Cendura Offers Trial Download of Cohesion to Enterprises Looking to Streamline Configuration Management, Ensure Compliance and Reduce Costs

Cohesion Helps IT Administrators Discover Servers, Operating Systems, Databases & Other Software Components; View Dependencies; Detect Configuration Changes; Audit Snapshots and Reduce Time to Repair

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 05/30/06 -- Cendura®, a leader in IT services configuration management solutions for enterprises, today announced that IT administrators will be able to download its Cohesion software at no charge and test its functionality on up to five servers for a 30-day period.

"Configuration control is at the heart of operational concerns," says Rick McEachern, chief marketing officer for Cendura. "Enterprises need to have an accurate picture of what they have, how their IT infrastructure is interconnected and how it has changed over time. This provides deep insight and becomes the datacenter 'source of truth' for planning, controlling and auditing change."

Designed to help IT organizations proactively manage and automate changes to the IT infrastructure underlying distributed business applications and services, Cohesion does this by discovering, mapping, auditing and correcting configurations of related IT assets. Cohesion's Configuration Management Database (CMDB) keeps track of the actual configurations of IT assets across servers, software components or IT services. This enables companies to rapidly identify and remedy existing or potential business service problems.

Using Cohesion, enterprise IT administrators can:

-- discover servers, operating systems, databases, and other software

components installed on those servers;

-- quickly view dependencies between the servers in your enterprise;

-- detect server, software and service configuration changes;

-- audit snapshots (point-in-time copies) of your servers and services;

-- ensure enforcement of compliance and best practice configurations;

-- troubleshoot and reduce the mean time to repair.

On average, Cohesion reduces time spent on server upgrades from approximately two weeks to two days. Applications can be upgraded in 1.5 days, down from an average of four days per application.

The trial version of Cohesion is available for the Windows platforms and includes 13 common blueprints that can be used to discover and manage common platforms and software components. For a full list of blueprints, you can reference http://www.cendura.com/products/products_blueprint.htm

For the commercial version, you also can build custom blueprints for your in-house built applications.

The self-directed trial download can be found at http://www.cendura.com/trial/trial.php

About Cendura

Cendura Corporation automates the process of server, software and IT service management by providing software that enables enterprises to dramatically manage distributed system change, complexity and compliance. Its Cohesion software helps IT organizations proactively manage and automate changes to the IT infrastructure underlying distributed business applications and services. It does this by discovering, mapping, auditing, and correcting configurations of the related IT assets. Cohesion's Configuration Management Database (CMDB) is a datacenter's comprehensive "source of truth" -- keeping track of the actual configurations of IT assets across servers, software components or IT services. This enables companies to rapidly identify and remedy existing or potential Business Service problems. For more information, http://www.cendura.com