CITTIO Contributes the First and Only DMTF-Based Instrumentation for Cloud Monitoring

Market Wire, March, 2009

Zeppelin is available for download from SourceForge at http://sourceforge.net/projects/zeppelin/

(1) Citrix Project Kensho offers in open source a complete implementation of the DMTF SVPC virtualization management standards for Xen®, and tools to package VMs in the DMTF OVF portable virtual machine packaging format, for XenServer, Hyper-V and VMware. More information can be found at: http://community.citrix.com/display/xs/Kensho

About Project Zeppelin

Project Zeppelin aims to provide a consistent, industry standard way to discover, monitor, evaluate and audit the performance of cloud and datacenter infrastructure and applications. Project Zeppelin includes a set of instrumentation that provides detailed asset, performance, auditing, benchmarking and usage metering information. It can be easily deployed remotely, yet its data can be securely accessed across the public Internet by using WBEM/CIM-XML and WS-Management interface.

About CITTIO, Inc.

CITTIO is the leader in automated network and systems monitoring software. CITTIO's WatchTower product is an enterprise-class solution that uses Intelligent Automation® to effortlessly maintain a complete and up to date view of the IT infrastructure. WatchTower provides a rich suite of capabilities to prevent down time, improve performance, and diagnose outages. Sample customers include: Citrix; SUN; Manpower; Spirit Aero; BCBS of Hawaii; Country Financial; The Gymboree Corporation; HMS; Pacific Sunwear; and T. Rowe Price. The company is headquartered in San Francisco. For more information, please visit www.cittio.com .

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