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CiRBA Drives Microsoft SQL Server Consolidation Initiatives
Data Center Intelligence Solution Identifies SQL Server Consolidation Opportunities; Delivers Cost Savings and Improved Manageability

Toronto, Ontario – July 11, 2006 -CiRBA Inc., a leader in Data Center Intelligence, today announced that the company has added Microsoft® SQL Server™ server consolidation analysis capabilities to its Data Center Intelligence (DCI) solution. In direct response to customer demand, CiRBA’s solution now includes SQL Server specific configuration analysis that helps companies identify opportunities to reduce the number of SQL servers and licenses required within an organization.

The broad adoption of SQL Server has resulted in many organizations managing a surplus of server instances, creating new cost concerns across production, test and development environments – from excess hardware and licenses to power and cooling and related upkeep. Consolidation of servers and licenses represents an excellent opportunity for immediate cost savings and improved manageability for organizations with investments in SQL. However, analysis for the purposes of such consolidation remains a complex and daunting task with many organizations simply lacking the information or means required to effectively identify where consolidation opportunities can be found.

“The mandate to reduce cost and improve the reliability of computing infrastructure has escalated the priority of server consolidation projects for most organizations,” said Andrew Hillier, co-founder and CTO of CiRBA. “Specifically, database server and license sprawl has created one of the best opportunities for many IT organizations to consolidate. Any complete consolidation strategy must include examination of both virtualization and database server consolidation opportunities. The addition of SQL configuration analysis to our Data Center Intelligence solution gives organizations the ability to efficiently and accurately maximize consolidation opportunities and drive out waste.”

CiRBA’s advanced server consolidation analysis capabilities are unique because they utilize both deep configuration audits of hardware, software and database settings as well as detailed workload profiles in order to identify the best candidates for consolidation. For SQL Server specifically, CiRBA takes into account nearly 100 different rules applied to thousands of settings to maximize the success of consolidation efforts. The resulting intelligence identifies where settings and workloads are complementary and can be combined into fewer systems, driving out unnecessary waste and increasing IT resource utilization.

About CiRBA Inc.
CiRBA is a leading provider of Data Center Intelligence (DCI) solutions. CiRBA software provides IT organizations with the empirical configuration and workload analyses required to uncover waste in the data center and identify associated consolidation and virtualization opportunities. Global 5000 customers can better manage stacked or virtualized environments over the long term through better control of system diversity, automated compliance reporting and unmatched change analysis.
For more information, visit www.cirba.com.