Active Reasoning Sponsors the 25th Annual Gartner Data Center Conference

The Gartner Data Center Conference will focus on the critical issues facing today's data center industry including servers, IT operations, storage, business continuity management and disaster recovery, and best practices. At this event, Active Reasoning will showcase how its IT Controls Automation Platform helps data centers operationalize policies and controls to proactively and automatically instantiate policy, detect actions, correlate events and enforce controls.

Palo Alto, CA (PRWeb) November 20, 2006 -- Active Reasoning, a leading provider of IT Governance Automation software, today announced that it is a Silver Sponsor of the 25th Annual Gartner Data Center Conference, November 28 through Dec 1, 2006, at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.

The Gartner Data Center Conference will focus on the critical issues facing today's data center industry including servers, IT operations, storage, business continuity management and disaster recovery, and best practices. At this event, Active Reasoning will showcase how its IT Controls Automation Platform helps data centers operationalize policies and controls to proactively and automatically instantiate policy, detect actions, correlate events and enforce controls.

"Failures in IT policies are leading indicators of failures in IT systems. Companies are searching for ways to efficiently and effectively monitor and validate the IT controls that are used to instantiate their IT policies," said W.R. "Butch" Winters, Active Reasoning President and CEO. "We are delighted to sponsor the Gartner Data Center Conference. We appreciate the opportunity to showcase how Active Reasoning automates IT Governance initiatives to help companies that place a high importance on IT reduce their risks, improve ongoing operations and uptime, and reduce the cost and effort of managing regulatory compliance."

To see a live demonstration of the Active Reasoning IT Controls Automation platform at the Gartner Data Center Conference, please visit us at booth number J5. For more information about the conference please visit www.gartner.com/2_events/conferences/lsc25.jsp.

About Active Reasoning

With its products installed in 59 countries on six continents, Active Reasoning is a leading provider of IT Governance Automation solutions. The Active Reasoning IT Controls Automation Platform operationalizes standards such as ITIL & COBIT, detecting, validating, and reporting unauthorized changes and out-of-policy actions on the IT infrastructure to help Fortune 500 clients meet SLAs, mitigate operational risk and reduce expenses. This is made possible by the combination of Active Reasoning's Policy Mapping Database™, event-based collection of the who, what, when, and where of user actions, and a correlation engine providing real-time policy review and validation. Active Reasoning is backed by top-tier venture partners including ComVentures, ArrowPath Venture Partners, ONSET Ventures, and InterWest Partners. For more information, visit the company's website at www.activereasoning.com.

See a brief product demo at http://www.activereasoning.com/solutions/demo.html

Media Contacts

Lori Vierthaler

(316) 992-8271

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Maggie Conroy

Director of Marketing

Active Reasoning

(650) 404-9960

maggie.conroy @ activereasoning.com

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