Network World editors selected mValent and nine other companies in conjunction with leading industry analysts. Their article examines many aspects of mValent including its management team, its primary business, its compelling value, its origins, its funding and its customers. Network World acknowledges that “configuration management is key for optimal performance” and that “automating the detection of changes while modeling the configuration necessary for an ideal application state speeds the process of implementing new application environments”.

“We are honored to have been named as one of only ten tech start-ups that matter by Network World,” said Joe Forgione, President and CEO of mValent, Inc. “It validates our business focus and our product and underscores the tremendous market acceptance that mValent has experienced to date with our industry-leading automated application configuration management solution.”

mValent Integrity enables IT teams to capture the current state of configuration settings for IT assets, monitor them for authorized and unauthorized changes, and automate processes for provisioning changes and setting up new environments throughout the application lifecycle – from development, testing and through production. The result is greater application uptime, fewer IT fire drills and simplified compliance with industry best practices and regulatory mandates.

About Network World

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About mValent

mValent tackles IT complexity and compliance with automation software that eliminates configuration management chaos in application infrastructure. The company’s flagship product, mValent Integrity, automates application configuration management and is used by leading organizations to manage the build and maintenance of complex application configurations throughout their entire lifecycle – from development to production. mValent Integrity customers include leading companies such as Alltel Wireless, State Street Bank, National Grid, and WorldWinner. The company is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts and is backed by top-tier venture capital firms, including Charles River Ventures, IDG Ventures and Polaris Venture Partners. For more information, visit http://www.mvalent.com.

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