The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation Selects Mazu Networks to Ensure the Performance...

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation Selects Mazu Networks to Ensure
the Performance and Availability of Critical Business Applications
- Mazu Profiler Provides Complete View of Activity across the IT
Infrastructure Enabling Leading Financial Institution to Understand the
Dependencies of its Complex Application Architecture -

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Mazu Networks, the leading
provider of behavior-based, enterprise-class performance and availability
solutions, today announced that The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation
(DTCC) -- the world's largest post-trade infrastructure organization,
providing clearance, settlement and information services to the financial
marketplace -- selected Mazu Profiler to gain end-to-end visibility into the
performance and availability of its complex application architecture. DTCC
uses this expanded visibility to optimize network planning and operations in
addition to protecting critical network assets.
Through Network Behavior Analysis (NBA), Mazu Profiler offers
organizations a new way of looking at the IT infrastructure and provides
significant value to network, security and data center operations teams. By
using Mazu Profiler's comprehensive behavior-based analytics, the DTCC team
gains a true end-to-end view of the application delivery path from back-end
servers to the users' desktops. Mazu Profiler learns the typical behavior
patterns for hundreds of key performance indicators on the interactions of and
dependencies between users, applications, network and systems. Mazu Profiler
is the only solution that uses advanced behavior-based technologies to analyze
traffic to detect application performance and availability, congestion and
security issues to ensure the constant delivery of critical business
applications.
"DTCC is always evaluating new approaches to improve our business
processes and security," said Neil Wasserman, vice president, information
technology, DTCC. "Through Mazu Profiler, our IT operations and security teams
can share common data that enables DTCC to optimize infrastructure to support
our business, resolving performance and availability issues while also
protecting critical applications, data and intellectual property."
Using Mazu Profiler, DTCC also lowered their mean time to repair (MTTR),
thereby reducing costs significantly. Mazu Profiler enabled this reduction by
equipping DTCC with information on who uses which applications, how often and
how much, along with intelligence on server-to-server and
application-to-server dependencies. From this information, DTCC can create
application-focused host groups, identify application port usage, create
meaningful port groups and use rule-based events customized for the DTCC
environment. Having access to historical data about typical activity enables
DTCC to make educated decisions on the actions they need to take to identify
the root cause of any infrastructure issue.
"Financial networks support critical business functions, which makes
consistent application performance and availability a requisite," said Paul
Brady, chief executive officer, Mazu Networks, Inc. "Mazu Profiler provides
DTCC with a complete view of their network operations and security, allowing
the company to prevent the disruption of normal business operations as well as
protect its critical assets from compromise."
Mazu Profiler enables IT organizations to manage, secure and optimize the
performance and availability of business applications. Through Mazu Profiler,
IT teams can improve key initiatives including: application performance
management; security and compliance; WAN management; CMDB-discovery; and data
center consolidation and migration. Maintaining high network availability and
performance is critical to running a productive business. With Mazu Profiler,
companies can address these critical IT initiatives and evolve their network
to keep pace with the speed of business today. For more information on the
ways Mazu Profiler can resolve today's most pressing network operations and
security challenges, please visit: http://www.mazunetworks.com/it-initiatives.
About Mazu Networks, Inc.
Mazu Networks offers solutions that enable IT organizations to manage,
secure, and optimize the availability and performance of business services.
Based on Network Behavior Analysis (NBA), Mazu Profiler provides a new way of
looking at the IT infrastructure by analyzing network traffic to provide
valuable information about the interactions of and dependencies between users,
applications, and systems. This enables enterprise IT organizations to ensure
optimal performance and availability, enhanced protection and support for
regulatory compliance, and informed decision making for IT initiatives. Only
Mazu Profiler offers behavioral analytics, user identification and application
fingerprinting, role-based presentation using common data, and intelligent
operation with other systems in the infrastructure. With Mazu Profiler,
hundreds of customers are able to ensure the availability, performance, and
security of business services as well as to reduce costs and satisfy
regulatory requirements. For more information, please visit
http://www.mazunetworks.com.
About DTCC
DTCC, through its subsidiaries, provides clearance, settlement and
information services for equities, corporate and municipal bonds, government
and mortgage-backed securities, money market instruments and over-the-counter
derivatives. In addition, DTCC is a leading processor of mutual funds and
insurance transactions, linking funds and carriers with their distribution
networks. DTCC's depository provides custody and asset servicing for more than
3.5 million securities issues from the United States and 110 other countries
and territories, valued at $40 trillion. In 2007, DTCC settled more than $1.86
quadrillion in securities transactions. DTCC has operating facilities in
multiple locations in the United States and overseas.
SOURCE Mazu Networks, Inc.

Karen Regan of Mazu Networks, Inc., +1-617-354-9292, ext. 148,
karen.regan@mazunetworks.com