SecQuorum to Introduce its Hosted Implementation of AVIcode's Award Winning .NET Management Pack at TechEd IT Professionals in Barcelona

    BARCELONA, SPAIN, October 31, 2008 /24-7PressRelease/ -- SecQuorum today announced the implementation of AVIcode's award-winning .NET Management Pack as part of its hosted Operations Manager 2007 offering. The company's hosted Operations Manager solution targets the system management demands of data centres, small/medium enterprises, remote offices, mobile environments and other unique IT implementations. The advantages of this hosted solution are fast time to deployment and low costs, in return for a comprehensive system and application monitoring solution that delivers web access and event notifications via email or SMS.

Simon Skinner, Senior NOC Engineer for SecQuorum, said: "AVIcode's monitoring technology is a significant asset that enables better operating .NET applications. It's real-time and always-on monitoring capabilities allow organizations to readily detect application failures; and it's diagnostic capabilities pinpoint the precise cause of those failures. With the addition of AVIcode's .NET Management Pack into our hosted Operations Manager solution, our clients can quickly begin realizing the benefits of an end-to-end application and system monitoring solution."

SecQuorum provides its clients with holistic care of their Operations Manager environment - including configuration, Management Packs, backups, and other services needed to facilitate monitoring requirements.

System Center Operations Manager 2007 provides a single view across Microsoft and non-Microsoft software, helping organizations to control costs, improve efficiency, and take control of their IT environment. Operations Manager helps organizations save time and resolve problems faster, helping to keep valuable resources focused where they are most needed.

With the addition of AVIcode's .NET Management Pack, SecQuorum's hosted Operations Manager offering is now extended to include the leading .NET application monitoring technology which provides detailed analysis and trending of application health problems. In addition, AVIcode's technologies provide monitoring of custom SharePoint 2007 and BizTalk 2006 applications, along with SQL Reporting Services, helping users to better manage each of these environments.

"AVIcode is pleased to partner with forward-thinking, strategic organizations like SecQuorum," said Chris Childers, AVIcode's director of business development. "By taking advantage of the hosted solution momentum in the marketplace, SecQuorum is well-positioned to provide unique value to their customers. The addition of our monitoring technology will further help SecQuorum's clients better manage the health of their application environment and gain deeper understanding of how the health of their applications relates to the overall health of their system."

In addition to AVIcode's solution, SecQuorum's hosted version of Operations Manager includes Windows Management Packs for Win 2000 Pro, XP Pro, Win Server 2000, 2003, 2008 and Vista, providing comprehensive system alerting capabilities with over 45 different security alerts available.

SecQuorum's Hosted Operations Manager is available in various configurations, depending on client requirements:

• 'You Fix': this configuration enables clients to access a hosted web console to monitor their network, servers and applications, and this configuration includes several Operations Manager tools.

• 'You/We Fix': this configuration adds off-hours monitoring by SecQuorum and notifications of problems routed to a designated on-call engineer for troubleshooting and resolution

• 'We Fix' 24/7: this configuration provides for SecQuorum's system experts to monitor client networks, servers and applications 24/7, and provides for troubleshooting and resolution services. In addition, SecQuorum manages software updates and deployments, and helps to maintain the general health of the system.

• '.Net Monitoring' : this configuration provides for the application monitoring capabilities of AVIcode's .NET Management Pack and can be included as an add-on to any of the other available configurations.

About SecQuorum

SecQuorum is a leading European provider of IT solutions and services to businesses and the public sector, offering world-class consulting, technology and outsourcing services. SecQuorum is run by people who bring a high level of experience and expertise in computing, with a strong focus on new technologies and business development. With the addition of new offices in France in 2006, SecQuorum has a presence and ability to service clients throughout Europe. For more information, contact SecQuorum at +33 (0)2 97 72 35 02 or [email protected], or www.secquorum.com.

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