InfoVista Attains Principal Partner Status in the Sun Partner Advantage Program

InfoVista (Euronext IFV - FR0004031649), the leader in delivering proven solutions for proactive service assurance, announced that it is a Principal Partner in the Sun Microsystems Partner Advantage Program for Independent Software Vendors (ISVs). InfoVista qualified for this level by meeting Sun's stringent criteria for excellence as a supplier of Solaris™ Operating System (OS) solutions, and by committing to tight strategic and technical alignment with Sun. By achieving Principal Partner status, InfoVista joins the elite community of ISVs that are developing applications for, or porting applications to, the Sun platform. The benefits to Sun customers include access to a broader range of pre-tested, optimized solutions; investment protection and reduced total cost of ownership (TCO) through collaborative engineering between Sun and its partners. Customers will also gain a higher level of predictability and support as Sun rolls out its latest technologies and software upgrades. Already supporting the Solaris 10 OS, InfoVista has tightly integrated its VistaInsight® for Servers 3.0 with Sun’s Dynamic Tracing (DTrace) technology. By incorporating precise information about the performance of both systems and applications customers receive an early warning so that performance degradations can proactively be addressed before users are affected. By integrating with DTrace, VistaInsight for Servers provides real-time correlation between virtualized resources and underlying physical components. This provides data center managers a clear view of server utilization and capacity levels and empowers them to efficiently reassign resources as needed to accommodate changing usage levels. As a result, hardware utilization can be increased through extensive use of virtualization without putting critical applications at risk—delivering maximum return on datacenter investments. "Sun continues to be one of the leading innovators in our industry and the platform of choice for many of our customers," said Manuel Stopnicki, CTO, InfoVista. "Sun's collaborative business model works well for our company and our customers, and now as a Principal Partner in the Sun Partner Advantage Program we're in a stronger position to leverage Sun's technical resources and expertise to serve our customers." By achieving this level of certification, this collaboration delivers a superior level of data from servers and applications allowing customers to identify a path to virtualization and in turn, meet service level expectations. "InfoVista is a natural fit for the Sun Partner Advantage Program and we congratulate them on their new Principal Partner status,” said Julius Lukacs, Senior Director Market Development for Sun. "InfoVista’s VistaInsight for Servers 3.0 product, combined with the innovative virtualization and manageability capabilities of the Solaris 10 OS, ensures the success of data center virtualization initiatives for our shared customers.” About the Sun Partner Advantage Program Introduced in September, 2005, the Sun Partner Advantage Program, for Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), is designed to make it easier for ISVs to get the resources they need to go to market faster on the Solaris 10 OS, link with Sun's Marketing, extend their sales reach, harness the expertise and connections of Sun's partner ecosystem, and help grow their business. The Program helps create an increased level of collaboration among Sun and its ecosystem of technology partners. By participating in the Sun Partner Advantage Program, ISVs receive simplified, programmatic, Web-based access to the resources they need to help them succeed in each stage of the application life cycle: design, development, deployment, and operation. For complete details about the individual offerings that are available, go to www.sun.com/partners/isv. About InfoVista InfoVista empowers telecom operators, services providers and large enterprises to maximize business return and productivity by assuring the optimal performance of mission-critical networked services, applications and infrastructures. Eighty percent of the world’s largest service providers and more than 30 of the top 100 global corporations rely on InfoVista’s proven solutions for Proactive Service Assurance to foresee potential service issues before they impact end users, improve business effectiveness, reduce operating risk, lower cost of operations, increase agility and create competitive advantage. Sample customers include Bell Canada, Bharti, BNP Paribas, British Telecom, Cable & Wireless, CitiGroup, Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), Deutsche Telekom, Fidelity Investments, JP Morgan Chase, SFR, SingTel, T-Mobile, Telefonica, and Telstra. InfoVista is traded on the Euronext Paris (FR0004031649) and can be found online at www.infovista.com. Cautionary Statement for Purposes of the "Safe Harbor" Provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: Except for historical information contained herein, the matters discussed in this news release are "forward looking statements." These statements involve risks and uncertainties which could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements; including, without limitation, risks and uncertainties arising from the rapid evolution of our markets, competition, market acceptance of our products, our dependence upon spending by the telecommunications industry and our ability to develop and protect new technologies. For a description of other factors which might affect our actual results, please see the "Risk Factors" section and other disclosures in InfoVista's public filings with the French Autorité des Marchés Financiers. Readers of this news release are cautioned not to put undue reliance on any forward-looking statement. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. InfoVista is a registered trademark of InfoVista, S.A. 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