New COORDINATOR 5.0 Correlation and Root Cause Analysis Software Poses Threat to Competing Network Management Software Providers

MINNEAPOLIS – June 1, 2006 – www.magnum-tech.com – Magnum Technologies, the leading provider of Business Service Management (BSM) software, announced today that its latest release of its COORDINATOR software which offers – some first to the industry – correlation and root cause analysis features.

“The fact that COORDINATOR 5.0 offers rich capabilities for discovery, monitoring, and correlation for layer 3 switches addresses a real need for network management users,” said Dennis Drogseth, Research VP at Enterprise Management Associates. “Magnum is and has been one of the industry innovators in combining advanced technology in network and service management with deployable, well-focused solution design points.”

COORDINATOR 5.0 campus correlation and root cause analysis software is being seen as a significant improvement to an IT organization as they deal with the increased complexity of their networks by utilizing this robust set of new functionality.

“Our customers are dealing with infrastructure challenges that are increasingly complex and with firewalls and load balancers that are often times incomplete making them difficult to manage,” said Tim Hadden, Magnum Technologies’ EVP and CTO. “The new release of COORDINATOR captures the complex infrastructure with our advanced discovery process and root cause correlation requested by our customers.”