Thurs., May 15, 2008 - 2 p.m. Eastern
Virtualization and Management: New Research Highlights
http://www.emausa.com/ema_lead.php?ls=virtwebpr0508&bs=virtweb0508

EMA research director and virtualization expert Andi Mann will discuss the findings from his most recent study. He will touch on virtualization market trends from 2006-2008, the future for virtualization and best-practice recommendations for IT professionals and vendors.

Wed., May 21, 2008 - 2 p.m. Eastern
How to Show Value for Your CMDB Deployment: Some Do's and Don'ts for Optimizing Your Investments
http://www.emausa.com/ema_lead.php?ls=ni2webpr0508&bs=ni2web0508

During this 1-hour event, EMA vice president Dennis Drogseth and N(i)2 director of business solutions strategy Joseph Bondi will examine effective metrics for assessing Configuration Management Database (CMDB) deployments to optimize time-to-value.

Thurs., May 22, 2008 - 2 p.m. Eastern
Best Practices for Managing IP Telephony as a Service
http://www.emausa.com/ema_lead.php?ls=prognosiswebpr0508&bs=prognosisweb0508

Larry Burton, EMA senior analyst, and PROGNOSIS global product manager, John Dunne, will lead this one-hour Webinar. They will discuss the unique service level management challenges posed by the use of IP telephony and the convergence of telephony, video and data into a single, unified communications backbone.

Wed, May 28, 2008 - 2 p.m. Eastern
Defining IT Governance, Risk and Compliance in the Real World: Issues, Challenges and Keys to High Performance
http://www.emausa.com/ema_lead.php?ls=itgovwebpr0508&bs=itgovweb0508

EMA research director Scott Crawford will define what IT GRC means to real-world practitioners and share highlights from Enterprise Management Associates' extensive 2008 survey on IT GRC.

NOTE TO EDITORS:

For more information, contact Guy Murrel at gmurrel@catapultpr-ir.com or 303-581-7760 x 17.

About Enterprise Management Associates

Founded in 1996, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) is a leading industry analyst and consulting firm dedicated to the IT management market. The firm provides IT vendors and enterprise IT professionals with objective insight into the real-world business value of long-established and emerging technologies, ranging from security, storage and IT Service Management (ITSM) to the Configuration Management Database (CMDB), virtualization and service-oriented architecture (SOA). Even with its rapid growth, EMA has never lost sight of the client, and continues to offer personalized support and convenient access to its analysts. For more information on the firm's extensive library of IT management research, free online IT Management Solutions Center and IT consulting offerings, visit www.enterprisemanagement.com.

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BOULDER, Colo., April 30, 2008 - Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) (www.enterprisemanagement.com), a leading IT management research and consulting firm, today announced it will host a number of free Webinars focused on IT management during the month of May 2008.

The EMA™ Webinars set for May include:

Thurs. May 1, 2008 - 2 p.m. Eastern
Expanding IT Support Staff Capabilities While Reducing Workloads
http://www.emausa.com/ema_lead.php?ls=bomgar3webpr0508&bs=bomgar3web0508)

EMA analyst Steve Brasen and Nathan McNeill, co-founder and vice president of product strategy at Bomgar will explore new methods that can improve the efficiency and responsiveness of help desk support organizations.

Tues., May 6, 2008 - 12 p.m. Eastern
SLM and BSM: The Future of IT Management. Are You Ready?
http://www.emausa.com/ema_lead.php?ls=asgslmwebpr0508&bs=asgslmweb0508

Lisa Erickson-Harris, research director at EMA, and Jimmy Augustine, vice president of marketing at ASG, will discuss the latest trends in Service Level Management (SLM) and Business Service Management (BSM). They also will discuss the growing investment in BSM and what is driving the growth.

Tues., May 13, 2008 - 12 p.m. Eastern
Managing Business Service Performance in a Virtual Environment
http://www.emausa.com/ema_lead.php?ls=asgvirtwebpr0508&bs=asgvirtweb0508

Andi Mann, EMA research director and ASG CTO and SVP of business development, John Connor will discuss some of the key ways to manage business service performance in a virtual environment, avoid pitfalls and align virtualization with business needs.

Thurs., May 15, 2008 - 2 p.m. Eastern
Virtualization and Management: New Research Highlights
http://www.emausa.com/ema_lead.php?ls=virtwebpr0508&bs=virtweb0508

EMA research director and virtualization expert Andi Mann will discuss the findings from his most recent study. He will touch on virtualization market trends from 2006-2008, the future for virtualization and best-practice recommendations for IT professionals and vendors.

Wed., May 21, 2008 - 2 p.m. Eastern
How to Show Value for Your CMDB Deployment: Some Do's and Don'ts for Optimizing Your Investments
http://www.emausa.com/ema_lead.php?ls=ni2webpr0508&bs=ni2web0508

During this 1-hour event, EMA vice president Dennis Drogseth and N(i)2 director of business solutions strategy Joseph Bondi will examine effective metrics for assessing Configuration Management Database (CMDB) deployments to optimize time-to-value.

Thurs., May 22, 2008 - 2 p.m. Eastern
Best Practices for Managing IP Telephony as a Service
http://www.emausa.com/ema_lead.php?ls=prognosiswebpr0508&bs=prognosisweb0508

Larry Burton, EMA senior analyst, and PROGNOSIS global product manager, John Dunne, will lead this one-hour Webinar. They will discuss the unique service level management challenges posed by the use of IP telephony and the convergence of telephony, video and data into a single, unified communications backbone.

Wed, May 28, 2008 - 2 p.m. Eastern
Defining IT Governance, Risk and Compliance in the Real World: Issues, Challenges and Keys to High Performance
http://www.emausa.com/ema_lead.php?ls=itgovwebpr0508&bs=itgovweb0508

EMA research director Scott Crawford will define what IT GRC means to real-world practitioners and share highlights from Enterprise Management Associates' extensive 2008 survey on IT GRC.

NOTE TO EDITORS:

For more information, contact Guy Murrel at gmurrel@catapultpr-ir.com or 303-581-7760 x 17.

About Enterprise Management Associates

Founded in 1996, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) is a leading industry analyst and consulting firm dedicated to the IT management market. The firm provides IT vendors and enterprise IT professionals with objective insight into the real-world business value of long-established and emerging technologies, ranging from security, storage and IT Service Management (ITSM) to the Configuration Management Database (CMDB), virtualization and service-oriented architecture (SOA). Even with its rapid growth, EMA has never lost sight of the client, and continues to offer personalized support and convenient access to its analysts. For more information on the firm's extensive library of IT management research, free online IT Management Solutions Center and IT consulting offerings, visit www.enterprisemanagement.com.

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BOULDER, Colo., April 4, 2008 - With IT virtualization one of the hottest topics in technology it's not surprising that virtualization security will likely peg the "buzz meter" at the upcoming RSA 2008 conference. Scott Crawford, research director for the security and risk management practice at Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) (www.enterprisemanagement.com), says virtualization security has quickly become one of the highest visibility concepts in IT, and that EMA will explore the new frontier of virtualization security in a new research study that will be initiated at RSA 2008.

"RSA is a great place to kick off our research on virtualization security," said Crawford. "As the use of virtualization continues to climb, so do questions about the security issues it raises. Virtualization security will definitely generate huge interest at this conference."

Currently, virtualization itself is at the top of many executives' agendas. As virtualization is adopted by more and more companies, security professionals have begun to integrate security methods into this new approach. Unfortunately, there is no real standard method for implementing virtualization, which makes it more difficult for security professionals to form a general consensus regarding the actual issues of security in virtualized environments. This has made virtualization security an elusive target.

In addition to virtualization security, EMA has identified several other hot topics for RSA 2008, including:

• Current trends highlight that there is a big difference between compliance and security. The Societe Generale case illustrates how an insider with knowledge of technical business risk controls in IT can perpetuate fraud on a massive scale. On the other hand, the recent Hannaford case shows how attackers can exploit exposures that are beyond the controls required by current regulatory mandates.

• As underground computer activity continues to mature, attacks have become more sophisticated, thus complicating the discovery and criminal prosecution of these attackers. This seedy environment has created a foundation for major investments into criminal activities.

• 2008 appears to be a year in which security strategies will focus on ground-up approaches to develop and deploy more secure systems and applications. As a result, many organizations are integrating new security processes into the pre-production phases of systems and applications.

• The number of websites with malicious codes is constantly on the rise. In addition, the exploitation of browsers and the plug-in applications that they integrate is continually growing. Vulnerable websites become a target for hackers to flip into major attackers. In addition, one of the most alarming trends is that attackers can leverage legitimate websites in a manner that even trained security professionals may not recognize as harmful.

• Information risk management continues to be a very complex challenge for many organizations. High-privilege user accounts wield a large amount of control over IT systems, but they are not necessarily well secured.

• As SaaS models and approaches to "security in the cloud" continue to mature, new product and service offerings have sprung from many security vendors. The implications for security strategy management in containing many of the risks and costs of maintaining in-house tools and expertise could lead to the outsourcing of security departments to third-party organizations.

RSA 2008 will be held April 7-11 in San Francisco, Calif. at the Moscone Center.  If you would like EMA comment on virtualization security or any of these topics, please contact Guy Murrel at gmurrel@catapultpr-ir.com or 303-581-7760.

About Enterprise Management Associates

Founded in 1996, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) is a leading industry analyst and consulting firm dedicated to the IT management market. The firm provides IT vendors and enterprise IT professionals with objective insight into the real-world business value of long-established and emerging technologies, ranging from security, storage and IT Service Management (ITSM) to the Configuration Management Database (CMDB), virtualization and service-oriented architecture (SOA). Even with its rapid growth, EMA has never lost sight of the client, and continues to offer personalized support and convenient access to its analysts. For more information on the firm's extensive library of IT management research, free online IT Management Solutions Center and IT consulting offerings, visit www.enterprisemanagement.com.

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BOULDER, Colo., April 4, 2008 - With IT virtualization one of the hottest topics in technology it's not surprising that virtualization security will likely peg the "buzz meter" at the upcoming RSA 2008 conference. Scott Crawford, research director for the security and risk management practice at Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) (www.enterprisemanagement.com), says virtualization security has quickly become one of the highest visibility concepts in IT, and that EMA will explore the new frontier of virtualization security in a new research study that will be initiated at RSA 2008.

"RSA is a great place to kick off our research on virtualization security," said Crawford. "As the use of virtualization continues to climb, so do questions about the security issues it raises. Virtualization security will definitely generate huge interest at this conference."

Currently, virtualization itself is at the top of many executives' agendas. As virtualization is adopted by more and more companies, security professionals have begun to integrate security methods into this new approach. Unfortunately, there is no real standard method for implementing virtualization, which makes it more difficult for security professionals to form a general consensus regarding the actual issues of security in virtualized environments. This has made virtualization security an elusive target.

In addition to virtualization security, EMA has identified several other hot topics for RSA 2008, including:

• Current trends highlight that there is a big difference between compliance and security. The Societe Generale case illustrates how an insider with knowledge of technical business risk controls in IT can perpetuate fraud on a massive scale. On the other hand, the recent Hannaford case shows how attackers can exploit exposures that are beyond the controls required by current regulatory mandates.

• As underground computer activity continues to mature, attacks have become more sophisticated, thus complicating the discovery and criminal prosecution of these attackers. This seedy environment has created a foundation for major investments into criminal activities.

• 2008 appears to be a year in which security strategies will focus on ground-up approaches to develop and deploy more secure systems and applications. As a result, many organizations are integrating new security processes into the pre-production phases of systems and applications.

• The number of websites with malicious codes is constantly on the rise. In addition, the exploitation of browsers and the plug-in applications that they integrate is continually growing. Vulnerable websites become a target for hackers to flip into major attackers. In addition, one of the most alarming trends is that attackers can leverage legitimate websites in a manner that even trained security professionals may not recognize as harmful.

• Information risk management continues to be a very complex challenge for many organizations. High-privilege user accounts wield a large amount of control over IT systems, but they are not necessarily well secured.

• As SaaS models and approaches to "security in the cloud" continue to mature, new product and service offerings have sprung from many security vendors. The implications for security strategy management in containing many of the risks and costs of maintaining in-house tools and expertise could lead to the outsourcing of security departments to third-party organizations.

RSA 2008 will be held April 7-11 in San Francisco, Calif. at the Moscone Center.  If you would like EMA comment on virtualization security or any of these topics, please contact Guy Murrel at gmurrel@catapultpr-ir.com or 303-581-7760.

Founded in 1996, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) is a leading industry analyst and consulting firm dedicated to the IT management market. The firm provides IT vendors and enterprise IT professionals with objective insight into the real-world business value of long-established and emerging technologies, ranging from security, storage and IT Service Management (ITSM) to the Configuration Management Database (CMDB), virtualization and service-oriented architecture (SOA). Even with its rapid growth, EMA has never lost sight of the client, and continues to offer personalized support and convenient access to its analysts. For more information on the firm's extensive library of IT management research, free online IT Management Solutions Center and IT consulting offerings, visit www.enterprisemanagement.com.

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BOULDER, Colo., March 31, 2008 - Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) (www.enterprisemanagement.com), a leading IT management research and consulting firm, today announced it will host a number of free Webinars focused on IT management during the month of April 2008.

The EMA™ Webinars set for April include:

Tues., April 1, 2008 - 12 p.m. Eastern
Automating IT Processes to Ensure Virtualization Success
http://www.emausa.com/ema_lead.php?ls=opaliswebpr0408&bs=opalisweb0408

EMA research director Andi Mann and Opalis President and CEO Todd DeLaughter will discuss how to efficiently manage the people and process changes virtualization requires, and will share a real world example of customer success in virtual management with IT Process Automation.

Thurs., April 3, 2008 - 2 p.m. Eastern
Reducing Customer Support Costs and Improving Service Quality with Remote Support
http://www.emausa.com/ema_lead.php?ls=bomgar1webhl0408&bs=bomgar1web0408

Part one of a three part series. Listen to Lisa Erickson-Harris, EMA research director and Chris Watson, VP of strategic alliances at Bomgar explain how remote support has a direct impact on support cost structure and perceptions of IT service quality in the enterprise.

Fri., April 11, 2008 - 2 p.m. Eastern
How Federal CIOs can Leverage ITIL IT Service Management (ITSM) to Enhance Mission Effectiveness
http://www.emausa.com/ema_lead.php?ls=itsmgovwebpr0408&bs=itsmgovweb0408

EMA director of IT service management consulting, Hank Marquis and federal IT expert Bob Haycock will explain how government CIOs can gain credibility by effectively implementing commercial ITSM best practices, such as ITIL.

Thurs., April 17, 2008 - 2 p.m. Eastern
Making Your Support Organization Part of the Solution: Protecting Sensitive Data Remotely
http://www.bomgar.com/wcemaprotectingdataregisterema.htm

Part two of a three part series. Chris Matney, EMA consulting director of IT services, will review trends in risk, compliance and security management in the enterprise service desk. In addition, Joel Bomgar, president of Bomgar Corporation, will give real-life examples of how Bomgar is leading the charge to address these issues.

Wed., April 23, 2008 - 1 p.m. Eastern
Solving Critical Application Management Issues with Workload Automation
http://www.emausa.com/ema_lead.php?ls=uc4webpr0408&bs=uc4web0408

Join EMA research director Andi Mann and UC4 chief marketing officer Guenther Flamm as they discuss the critical challenges of managing applications to deliver key IT and business goals, with a focus on the best practices for application workload management and automation.

NOTE TO EDITORS:

For more information, contact Guy Murrel at gmurrel@catapultpr-ir.com or 303-581-7760 x 17.

About Enterprise Management Associates

Founded in 1996, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) is a leading industry analyst and consulting firm dedicated to the IT management market. The firm provides IT vendors and enterprise IT professionals with objective insight into the real-world business value of long-established and emerging technologies, ranging from security, storage and IT Service Management (ITSM) to the Configuration Management Database (CMDB), virtualization and service-oriented architecture (SOA). Even with its rapid growth, EMA has never lost sight of the client, and continues to offer personalized support and convenient access to its analysts. For more information on the firm's extensive library of IT management research, free online IT Management Solutions Center and IT consulting offerings, visit www.enterprisemanagement.com.

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