EVEREST Network Audit - New EVEREST 1.50 Simplifies Daily Life for Net Admins

Product News | 2004-10-14 Lavalys is pleased to announce the general availability of EVEREST Professional and Home Edition Version 1.50. This new release brings several exciting new features, and major improvements.

New EVEREST® 1.50 Simplifies Daily Life for Net Admins

Latest release from Lavalys? expands the industry's leading toolkit for Windows? environments

MONTR?AL, CANADA (October 14, 2004) -- Lavalys today announced the general availability of EVEREST Professional and Home Edition Version 1.50. Reflecting nearly a year of direct feedback from customers since the launch of EVEREST 1.00, the new EVEREST release packs a broad array of new features and fixes that elevate EVEREST as the industry's leading management toolkit for IT infrastructures and their Windows? environments.

Among the new features of EVEREST 1.50 are a greatly improved remote monitoring module, support for numerous new hardware and software platforms, audit and change tracking of Windows? updates, chassis intrusion detection, and much more. To coincide with today's announcement of the customer-driven 1.50 release, Lavalys is also launching a new Discussion Forum at www.lavalys.com for the worldwide audience of EVEREST enthusiasts to strengthen their ability to drive enhancements to their favorite product.

”At Lavalys, we are committed to an aggressive product development schedule that keeps pace with the ever-changing nature of today's IT environments”, said Tamas Miklos, Chief Technical Officer for Lavalys. “We believe effective management is the greatest challenge today facing IT professionals, and our development roadmap is designed to provide those professionals with the most comprehensive and easy to use management solution on the market."

The 1.50 release includes the following new features, major improvements and bug fixes:

New Features

- Audit and Change Tracking of Windows Updates
- Extended Remote Monitor module to monitor and control remote processes & services
- Chassis intrusion detection
- Enhanced support for servers and workstations (ECC & ECC scrubbing information)
- GPU sensor and overclock information for ATI Radeon family graphics cards
- New benchmark to measure DRAM memory latency
- Improved Chipset page to provide more accurate information about AMD Hammer systems
- Extended PCI devices information, including support for HyperTransport, PCI-X and PCI Express
- Revised support for Windows XP SP2, including enhanced Bluetooth layer support
- Full Swedish localization

Major Improvements

- Network bandwidth usage optimizations in Remote Monitor
- Improved memory benchmarks accuracy and SMBus code stability
- Improved anti-virus software support for eTrust EZ Antivirus and Vet Anti-Virus
- Support for several new hardware monitoring chips
- Support for ATI Radeon 9250, 9550, X300, X600, X700 and X800 family graphics chips
- Support for nVIDIA GeForce 6200, 6600 and 6800 family graphics chips
- Support for the latest processors including AMD Sempron and Intel Xeon 64
- Support for Socket 775 and Socket 939 platforms
- Enhanced support for AMD PowerNow! and Cool'n'Quiet
- Extended memory timings and overclock information
- PCI Express motherboards and graphics cards support
- Enhanced support for ULi K7, K8 and P4 chipsets
- Detailed chipset information for Intel i910, 915, 925 series and E7221, E7320, E7520, E7525
- Detailed chipset information for nVIDIA nForce4, VIA K8M800 and KT880
- /IDLE command-line option to run EVEREST at idle priority

Major Fixes

- Services and system drivers list under Windows Server 2003
- Several issues under Japanese Windows
- Improved stability under VMware virtual machines
- Intermittent crashes due to DirectX-related issues
- SQL anomalies due to long folder names
- Report Converter converting issues on several pages
- SMART disk health information on VIA SATA controllers

Most of the enhanced features of this new 1.50 release have been developed in direct response to the requests of Lavalys' customers and reseller partners. “We'd like to take this opportunity to thank all customers and business partners that have sent us their ideas and suggestions on how to further improve the award-winning capabilities of EVEREST,” said Roger Marion, President and CEO of Lavalys. “From the very beginning of EVEREST's development, the product has been one built by, and for network and system administrators who understand the unique challenges facing today's IT managers. And the good news is, the best is yet to come from EVEREST.”

EVEREST Home Edition is free for personal and for non-commercial use only. All Home Edition users must register with Lavalys. It is strictly illegal to use EVEREST Home Edition in academic, government or non-profit organizations but it is permissible to license or OEM the product. For more information, please contact licensing@lavalys.com .

Discussion Forum

Along the release of this new EVEREST version update, to strengthen and broaden its technical support channels for EVEREST, Lavalys is introducing a new discussion forum . The board is intended to solve issues of the rapidly growing EVEREST business and enthusiasts users community.

New Business

Lavalys also announces new business partners and customers who have adopted Lavalys solutions to drive productivity and efficiency enhancements in their companies. Anatomical Travelogue (NYC, USA), Beltex and L'Oréal Hungary have chosen EVEREST Professional to build a remotely driven accurate asset management and change tracking system. Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace (Norway) has chosen EVEREST Professional to become the central cog of its brand new automatic asset control and driver installation system, utilizing the award-winning hardware discovery engine provided by EVEREST Technology.

About Lavalys

Lavalys is dedicated to providing effective and economical solutions to small, medium and large-scale companies. Our products help network administrators and systems integrators with their job of providing well-integrated and cost-effective network management solutions. Lavalys is committed to meeting those needs through its worldwide partnerships with value added resellers and business partners. Our tools and solutions for Windows are definitely setting the standard in its market segment.

We are continuously seeking new solutions and ways our customers can improve and accelerate the systems they work with daily, so that they can concentrate on what is truly important: their core competence. We invite you to continue in sending your comments, and suggestions to our development team.