“IPAM goes VirtualT”: BlueCat To Demonstrate Virtual IPAM, DNS & DHCP Appliances For The First Time At HIMMS09 (Booth 2681)

Virtual solutions offer power conservation and cost savings for the healthcare sector

Chicago, Illinois and Toronto, Ontario – April 2, 2009 – BlueCat Networks, the IPAM Intelligence Company, will demonstrate new virtual appliance offerings for its award-winning Proteus IPAM and Adonis DNS/DHCP solutions for the first time at the HIMSS09 (Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society) conference and exhibition being held from April 4-9, 2009 in Chicago (Booth 2681).

Ideal for healthcare organizations that have implemented a virtual infrastructure, the new virtual appliances enhance the market-leading IPAM and DNS/DHCP functionality of BlueCat’s existing appliance solutions by making it easier than ever before for healthcare facilities to accelerate deployment and simplify management. Healthcare facilities will now be able to rapidly provision DNS/DHCP for capacity handling and relocate DNS/DHCP services from one server to another for disaster recovery support – all without having to install any additional physical systems.

“As virtualization provides the simplest and most cost-effective method of consolidating multiple systems, BlueCat’s virtual appliances will enable healthcare organizations to greatly simplify the installation and management of IPAM and DNS/DHCP functionality to not only save costs but also ensure staff can focus on their primary objective – providing the best possible care for patients,” said Michael Hyatt, CEO & Co-Founder of BlueCat Networks. “”IPAM goes Virtual – Cut Your Costs,” is a huge focus for BlueCat and the HIMSS09 event is the perfect opportunity for us to demonstrate new appliances that will deliver significant cost savings to the healthcare sector,” Hyatt continued. “By leveraging our existing market-leading IPAM and DNS/DHCP technology BlueCat has been able to develop virtual appliances that will enable healthcare facilities to simultaneously save power, reduce operating costs and accelerate deployment.”

The proliferation of IP-enabled devices, such as VoIP phones, RFID and wireless, as well as critical medical devices, is making it impossible for the healthcare industry to continue managing IP addresses with spreadsheets and homegrown solutions. BlueCat’s market-leading solutions integrate with Microsoft’s Active Directory to completely eliminate network accessibility problems by making it simple and secure to centrally deploy, manage, monitor and audit IP addresses across an entire organization from a single web-based interface.

HIMSS09 is expected to attract about 30,000 attendees, ranking it as one of the largest healthcare IT and management systems conferences in the world. Attendees participate in education sessions and networking events, in addition to visiting the exhibits. The conference includes more than 300 education sessions plus pre-conference education sessions with symposia on clinical engineering, financial systems, nursing informatics, payers, pharmacy IT, physicians’ IT, regional health information organizations (RHIOs), and supply chain management. Two new workshops have been added for HIMSS09, focusing on human capital and interoperability.

The Interoperability Showcase includes cutting-edge technology and standards demonstrations focused on interoperability in an interactive environment. With electronic health records becoming reality on the exhibit floor, attendees will be able to create, track and manage virtual electronic health records and personal health records as they experience interoperability advances across both acute and outpatient care environments.

Keynote speakers at HIMSS09 include Dennis Quaid, award-winning actor, director and founder of the Quaid Foundation; George C. Halverson, chairman and chief executive officer of the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and Alan Greenspan, Economist and former chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve.

About BlueCat Networks

BlueCat Networks, the IPAM Intelligence CompanyT, is a profitable, rapidly-growing leading provider of enterprise-class IP Address Management (IPAM) platforms and secure DNS/DHCP core service solutions. Today, thousands of BlueCat’s award-winning IPAM and DNS/DHCP solutions have been successfully deployed to meet the rising IP management demands of healthcare, education, government, military and both medium and large enterprises worldwide. Find out why more Fortune companies choose BlueCat solutions to gain complete, centralized Command and Control of their IP networks at www.bluecatnetworks.com.

About HIMSS

The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) is the healthcare industry’s membership organization exclusively focused on providing global leadership for the optimal use of healthcare information technology (IT) and management systems for the betterment of healthcare. Founded in 1961 with offices in Chicago, Washington D.C., Brussels, and other locations across the United States and Europe, HIMSS represents more than 20,000 individual members and over 300 corporate members that collectively represent organizations employing millions of people. HIMSS frames and leads healthcare public policy and industry practices through its advocacy, educational and professional development initiatives designed to promote information and management systems’ contributions to ensuring quality patient care.

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