Industry Innovator Michael Baum Joins Mu Dynamics Board of Directors

LAS VEGAS, May 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Interop Booth# 627 -- Mu Dynamics, Inc. (www.mudynamics.com), the leader in validating and testing application-aware networks, today announced Michael Baum, the founding CEO of Splunk has joined its board of directors. Michael is a well-known and respected technology innovator and entrepreneur who has gained a reputation for building great companies.

"Having Michael join our board is a strong vote of confidence for the innovative steps Mu is taking with our products and company," said Dave Kresse, CEO of Mu Dynamics. "We believe Michael will give us important insight not only into the marketplace but also into how best to develop and deliver new solutions moving forward."

Michael was the founding CEO of Splunk, the infrastructure software company that invented IT Search. Splunk enables enterprises to index, search and report across all of their machine data to troubleshoot issues, find root causes, investigate security incidents and meet compliance reporting requirements. Michael's vision and leadership grew Splunk from an idea to a $50M, pre-IPO company, and the undisputed leader in managing all aspects of IT data. Prior to Splunk, he served as VP e-Commerce Services at Yahoo!, VP e-Commerce at InfoSeek/Disney and was co-founder of Collation (acquired by IBM), dotBank (acquired by Yahoo!) and Reality (acquired by Reuters).

"Mu Dynamics is dramatically changing the way enterprises, service providers and application developers meet one of their most critical challenges -- scaling solutions in a rapidly evolving, technology-driven world," said Michael Baum. "I'm enjoying being a part of the innovative Mu culture and a member of the company's board of directors. Bringing Mu's products and technologies to new markets like enterprise, cloud and mobile will no doubt continue to accelerate the company's growth and I look forward to helping the Mu team along the way."

Recently, Mu has launched several new solutions related to these markets:

• At Interop (booth #627) the company launched Mu Studio 6, the only testing solution capable of immediately and accurately recreating multiple types of applications – including web, enterprise and mobile apps – at scale, to determine how they impact networks.
• Last week at the Red Hat Summit, Mu launched Blitz, a cloud-based load testing solution for developers of mobile applications and APIs.
• Last month, in conjunction with a report detailing the differences in chattiness and bandwidth intensiveness of popular video applications, Mu demonstrated how its testing solution is uniquely capable of immediately and accurately recreating applications to determine how they impact networks.  

About Mu Dynamics:

Mu Dynamics is the leader and pioneer in testing and validating application-aware networks.  Our innovative solutions enable customers to rapidly recreate applications and determine the impact to their network. Hundreds of service providers, enterprises, government agencies and network equipment manufacturers use Mu to ensure that their networks are functional, scalable and secure. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, more information on Mu Dynamics can be found at http://www.mudynamics.com.

SOURCE Mu Dynamics, Inc.