Company Strengthens Ties With a Leading Provider of Enterprise Management Solutions

WELLESLEY HILLS, MA–(EMWNews – July 23, 2008) – Apparent Networks announced today that

it has joined BMC Software’s Technology Alliance Program (TAP), a move that

will bring Apparent Networks’ powerful, application-centric view of network

performance to BMC Software’s growing suite of Business Service Management

solutions.

BMC Software is a leading global provider of enterprise management

solutions. TAP was developed to support technology companies whose products

complement BMC Software solutions, providing customers a more complete

range of solutions and a path to Business Service Management. Apparent

Networks technology plays a critical role in helping companies manage

network performance and application delivery in large, converged

environments.

“Apparent Networks will improve BMC Software customers’ visibility into how

issues in local and managed service networks affect application

performance,” said Keith Bartlett, vice president of business development

for Apparent Networks. “In turn, our mutual customers will be able to

access the value of AppCritical through the BMC IT management

infrastructures they already have in place. By combining our capabilities,

we will be able to further enhance the positive business impact and

increase the value of the solutions that BMC is delivering to its customers

today.”

The partnership will allow Apparent Networks and BMC Software to share

technical knowledge and develop integrated technologies that provide a

total solution to address the management requirements of network-dependent

applications. The bi-directional integration of AppCritical with the BMC

Remedy and Performance Manager product lines will dramatically improve

users’ abilities to monitor the performance of their networks and enable IT

teams to identify and resolve issues before they impact applications users.

Through the creation of Remedy Action Request Tickets and Performance

Manager Alarms, users will be notified of performance issues and provided

with the detailed metrics, history and diagnostic information identifying

the precise location and cause of the issue.

Going far beyond simple SNMP and RMON tools, AppCritical will enable users

to monitor application traffic across an entire ‘network path,’ including

the segments controlled by service providers or other third parties. This

embedded intelligence will give customers new and more effective ways to

manage their service providers and speed incident resolution — all within

the BMC management system already in use. Apparent Networks also plans

integrations with the BMC Atrium Configuration Management Database, Real

Ops and Blade Logic product lines to expand their network visibility into

these application, system and configuration management platforms.

About Apparent Networks

Apparent Networks develops and markets software that provides a unique

approach to managing the performance of network-dependent applications. The

Company’s AppCritical solution measures and diagnoses live, converged

networks with continuous real-time monitoring. It provides unbroken,

end-to-end visibility into the critical performance

characteristics of network resources needed for voice, video and data

applications. AppCritical has been successfully deployed by large

enterprises, managed service providers and tier-one technology vendors to

assure end-user quality of experience. Customers include 3Com, Affiliated

Computer Services, Boeing, Electronic Arts, Fujitsu,

Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Network Appliance, Nortel, Siemens, Symantec, TELUS,

and Toshiba. For more information, visit www.apparentnetworks.com.