ControlTier Announces Comprehensive Solution for Application Disaster Recovery and Application Rollback

San Mateo, CA -- January 18, 2005.

ControlTier Software, Inc., a provider of next-generation application automation tools, announced today the general availability of its Application Disaster Recovery Solution. ControlTier's Solution enables enterprises to automatically recover or rollback complex integrated business applications and ensure that the exact application configurations and deployment procedures are maintained.

"Disaster recovery is one of the most daunting challenges that an IT organization hopes it never has to face. Preparation must be thorough in order for recovery to work when it is actually needed" states ControlTier's CTO Alex Honor. "Whether it's the loss of a single machine or the loss of an entire datacenter, your team must be ready to spring into action to recover the damaged systems or to get suitable replacements into production. To enable this, you must ensure that your team has the right tools for the job."

Popular backup and recovery tools that are focused on data or operating system recovery, while providing crucial services, are missing key capabilities to ensure that you can quickly and reliably get an entire business system back online. Successful disaster recovery means that not only must you be able to restore data or individual machines, but you must also be able to ensure that the applications on those machines are all properly deployed and configured to function as part of an integrated business system.

When using the ControlTier System for day-to-day release, deployment, and configuration automation you are automatically capturing all of the essential details and knowledge needed for disaster recovery. This information, which is fully versioned by ControlTier, can be used to automatically re-deploy or revert to any version of an integrated multi-tier application on demand.

ControlTier enables you to capture and understand changes from one application version to the next, independent of the application's physical deployment. This capability makes it a one step process to migrate an integrated application to a new set of hardware or to change its deployment architecture as needed during the recovery process. Since the new or failover systems are often different than the original systems, this is an essential capability needed for any recovery process.

About ControlTier Software, Inc.

ControlTier provides a complete system for Release and Deployment Automation. By focusing on information management and process automation, ControlTier enables enterprises to reduce errors, improve productivity, and compress the amount of time it takes to get multi-tier applications from development to production. By leveraging your existing scripts, configurations, and processes, the ControlTier System implements quickly, with immediate impact and ROI.

For more information please email info@controltier.com or call Damon Edwards at +1 650-292-9660 x705