HOUSTON, Jan. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Idera, a leading provider of management and administration solutions for Microsoft SQL Server, today announced the availability of version 4.0 of SQL diagnostic manager, the industry leading real-time performance monitoring and diagnostics solution for SQL Server. This new version provides the SQL diagnostic manager Metrics Repository, a central repository engine that captures and stores SQL Server performance analysis data from multiple instances of SQL Server across the enterprise.

As SQL Server continues to gain momentum in the enterprise, SQL Server DBAs are faced with rapid expansion of their SQL Server Infrastructures from tens to hundreds and sometimes thousands of SQL Server instances. They require powerful, scalable solutions to help them more effectively manage and administer these environments. SQL diagnostic manager has a long-standing reputation for its excellent performance and availability monitoring, problem diagnosis, and remediation facilities. Now SQL diagnostic manager v4.0 offers innovative reporting and analytics capabilities that enable SQL Server DBAs to more easily analyze and manage their entire SQL Server infrastructure strategically -- including trend analysis, capacity planning, data comparison, data correlation, and forecasting.

"At WellPoint, Inc. (formerly WellChoice Inc., and Empire BlueCross BlueShield of New York), SQL Server functions as the back-end to many of our business critical applications, including our website, that helps us server over 5 million customers just in New York," said Arun Modasra, Chief Systems Architect of Microsoft SQL Database Administration at WellPoint. "We can't tolerate performance or availability problems in our environment. The central Metrics Repository and the new reporting and analytics capabilities in SQL diagnostic manager really enhance our ability to plan strategically and manage our SQL Server infrastructure proactively. This enables us to identify and resolve potential problems before they happen."

New features in SQL diagnostic manager v4.0 include: -- Metrics Repository - Captures and stores SQL Server performance and availability metrics in a central repository from SQL Servers across the enterprise. Using data stored in the Repository, DBAs can easily create custom reports to perform a variety of functions, including trend analysis, capacity planning, data comparison, data correlation, and forecasting. -- Best Practice Reporting - pre-defined reports, sample reports and a guide to writing custom reports are provided 'out of the box' with the metrics repository. In addition an on-line community is available for all SQL diagnostic manager users to share best practice reports. -- Enhanced Web Console - The SQL diagnostic manager Web Console now enables real-time, anywhere, anytime monitoring of SQL Server 2005 instances from a Web browser. -- SNMP Alerting - SQL diagnostic manager now dispatches alerts directly to enterprise management frameworks like Tivoli, HP OpenView and CA UniCenter. Pricing and Availability

SQL diagnostic manager v4.0 is available immediately and is priced at $1295 per SQL Server Instance including the Web Console.

About Idera

Idera delivers a new generation of tools for managing and administering the world's fastest growing database management system -- Microsoft SQL Server. Battle-proven and engineered for the enterprise, Idera's solutions include: Auditing and Compliance, Backup and Recovery, Web-based Administration, Job Management, Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics, Configuration Management, and Data Migration and Transformation. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Idera's products are sold and supported directly and via authorized resellers and distributors around the globe. For more information, please visit http://www.idera.com/.

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