Press Release

Zenoss Added to DLT Solutions' GSA Schedule, Brings Open Source IT Management Solution to Government Agencies

Leading Open Source IT Monitoring Solution Now Available From Largest Software Reseller to Federal Government

2008/07/22 - Press Release

Annapolis, MD and Herndon, VA — (July 22, 2008) — Zenoss Inc., a leading provider of open source network, systems and application management software, today announced that its award winning solution is now available to government agencies via DLT Solutions' General Services Administration (GSA) IT Schedule 70 GS-35F-4543G.

Government agencies can use the DLT contract schedule to obtain Zenoss' integrated management solution that includes network monitoring software. It is the first time that DLT, one of the largest software resellers to the federal government, has offered an open source product for network and systems management.

“Zenoss is already delivering value at hundreds of government agencies around the world because we provide those organizations the unique opportunity to save money while better managing their growing IT infrastructures,” stated Bill Karpovich, Zenoss CEO. “Being added to DLT's GSA schedule makes it easy for agencies to purchase our solutions from a trusted source.”

Through its unique commercial open source approach, Zenoss provides customers a highly scalable, easy to use solution for network monitoring, server and application monitoring, performance management, and other IT management functions at a fraction of the cost of proprietary solutions available from HP, IBM, CA, BMC and others.

“Our government customers are constantly asking us to find new solutions to help keep IT management projects on schedule and under budget,” said Alan Partain, director of the Enterprise Platforms division of DLT Solutions. “With a proven working solution that is affordable and flexible, Zenoss is the perfect fit for these projects.”

Zenoss' award-winning product is a fully integrated IT monitoring and management solution that provides a model-based configuration management database, event & fault management, performance management, and availability monitoring for today's complex IT Infrastructure.

Unlike other products in the market, Zenoss delivers a powerful, integrated monitoring solution that is also easy to deploy and affordable. Highlights of the Zenoss solution include:

Monitoring of your entire IT infrastructure - network, servers ( Linux, Unix, Windows), middleware and applications
Integrated View of Configuration, Availability, Performance, Events, Logs, Alerts and Reports
CMDB populated through Auto-Discovery and Manual Population
User configurable dashboards
Agentless monitoring allows Zenoss to quickly deploy across different vendors, system types, and servers – including Cisco, Red Hat, Juniper, JBoss, WebLogic, VMware, Oracle, and many more
World-class commercial support and lifecycle services

The most popular commercial open source IT management solution on SourceForge.net, Zenoss has achieved substantial penetration into hundreds of deployments in federal, state, and local government agencies. The inclusion on DLT's GSA contract allows customers to quickly and easily obtain Zenoss for IT Monitoring projects.

Government agencies interested in learning more or evaluating the Zenoss solution within their unique environments should visit www.zenoss.com.

About Zenoss, Inc.

Zenoss Inc. delivers open source IT management solutions to organizations across the globe. Our flagship product Zenoss Core is a complete network monitoring and systems management platform that discovers networked IT resources, monitors them for performance and availability, and tracks changes through a configuration management database (CMDB). One of the ten most active projects on SourceForge.Net, Zenoss software was downloaded over 600,000 times and is deployed in over 4000 organizations world-wide. Recent product accolades include Network World's Clear Choice Award, Enterprise Open Source Magazine Readers' Choice Award, and a nomination for Best Technical Design in the SourceForge 2007 Community Choice Awards. Zenoss' customers include some of the world's largest corporations as well as Federal and State government agencies. Zenoss, Inc. is privately held and headquartered in Annapolis, MD. For more information, please visit www.zenoss.com.

About DLT Solutions, Inc.

Founded in 1991, DLT Solutions, Inc. delivers best-of-class technology solutions to federal, state and municipal governments and businesses from its headquarters in Herndon, Va. To achieve that mission, DLT has tightly integrated itself with some of the most prominent IT software and hardware manufacturers in the world including Autodesk, NetApp, Oracle, Quantum, Quest Software, Red Hat and Symantec, among others. With its product portfolio and award-winning track record, DLT confidently supports public sector clients in the technology implementation required to achieve their agency missions. For more information or to place an order, contact DLT Solutions at 800-262-4358; email sales@dlt.com; or visit www.dlt.com.

Media Contacts:

Dana Liedholm, 410-990-0274 x7021
media@zenoss.com

Leah Wilkinson
WilkinsonShein Communications for DLT Solutions, Inc.
Tel: (703) 907-0010 leah@wilkinsonshein.com