RENO, Nevada—Bytware, Inc. (www.bytware.com), a world authority on securing and monitoring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of IBM iSeries systems, is pleased to announce the upcoming release of MessengerPlus v5.6. Since 1986, MessengerPlus has been the leading monitoring and notification solution for the iSeries, and this enhanced version continues to extend the product’s power by incorporating various enhancements that have been made since June 2003 as well as a new disk monitor and automatic updating.

The new disk monitoring feature adds a new *DISK monitor type that will monitor the growth and available storage of your iSeries disk units. Runaway programs, large file installations, and extensive logging can all increase the amount of stored data and, if not monitored, could potentially lead to system slowdowns and even shutdowns. With this new disk monitor, you can create monitors to check the growth of disk units on an hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly basis. When thresholds are reached, MessengerPlus will trigger alerts notifying administrators of the impending disk space problems.

Another new feature–automatic updating–has been a popular standard feature in our StandGuard Security products and is now available for our Messenger customers. The automatic updating feature ensures that you have the latest features and fixes directly from Bytware by automatically downloading fixes and enhancements to the product. Updates are implemented as PTFs that are easily applied and managed automatically. There are numerous updates in the works for MessengerPlus and MessengerConsole and this feature makes maintaining Messenger smooth and easy for our customers.

MessengerPlus v5.6 will be available mid-October 2005. Special release pricing will be offered to organizations interested in replacing competitive solutions. Details and price quotes available upon request. For more information please call 775-851-2900.

Bytware, Inc., world leader in iSeries monitoring, security, and notification solutions, is pleased to announce that all of its iSeries solutions have received renewal of ServerProven status from IBM. These solutions include MessengerPlus, MessengerConsole, StandGuard, StandGuard Anti-Virus, StandGuard Recycle Bin, and PeekPlus.

As the pioneer of automated monitoring and notification technology in the 1980s and developer of state-of-the-art security and anti-virus solutions in the new century, Bytware has for nearly two decades brought innovative and reliable technology to iSeries users. This quality is echoed in the numerous awards received and in the ongoing ServerProven status enjoyed by Bytware solutions, which continue to offer benefits not available from any other iSeries vendor. As a further hallmark of their high standing, StandGuard Anti-Virus and StandGuard Recycle Bin both ship with i5/OS.

IBM ServerProven certification benefits the customer because it helps them choose solutions with added confidence by reducing the cycle of “guess and test.” ServerProven software solutions may also qualify the customer for a special rebate from IBM of up to $68,000 ($85,000 Canadian) towards the purchase or upgrade of eServer hardware. (View details of ServerProven rebate.)

Bytware’s comprehensive ServerProven coverage allows users to confidently implement a complete monitoring, notification, security, training, and anti-virus environment that is fully certified by IBM.

For more information on Bytware products, please visit http://www.bytware.com/products/

RENO, Nevada—Bytware, Inc., announces that with the increasing popularity of SMS/GSM notification devices, specifically in North America, and with the recent announcement that AT&T is moving from TAP to SMS/GSM standards, Bytware’s Messenger products support of this emerging protocol has been enhanced.Bytware’s Messenger products now support SMS (Short Message Service) paging, using the GSM (Global System Mobile Communication) protocol. This service will not require a paging company and will allow the user to connect a cell phone (or other GSM device) directly to the AS/400 to use as a modem. You will then be able to send text messages directly to other cell phones and pagers, as well as reply to messages sent using the GSM protocol. The receiving device does not need to be GSM.

This enhancement to MessengerPlus and MessengerConsole 5.56 provides support for using a GSM mobile phone as a modem. Using a GSM modem provides the following advantages:

• SMS messages can be sent directly without the use of a TAP or e-mail gateway.
• System messages can be answered by replying to the SMS messages.
• SMS messages can be sent to any other phone, or pager in the world without the need for multiple gateways. Even if the receiving device is not GSM, we have been able to send messages to multiple carriers and devices without knowing anything more than the device’s mobile number/phone number.
• A cellular phone provides improved tolerance to power failures and phone line problems. Since GSM cellular modems send their information wirelessly, modem-to-modem incompatibility issues are eliminated.

Bytware offers a suite of monitoring and notification products tailored to managing events across single, multiple, and partitioned iSeries systems. The Messenger product suite includes MessengerConsole and MessengerPlus. Learn more about our monitoring, paging, and consoling solutions.