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Joni Moore
OpenService, Inc.
508-597-5330

For Immediate Release

OpenService Enterprise Event Management (EEM) Portfolio Qualified as Blade.org Solution for IBM BladeCenter

NerveCenter® and Security Management Center Deliver Performance, Scalability, Availability, and Low TCO for Mission-Critical IBM BladeCenter Environments

Blade Systems Insight, Savannah, GA, April 10, 2007 -- OpenService, Inc., a leader in Enterprise Event Management (EEM), announced today that their NerveCenter® and Security Management Center Solutions have been qualified as Blade.org solutions and are available for use with IBM BladeCenter servers.

"OpenService NerveCenter® and Security Management Center Solutions helps Network Managers and Security Managers who are under constant pressure to increase operational efficiency and responsiveness," said Ted Joseph, CEO, OpenService. "Many are choosing to consolidate their computing resources into a smaller number of physical and logical components and improve how they allocate resources to reduce operating costs. OpenService EEM solutions help customers obtain the maximum benefit from their investment in IBM BladeCenter servers."

In one customer success story, a major financial services institution has deployed NerveCenter on Solaris SPARC servers, integrated with Tivoli Netcool and HP OpenView. The combined management solution was recently migrated to an IBM BladeCenter system. "The customer experienced an order-of-magnitude increase in performance over the original implementation," said Geoffrey Coulter, CTO, OpenService. "As a result, fewer less costly blade servers were used and the entire solution was contained in a single BladeCenter system requiring less space, less power and simpler cabling."

"The ecosystem of solutions available on IBM BladeCenter continues to grow at a phenomenal pace," said Doug Balog, Chairman of Blade.org, and Vice President and Business Line Executive for IBM BladeCenter Business Line Executive at IBM. "OpenService has been an active member of the Blade.org community and its latest solutions are already proving beneficial for the IBM BladeCenter clients we serve."

OpenService is an IBM Business Partner and a member of Blade.org, a collaborative organization and developer community focused on accelerating the expansion of blade solutions, and the IBM and Intel blade ecosystem. OpenService EEM solutions certified by Blade.org can be found at http://www.blade.org/solutions.cfm.

About OpenService, Inc.

OpenService improves the reliability and security of the world’s largest enterprise networks. The company specializes in management software that scales to high volume, global implementations in use by hundreds of the world’s best-known enterprises today. OpenService has over a decade of experience in managing the most demanding network and security environments. For more information, call 508-597-5330 or visit http://www.openservice.com.

About Blade.org

Blade.org is a collaborative vendor and end-user community focused on accelerating the development and adoption of blade server solutions. The organization provides leadership to the blade market and fosters a thriving industry ecosystem focused on delivering valuable solutions to blade computing customers. More information is available at www.blade.org.

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