Convergys to Help Assure PCI Compliance with Opsware and Solidcore

Opsware and Solidcore provide a comprehensive control solution that greatly reduces the cost and effort required to verify and sustain PCI compliance. The combined Opsware and Solidcore solution captures critical change detail in real-time including "who" is making changes, "what" is actually being changed, "when" change is occurring, and "how" the change was made. This enables organizations to ensure deployed systems are always in a known and verified state. With Solidcore's technology-based change policy enforcement, unauthorized changes can also be blocked to sustain compliance. All change events can be summarized in reports to demonstrate PCI Compliance to auditors with minimal effort, thus reducing the cost of PCI Compliance verification. Furthermore, Opsware System 6 is the only Data Center Automation suite that integrates change management, compliance, and process automation all in one, working across servers, networks and, later this year, storage.

"Managing and detecting file changes across an organization the size of Convergys can be a daunting and time-consuming task without the proper data center automation and file-detection solution," said Sharmila Shahani, EVP of marketing at Opsware Inc. "The use of Opsware and Solidcore will provide Convergys with a centralized, real-time solution for quickly achieving Compliance with the PCI DSS, and will help ensure only appropriate, approved changes are provisioned to the infrastructure."

"Working with a global leader like Convergys further validates the effectiveness of the joint Solidcore and Opsware solution for verifying PCI DSS compliance," said David Walker, senior vice president of worldwide operations for Solidcore. "Organizations that need to verify and sustain Compliance with the PCI DSS in a cost-effective manner must use an automated control solution capable of tracking all file changes in real-time and preventing unauthorized file changes without manual intervention. Only the combined Solidcore and Opsware solution can provide this capability, documenting 'who' made a particular change and only allowing authorized changes to ever take place."

About Convergys
Convergys Corporation (NYSE: CVG) is a global leader in providing customer care, human resources, and billing services. Convergys combines specialized knowledge and expertise with solid execution to deliver outsourced solutions, consulting services, and software support. Clients in more than 70 countries speaking nearly 35 languages depend on Convergys to manage the increasing complexity and cost of caring for customers and employees. Convergys serves the world's leading companies in many industries including communications, financial services, technology, and consumer products.

Convergys is a member of the S&P 500 and a Fortune Most Admired Company. Headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, Convergys has approximately 75,000 employees in 79 customer contact centers, three data centers, and other facilities in the United States, Canada, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. For more information, visit www.convergys.com.

About Solidcore Systems
Solidcore is a leading provider of real-time change control software. Organizations worldwide trust Solidcore to assure Compliance with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) standards, to improve service availability, and achieve faster returns on ITIL and IT service management initiatives. Solidcore's S3 Control software helps organizations by tracking changes to their critical infrastructure in real-time, determining if the changes are authorized, and enforcing change policy by selectively preventing unauthorized change. Solidcore is headquartered in Cupertino, California. For more information, visit www.solidcore.com.

About Opsware
Opsware, the world's leading IT automation company, unlocks the promise of Technology by accelerating IT to zero latency. The company's software, the Opsware System, automates the entire data center, from provisioning to patching, configuration to Compliance and discovery to deployment, turning data center operations into a competitive advantage for business. Opsware's Technology is used by hundreds of companies worldwide including banks, service providers, retailers, manufacturers and Internet companies with IT environments ranging from hundreds to tens of thousands of servers, network devices, storage devices and IT processes. For more information on Opsware Inc., please visit our Web site at www.opsware.com.