FineGround Joins the HP Openview Solution Alliance Program

FineGround Joins the HP Openview Solution Alliance Program

FineGround AppScope Performance Monitor Provides End-to-End Transaction Monitoring for Enterprise Customers Worldwide

CAMPBELL, Calif., Dec. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- FineGround, a leader in Web application delivery, today announced its acceptance into the HP OpenView ISV program, Enterprise Management Services. By integrating the AppScope Performance Monitor, part of the FineGround Enterprise Application Delivery Suite(TM), with HP OpenView's Network Node Manager and related consoles, enterprise customers can now use AppScope's unique visibility into end-user response times to best understand how IT delivery is aligned with business demands. Using the FineGround solutions, customers can more easily "find and fix" application performance and delivery problems across their enterprise networks.

"Traditionally, most companies have relied solely on server and network monitoring data to ascertain the health of their critical Web applications," said Debra Curtis, Research Director at Gartner. "However, this approach omits an important perspective -- that of the end user, who may experience problems long before server or network availability degrades. Combining data from IT infrastructure monitoring solutions with Web application monitoring will allow enterprises to better manage their IT infrastructure as a business service."

FineGround's AppScope is the performance monitoring component of the company's Enterprise Application Delivery Suite. This fully integrated end-to-end platform automates the secure delivery and management of enterprise applications across the extended enterprise. AppScope allows IT managers to track end-user response times centrally from the data center -- without installing desktop agents or instrumenting the application itself. This end-to-end view helps characterize performance problems and accelerates problem resolution for enterprises. AppScope fully complements the use of other network and system management consoles like HP OpenView.

"Thanks to server and network modeling tools, many enterprises have 'well-lit' portions of their IT infrastructure with good monitoring already in place," said Jay Mellman, vice president of marketing at FineGround. "Yet understanding end-user performance and its impact on the business is still a black hole. This relationship with HP brings actual end-user monitoring capability to HP OpenView users, increasing the precision and speed with which Web application problems can be diagnosed and repaired."

As part of the FineGround Enterprise Application Delivery Suite, AppScope seamlessly integrates with the Condenser Application Optimization module providing a unique ability to ameliorate performance problems through a broad range of optimization techniques that accelerate both network and server performance. The FineGround Enterprise Application Delivery Suite improves end-user response times by an average of nearly 300% and provides detailed insight into that end-user activity.

Availability

Customers can take advantage of the AppScope Performance Monitor today through standard SNMP techniques. FineGround expects to complete formal certification of the solution during the first quarter of 2005.

About FineGround

FineGround offers the industry's only fully integrated Enterprise Application Delivery Suite for automated performance optimization, end-to-end monitoring and application security. Global 2000 companies implement FineGround's solution to automate the secure delivery of mission critical applications to branch offices, maximizing IT efficiency and application performance. The FineGround Enterprise Application Delivery Suite installs in the data center requiring no changes to the desktop, application or servers. FineGround is headquartered in Campbell, California with international headquarters in London, Hong Kong, and Toronto. Information about FineGround can be found on the Web at www.fineground.com.


Source: FineGround Networks, Inc.

CONTACT: Leah Bibbo of Kulesa PR, +1-650-340-1982, or leah@kulesapr.com,
for FineGround Networks, Inc.

Web site: http://www.fineground.com/


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