New Product Helps Customers Reduce Cost of Over-or Under-Provisioned Virtual Environments and Increase Consolidation Ratio utilizing Trend Analysis, intuitive "What If" Modeling and Automated Optimization Wizards

Holmdel, NJ, USA -- November 18, 2009 -- 5nine Software (http://www.5nine.com/) today released 5nine Optimizer 1.0 (http://www.5nine.com/p2v-v2v-capacity-planning-optimization.aspx) for Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware vSphere, a powerful and easy-to-use software solution for virtual environment analysis and optimization. The new product helps customers reduce cost of over-provisioned multi-hypervisor virtual environments, and increase hardware utilization employing advanced trend analysis, "What If" modeling and Automated Optimization Wizards.

5nine Optimizer continuously analyzes virtualized data center environment including hosts, physical and virtual machines, and provides trend reporting, automated workload optimization as well as "What If" modeling. "What If" modeling includes the analysis of "What if I add a VM(s)" and "What if I add a host" scenarios further facilitating planning, optimization and integrated TCO and ROI analysis.

5nine Optimizer is integrated with 5nine P2V Planner, and two products together represent a comprehensive, yet affordable solution for P2V migration planning and optimization of a virtual environment. 5nine P2V Planner provides P2V VMware (http://www.5nine.com/p2vhyper-v-vmware-free.aspx) and P2V Hyper-V (http://www.5nine.com/p2v-hyper-v-vmware.aspx) virtualization planning and delivers side-by-side comparative analysis of Hyper-V and VMware (http://www.5nine.com/p2vhyper-v-vmware-free.aspx) migration plans from the technology, TCO and ROI perspectives.

"In today''s economic environment enterprise and SMB customers are looking to do more with what they already have, looking to optimize the hardware utilization to avoid, or minimize the cost of buying new servers and storage. 5nine Optimizer (http://www.5nine.com/p2v-v2v-capacity-planning-optimization.aspx) is designed specifically to help them with this optimization analysis." said Konstantin Malkov, R&D Director of 5nine Software. "We are pleased to announce the release of 5nine Optimizer 1.0 with the support for multi-hypervisor, Hyper-V and VMware, environments".

"5nine Optimizer is a powerful, while affordable virtual environment optimization solution that can be used by both SMB and Enterprise customers, as well as the IT consultancies. Most important is that it has truly automated capacity and migration optimization with variety of intuitive ''What-If'' and TCO/ROI reports that creates a major advantage over its competition" - said Henry Bayard, Vice President of EasyLink Services.

5nine Optimizer offers the following features and benefits: