OPSWARE INTRODUCES IT AUTOMATION SOLUTION TO ADDRESS EUROPEAN COMPLIANCE AND BEST PRACTICES

Top-Ranked Server Automation System Enables Major Compliance Initiatives Including ITIL and COBiT

Paris, France - June 27, 2005 -- Opsware Inc. (NASDAQ: OPSW), the leading provider of IT automation and utility computing software, today announced that the recently launched Server Automation System (SAS), now supports major European compliance and best practices initiatives. The release, code-named Darwin for its evolution of IT automation, is the brainchild of distinguished CTO and LDAP co-inventor, Dr. Tim Howes. The new system promotes industry best practices, such as the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), which are critical to aligning IT and business strategies.

As companies worldwide increase investment in IT automation to lower costs and gain control over the 13 billion euro compliance management problem, the immediate need for a solution is clear. Opsware automates all aspects of server and application compliance, from granular policy-based auditing with automated remediation to a Compliance Center that includes out-of-the-box reports for ITIL, COBiT, HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, and others. In particular, the compliance capabilities provide critical operational data necessary to comply with ITIL practices to improve change and configuration management and incident and problem management, thereby reducing time-to-repair (TTR). Opsware's unmatched management reach and scalability allows customers to achieve truly global automated compliance - previously unachievable.

"Companies worldwide are faced with the daunting cost and implementation of compliance and best practices," said Dr. Tim Howes, CTO of Opsware Inc. "Opsware's Server Automation System facilitates European standards such as ITIL or COBiT - providing a quick and easy solution to contain costs, increase control of operational processes and improve service levels."

Opsware SAS was recently ranked the leading Data Center Automation product by Forrester Research. This product furthers the company's market leadership in offering the first available solution with compliance automation capabilities. In addition, the Opsware ExpressAutomation^TM feature set makes it easier for companies to achieve the benefits of on-demand computing and an automated IT environment. ExpressAutomation enables ease-of-use, speed of deployment and time-to-productivity, delivering unmatched simplicity and time-savings that surpasses all other data center automation products and legacy enterprise management systems. It will expedite the most time-intensive tasks inherent in transitioning to an automated environment. IT can now automate a heterogeneous environment consisting of thousands of servers and start realizing automation efficiencies in less than five hours. For example, in an environment of 7,500 servers, one customer experienced automation efficiencies in a few days rather than weeks or months. Similarly, another customer was able to provision 600 software packages across hundreds of servers in minutes.

Highlights of the Opsware Server Automation System

• Compliance Center
  • Granular auditing of servers, networks and applications to ensure adherence to corporate and regulatory policies
  • Uniquely identifies deviations from policies and automates remediation at any level of granularity
  • Out-of-the-box reports for all major compliance initiatives including SOX, COBiT, ITIL, Basel II and others
• Advanced Policy Enforcement
  • Hundreds of out-of-the box policies capturing industry best-practices around deployment, configuration, security lockdown and management of common applications and platforms
  • New Opsware Dynamic Groups allows policies to be applied to groups of servers based on their profile eliminating the need to manually classify servers for large environments
• Automated Discovery & Deployment
  • Rapidly discovers servers, network devices and other IP devices, and quickly deploys agents to bring hundreds of new servers under Opsware management per hour
• Opsware Server Explorer
  • Enables browsing of any server in any location as if it were local, resulting in rapid automation of servers across an IT environment
• Remote Terminal
  • Creates a secure terminal connection to any managed server enabling highly secure, audited management of systems at any location
• Automated Application Configuration Management
  • Enables highly granular configuration of applications down to individual configuration parameters across multiple servers simultaneously
  • Eliminates need for administrators to be experts on specific applications and configuration syntax

Availability
Opsware SAS is generally available as of June 2005.

About Opsware Inc.

Opsware Inc. is the world's leading IT automation and utility computing software company. The growth of the Internet is driving a shift from client/server computing to Web architecture. With this shift comes an overwhelming proliferation of servers, networking devices and applications, creating massive complexity that makes an automated IT model a necessity. Opsware automates the complete IT lifecycle and delivers utility computing by enabling IT to automatically provision, patch, configure, secure, change, scale, audit, recover, consolidate, migrate, and reallocate servers, network devices and applications. Over 240 of the world's largest companies, outsourcers and government agencies use Opsware to deliver this new, automated model of IT. For more information on Opsware Inc., please visit our Web site at www.opsware.com.

About The Resonance Group

The Resonance Group Pty Ltd (Resonance™) is an independent, Australian company focussed on enabling customers to take control and optimise their asset lifecycles, both traditional asset and fleet management operations as well as strategic assets such as IT investments. Our aspiration is to be the preferred Australasian company for business solutions across all elements of an asset's lifecycle from acquisition, operation, maintenance, financing, through to its reporting, disposal and then re-acquisition.

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