TrueView Web APM software helps Wallop bridge the gap between pre-deployment testing and production management to ensure that millions of users get speedy application response times

PALO ALTO, Calif., June 6, 2006 — Symphoniq® Corporation, a Microsoft Gold Partner providing application performance management (APM) software for Web applications and services, today announced that Wallop, a new social networking company spun out of Microsoft Research and set to launch later this year, has deployed Symphoniq TrueView to help optimize and scale its flagship Web application.

Using advanced technologies from Microsoft Research, Wallop has developed a unique set of algorithms that respond to social interactions to help people automatically build and maintain their social networks. Wallop solves the problems plaguing current social networking technologies by introducing an entirely new way for people to express their individuality online.

To help deploy and scale a .NET application intended for millions of users during the weeks and months after launch, Wallop turned to Symphoniq's TrueView to detect performance issues before deploying the application. They will continue using TrueView in operations to support the accelerated ramp-up they anticipate in the production environment.

"The distinction between development time and production time is going away," said Mark Driver, Gartner Research VP. "The ideal is to be able to take a production event and trace it back to the code with a single click-an integrated end-to-end model from runtime all the way back through the developer process."

TrueView unobtrusively identifies, and then traces the path of sluggish web calls as they move through the application infrastructure. It automatically maps the path of failed interactions, making it easy to find the source of hotspots and bottlenecks through any tier of the Web infrastructure, and down to individual method calls and SQL queries. Given this information, both developers and operations staff can quickly address infrastructure problems and application anomalies to ensure a smooth deployment and production ramp.

"We are using TrueView during the development process to optimize our apps. With a few clicks, it clearly identifies the servers, method calls or SQL queries that are causing problems," said Elisabeth Boonin, Wallop's Director of Engineering. "When we go into production, a TrueView console on the wall in the development department will give the team a real-time real-world view of the performance of our application. It will show them how their code is performing for our users."

"Symphoniq is dedicated to helping customers like Wallop monitor their Web applications, diagnose issues, and optimize the end-to-end performance of their Web applications and services," said Symphoniq CEO Hon Wong. "By showing immediately and precisely which application and infrastructure components are contributing to overall response times, TrueView helps fix problems faster and optimize application performance. We are delighted to be working with a technology leader like Wallop."

About Symphoniq Corporation

Symphoniq Corporation (www.symphoniq.com) created the patent-pending TRUE™ (The Real User Experience) monitoring technology to track real responses times from the browser to the back-end. Symphoniq's TrueView product suite simplifies the complexity of managing Web applications and services. Based on the TRUE technology, TrueView analyzes end-to-end performance, making it easy to find and fix problems and bottlenecks. Since 1990, Symphoniq's executive team has delivered innovative solutions for managing enterprise environments, first by founding EcoSystems, then NetIQ (NASDAQ:NTIQ). Leading companies from Fortune 500 to Web 2.0 use TrueView to rapidly diagnose Web disruptions, plan Web infrastructure improvements, reduce operational costs and improve customer satisfaction.

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