FSPro Labs today announced the release of Hide Folder Ext, new software for protecting files on external disks. At this time, Hide Folder Ext is the only commercially available solution to hide and lock folders on external disks.

“You can find about dozen of great folder hiding software solutions on the market, but all of them are intended to protect data on internal hard drives”, says Michael Karsyan, FSPro Labs CEO. “Before Hide Folder Ext, the only way to protect files on external volumes was data encryption, which was not always appropriate. Now Hide Folder Ext lets users to hide folders on external or removable drives, and does it in no time”.

Protecting data on external drives is a really important security task. If a user stores sensitive files on a USB flash drive, the data could be easily disclosed if the drive was lost or stolen. Hide Folder Ext can hide a folder on such drives and lock access to it with a password.

As for the user interface of Hide Folder Ext, it is extremely easy to work with. It is implemented as a “wizard”. The program guides user from disk selection to the final screen in such a way that it is impossible to do anything wrong.

Hide Folder Ext is fully portable software. It is possible to copy it to external disk which contains the protected folder. So the authorized user will be able to access hidden files from any computer.

Key features of Hide Folder Ext
- Hiding folders on external disks connected via USB, SATA, Firewire
- Hiding folders on removable media like SD, Memory Stick etc;
- Immediate protection regardless of the size of protected files;
- Support of NTFS, FAT and FAT32 file systems;
- Protected files are invisible in safe mode, or on other computers;
- The program can copy itself to external disk;

Pricing and Availability

Hide Folder Ext is compatible with Windows XP, 2003, Vista, 2008 and Windows 7. The price starts from 29.95 USD for a single-user home license. Volume and educational discounts are available.

Company

Founded in 2000, FSPro Labs is a software development company specializing in information security solutions for home users and businesses. The major products of the company are Event Log Explorer, Hide Folders 2009, My Lockbox, Lock My PC and Access Boss. All customers are provided with high quality support. For more information about FSPro Labs and its products please visit the company website.

Links
Product page: http://fspro.net/hide-folder-ext
Download link: http://fspro.net/download/distr/hide_folder_ext.zip
Company website: http://fspro.net

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-THE GREAT KAT SHREDS BOTH GUITAR AND VIOLIN on PAGANINI’S “CAPRICE #24″: http://youtu.be/ampk7XrP6lA
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For a review copy of The Great Kat’s new “Beethoven Shreds” CD, contact:
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CNPV Rejoices in Photon Field Performance Test Results

[16-February-2012]

	LUXEMBOURG and DONGYING, China, February 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – CNPV Solar Power SA, a public limited liability company organized under the laws of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and a leading integrated manufacturer of solar photovoltaic products, today confirmed their position within the international, leading group of solar module providers, with their field performance ratio results measured by Photon Laboratory during 2011. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081103/CNM010LOGO ) Photon Laboratory’s long term field performance testing of solar modules in real world conditions is widely accepted as producing the data most important to decision makers for solar PV choices. Recently Photon has amended its data collation with the addition of a “performance ratio” which reflects the kilowatt hours generated, compared to the nominal kilowatt output of modules supplied. In other words, it overcomes the label rating variances that are present when comparing individual suppliers and exposes the modules tested to the same real world conditions of variable sunshine intensity, weather, temperature and humidity. These results are then compiled and allow for the ranking on a “like for like” basis between all suppliers and all technology types. The margin of error stated within this test process is +/- 1.85%. “Great news for CNPV, our customers and strategic partners,” beamed Mr Bypina Veerraju Chaudary, CNPV’s COO and CTO, on receiving the data. “By listening and responding to our strategic partners’ input we have delivered performance that sits within the best in the world. Our performance in this evaluation was 6 in the list of 46 with a 2% deviation from the top ranked supplier, well within the margin of error of the test results. The diversity of the data once again demonstrates that not all modules are equal, and we are immensely satisfied that Photon’s expertise in revealing the variances in real use supports our own data and representation.” In the Photon Field Performance Test, two modules from each supplier are tested in a laboratory in Germany, with output measured over different seasons and different light conditions. The test recorded a performance ratio of 88.8% for the CNPV modules. Of course this is only part of the data important to purchasers of solar PV; investment cost, total cost of ownership, coupled with overall power generation has many facets to be considered. Back to CNPV’s Mr Chaudary: “Our consistent vision is about delivering real value. The Photon data underscores part of our progress on this itinerary. Within CNPV, we treat the elements of total cost of ownership, safety of investment and investment costs with the same focus as delivering real world performance. Our customers’ data continues to demonstrate lower customer outlay for highest returns ratios, based upon our provable longer life, greater conversion capability, protection of investment and lower cost base. Together with our customers we continue to develop improved techno-commercial solutions to the markets’ requirements. We eagerly await additional external ratifications on our newer developments to give further satisfaction to our customers that they continue to have the best value solar PV energy conversion available.” CNPV wishes to applaud Photon and the leading participants within the evaluation; By removing some of the mystery surrounding real word power harvesting, and demonstrating the myriad of performance variations, the total solar market has a much improved chance of continuing to grow in the future to the benefit of all. CNPV CNPV Solar Power SA (NYSE Euronext: ALCNP), is a leading integrated manufacturer of solar photovoltaic products from the production of ingots, wafers and cells to the assembly of PV modules. Website: http://www.cnpv-power.com CNPV Solar Power SA Bypina Veerraju Chaudary, Chief Operating Officer +86-13656-473355, +86-546-779-5555 chaudary@cnpv-power.com ir@cnpv-power.com
	Company Codes: Bloomberg:ALCNP@FP, EuronextParis:ALCNP, ISIN:LU0379220212

Coventry, United Kingdom – February 15th, 2012 – Netplan Internet Solutions Ltd today announced that its VMware public cloud service has achieved VMware vCloud Powered status, illustrating to customers that the company’s cloud  services are underpinned by VMware’s leading virtualization and cloud computing technology, namely VMware vSphere® and VMware vCloud Director™.  A member of the VMware Service Provider Program (VSPP), Netplan provides its VMware vCloud Powered service as a set of cloud computing services across a common platform, supporting the largest set of existing applications and offering distinctive application mobility uniquely available from VMware.

In a recent interview Stuart Gibson, Managing Director of Netplan was quoted saying:

“Achieving VMware’s vCloud Powered status is a great milestone for the team here at Netplan, which clearly demonstrates Netplan’s forward thinking and commitment to providing best-in-class public cloud solutions to our customers”

“The VMware vCloud Powered program was developed to enable our service provider partners to differentiate themselves and help them bring their enterprise-class cloud services to market in this competitive landscape,“ said Gavin Jackson, Director, vCloud & Service Providers, EMEA, VMware. “We look forward to supporting Netplan further as it delivers on the agility and performance customers are looking for in the cloud computing landscape.”

Customers of Netplan have the ability to move workloads from their VMware vSphere-based virtualized or private cloud environment to the VMware vCloud Powered service and back again. This application portability is a key differentiator allowing customers to achieve the flexibility and security they need while enabling increased IT agility.

Netplan sought VMware vCloud Powered validation in order to provide current and future customers with a true on-demand cloud hosting solution. As a validated provider, Netplan can now provide users with enhanced responsiveness and agility, and reduced IT costs through increased consolidation, task automation and simplified management.

Financial services authentication made simple, seamless and secure with Encap

Oslo, Norway, 15th February 2012 - Encap today announced that electronic service platform vendor, mTrust, has selected its software-based, two-factor authentication and digital signing solution. Encap’s technology will be integrated into mTrust’s BSP (Basic Services Platform) which offers a range of payment, identity and authentication services to financial institutions and other service providers. mTrust is the first partner to integrate Encap’s full suite of authentication and digital signing solutions.

The mTrust BSP platform offers a portfolio of advanced electronic services including:

• TrustIdentity (advanced shared sign-on based on Open ID standards)
• TrustSign (online and mobile document signing such as account opening)
• TrustPay (internet and mobile payments)
• TrustBox (secure digital document storage)

Financial institutions (and other service providers) using mTrust’s services supported by Encap will be able to offer consumers a simple, seamless and secure authentication environment that works across all platforms – PC, mobile or tablet – and via the Cloud. Consumers use their personal mobile device and a PIN to provide secure access and digital signing.

Benefits for financial institutions include:

• In-App authentication is bank-branded to provide a seamless consumer experience
• Increased adoption of high value mobile services by removing barriers to use
• Establish non-repudiation for higher value transactions by using binding digital signatures
• Simple integration with back-office and CRM systems
• Device, system and operator network independence
• No capital investment and much-reduced operational expenditure
• No need for costly and complicated provisioning programmes. What normally takes weeks, takes hours

“In today’s post-PC world it’s vital to give consumers a simple, secure and seamless way to pay for goods and services as well as sign documents using smart devices,” said Lubo Pozgay, CTO & Managing Director, mTrust. “By working with Encap we can help our customers deliver a better and richer user experience to its consumers while reducing costs and increasing efficiencies.”

“We believe authentication can be a significant differentiation point for financial institutions. Our software-based technology provides an intuitive and mobile friendly process that is familiar to consumers,” says Thomas Bostrøm Jørgensen, CEO of Encap. “We’re delighted to be working with mTrust to provide authentication and digital signing services to financial institutions and other service providers around the globe.”

Los Angeles - After a 3-D re-release of “The Lion King” roared at the box office last year, a pipeline of 3-D theatrical re-releases is in place for this year. But Carl Freer, founder of L.A. startup FilmFunds, thinks there’s room for even more. His startup just started selling 3-D conversion technology to studios that allows them to quickly convert content for less than going to a third-party conversion company.

“We’ll allow them to knock themselves out,” Freer said.

He launched the company with a website in October that allows movie fans to vote on films they’d like to see re-released in 3-D, such as 1980’s Warner Bros. classic “Blade Runner” and Universal’s “Back to the Future.” He plans to use the site as market research to show studios that films can be successful in re-release.

He acquired the conversion technology in December when FilmFunds bought Duran Duboi U.S. for an undisclosed amount. Duran Duboi is a postproduction house in Los Angeles that handled the 3-D conversion for last year’s Lions Gate release “Conan the Barbarian.”

FilmFunds’ technology converts 2-D to 3-D in real-time using software that can analyze a screen at the rate of 60 frames per second. Freer declined to discuss a price for the device, but did note that he plans to make money servicing the devices.

Freer expects much of the opportunity to come from home video re-releases through digital distribution channels like Netflix Inc., once 3-D-enabled TVs become more common. That’s in part because home video re-releases require less-expensive conversions and also because studios are more receptive to simultaneous home releases for 3-D reboots than for new releases.
Another factor for the slow pace of theatrical re-releases is that the cost of theatrical-quality conversion often ranges between $10 million to $20 million.

“The studios and networks are indecisive because of the big cost additive,” he said.

Small Screen
Craig Tanner, co-founder of production company Digital Revolution Studios, is also banking on 3-D-enabled consumer devices. He has amassed some 500 minutes of 3-D video content that he plans to license once 3-D-enabled handheld devices become more common.

“It’s on a shelf ready to go for the handheld consumer,” Tanner said.

He got a peek of the coming action when he produced a 3-D music video for the song “Don’t Stop” by L.A. alternative rock band Foster the People. The video was available for free download by owners of the Nintendo 3DS handheld gaming system in December.

For Tanner, who spent three years as a visual effects editor on “Avatar,” the two-day music video shoot was a first. But with device makers coming out with 3-D enabled smartphones this year, he said, manufacturers are increasingly asking him to produce short-form content that can fill-out their download stores, as he did for Nintendo.

“It sparked an interest in our company,” he said. “We plan on doing quite a few music videos this year.”

He’s now in talks with music labels and device makers, and expects to put out about 10 music videos from major recording artists this year. Whereas the Nintendo video was a free download, he expects future videos to be monetized similarly to Apple Inc.’s iTunes store, which splits revenue with content creators.

Fine-Tuning
Burbank public TV station KCET-TV (28) continues to roll out new productions, even as funding is down. Last week, the station announced a new slate of programming to debut in March, including talk show “L.A. Tonight With Roy Firestone” and documentary series “Your Turn to Care.”

The programming push is part of the station’s effort to win back viewers that left the station after it severed ties with PBS. In the station’s first month without PBS programming, January 2011, prime time ratings bottomed out at an average of 18,000 viewers.

But a station spokeswoman said prime time viewership was up 78 percent last month, compared with a year earlier, to 32,000. That’s due to higher-performing shows such as British comedy show “Doc Martin,” which brought the station’s largest viewing audience of 150,000 on Jan. 5 since going independent.

Still, funding for the station has withered without PBS. According to the station’s last audited statement, donations dropped some $15 million to $22.3 million for the year ended June 30. That drop reflected a half-year without PBS.

About FilmFunds
Headquartered in Los Angeles, FilmFunds offers a 360-degree solution for Hollywood to test nascent film projects, helping move content through the pipeline by creating an audience for it, while giving fans a unprecedented opportunity to be part of the green-light process. FilmFunds utilizes crowd-sourced social marketing research to replace the costly live test-screening model used since Hollywood’s Golden Era. A social environment where Hollywood filmmakers can meet their real audience, with the most accurate, state-of-the-art diagnostics guiding their efforts to improve and build support for their product, FilmFunds is a place where film lovers have a chance to make it their movie. For more information, please visit http://www.FilmFunds.com.

For further information, please contact:

Rich Jenkins, CTO
FilmFunds, Inc.
3000 Olympic Blvd.
Building 5, Suite 2100
Santa Monica, CA 90404
USA

+1 310 315 4790
rich@filmfunds.com
http://www.filmfunds.com

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Customers choose to use Waste King – the environmentally-friendly specialist collections, clearance and recycling company – primarily because of its environmental friendliness in guaranteeing to recycle at least 85 per cent of all the waste that Waste King collects. In reality, the figure is now over 90 per cent.

A recent survey of Waste King’s customers rated the company’s environmental friendliness marginally ahead of its professionalism. Efficiency and overall value for money were other key reasons given for using Waste King’s services.

Waste King’s managing director, Glenn Currie, commented: “It’s encouraging to find that customers understand Waste King’s operating ethos. Top of the list of ten characteristics about Waste King’s service were that ‘it’s environmentally friendly because it segregates all the waste’ and ‘it’s easier than the alternatives’.

“It was interesting to see that the third most popular characteristic with our customers is that Waste King’s service is cheaper than the alternatives,” he added. “It was also nice to see that many customers said that they felt that Waste King has their best interests at heart.”

Joint fourth on this list of characteristics were that the Waste King service is efficient and that its operatives are polite, friendly and helpful.

The survey was carried out at the end of 2011 and asked 50 Waste King customers, drawn from ‘private’ (as opposed to commercial) customers, to rate the characteristics that best described their experience of Waste King’s service. Respondents were further asked to rate the quality of Waste King’s service with regard to environmental friendliness, professionalism, efficiency and value for money.

“From time to time, Waste King carries out surveys of customer satisfaction but this was the first survey that asked customers to rate the quality of the Waste King service,” Currie explained.

“As a relatively young business – only some five years old – it’s encouraging that customers are already strongly associating our brand with environmental friendliness, professionalism, efficiency and value for money.”

Waste King provides a wide range of waste collection and recycling services for both domestic and commercial clients including house clearances, office clearance, shop refurbishments, general rubbish removal, garden & garage clearance, wait & load and skip hire, as well as services to companies in the fields of property management and maintenance; interior design; specialist renovation, and general construction.

For its commercial clients, Waste King provides recycling and waste collection services including waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) collections and site waste management plans (SWMP).  The company also offers confidential document destruction.

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About Waste King Ltd

A specialist collections, clearance and recycling company, Waste King serves the domestic and commercial markets. It focuses not only on providing a friendly, efficient, cost-effective service but also one which is environmentally friendly. In particular, Waste King’s uniformed, Environment Agency-licensed staff take time to ensure that the maximum amount of waste can be recycled and that all the waste it collects is disposed of in an environmentally friendly way.

Waste King was formed, in 2007, by Glenn Currie and Andy Cattigan, who had experience in sales and IT respectively and were keen to ‘do something to help the environment’.

Further information from:

Glenn Currie,

Waste King Ltd, 0800 234 3657 / 07761 577001; glenn.currie@wasteking.co.uk

Bob Little,

Bob Little Press & PR, 01727 860405; bob.little@boblittlepr.com

BenQ Solar with its New Brand Name Advances in Global Solar Market

[15-February-2012]

	HSINCHU, Taiwan, February 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – AU Optronics Corp (“AUO” or the “Company”) (TAIEX: 2409; NYSE: AUO), a leading global display and solar solutions provider, announced today that its solar business will use “BenQ Solar” as its new brand name from now on, as authorized by BenQ Corporation. AU Optronics will market its high efficiency solar solutions to actively enhance its presence in the global solar market. By adopting the “Global Operation, Local Delivery” business strategy, customers will be offered prompt, economic and high-efficiency total solutions. “The focus of PV market has gradually shifted from developing large utility projects towards commercial and residential markets. In Europe, the US, and Japan, solar products have become consumer products,” said K.Y. Lee, Chairman of BenQ Group. “With the support of BenQ’s well-established brand equity and global sales and service platform, BenQ Solar will rapidly expand its business and earn customer trust. BenQ Solar’s world-class high-efficiency solar products and global operation will provide customers with local-made products and in-time services, making it the most trust-worthy solar brand.” BenQ Solar is devoted to providing high-efficiency solar solutions and seeks to generate maximized total power output in the smallest area possible on solar modules. To reach the goal, BenQ Solar has established a high-efficiency solar value chain for high-efficiency solar modules, including high-efficiency polysilicon, ingot and wafer by M.Setek in Japan, and the world’s highest efficiency cell with more than 22.5% efficiency rate by AUO SunPower, making BenQ Solar’s module the world’s top-notch solar product with higher than 20% efficiency to meet residential, commercial, and utility customers’ demands for high-efficiency solar modules. To fulfill residential customer needs in functionality and convenience, BenQ Solar has launched the world’s first alternating current generating AC Unison™ solar solution, which includes a micro-inverter integrated with the solar module, and equipped with a monitoring system. AC Unison™ solar solution is easy to install, maintain and monitor. Its low-voltage design is highly safe for residential customers’ daily use. BenQ Solar adopts “Global Operation, Local Delivery” business strategy and is capable of providing customers worldwide with solar modules from Taiwan, China, Europe and the US. BenQ Solar has established its distribution channels in North America, Europe, and Asia and will continue to expand its global channel network to offer customers local services and support. BenQ Solar’s high-efficiency and high quality solar products are well trusted by its customers. By collaborating with its partners, BenQ Solar has successfully completed various large solar power plants in places across Taiwan, Germany, the UK, Italy, the US, and South Africa. BenQ Solar will continue to leverage BenQ’s established brand image and publicity to offer high-efficiency and reliable solar products that are easy to install, as well as strengthen its market presence in the global solar market to generate more green energy for the Earth. About BenQ Solar BenQ Solar is a division of AU Optronics Corp. AU Optronics manufactures and markets its PV products globally by using BenQ Solar as its solar product brand. BenQ Solar Business combined M.Setek, AUO crystal, and AUO SunPower to form a high-efficiency vertical solar value chain from polysilicon, ingot, wafer, solar cell, PV module and project business. BenQ Solar has successfully accomplished many large solar power plants projects in Europe, Asia and Africa. The company is capable of providing solar modules from Taiwan, China, Europe and the US and adopts “global operation, local delivery” model to provide worldwide customers with total solar solutions. Please visit BenQSolar.com. About AU Optronics AU Optronics Corp. (AUO) is one of the world’s leading providers of display and solar total solutions. AUO offers a full range of panel sizes and comprehensive applications ranging from 1.2 inches to 71 inches. Based on its profound R&D and manufacturing experience, AUO continues to develop advanced display technologies of the next generation. AUO extended its market to the green energy industry in 2008. By building a vertically integrated high-efficiency solar value chain, AUO provides its customers with high-efficiency solar solutions. AUO now houses a staff of more than 43,000 employees, with global operations in Taiwan, Mainland China, the U.S., Japan, South Korea, Singapore, the Netherlands, Czech and Slovakia. Additionally, AUO is the first pure TFT-LCD manufacturer to be successfully listed at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). AUO has also been named to Dow Jones Sustainability World Index for two consecutive years from 2010 to 2011. AUO generated NT$379.7 billion (US$ 12.54 billion) in sales revenue in 2011. For more information, please visit AUO.com. * 2011 year end revenue converted at an exchange rate of NTD30.27:USD1. About BenQ Group The BenQ Group is currently comprised of companies that operate independently while sharing resources and leveraging synergies among them. The BenQ Group companies include BenQ Corporation, AU Optronics Corporation (the world’s leading TFT-LCD panel manufacturer), Qisda Corporation, Darfon Electronics Corporation, BenQ Materials Corp., BenQ Guru Corp., BenQ Hospital, BenQ Medical Technology, BriView Corp., Daxin Materials Corp., Darwin Precisions, Ltd, Dazzo Technology Corp., Forhouse Corp., SiPix Imaging, Lextar Electronics Corp., Raydium Semiconductor Corp. and Wellypower Corp. Safe Harbour Notice AU Optronics Corp. (“AUO” or the “Company”) (TAIEX: 2409; NYSE: AUO), a global leader of TFT-LCD panels, today announced the above news. Except for statements in respect of historical matters, the statements contained in this Release are “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of Section 27A of the U.S. Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These forward-looking statements were based on our management’s expectations, projections and beliefs at the time regarding matters including, among other things, future revenues and costs, financial performance, technology changes, capacity, utilization rates, yields, process and geographical diversification, future expansion plans and business strategy. Such forward looking statements are subject to a number of known and unknown risks and uncertainties that can cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such statements, including risks related to the flat panel display industry, the TFT-LCD market, acceptance of and demand for our products, technological and development risks, competitive factors, and other risks described in the section entitled “Risk Factors” in our Form 20-F filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission on May 3rd, 2011.
	Company Codes: NYSE:AUO, Bloomberg:2409@TT, Bloomberg:AUO@US, RICS:2409, RICS:AUO.N

New Version Allows Users to Keep Key History on Newly Issued PIV Smart Cards and Store up to 20 Encryption Certificates and Iris Biometric Information

London, UK, Feb 14, 2012 – ActivIdentity®, part of HID Global, trusted leader in solutions for the delivery of secure identity, today announced that its ActivID™ Card Management System (CMS) has completed a Service Pack 2 (SP2) update and has been recertified by the FIPS-201 Evaluation Program to be compliant with NIST SP800-73-3. These updates will enable users to store their key history along with up to 24 certificates on their smart cards. This will allow customers to read older encrypted emails and documents even after a credential has been updated or replaced. These updates also include optional storage of the Iris Images Object and Discovery Object.

“ActivIdentity’s CMS users, leaders of government, commerce and large enterprise, understand the critical nature of IT and physical security and are accustomed to having access to the most trusted and up-to-date solutions in the marketplace,” said Yves Massard, director, product line management at ActivIdentity.“ This update ensures that CMS easily integrates with the most current platforms and continues to offer the simplest upgrade path available even for the largest and most complex of deployments.”

Among the solution’s new features, CMS now simplifies the process of applying future upgrades for customers with the most stringent security policies. The user environment for CMS has also been updated and refreshed to ensure a simplified and familiar user experience that easily integrates and adapts to all common platforms, including those that are most current.

The ActivID Card Management System was also recertified to ensure FIPS-201 compliance in accordance with HSPD 12, a Homeland Security Presidential Directive, which established policy for common identification standards for federal employees and contractors in 2004. The ActivID Card Management System is listed on the FIPS-201 Evaluation Program Approved Products List as item 451. U.S. Federal Government customers managing over a million PIV cardholders have already upgraded to Service Pack 2.

- New “Always-on APM” 4.5 Brings a New Dimension of Analytics to APM with New Business Process Perspective
- Extends Offering with Always-on Production Diagnostics in a Single Cloud-Ready Product

NEW YORK, NY (February 14, 2012) – OpTier, the leader in business transaction-driven application performance management (APM), today announced OpTier Always-on APM™ version 4.5 with significant enhancements that enable today’s always-on business.

Always-on APM 4.5 is the first release that reflects the company’s rebrand to Always-on APM. (Editors, please see separate press release titled: “OpTier Rebrands APM Product, Signifying Industry Need for New Approach to APM to Assure Today’s Always-on Business,” dated February 14, 2012). OpTier has rebranded  its entire offering to reflect what OpTier brings to the market– an APM software solution that enables the business to be “always-on,” which means making every user interaction count, wherever users are, however users interact, over any IT architecture. OpTier helps businesses deliver immediate user response with faster transactions, and be dynamic to resist impact of changes. Businesses can then be more agile to take advantage of new opportunities.

“Today’s IT organizations are faced with ever increasing complexity in both infrastructure and application design, yet are still held to the highest expectations for keeping the business running,” said Jonah Kowall, research director at Gartner. “Products which address the needs of multiple buying groups increase the viability and versatility of the APM product once deployed in an enterprise.”

According to Tim Travaille, Chief Information Officer of Frontier Communications, the nation’s largest communications company focused on rural America, “We chose OpTier because Frontier puts the customer first. OpTier will help ensure a great experience for our customers by allowing us to monitor application performance 24/7.”  Frontier’s range of residential and business products include voice, high-speed internet, video, and security solutions in addition to MetroE, VoIP and ROADM networks. “The performance of our offerings is critical to the success of our customers,” Travaille added.  “They rely on us, and we are relying on OpTier to help meet their expectations.”

“OpTier continues to innovate in application performance management with its differentiated business transaction-driven technology,” said Spencer Holland, Strategic Architect at Capgemini. “OpTier has provided us with actionable intelligence to help us avoid costly service level breaches and ensure our business is always-on.”

Always-on APM version 4.5 features;

• Business process flow visualization across transactions – Within the same UI and data model, the product opens up a new dimension to APM software analytics by presenting a step-by-step flow of business processes, isolating bottlenecks and broken steps and providing unmatched visibility into business impact. This shows real-time business process health indicators, service levels and identifies any incomplete processes, bringing a new analytics dimension of APM to IT management.
• Always-on application diagnostics for Java and .NET is designed to run in production and “always-on” with less than 2% overhead. New one-click visibility into code analysis including call methods, stack trace and SQL statements for faster problem resolution based on real transactions.
• Browser-based user activity – A new method using Java Script injection breaks down client response time and Content Delivery Network (CDN) time, providing valuable insight into the impact of third-party content on the End-Users. Additionally, all mobile devices (SmartPhones, PCs, tablets, etc.) that users are increasingly using to access their business applications are monitored with Always-on APM.
• Cloud-ready within the same product – Gives visibility into cloud performance for transactions such as credit card/account validations and SOA services. IT can assess application readiness before migrating to the cloud, compare before/after performance with baselines, and provide ongoing management once applications are in the cloud. In-depth relevant metrics such as consumption and costs help enterprises with chargeback and provisioning.
• Usability enhancements and expanded platform support – Central access provides a federated approach for very large deployments enables faster problem resolution. New agentless message bus support (IBM MQ, TIBCO EMS, ActiveMQ, SonicMQ & other JMS buses) and additional TCP/IP protocols (FIX, FTP, MQ, and more) are supported.

“Always-on APM 4.5 is a significant release because it adds new breakthrough capabilities that further enable the always-on business,” said Motti Tal, executive vice president of Marketing, Product and Corporate development at OpTier.  “OpTier Always-on APM is the industry’s only enterprise-class APM product that crosses all application boundaries in a single product, making it easy for business and IT to access powerful transaction intelligence with its continued delivery of actionable analytics and deep diagnostics.  Version 4.5 is also cloud-ready out-of-the-box so customers can simultaneously apply this same groundbreaking technology to their applications on the cloud.”

Availability
Always-on APM 4.5 is available immediately. Go to www.optier.com or call (212) 679-2700.