Monolith Software releases Version 3.4

MONOLITH SOFTWARE INCREASES NETWORK OPERATIONS EFFICIENCY AND VISIBILITY WITH NEW FEATURES AND CAPABILITIES

Enhancements Deliver New Levels of Visibility, Predictive Analytics and Fail Over Resiliency to Help NOCs Meet Stringent Service Assurance Objectives

ST. CHARLES, IL   Sept. 2, 2009  . Monolith Software, the industry's most flexible and versatile technology management solution for Network Operation Centers (NOCs), announced today new features and capabilities to help service providers and large IT organizations deliver superior service levels while lowering technology management costs and streamlining operational efficiency. Monolith Software has added more than 80 new features to version 3.4 of its flagship software platform with more than 50 percent of the enhancements driven directly by customer input. The new features enhance business operations allowing for higher scalability, more automation, lower total cost of ownership, and increased visibility.

"With the diversity and mix of devices under our control growing and the business expanding rapidly, Monolith gives us more automation and a consolidation of our management surveillance capabilities. Monolith offers a robust, yet flexible, framework upon which to build a comprehensive monitoring system," said Don Newton, Director of Network Tools of Cypress Communications.

Version 3.4 Release Highlights


Expanded Secure Protocol Support

- Next generation Internet Protocol, Version 6 and SNMPv3


Service Level Management Enhancements

- Multi-tenancy support provides greater transparency into service levels for customers and business units

- Enhanced SLM dashboarding, metrics and reporting


Advanced Metrics, Trending & Analytics Support

- Predictive trend reporting with distributed Excel reports or enhanced graphing to assist in capacity planning . including graph zooming

- More scalable polling and collection of real time metrics to millions of metrics collected per second

- GUI-based generic rules extender to lower day-to-day administration efforts

- Service level management updates supporting any service hierarchy to simplify the management of service level agreements


Improved Support for High Availability, Real-Time Network Health Monitoring

- Bulk load support for pollers, collectors, and aggregators to expand scalability

- Health monitoring for pollers and collectors to provide real-time visibility and stability for extremely large environments

- Cluster polling delivers automated load balancing as well as dynamic failover

"Monolith has set out to change the technology monitoring and management playing field. With this release, we further set ourselves apart from the competition with expanded scalability, enhanced reporting, and industry leading administration automation and visibility with our real time dashboards and SLM views. This release also really highlights the fact that we listen intently to our customer base, which is evident by the plethora of new customer-driven features. This directly ties into our objective of building software to help NOCs to streamline their operational efficiency, more comprehensively monitor their technology infrastructure, and ensure superior service delivery all while lowering costs," said Jeff Parker, president and CEO of Monolith Software.

Product Availability

Version 3.4 of Monolith's platform is available today direct from Monolith Software. Nearly all features included in this release are available to customers on maintenance as a free upgrade.