PRESS RELEASE

I/O Concepts Announces New Name for its Event Management Software Solution: ioEnterprise Event Manager

Bellevue, Wash., June 18, 2008 — I/O Concepts Software Corporation, a provider of IT event management solutions for mainframe and midrange data centers, announced today the merging of its product offering into a single event management solution in its latest release called ioEnterprise Event Manager.

By combining the products offered by I/O Concepts into a single solution, customers will benefit from a robust, end-to-end package to manage events across their IT enterprise. The ioEnterprise Event Manager suite of functionality includes not only extensive event management and monitoring, but automation, compliance, security and disaster recovery capabilities for mainframe (System z, zSeries, System/390) and midrange (System i, iSeries, i5, AS/400) data centers.

“Our vision for the ioEnterprise product is to offer our customers an event management solution for their iSeries and zSeries that works across the entire company, within their existing infrastructure and technologies,” said I/O Concepts CEO Chuck Gillam. “In the new version, all components of the I/O Concepts offering work seamlessly together to provide a more complete solution, so we created a new name and are now providing it to our all of our customers as one complete product.”

About ioEnterprise Event Manager:

• Provides a consolidated view of events from all the different sources in an IT environment, from mainframes to a network router.
• Allows events to be filtered, prioritized, and easier to act quickly upon with tools for notification, escalation and automation, using an intuitive color-coded interface.
• Helps companies with regulatory compliance with audit trails and event logging tools.
• Gives operators secure remote access to systems from their PCs or over the Internet.
• Integrates with third party management systems and message-enabled intelligent devices for a “manager of managers” solution to event management.

The I/O Concepts products formerly known as EMS (Enterprise Management System), CCS (Console Consolidation System), WebSession, SSA (Session Security Appliance), SecurITe, SmartClient, and SmartClient Event Manager have been merged into the ioEnterprise Event Manager system.

About I/O Concepts

I/O Concepts helps enterprise data center operations increase IT efficiency and responsiveness, maximize accessibility, and ensure availability of systems using one focused and cost-effective event management solution. Since 1989, I/O Concepts has been providing expert solutions to help IT operations consolidate and monitor their mainframe and midrange data centers, providing identifiable cost savings and productivity improvements within weeks of implementation.  I/O Concepts is headquartered in Bellevue, WA and supports IT operations for many of the largest companies in the world. For more information, visit www.ioconcepts.com.

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