Great that so many competitors are posting on the blog; unfortunately some are hiding behind their anonymity while pretending to be Nimsoft customers.

It seems that multiple people are trying to understand how, for many years Nimsoft claimed to be The Big-4 Alternative and now we are on the verge of being owned by CA.

That’s the whole point. Don’t we all see that CA are being forward thinking enough to be saying the same thing. They are saying that “there is a type of customer that wants and needs a different type of monitoring solution than we have provided in the past.”

Nimsoft will exist in the cloud business line at CA. Our roadmap is intact, in fact will be further added to and accelerated. Our sales and technical teams are intact and motivated like never before (just on my way back from the UK where our team is buzzing). Our commitment to unparalleled customer satisfaction has not and will not change.

CA have recognized that there are different sets of needs for different types of customers, and that Nimsoft is much more appropriate for emerging enterprises and service providers than some of the traditional products.

This is a huge testament to the vision of the executives at CA. It’s never easy being visionary and there are always many nay-sayers along the way, but this is a huge move that will redefine IT management.

This made me smile …..take a look at this link

Can be found here

When Nimsoft came together in 2004, I had big visions for the company. I wanted to establish the company’s technology as the standard for management of mid-market enterprises and service providers. I wanted to offer a customer experience that was second to none and to be known as the company that revolutionized the IT management space. I wanted us to innovate, to do things that nobody else had done before, to be willing to take risks…make mistakes. The next 6 years were about execution. Like any fast growing start-up there have been many challenges along the way, but we’ve always stayed true to our vision.

In the last couple of years, as cloud computing has become the architecture of tomorrow, Nimsoft has continued to innovate and now finds itself in an enviable position of pioneering new management platforms to deal with the new methods of delivering IT services. Cloud is driving disruptive change to many areas of IT and will drive disruptive change to IT management. Nimsoft will be helping drive the change, not being dragged along by it.

But, Nimsoft had a challenge to achieving our vision. The market is moving so fast and changing so rapidly, that I was concerned that Nimsoft could not, by itself, keep up. We were already hiring additional sales people and engineers as fast as we could, but there is a natural limit to how rapidly you can scale a business without breaking those things that are important to us, customer satisfaction being the top of the list.

When CA first suggested a conversation, I admit I had a brief moment of hesitation, but I quickly realized that this could be the perfect partner for Nimsoft and our customers. CA is making a commitment from the highest level of the organization to be the leader in cloud management. They recognize the importance of Service Providers and Emerging Enterprises to this new world, and they are an important focus of CA’s growth strategy. They made it clear that they want us to innovate and pioneer and add resources to accelerate those efforts.

This acquisition is transformative. I believe that the bringing together of these two companies is an event that will redefine IT management for many years to come. I am both proud and humbled by what we have achieved but most of all thankful to our employees and customers that have brought us to this place. I could not be more excited about the future and playing my small part in it.

Welcome to tomorrow…..

One of the world’s major hosting and cloud providers has agreed to standardize on Nimsoft as their monitoring platform for everything. We should get a press release out soon but it’s a significant strategic win.

I’m sure we all saw that a private equity firm has made an unsolicited offer for Novell.

I remember when Novell were the hottest tech company around. Netware was everywhere. Look at this from 1997….

Novell defined the networking operating system marketplace, with close to 15 years of experience serving over 55 million users worldwide. Today, as the fourth largest software company in the world and the networking leader…

Tech is an amazing industry – companies can, and regularly do, go from a position of dominance to being an also-ran so quickly. Novell was the fourth largest software company in the world !

The innovators dilemma – having to be willing to cannibalize the existing business for the future. it’s a brave decision to do this but it’s the only way to stay on top.

Wonder where Google will be in 10 years? Dominant or fending off private equity plans to sell off pieces.

Unthinkable I know but let’s chat in 10 years time and see.

I’m going to buy one anyhow because Steve told me to but please….figure out flash

England vs USA in the world cup – June 12th – I can’t wait!

England just played final Wembley warm up match this week

Congrats to long time Nimsoft customer ACS, now part of Xerox of course….

Affiliated Computer Services, a Xerox Company, has unveiled a new data centre, which the company says will cut carbon emissions and reduce energy costs.

The company claims that the new £2m ($3m), 418 sqm (4,500 square feet) facility located in Telford combines technology with the highest calibre green credentials. It is estimated that savings up to 70% can be made on energy costs alone which in turn could reduce the carbon footprint by approximately 4,200 metric tonnes annually.

The new green facility expands ACS’ current data centre capabilities in Telford to now exceed 1,300 sqm (14,000 square feet). ACS took over the site in 1999 and employs more than 200 people in Telford with additional offices and data centres in London, Bristol and Altrincham, supporting more than 600 clients from both the private and public sectors.

ACS said that it has selected IBM to design and build the new facility and deployed nLyte Software to provide its Data Centre Performance Management (DCPM) offerings to drive the data centre’s green programme. In addition, automation and monitoring tools are provided by Nimsoft and network connectivity with Convergence Group.

Lynn Blodgett, CEO of ACS, said: “This new data facility’s innovative design makes good environmental sense as well as sound commercial sense. “By making environmentally conscious decisions, we can make informed business decisions to ensure our clients are more competitive.”

Thanks to the MSP that became a customer of ours on Sunday. Yep, came into the office at the weekend specifically to complete the paperwork with us…..truly appreciated – that’s the start of a wonderful relationship.

We’re going beta with a brand new offering this week. Alpha was completed successfully, beta starts now and GA launch is in April.

It’s funny….other software companies pre-announce products multiple months before they are due (and then they are late). I’m convinced that they do this so that they can announce the same thing 3 times – makes it look like they are delivering more.

We actually deliver the product first and then announce it. Weird that. Maybe we’ve got it wrong.

And…we’re still hiring….multiple open positions across the company. Looking for the brave and the strong (actually the smart and the hard working).

Congrats to the Europeans….a big new customer signed today (a really, really good customer win against all the big boys)

Sorry IBM, haven’t you figured out that trying to inject FUD at the last minute doesn’t work against us?

Our customers think our product, our support and our value are all superior .

Wow….finally we are moving out of our Chertsey digs today in the UK.

Only 1 1/2 hours left for those offices – they have served us well for many years.

But, as of Monday we are going to be in our new offices in central London – right off the Strand. All fitted out to our specs and I even authorized us paying for a new conference table

Seriously, it’s amazing to see how this company grows and evolves. I will be in the UK next week to see for myself – meanwhile here’s a picture of the entrance (what an amazing photo)

What a week.

Enigmatec into receivership in the UK

CA buys cloud vendor 3Tera

EMC sells a bunch of its systems management products to VMWare – and retains the rights to resell them….hmm…..it was never a complete portfolio, more a mish mash of acquired technology with nothing to stitch it all together.

Wonder what next week will bring? Clearly a ton of activity and positioning…everyone realizes that the pot of gold at the end of the cloud is a huge one…

I love my job. I get to do such fun stuff.

On Friday, together with Fred Luddy at Service-Now, I was invited to speak on a conference call sponsored by Goldman Sachs analyst Derek Bingham entitled:

“The next-generation of IT management software and implications for incumbents”