The software, which will be available on Monday, starts at US$60,000 and will be deployed by several existing mValent customers, including WorldWinner Inc., an online gaming company in Newton, Mass., and State Street Corp., a financial services company in Boston, according to executives at the companies.

WorldWinner and State Street both have been using mValent's current Infrastructure Automation Suite (IAS) software for more than two years. IAS was introduced in 2003 and revised in 2004. The third version is being renamed mValent Integrity, according to Joe Forgione, CEO of Burlington, Mass.-based mValent.

New features in mValent Integrity include the ability to rollback to a prior version of an application that fails and to automatically deploy new releases of applications across hundreds of servers at one time, Forgione said.

Another new feature is the ability to explore potential problems with online gaming applications prior to their release, something WorldWinner plans to use, said WorldWinner CIO Joe Bai. WorldWinner is now testing the software and plans to deploy it, having found that prior versions "dramatically increased" the company's ability to offer online games. WorldWinner games are used by 14 million registered players, he said.

WorldWinner has also been able to reclaim revenue lost in the past to application downtime, but Bai was unable to cite a specific figure.