Los Angeles Unified School District Licenses Ignite

January 15, 2009 – Boulder, CO - Confio Software, the leading performance solution for databases and the teams that manage them, announced that the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) has licensed Confio Igniter Suite™ for use in optimizing the performance and reducing the cost of operating their Oracle database applications. LAUSD is the second largest school district in the United States, with a commitment to educating all students to their maximum potential.

Confio Ignite will be utilized to improve the operational performance of critical information systems servicing the hundreds of schools and thousands of employees in the district. Immediate benefits include reduced need for hardware and software upgrades, and reduced requirement for outside consultants to implement new systems initiatives.

"The LAUSD is a huge and critically important public organization, and we are proud to serve them in their mission", stated Don Bergal, Chief Operating Officer of Confio Software. "Use of Confio Ignite is consistent with achieving cost savings as well as improving service delivery for applications across this large organization".

Specific licensing terms were not disclosed. The Igniter Suite is licensed for use in monitoring and tuning Oracle, Microsoft, IBM and Sybase databases, identifying the most critical bottlenecks affecting enduser performance and identifying steps to quickly resolve them. Confio’s agentless operation allows monitoring of up to 200 databases from a single central data warehouse, without installation of any executable agent on the production server. As a result, monitoring is accomplished without additional load on the monitored server.

About Confio Software

Confio Software develops performance management solutions for Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Sybase databases. Confio’s Performance Intelligence (PI), which applies business intelligence analysis to IT operations, improves service levels and reduces costs for database and application infrastructure. The Confio Igniter Suite PI is an open, multi-vendor, agentless monitoring solution that allows DBAs and management the ability to detect problems, analyze trends, and resolve bottlenecks impacting database response time. Confio is based in Boulder, Colorado, with customers worldwide.