Longitude V6.2 Enhances Application Performance and IT Service Level Agreement Monitoring

Braintree, MA - March 17, 2010 - Heroix, a leading provider of application performance and network monitoring software, today announced general availability of Longitude V6.2, the latest update of its flagship agentless IT monitoring software. Designed to help IT organizations maximize business service levels, Longitude integrates disparate views of the IT infrastructure to provide a cohesive picture of IT service delivery and Service Level Agreement (SLA) compliance.

“With Longitude V6.2, we’ve made it easier than ever for IT organizations to cut through overwhelming volumes of IT performance and event data, and focus on what matters to their critical business processes. Longitude’s Service Level Agreement dashboards and reports provide superior visibility into application health and allow IT personnel to interpret the business impact of performance degradations, resolve issues faster, and demonstrate IT’s accountability and transparency,” said Heroix President Rick Lane.

New and enhanced features in Longitude V6.2 include:

• Automatic creation of Service Level Agreements and Statistics Dashboards
• 64-bit Management Station and Agent installations on Windows 2003 & 2008
• SQL Server 2008 monitoring
• Improvements to the overall user experience with easier UI navigation, scalability enhancements and other refinements
• Direct links to the Heroix Longitude Community Site, where users can view helpful Longitude tutorial videos, search the online Longitude knowledge base, and participate in peer support through Longitude user forums.

Package Details
Longitude features an agentless architecture that enables comprehensive application performance and network monitoring and reporting, without the expense, complexity, system overhead, and management headaches that go with running agents on every server. Longitude is available in three packages:

Longitude Standard Edition offers the following free for up to 25 managed devices:

• Operating system and infrastructure monitoring capabilities for Windows®, Linux®, and Unix® servers
• Cisco® device monitoring
• VMware® monitoring
• Real-time Event Monitor
• Statistics dashboard and interactive reporting
• Email alerts
• Corrective action capabilities
• Out of the box Service Level Agreement (SLA) monitoring, including real time dashboards and reports

Longitude Professional Edition covers up to 5 devices in the free version. Professional Edition provides all the capabilities of Standard Edition, plus application monitoring of:

• Microsoft IIS
• Apache™ Web Server
• Microsoft® SQL Server
• Oracle®
• MySQL™
• Microsoft Exchange Server
• DHCP
• Active Directory®
• Dell OpenManage™
• HP Systems Insight Manager
• IBM® Director
• Also included are alert and action schedules, event escalation, and data export

Longitude Enterprise provides all the capabilities of Professional Edition, plus:

• Enterprise command & control, including role-based security
• Fully customizable Service Level Agreement monitoring
• Enterprise reporting, including scheduled reports, annotations, and an archived report portal
• Fully customizable event correlation
• Fully customizable event monitor with topology views
• User experience monitoring using synthetic web transactions
• Integration with enterprise consoles using SNMP traps

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About Heroix
Heroix delivers award-winning application performance and network monitoring software products that help organizations optimize the availability and performance of applications, databases, systems, and IT infrastructure running across multiple platforms. Today, with a presence in over 40 countries, Heroix has delivered performance management solutions to more than 1,000 organizations worldwide, including Fallon Clinic, Kaiser Permanente, Honeywell, Tembec, Motorola, Inc., and Young Broadcasting.