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mValent, Inc. (http://www.mvalent.com), a leading provider of automated application configuration management solutions, announced it has joined Opsware�s Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) program. Through the partnership, mValent and Opsware will provide access to a broad range of Data Center Automation capabilities, enabling customers to more rapidly achieve operational efficiencies and reduce labor costs across their IT infrastructures. Network World named both mValent and Opsware to its June 15, 2007 list of �10 Automation Companies to Watch.� �IT teams face ever-increasing pressure to improve application uptime and staff productivity, reduced IT fire drills and automate IT audit and compliance reporting,� said Swapnil Shah, Founder and Chief Strategy Officer with mValent. �We are pleased to join Opsware�s TAP program and believe the combination of mValent and Opsware�s award-winning products provide customers with the optimal IT Automation solution for meeting and exceeding the needs of the businesses that IT supports.� With the cost and complexity of today�s IT infrastructure spiraling out of control, enterprises are turning to IT Automation to increase productivity, ensure policy compliance, remediate security threats, and reduce labor expenses. The Opsware Technology Alliance Partner program supports the increasing demand for this technology by providing an effective way to address customer needs. Opsware and mValent will work to integrate mValent Integrity with Opsware�s award-winning IT Automation software and mValent will leverage Opsware�s global sales and marketing activities to generate customer leads and drive revenue. mValent Integrity enables application support teams to capture the current state of configuration settings for software and middleware assets, monitor them for authorized and unauthorized changes, and automate processes for provisioning changes and setting up new environments throughout the application lifecycle � from development, testing and through production. The combination of mValent Integrity and Opsware�s IT Automation software provides customers with a comprehensive, best-of-breed solution for configuration, change and release management across the application, server, storage and network, layers of their IT infrastructure. �We are delighted to welcome mValent to our Technology Alliance Partner program,� said John O�Farrell, Executive Vice President of Business Development at Opsware Inc. �By combining Opsware�s IT Automation software with mValent Integrity, customers will benefit from a broad spectrum of critical IT Automation capabilities for improving management of the application, server, storage and network, layers of their IT infrastructure.� About the Opsware Technology Alliance Partner Program The Opsware Inc. (NASDAQ: OPSW) Technology Alliance Partner program provides customers with the most extensive and comprehensive data center management solution available today. Opsware Technology Partners are comprised of best of breed, market-leading software and platform vendors who offer technology that complements a single Opsware product or the entire Opsware solution suite. About mValent mValent tackles IT complexity and compliance with automation software that eliminates configuration management chaos in application infrastructure. The company�s flagship product, mValent Integrity, automates application configuration management and is used by leading organizations to manage the build and maintenance of complex application configurations throughout their entire lifecycle � from development to production. mValent Integrity customers include leading companies such as Alltel Wireless, State Street Bank, National Grid, and WorldWinner. The company is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts and is backed by top-tier venture capital firms, including Charles River Ventures, IDG Ventures and Polaris Venture Partners. For more information, visit http://www.mvalent.com. mValent and the mValent logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of mValent, Inc. in the United States. Opsware is a service mark and trademark of Opsware Inc. All other product names, service marks, and trademarks mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective owners.