Active Reasoning Extends Platform Support to z/OS and z/Linux

Business Wire, June 20, 2006

PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Active Reasoning, the leader in IT policy enforcement and controls validation, announced today that it has extended platform support to include z/OS and z/Linux. Already running on Windows 2000/2003, NT, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX and OS/400, Active Reasoning provides comprehensive operating system support to meet the needs of heterogeneous IT environments.

The decision to support the mainframe environment was driven by strong customer demand for Active Reasoning's software to run on z/Linux and for event-based DB2 collection on both z/OS and z/Linux. Chuck Price, Active Reasoning's Vice President of Engineering, commented, "Most of our customers have complex cross-platform requirements and the mainframe is an important part of their IT operations. We are delighted to support the needs of our customers by offering z/OS and z/Linux compatibility."

DB2 capabilities for both z/Linux and z/OS will include monitoring changes to the schema of a database and the value of content within the database as well as building a comprehensive inventory of database tables and content for IT control reporting and archiving. In addition z/Linux database monitoring will capture and analyze SQL Trace information for detection of activities such as privilege changes and restricted access.

Active Reasoning will offer both its software for z/Linux and DB2 database monitoring on z/Linux and z/OS as part of its 3.2.4 release in July, 2006.

About Active Reasoning

Active Reasoning's IT Policy Enforcement solutions automatically detect, validate, and report unauthorized change and out of compliance actions on the IT infrastructure. Using Active Reasoning, enterprise IT organizations and service providers operationalize ITIL and other best practices to increase the reliability of IT services, mitigate operational risk, and reduce the cost and effort of policy compliance by 30% or more. This is made possible by the combination of Active Reasoning's Policy Management Database(TM), event-based collection of the who, what, when, and where of user actions, and a correlation engine providing real-time policy review and validation. Active Reasoning is backed by top-tier venture partners including ComVentures, ArrowPath Venture Partners, ONSET Ventures, and InterWest Partners. For more information, visit the company's website at www.activereasoning.com.

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