Bank of New York Selects DGI to Optimize DB2 UDB UNIX Database

DGI announced that The Bank of New York, one of the world's leading financial institutions and largest custodians of securities information, has selected the DGI team of performance management tools for DB2 UDB UNIX to maximize performance and ensure the optimum availability of their strategic DB2 database containing securities pricing information.

The DGI team of performance management tools ensures peak DB2 database performance and maximum availability through a comprehensive approach that integrates DB2 performance statistics and operating system metrics. The tools monitor resource utilization, avoid crisis situations via alerts or automated corrective actions, identify potential SQL, index, or other design improvements, help implement prudent database and object tuning, help plan for resource growth, and more.

"The DGI tools provide the ability to monitor and tune our applications in real time and keep history of all tuning and utilization statistics," said Ed Lipson, vice president at The Bank of New York.

"We are delighted to offer solutions that will enable The Bank of New York to save a significant amount of time pinpointing, resolving, and preventing problems," said Scott Hayes, president and founder of DGI. "We welcome them as new clients."

About The Bank of New York

The Bank of New York was founded in 1784 by Alexander Hamilton and is the nation's oldest bank. It is the principal subsidiary of The Bank of New York Company Inc, a financial holding company. With over $73 billion in total assets as of March 31, 2001, the Company provides a complete range of banking and other financial services to corporations and individuals worldwide through its basic businesses, namely, Securities Servicing and Global Payment Services, Corporate Banking, BNY Asset Management and Private Client Services, Retail Banking, and Global Market Services. Additional information on the Company is available at www.bankofny.com.

About DGI

DGI, formerly known as Database-GUYS Inc, is a privately held corporation providing performance management tools for DB2 UDB UNIX. The full crew of performance management tools includes: Wise-GUY, which handles database monitoring and tuning; SQL-GUY, which provides instantaneous real-time analysis of the costliest SQL statements in any workload mix; Pool-GUY, which monitors bufferpools and automates their tuning; Space-GUY, which helps assure database availability by monitoring tablespace utilization and performance; and Connection-MINER, which helps users understand how database resources are being used and by whom, providing a basis for calculating chargebacks and identifying problems. Interested parties should contact DGI directly at 1-877-432-4897 (toll-free in the US) or 1-716-349-2450 (international) or visit the company's Web site at www.breakthroughdb2.com to inquire about the tools or download a free trial.

Contact DGI, Spencerport, Pamela Greenfield, Communications Director, 877-432-4897 x9, pgreenfi@breakthroughdb2.com.