LineSider Technologies to Deliver Policy-Driven Network Virtualization for Cisco...

LineSider Technologies to Deliver Policy-Driven Network Virtualization for Cisco Products

OverDrive Version 2.5 Gives Cisco Router and Switch Users Top-Down
Policy Control for Ease of Network Deployment and Management
DANVERS, Mass.--(Business Wire)--
LineSider Technologies, the leading provider of policy-driven
network infrastructure control and management software, today
announced the upcoming release of OverDrive Version 2.5, a network
infrastructure control and management solution that extends fully
automated policy-driven control to devices from Cisco Systems Inc.
This OverDrive solution will be commercially available in May 2008 and
will support Cisco's Integrated Services Router (ISR) line routers and
selected devices within the Catalyst switch family.

"Enterprises of all sizes are struggling with the complexity and
cost of daily network operations and management. Compounding this
problem is the trend towards moving applications from the data center
onto the network itself," said Scott Scherer, an analyst at In-Stat
"As device manufacturers, like Cisco, embrace this trend, enterprises
are going to have to find new solutions for automating processes,
which will in turn help them control costs and lessen the burden on
already overtaxed IT resources."

LineSider's OverDrive is designed specifically with these
enterprise needs in mind. It enables IT departments work smarter and
more efficiently, reducing traditional network operational support
costs by as much as 80 percent in some cases.

"As users, resources and applications continue to become more
virtual and transient within the network, the cost and effort to
maintain the underlying network services and configurations to support
these dynamic resources will only continue to rise," said Ken
Ferderer, LineSider's CTO. "With OverDrive 2.5, network managers now
have a solution to cost-effectively control and manage their network
environment using persisted policies that maintain the relationship
between resources and automatically adjusting the underlying network
configurations in response to users, resources or applications that
are constantly moving in network."

Unlike other network configuration and management tools available
today that simply define configuration templates, OverDrive uses
automated policies to define the relationship between the users,
applications and resources that reside on the network. At the same
time, it initiates and controls all the underlying network services
and device-level configurations in order to support and maintain that
defined relationship.

Because OverDrive tightly integrates with Microsoft's Active
Directory, the underlying network is appropriately adjusted when
changes are made to user objects, ensuring that all defined
relationships are consistently maintained. The same is true for
changes that happen at the application level. For environments such as
VMware, in which virtual applications can be created and easily moved,
OverDrive can automatically adjust the underlying network in order to
maintain all network connectivity as defined through policy.

OverDrive also supports business continuity, disaster recovery and
compliance reporting. With OverDrive, users are able to define
policies for disaster scenarios, enabling reconfiguration of logical
network topologies and restoring critical network services in a matter
of seconds. OverDrive also maintains the link between the originating
business policy and the deployed configuration, which supports
compliance reporting for an entire network with a single key stroke.

OverDrive software is available for purchase via a traditional
licensing arrangement or in a hosted software-as-a-service (SaaS)
model through LineSider or one of its channel partners. These options
give both enterprises and managed service providers (MSPs) tremendous
flexibility, enabling those that may not have the infrastructure to
brand and offer managed services while growing their business. Service
providers and MSPs also can purchase OverDrive with the optional MSP
module, which allows for the control and management of multiple
enterprise network environments through a fully tenanted model with a
single instance of the OverDrive system.

For more information on OverDrive, please visit www.linesider.net.

About LineSider Technologies

LineSider Technologies is a leading provider of policy-driven
infrastructure control and management software. LineSider's patented
OverDrive technology suite enables an enterprise or service provider
to control and manage deployed infrastructure services and devices
through fully automated business-level policies. For more information
on LineSider, please visit www.linesider.net.

For LineSider
Lori Vierthaler, 316-992-8271
lori@viercomm.net

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