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Rollout: MValent Integrity: Page 5 of 6

Integrity can serve as another data source for incident-management systems to query and use to determine if a configuration change to an application was the cause of an outage.

Final Call

IT application infrastructure environments are extremely complicated, and mValent doesn't mask that complexity. Although mValent positions Integrity as being able to span various IT silos, Integrity would be most beneficial to an app-engineering team--the level of knowledge required may be too much for a typical IT operations group. We also would recommend substantial staff training to make Integrity a success. Given these requirements, organizations would need to manage several dozen application environments for the product to make sense.

As configured for our tests, Integrity has a base list price of $75,000 for the server and $23,500 for 50 managed CPUs. With additional services, we'd estimate a typical customer spending around $175,000 to get started.

Michael Biddick is a contributing editor for Network Computing and Executive Vice President of Solutions for Windward Consulting Group, a firm that helps organizations improve it operational efficiency. Write to him at [email protected].