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Opsware Wins Network Computing's Well-Connected Award for Second Year in a Row

Posted on: Monday, 1 May 2006, 09:00 CDT

Opsware Inc. (NASDAQ:OPSW), the leading provider of IT Automation software, today announced that the Opsware Network Automation System (NAS) has earned CMP Media LLC's Network Computing 2006 Well-Connected Award in the Network and Systems Management category for Best Configuration Management product, once again being recognized as a superior solution in the market. This is the eighth industry award where Opsware NAS has been selected as the leading solution.

Opsware NAS won the award based on its innovative network automation capabilities and superior scalability against other configuration and compliance management products. In a rigorous hands-on comparative review, Opsware NAS achieved the distinction of being named Editor's Choice, earning a perfect score in multiple categories including: configuration management, production control, ease of use, architecture and reporting. Opsware NAS achieved the highest combined score across all categories over the competition, validating its product superiority in compliance and configuration management, ease of use, architecture and reporting capabilities. Winners were chosen from a select group of products evaluated over the past 12 months in CMP Media's LLC's Network Computing Real-World Labs.

In a hands-on testing process, CMP Media LLC's Network Computing honored Opsware NAS as an "ideal solution for organizations that want to improve change control and implement best practices." Judged on its performance, CMP Media LLC's Network Computing selected Opsware NAS as "the best network-configuration product tested" with a "comprehensive feature set and raft of unique features, including compliance reporting."

Opsware NAS provides cutting-edge network management and compliance enforcement for large global networks and complex VoIP, wireless and VPN environments. Opsware NAS allows organizations to ensure best practices and compliance across tens of thousands of network devices, spanning the broadest array of devices (routers, firewalls, load balancers, etc.) and the most advanced network infrastructures. With deployments across all major vertical markets, Opsware NAS automates IT's strategic priorities including regulatory and process compliance policies such as Sarbanes-Oxley, COBIT, ITIL and security administration. Opsware's Server Automation System, combined with the award-winning Opsware NAS, provides IT with the most comprehensive IT automation solution available today.

"The Well-Connected Awards are unique because they're the only industry awards given by technologists based on real-world use and integration. We view all products, technologies and services from the same perspective as our readers -- our peers -- do," said John Siefert, Publisher of Network Computing. "This is an important distinction from any other award program -- the products selected in the Well-Connected Awards have been tested in an actual business environment and judged by our editors themselves. They are truly innovative solutions that work -- and we have the metrics to prove it."

"As a two-time winner of Network Computing's Well-Connected Award, we are once again impressed by the rigorous testing that takes place in the Real World Lab and feel fortunate to be among the select few products recognized for the value we deliver to customers and unmatched capabilities of our software," said Eric Johnson, vice president of engineering at Opsware Inc. "The testing conducted by Network Computing is not unlike the testing we see by customers in the field, where Opsware NAS consistently earns the highest marks in scalability, performance, compliance and our overall feature set."

About Network Computing

Network Computing is the trusted information source which helps 220,000 Technology Leaders turn business strategy into reality. The editorial team consists of real-world IT veterans who provide objective information and analysis on technologies and solutions that are tested in IT media's only Real-World Labs -- a setting which mirrors our audience's work environment. Network Computing's critical analysis of market solutions and their impact on an organization is infused in every aspect of the brand, from the award-winning publication and networkcomputing.com, to NWCReports.com, and the events such as the Expert Series Tour and Technology Leader Forum. Network Computing is consistently honored for its editorial excellence, garnering accolades from the American Society of Business Publication Editors (ASBPE), as well as winning Maggie Awards from Western Publications Association and Folio magazine's Ozzie Awards.

About Opsware Inc. (NASDAQ:OPSW)

Opsware Inc. is the world's leading IT Automation software company. The growth of the Internet is driving a shift from client/server computing to Web architecture. With this shift comes an overwhelming proliferation of servers, networking devices and applications, creating massive complexity that makes automated IT operations a necessity. Opsware automates the complete IT lifecycle and enables IT to automatically discover, provision, patch, configure, secure, change, scale, audit, recover, consolidate, migrate, and reallocate servers, network devices and applications. Over 350 of the world's largest companies, outsourcers and government agencies use Opsware to deliver this new, automated model of IT. For more information on Opsware Inc., please visit our Web site at www.opsware.com.

Opsware is a service mark and trademark of Opsware Inc. All other product names, service marks, and trademarks mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective owners.

Source: Business Wire

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