News 2006

Kroger Turns to Netuitive to Improve Its Efficiencies

Reston, VA – October 16, 2006 – Netuitive, Inc., the leader in real-time analysis software for business service management (BSM), today announced that The Kroger Co., (NYSE:KR) one of the nation's largest retailers, purchased Netuitive Service Analyzer™ software to help align its IT infrastructure with business objectives and improve IT efficiencies. Netuitive Service Analyzer was deployed for an initial set of Kroger services within 24-hours and began showing value by displaying the first service-based health indicators and Trusted Alarms®. The Netuitive software will eventually monitor hundreds of IT-delivered services across more than twenty-thousand servers and network devices—supporting the Kroger’s overall stores, pharmacies fuel centers and distribution centers.

With Netuitive Service Analyzer, The Kroger Co. will be able to automatically track, correlate and understand business and systems data, giving the company the ability to see real-time infrastructure and business performance issues.

“Netuitive brings Kroger a unique, automated intelligence layer for our IT environment,” said Joseph Ambrose, VP of Operations and Engineering. “With Netuitive, we will be able to access reliable performance management information in real-time rather than depending on threshold based after the fact alarms.”

Built on eight patented technologies and techniques resulting from more than 15 years of academic and commercial research, Netuitive’s Real-Time Analysis Engine provides the underlying technology for Netuitive Service Analyzer products. Completely self-learning, self-configuring, and continuously adaptive, this unique technology performs sophisticated statistical trends analysis and multi-variable correlation to automatically determine normal system behavior, measure and predict deviations from the norm, and interpret symptoms for proper alerting and diagnosis. When the software detects or forecasts behavior outside that range, Trusted Alarms are issued—the industry’s most accurate and reliable indicators of impending performance problems.

About Netuitive, Inc.

Netuitive provides predictive analytics software for IT. Netuitive replaces human guesswork with automated mathematics and analysis to forecast, identify and resolve IT performance issues before they impact quality of service. Hundreds of customers, including seven of the 10 largest banks, rely on Netuitive to proactively manage the performance and capacity of their their IT infrastructures — physical, virtual and cloud. Industry recognition includes the 2010 CODiE Award for "Best Systems Management Solution," the 2010 EMA Award for “Best Analytics,” and the 2009 "Best of VMworld" Award for Virtualization Management. For more information, visit www.netuitive.com.