manager Customers Gain Enhanced Proactive IT Management & Monitoring of Business Activities, Ensuring Healthy IT Environments 

BOSTON, MA (USA) — June 3, 2009 — Aternity Inc., the industry’s technology leader in end user experience management solutions for Global 1000 enterprises, today announced that it is now a member of the Microsoft System Center Alliance Program.  The powerful combination of Aternity’s Frontline Performance Intelligence (FPI) platform and Microsoft’s System Center Configuration Manager and System Center Operations Manager provides IT and operations with an unprecedented, enterprise-wide view of application and desktop performance.  By doing so, IT organizations are able to deliver optimal performance ensuring that services are fully functioning from end to end, and a fluid end user experience that promotes high adoption rates.

“The broad offerings from our System Center Alliance partners extend the management capabilities of the System Center solutions and help our mutual customers reduce their overall IT management costs,” said JD Marymee, director of strategic partner alliances, Management and Services Division, Microsoft. “Aternity’s Frontline Performance Intelligence Platform and user-centric approach to proactive IT management, in combination with Microsoft’s System Center Configuration Manager and Operations Manager software, enables our customers to truly transform IT into a strategic asset.  This partnership equips our customers — in both real and virtual desktop environments — with comprehensive visibility into application performance, desktop performance, and user productivity to ensure the overall health of their IT environment. We’re pleased to welcome Aternity into the System Center Alliance community.”

Combining the power of Aternity’s FPI Platform with Operations Manager, provides customers with advanced monitoring capabilities extending from front end client systems all the way to back end application and database servers. Additionally, with on-the-fly classification for quality of service and communications problems, IT organizations leveraging Aternity can resolve problems faster, while ensuring maximum performance of their applications.  Aternity’s advanced analytics and reporting also provides Configuration Manager and Operations Manager customers with the ability to proactively detect application and system problems, enabling the rapid implementation of a comprehensive user-centric, approach to proactive IT management.

“We are extremely pleased to become a member of the Microsoft System Center Alliance,” said Trevor Matz, President and CEO of Aternity. “Immediate awareness and rapid response to business disruption caused by application performance is the goal of most global enterprises today. With Aternity, Microsoft’s System Center Configuration Manager and Operations Manager customers gain a 360 degree view of both end user experience and the health of their IT infrastructure, enabling them to dramatically reduce business disruptions and increase user productivity.”

About the Aternity Frontline Performance Intelligence (FPI) Platform

The Aternity FPI Platform uniquely monitors and analyzes in real-time the three core components that dynamically interact, define, and constantly impact end user IT experience – in both real and virtual desktop environments: application performance, desktop performance, and user productivity. Coupled with advanced analytics capabilities, the Aternity FPI Platform arms customers and partners with the breakthrough ability to generate comprehensive Frontline Performance Intelligence from enterprise applications within days. Proactive IT enterprises are leveraging a Frontline Performance Intelligence strategy, based on Aternity’s platform, to drive strategic IT and business initiatives such as preemptive problem detection, probable cause analysis, informed capacity planning, application licensing optimization, and desktop virtualization management and orchestration. 

About Aternity, Inc.

Aternity redefines end user experience management by providing the industry’s first Frontline Performance Intelligence platform designed to dramatically reduce business disruptions and significantly increase end user productivity. With Aternity, Global 1000 enterprises benefit from user-centric proactive IT management through self-learning, preemptive problem detection, and right-time decision support. By uniquely transforming every desktop – real or virtual – into a self-monitoring platform that is user-experience aware, the Aternity FPI Platform arms IT and business executives with real-time business intelligence on how application performance and usage impacts business results, and provides a path for constant improvement.

Aternity was recently named a Gartner Cool Vendor in IT Operations, a Top 10 Most Promising Start-up by Ernst & Young and Globes, and a Top 50 Startup by InformationWeek. In addition, the company has received prestigious industry recognition from the American Business Awards, The Marker, and NetworkWorld Magazine. To learn how Aternity can bring winning performance to your frontline and to find out if you qualify for a free proof-of-concept, visit www.aternity.com.