ANTs Ensures Availability of Critical Network Resources for IGT's SystemWatch Solution

October 7, 2008 8:30 AM EDT

Turnkey Solution Delivers Remote Performance Monitoring of Server-Based Gaming Systems

BURLINGAME, Calif., Oct. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- As the gaming industry revs up for the implementation of server-based gaming, ANTs software inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: ANTS), a leader in compatible, high-performance SQL database management systems, today announced it is partnering with BMC Software to provide performance monitoring and event management services to International Game Technology (NYSE: IGT) to ensure reliable uptime for server-based gaming systems via IGT SystemWatch.

ANTs Professional Services will use BMC Performance Manager Express to provide remote, agentless QoS monitoring of critical network infrastructure assets - servers, network devices, applications - for IGT casino operator customers located around the world. Through ANTs' monitoring and event management service, IGT's SystemWatch solution encompasses a fully functional 24x7x365 network operations center responsible for isolating critical events, opening trouble tickets and escalating an event's visibility within IGT. This turnkey solution combines ANTs' highly skilled resources with BMC's best-of-breed technologies for capturing and reacting to issues and ensuring timely and complete resolution for IGT customers. The SystemWatch infrastructure includes full lifecycle event processes, such as intelligent event filtering, multiple escalation paths, blackout windows and ticket management to track events from time of issue to closure.

"Our recent acquisition of Inventa Technologies is already bearing fruit as our partnership with BMC demonstrates, enabling us to deliver performance monitoring services to the undisputed leader in the emerging server-based gaming market," said Joseph Kozak, chairman and CEO of ANTs Software. "We are committed to continuing the long-term relationship with BMC as a Managed Service Provider, and look forward to offering our professional services in the future to manage our customers' IT infrastructure remotely."

IGT is at the forefront of delivering server-based gaming technologies that will transform the gaming industry and create more excitement for players while providing operators with a complete business solution that enhances their business operations and increases profitability. As casino operators and other gaming establishments adopt this technology, ANTs expects much greater demand for performance monitoring services to ensure the continuous uptime and operation of the critical infrastructure components supporting these new gaming systems.

"IGT is the industry leader in customer service and will continue to provide the highest levels of service and support to our customers in a server-based environment. We are pleased to have BMC and ANTs Professional Services on board to help ensure that our customers receive the highest level of service and performance from their gaming systems through IGT SystemWatch," said Jack Angelo, Vice President of Systems Customer Service. "With these networks supporting not only the gaming floor but all the back-office operations as well, it is more important than ever for these critical network assets to be monitored continuously and for any detected faults to be resolved quickly and effectively."

ANTs and BMC Partnership

ANTs' unique Enterprise Systems Management portal, ESM Integrator(TM), captures, centralizes and integrates performance metrics collected by major BMC availability and performance solutions, including BMC Performance Manager, BMC Performance Manager Express, and BMC Performance Assurance. The combination of BMC solutions and ANTs' ESM Integrator(TM) provides a Visualization service offering an extensive suite of reports, available via a web portal, designed to help customers turn monitoring data into actionable knowledge by identifying current infrastructure issues and longer developing challenges through trend analysis.

ANTs Professional Services also works as an implementation partner of BMC deploying monitoring solutions for mission critical infrastructure assets.

ANTs software inc.

The mission of ANTs Software is to help customers drive down IT operating costs by consolidating hardware and software infrastructure and eliminating cost inefficiencies. To this end, ANTs develops and sells the ANTs Compatibility Server (ACS), an innovative middleware solution that accelerates database consolidation between database vendors, enabling application portability.

In addition to ACS, ANTs offers a complete portfolio of services ranging from architecting or managing IT infrastructure, to full application performance tuning and administrative services. ANTs software inc. is a public company with headquarters in Burlingame, California. Our shares trade on the OTC Bulletin Board under the symbol: ANTS.

    Company contact:
    Cesar Rojas
    ANTs software inc.
    (650) 931-0535
    cesar.rojas@ants.com

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SOURCE ANTs software inc.

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