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.”

Magnum Technologies’ Business Service Discovery capability, for discovery and dependency mapping which automates ITIL and Service Level Management initiatives is set to be demonstrated at the itSMF Regional Event in Cincinnati, Ohio.

MINNEAPOLIS – April 21, 2006 – www.magnum-tech.com – Magnum Technologies, the leading provider of Business Service Management (BSM) software, announced today that they will be demonstrating their Business Service Discovery capability of their ADVANTAGE BSM software next week at the itSMF regional event in Cincinnati, Ohio.

itSMF helps organizations achieve operational excellence by introducing, developing and promoting IT best practices. Magnum Technologies, an itSMF member, supports the implementation of IT best practices, with special emphasis on ITIL.

The IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is currently the largest and most widely accepted set of IT best practices. Aligned with the best practices of ITIL, Magnum Technologies’ Business Service Discovery capability:

• Automatically identifies every IT component

• Maps the relationship between different IT assets

• and how they ultimately – and most importantly – impact services delivered to business end-users

• Recognizes and updates changes to the IT infrastructure

• without requiring the overhead or administration of a software agent

• Accelerates creation of a configuration management database (CMDB)

Underscores, via New White Paper, how ADVANTAGE Business Service Management (BSM) Software supports ITIL Best Practices

Magnum Technologies’ ADVANTAGE Business Service Management Software Aligns IT Departments with Business Objectives. Offers Business Service Discovery, Service Level Management, ITIL Compliance Reporting and Multi-Layer Correlation which helps to prioritize IT activities based on the impact to the business, and true integration with third party management tools.

MINNEAPOLIS – April 13, 2006 – www.magnum-tech.com – Magnum Technologies’ Business Service Management Software bridges the gap between the IT Department and the business and in doing so delivers the Holy Grail of IT Service Management to its customers.

Jean-Pierre Garbani, Forrester Research, Vice President of Computing Infrastructures and Security group states that, “Aligning IT with business objectives and showing the value of IT to the business is often seen as the Holy Grail by many CIO’s.”

Service Level Management is a key discipline of the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) which provides businesses with a customizable framework of best practices to achieve quality service and overcome difficulties associated with the growth of IT systems.