Intersperse was founded in 2000 to provide management solutions for the new generation of software components and services distributed across integration, process, and application servers.

Today, the company says, "with real-time applications, business process integration, and the emergence of Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA), new and existing software assets are being broken down into libraries of components and services available to multiple applications and processes. As the integration and complexity of business systems increases, the risk of failure increases exponentially. IT teams have an increasing need for tools to help them discover and proactively manage resources and components, their relationships and their interactions at all levels."

Intersperse says that in response to this challenge, it provides IT teams with the tools needed to monitor all the components and services across the enterprise.

Its release in the fall of its latest rev, Intersperse Manager 4.0, "provides tools to help users expand the capabilities of JMX in the enterprise IT environment, increases support for SNMP, and provides improved, targeted diagnostics capabilities."

"With Intersperse Manager 4.0, our customers can take advantage of a broad range of widely-adopted management standards, including all versions of SNMP," said company CEO Martin Milani (pictured). "The addition of our advanced Custom MBean Creation Toolkit enables users to push the limits of the JMX standard, providing dynamic and on-demand instrumentation of all J2EE components. Intersperse continues to address to the needs of its enterprise customer base, who seek a powerful monitoring and management solution that is capable of global scale while at the same time remaining true to its standards-based heritage.”

It pointed out many new features in this release, including:

* Full SNMP v2 and v3 support, increasing the reach of the management platform to encompass potentially all enterprise assets.
* Release of the Custom MBean Creation Toolkit, expanding the applicability of JMX by providing:
- Dynamic and on-demand instrumentation of all J2EE components;
- Creation of custom MBeans to administer to arbitrary entities requiring management;
- Real-time MBean aggregation capabilities.
* Sophisticated trend analysis and reporting, enabling users to diagnose issues real-time.
* Comprehensive instrumentation and monitoring of JMS providers, topics and queues, extending monitoring scope and context into the messaging layer.
* Advanced SLA compliance monitoring, guaranteeing that the management platform does what it should – guarantee that all systems are performing.