DENVER, July 10 /PRNewswire/ --

Following HP's launch of the industry's first fault-tolerant blade server running HP NonStop, Integrated Research (ASX: IRI) today announced that its PROGNOSIS performance monitoring software is ready to support the needs of customers adopting this new server technology.

The new HP Integrity NonStop NB50000c BladeSystem supports high transaction volumes with all the advantages of the NonStop platform. These new systems now offer twice the performance of existing NonStop server offerings at half the footprint, delivering the lowest total cost of ownership of any server in its class.

"Management of the HP NonStop server environment is a major part of our business and we are committed to ongoing support of new technology in this market," said Ben Berger, PROGNOSIS product manager for HP NonStop and distributed server product lines.

"Some of our customers handle transactions valued at trillions of dollars a day, so these NonStop blade servers will be deployed into the most business critical and complex IT environments. These companies simply cannot tolerate downtime or reduction in server performance. By supporting this new server platform, PROGNOSIS will allow companies using this hardware to have the best NonStop performance management solution available."

Integrated Research has now commenced a Beta program with a number of key customers, including many world-leading financial exchanges in the US and Asia.

"We have long used PROGNOSIS to monitor the performance and availability of our critical applications," said Charles Tang of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange - a participant in the PROGNOSIS Beta program. "Knowing that we can continue to rely on PROGNOSIS from day one if we decide to migrate to the new blade servers is a great comfort."

Support for the new blade servers will be generally available following successful completion of the Beta program.

About PROGNOSIS and Integrated Research

Integrated Research - the people behind PROGNOSIS - is a publicly listed company with a 19-year heritage of providing performance monitoring software for business-critical computing and IP telephony environments.

For more information visit the PROGNOSIS website: www.prognosis.com

Media contact: Belinda York Vice President Global Marketing PROGNOSIS - by Integrated Research t: +61-(2)-9921-1565 e: belinda.york@prognosis.com w: www.prognosis.com

Web site: http://www.prognosis.com

Belinda York, Vice President Global Marketing, PROGNOSIS - by Integrated Research, +61-(2)-9921-1565, belinda.york@prognosis.com