FireScope Races Past Network Monitoring Competition with Dash…

FireScope Dash delivers powerful monitoring of Environmentals-to- Applications in minutes.

LONDON, June 24, 2010 - FireScope, the leading innovator of IT Service Management solutions,
today announces the availability of FireScope Dash, a powerful monitoring
solution that delivers more features for less cost than comparable offerings
from SolarWinds, IPSwitch and others.

Offered as either a virtual or a physical appliance, FireScope Dash
bypasses the traditional headaches of solution deployments by including the
complete software stack pre-installed and ready to start. This design, when
coupled with FireScope Dash's built-in discovery and auto-configuration,
enables organisations to get to their first real-time dashboards of
infrastructure status and performance in minutes.

"Dash is a disruptor for the industry," said Mark Lynd, President and COO
of FireScope. "For too long they've been treading water with solutions built
from legacy architectures that require too much cost and effort to configure,
use and maintain, and have no way to support the recent explosion of new
technologies. I hope they take a good look at Dash and realise that the bar
is being set higher."

    The single, integrated solution includes:

    - Discovery -- The included discovery feature identifies critical
      hardware, operating systems and networked applications and automatically
      configures monitoring using profiles from over 1500+ commonly used
      assets.
    - Real-Time Monitoring -- Traditional monitoring capabilities such as
      SNMP, Syslog and WMI/Perfmon are just a few of FireScope Dash's built-
      in  set of over 20+ monitoring methodologies. Highlights of this list
      include optional agents for most commonly used platforms, LDAP
      connectivity, direct database querying, an Enterprise Service Bus and
      more.
    - Event Analysis -- All metrics are normalised and monitored in real-time
      for performance thresholds, security events, error trapping and any
      first indicators of potential incident. Configuration of events is
      performed using plain-language selections to enable users of any
      experience level to define even the most complex events.
    - Dashboards and Reporting -- In addition to automatically generated
      dashboards and dynamic inline reporting, FireScope Dash enables users to
      create their own dashboard pages and reports, all without the need to
      install additional client-side software or write code. Reports can
      easily become dashboard components; no need to build the same view
      twice.
    - Customisability -- Users can easily extend FireScope Dash's out of the
      box configuration to monitor custom applications, define events,
      configure escalating notification and more -- all without the need to
      write code, edit files or install additional software.

Licensing

FireScope Dash is available in two form factors, with two optional
extras. For smaller organisations, Dash can be downloaded as a virtual
machine and monitor up to 500 assets at a price of US$7,995. A physical
appliance form factor is also available, with optimised hardware and the
complete software stack pre-installed (Operating System and database
included). Regardless of form factor, there is no cost per user, processor,
interface or reports, a significant departure from traditional monitoring
solution providers. The two optional extras are Virtualisation Management and
Application Performance Management (APM) with User Experience Monitoring.

Extras

Virtualisation Management — FireScope Dash can be expanded to monitor
the performance of an organisation's virtual environment, as well as track
human or system initiated changes to that environment. Unlike the
competition, who typically utilise SNMP for virtualisation monitoring,
FireScope Dash utilises VMWare's API for faster, more reliable access to
data.

Application Performance Management (APM) / User Experience — In addition
to expanded application and management capabilities, this add-on includes the
ability to simulate common tasks for web applications and email, evaluating
each step for indicators of failure and performance across a wide range of
metrics.

Scalability

For organisations with multiple locations or large transactional
environments, FireScope Dash can be upgraded to FireScope BSM Enterprise
Edition. In addition to Dash's feature set, FireScope BSM includes
collaboration features and a hardware configuration optimised for the unique
needs of enterprise customers. FireScope BSM also includes the ability to
deploy hundreds of appliances to remote business locations that feed a
complete set of data and events to a corporate master appliance, enabling a
truly global view of IT Operations.

For more information about FireScope Dash including videos, screen shots
and a free 10-day downloadable trial visit dash.firescope.com.

About FireScope

FireScope is a leading developer of groundbreaking IT Service Management
(ITSM) solutions that are revolutionising how businesses conduct IT
operations. In addition to Dash, FireScope's suite of products includes three
primary offerings; Business Service Management (BSM) as your dashboard for
your enterprise IT strategy, a Configuration Management Database (CMDB) to
become your playbook for IT Operations, and Compliance as your compass for
managing IT compliance. FireScope Inc. has offices in Sydney, New York,
Dallas, Munich and London. To learn more about FireScope and its advanced
ITSM solutions, visit www.firescope.com.

FireScope, +44-207-193-5250, pr at firescope.com