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Webinars
Previously recorded webinars - on demand
| Hints & Tips - RCA & Topology Manager (Read Synopsis) Recorded Thursday, January 21, 2010 |
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| Hear the Inside Secrets from the fastest growing $2m+ MSPs (Read Synopsis) Recorded Wednesday, January 20, 2010 |
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| Hints & Tips: Unified Reporter Explained & Demo (Read Synopsis) Recorded Thursday, December 10, 2009 |
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| Growing Your Managed Services Business from $2 Million to $25 Million – Scaling New Heights (Read Synopsis) Recorded Wednesday, November 18, 2009 |
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| The Big 4 Alternative: Reason #1. Scalability Matters (Read Synopsis) Recorded Wednesday, November 18, 2009 |
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Important Partnering Announcement for Nimsoft Service Provider Customers |
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The Dawning of a New Era in Monitoring |
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| Introduction to Nimsoft (Read Synopsis) Recorded Tuesday, September 29, 2009 |
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Ensuring High Service Levels in Cloud Computing |
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| MS Exchange Management and Monitoring (Read Synopsis) Recorded September 2nd 2009 |
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| Service Delivery Portal 2.0 (Read Synopsis) Recorded August 12th 2009 |
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| Nimsoft Monitoring Solution: Lightweight and Highly Scalable by Design (Read Synopsis) Recorded June 17th 2009 |
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| Best Practices in Network Monitoring and Topology Discovery (Read Synopsis) Recorded June 3rd 2009 |
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| How to Stay on Top of the Managed Services Cloud (ENKI Case Study) (Read Synopsis) Recorded April 23rd 2009 |
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| Amway Scales New Heights with Nimsoft (Read Synopsis) Recorded March 25th 2009 |
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| Capacity Management in Virtualized Infrastructures (Read Synopsis) Recorded March 18th 2009 |
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| Monitoring the Cloud: What it is, What it means to you, & How to be prepared (Read Synopsis) Recorded March 4th 2009 |
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| Best Approaches to Proactive End-User Experience Monitoring (Read Synopsis) Recorded February 3rd 2009 |
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| Monitoring Virtual and Physical Environments (Read Synopsis) Recorded September 25th, 2008 |
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| The True Cost of Managing IT Infrastructure and Applications (Read Synopsis) Recorded August 7, 2008 |
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| Performance Management made Easy (Read Synopsis) Recorded June 26, 2008 |
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| Getting SLM Right the First Time: Avoiding Common Pitfalls for Smarter Implementation (Read Synopsis) Recorded November, 2007 |
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Hints & Tips - RCA & Topology Manager
Today's enterprise networks are not only complex, they're constantly changing. With so many interdependent systems, processes, and services—all of which constantly being relied upon by business users—comprehensive, continuous monitoring is critical.
Nimsoft RCA and Topology Manager, administrators can gain a unified, real-time view of their dynamic, distributed networks—and more effectively optimize performance and availability. Nimsoft RCA and Topology Manager automates the entire process of defining an extensive topology, delivering intuitive, visual diagrams of the entire IP network.
In addition, it offers sophisticated root cause analysis (RCA) capabilities that simultaneously enable faster discovery of the source of a network issue—while significantly reducing unnecessary and redundant alarms.
Hear the Inside Secrets from the fastest growing $2m+ MSPs
Register to view this All Star MSP panel webcast replay
The world economy is on the rebound. CIOs are back at the table buying from Managed Service Providers (MSPs). Does your MSP business have what it takes to ride the recovery wave all the way to $25 million in recurring revenue?
View our webcast replay and hear from seasoned MSP executives who have successfully scaled their businesses to critical mass and beyond.
Nimsoft MSP Expert Panelists:
- Jason Caras, CEO, IT Authorities
- Tim Hebert, CEO, Atrion Networking Corporation
- Oli Thordarson, CEO, Alvaka Networks
They’ll Be Talking About:
- Aligning managed services to improve your customers’ business
- Proving your worth to your customers through customer portals, dashboards and other visual techniques
- Unified Monitoring; the move to a single dashboard for monitoring all on-premise and cloud systems
Hints & Tips: Unified Reporter Explained & Demo
The Nimsoft Monitoring Solution just became an open book! We have been hard at work and have created an allnew advanced report writing component as an optional add-on to NMS, The Nimsoft Unified Reporter. This report writer comes with over 75 out of the box reports ready to go. Many top 10 or bottom 10 type reports that you can run day one.
Plus it comes with a dynamic report writer that allows you to create and customize your reports, create and publish templates and set up reports to be run in real-time or offline and sent out via email.
During this session we will unveil this new product and demo it to you and allow you to ask questions via chat. We will also explain how you can download and take a Unified Reporter test drive in your own NMS environment.
The Big 4 Alternative: Reason #1. Scalability Matters
Companies like Amway, Blackbaud and over 50 other companies have switched in the last 12 months from a big4 monitoring product or products (CA, BMC, HP and IBM). But why?
There are a number of reasons we hear, "save money", "faster deployment’, "increased flexibility", "no services required" but the secret sauce that every customer comes back to it’s the Nimsoft Monitoring Solutions scalability! The Unified Monitoring Architecture. Yes the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution was designed and developed in this decade.
This webinar will be the first in a series were we will explain why customer have switched to the Nimsoft Solution by explaining the architecture and then how it is able to adjust to your business needs and be ready for whatever the business folks throw at you like SaaS, Cloud, Virtualization, Hosting, Managed Service and so on.
Growing Your Managed Services Business from $2 Million to $25 Million – Scaling New Heights
The world economy is on the rebound. CIOs are back at the table buying from Managed Service Providers (MSPs). Does your MSP business have what it takes to ride the recovery wave all the way to $25 million in recurring revenue?
Hear directly from seasoned MSP executives who have successfully scaled their businesses to critical mass and beyond.
Nimsoft MSP Expert Panelists Are:
- Bill Hood, President and CEO, Network Partners, Inc., Houston, Texas, USA
- Brooke Guthrie, IT Governance Manager, CDW Hosting and Managed Services, Madison, WI, USA
- Kevin Crowe, Director of Managed Services, Long View Systems, Calgary, Alberta, CAN
What they talked about:
- How to Increase Customer Satisfaction and “Stickiness” by Delivering ITSM Excellence
- How to Increase Revenue by Winning New Customers and Growing Existing Ones
- How to Increase Profitability By Driving Operational Efficiency into the Business
- How To Reduce Staffing Costs by Making Your MSP an “Employer of Choice”
Important Partnering Announcement for Nimsoft Service Provider Customers
Nimsoft announces a new partner program that will allow you, our valued Service Provider customers with:
- New opportunities to co-market with Nimsoft
- New resources to help you extend the Nimsoft solution through custom development
- New ways to partner with each other
Hear the details of this exciting new announcement, a preview of the roadmap supporting it, and to find out just how easy it is to become part of this program.
By growing the Nimsoft ecosystem, we all benefit. With the Nimsoft Unified Monitoring strategy hot off the presses, now is the time to invest together in doing this.
The Dawning of a New Era in Monitoring
Unified Monitoring powered by Nimsoft
With Unified Moinitoring, Nimsoft provides complete visibility into business applications running internally and externally from the data center to private, hybrid and public clouds
Learn about how the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution enables you to monitor cloud platforms and SaaS applications, including those from Rackspace, Amazon, Salesforce.com, and Google.
Recording date: Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Duration: 55 minutes
Introduction to Nimsoft
In today's IT Business Environment, there is immense opportunity to Reduce IT Costs and Maximize Productivity.
The first step towards this goal, is understanding how you can effortlessly monitor the real time health of your IT infrastructure and gain meaningful actionable information. The next step is by controlling runaway IT expenses.
Don't miss this opportunity to learn how Nimsoft can help you take charge of reducing your IT expenses and develop and proactive IT management strategy, which reduces the overall complexity of your IT infrastructure.
Register now, to learn how Nimsoft's management solution could immediately impact the day to day management of your IT infrastructure, cut operational cost, and increase your company's bottom line.
Learn how to:
- Deliver a portfolio of IT Monitoring services immediately
- Facilitate meaningful performance reports and configurable dashboards
- Cut IT Costs while maintaining SLA's
- See a Live Demo of Nimsoft's award-winning solution
Ensuring High Service Levels in Cloud Computing
Cloud computing is more than buzz – it’s a legitimate method for expanding service delivery and providing scalability with controlled costs. Cloud computing is not virtualization with a pretty name – it’s a service paradigm not server hosting. This change is more than a name and has wide ranging impacts from delivery and cost through security and performance monitoring.
Join us for this highly-informative webinar featuring Nimsoft VP and Technical Visionary Ross Fujii, who will cover:
- The types of cloud computing available today
- Potential evolutionary paths of cloud computing
- What it means to the typical enterprise.
- How to avoid common pitfalls
- How to get your feet wet
- What it means to your monitoring solution
Nimsoft leads the field in monitoring the entire computing infrastructure from end user to virtualization – now you can add cloud computing.
MS Exchange Management and Monitoring
The ability to properly manage and deploy Microsoft Exchange environments is a necessary skill for an IT Professional. Whether you are an experienced MS Exchange Administrator, or are an IT generalist charged with the day to day management of a MS Exchange environment access to real world knowledge is often hard to come by.
Often, critical "how to" tips such as the best practices of CAS server deployment, security certificate procurement, or the value of creating a Virtual Machine "test bed" before attempting an MS Exchange migration is not readily available at your fingertips, and can often determine the success of your IT project.
Join us for an informative webcast and gain this real world practical advice from Bobby Lalwani, Nimsoft’s Manager of IT on how to develop a best practices approach to the deployment, day to day management, and migration of your MS Exchange environment.
Register now to learn and hear directly from Bobby on lessons he has learned such as:
- MS Exchange deployment and management best practices
- How to mitigate Microsoft discontinuing the idea of a front end server in the DMZ
- Real world tips for handling a Mail Box server on disks as opposed to a SAN/NAS
- Minimizing single points of failure
- Avoiding the common pitfalls of MS Exchange 2003 to 2007 migration
- Best resources on the web for MS Exchange knowledge
Service Delivery Portal 2.0
In response to business pressures to increase service quality while reducing costs, many IT organizations and IT Service Providers are constantly looking for tools and knowledge to help them better communicate the real time service level health of the IT infrastructure.
Delivering better service levels, is having the ability to effortlessly report the real time health of your IT infrastructure, gain actionable information, and empower all stakeholders with the ability for 24X7 self-service reports.
Nimsoft’s SDP helps you:
- Improve communications
- Better demonstrate value
- Streamline reporting activities
- Improve resource optimization and service
Register now, to learn how Nimsoft’s Service Delivery Portal (SDP) solution could immediately impact the day to day management of your IT Infrastructure, cut operational cost, and increase your company’s bottom line.
Nimsoft Monitoring Solution: Lightweight and Highly Scalable by Design
There is a tendency to focus on functionality when making comparisons between Performance and Availability monitoring solutions.
- Will the solution monitor all of our infrastructure components?
- Will it provide real-time alarms and notifications to our operational staff?
- Can I use it to deliver high quality Service Level Agreement reports to my customers in a multi-tenant web based portal?
In the monitoring business, functionality is essential but in many cases, scalability is more important. If a solution won't scale, it doesn't matter what else it does.
Nimsoft Monitoring Solution is highly scalable by design. It is also lightweight, meaning that it can be deployed on critical business components without detrimental impact.
Hear Mark Rivington, VP of Technology, explain how the fundamental architecture and design of NMS allows customers to achieve very high rates and volumes of monitoring. Some of the biggest organizations in the world rely on Nimsoft to monitor their global business critical infrastructures.
From big banks to Web 2.0 brand names, Nimsoft architecture and design helps them keep their critical systems running.
Best Practices in Network Monitoring and Topology Discovery
Join our webinar and learn about best practices in network monitoring and topology discovery. We will cover the key tenants of an effective and comprehensive
network management strategy, focusing around:
- Discovery: An automated, accurate & "up-to-date" topology map providing the foundation for root cause analysis
- Root Cause Analysis: An RCA correlation engine should suppress extraneous downstream events, identify the root cause of an outage along with the affected sympathetic devices, support multiple RCA maps, and handling "just-in-time" node availability evaluation
- Map Visualization: A web-based visual user interface displaying all topology maps
How to Stay On Top of the Managed Services Cloud
Featuring Dave Durkee of ENKI, a top 100 Cloud Player as selected by SYS-CON’s Cloud Computing Journal.
ENKI has established itself as one of the leading service providers in the massively expanding managed cloud computing market. By leveraging automation and efficiency, ENKI is able to deliver flexible and high performance cloud computing services to its customers—while offering dramatic cost savings over traditional hosted IT approaches. ENKI relies on the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution to deliver automated SLA assurance to their highly valued cloud computing customers.
Please join Dave Durkee, CEO of ENKI, as he discusses:
- The challenge ENKI faced optimizing service levels in a dynamic, demanding cloud computing environment
- The solution Nimsoft provided with robust monitoring capabilities and real-time customer dashboards
- The key considerations when deploying Nimsoft’s monitoring solution in a cloud environment
Amway Scales New Heights with Nimsoft
For Amway, scalability goes hand-in-hand with effective performance and availability monitoring. When the company unveiled plans to support over 500,000 consultants across Europe through an innovative online portal, Amway had to ensure the underlying IT infrastructure would perform flawlessly. Scalability, performance and availability are intrinsically linked.
Join Michael Schmidt, Amway’s Supervisor ServiceDesk-Europe, as he discusses:
- Why Amway replaced their existing monitoring tools with Nimsoft
- The challenges Amway faced and how they overcame them
- The key considerations when deploying Nimsoft’s monitoring solution and the benefits.
Capacity Management in Virtualized Infrastructures
Virtualization solutions like VMware have already been deployed in an array of organizations around the world, and for good reason: they have helped many organizations significantly optimize the performance of their infrastructure. Yet for all the benefits virtualization delivers, it also presents a range of challenges—most critically when it comes to doing effective capacity management.
Join us for this highly-informative webinar to:
- Better understand the challenges of capacity management in virtualized infrastructures
- Gain a wealth of practical insights into addressing these challenges, and
- Learn to set the stage for successful VMWare deployments.
Monitoring the Cloud: What it is, What it means to you, & How to be prepared
Cloud computing is more than buzz – it’s a legitimate method for expanding service delivery and providing scalability with controlled costs. Cloud computing is not virtualization with a pretty name – it’s a service paradigm not server hosting. This change is more than a name and has wide ranging impacts from delivery and cost through security and performance monitoring.
Join us for this highly-informative webinar featuring Nimsoft VP of Technology Mark Rivington, who will cover:
- The types of cloud computing available today
- Potential evolutionary paths of cloud computing
- What it means to the typical enterprise.
- How to avoid common pitfalls
- How to get your feet wet
- What it means to your monitoring solution
Nimsoft leads the field in monitoring the entire computing infrastructure from end user to virtualization – now you can add cloud computing.
Best Approaches to Proactive End-User Experience Monitoring
The need to monitor end-users’ experience as a benchmark for enterprise application performance is obvious. Yet, many companies are just now embracing this capability as part of their overall IT service management strategy.
Join us to discover the vital role End-User Experience Monitoring plays in allowing you to deliver an efficient and effective IT Service management strategy.
You will also learn:
- The key reasons why IT organizations are implementing End-User Experience (EUE) Monitoring
- The leading approaches to implementing EUE Monitoring – Synthetic Monitoring and Real-User/Passive Monitoring
- The guidelines that IT organizations should use to evaluate EUE Monitoring products
If you are being tasked with finding out if End-User Experience Monitoring is right for your IT organization at this time, you must attend this webcast.
Monitoring Virtual and Physical Environments
Organizations around the world have embraced virtualization, for very good reason. With virtualization capabilities, organizations can pool their resources and ultimately get more performance, flexibility, and cost efficiency out of their infrastructure investments. However, virtualization presents organizations with significant challenges from a monitoring perspective.
Virtualized environments represent an ecosystem of interrelated parts, all of which must be functioning optimally to ensure that the business applications remain available.
Whether you are a seasoned virtualization professional or just considering your virtualization strategy you should not miss this webinar! After this session, you will walk away with:
- Recommendations for effectively managing your virtual infrastructure
- An understanding of the added complexities that physical and virtual systems bring to the environment
- The knowledge about the many features and strengths of the Nimsoft platform for end-to-end network management
Performance Monitoring Made Easy
Knowing when your applications or IT infrastructure aren’t performing is critical to your organization and to your sanity. And, while waiting for your phone to ring is one way, effectively monitoring the performance and availability of your infrastructure is a better long term approach. And, not as complex as you may think it is.
Poorly performing applications impact revenue and productivity – join our webcast to learn how easy it is to deploy a cost-effective performance monitoring solution and increase operational efficiency.
This webcast provides a practical overview of performance monitoring and offers specific recommendations for monitoring application performance. There will also be a live product demo of our award-winning Nimsoft product which won ‘Best of the Best’ from a Network Computing evaluation of nine application performance management vendors.
The True Cost of Managing IT Infrastructure and Applications
Learn what makes a cost effective network monitoring solution.
- Increase customer/user satisfaction
- Minimize business impact risk
- Improve operational efficiency
- Reduce meantime to isolate and repair
- Deliver substantial savings for operational expenditure
This webcast will explain some of the hidden costs of monitoring solutions and help you understand what to be aware of when evaluating vendor solutions.
There will also be a live product demo of our award-winning Nimsoft product which won "Best of the Best" from a Network Computing evaluation of nine application performance management vendors.
Getting SLM Right the First Time: Avoiding Common Pitfalls for Smarter Implementation
Service level management (SLM): you are familiar with its benefits, but, like many, you may be hesitating with implementation plans. You could be facing uncertainty about where to start, or you may be searching for a pragmatic, smart approach to SLM implementation.
To learn where to begin and how to succeed, join us for a free Webinar featuring where Brooke Guthrie, IT governance manager for Berbee, a leading managed service provider, will provide valuable hints, tips and guidance that will contribute to your success - and make your job easier!
You will learn:
- The importance of detailed definition of services: What are you measuring?
- How to validate you are delivering what you said you would deliver: How are you reporting on compliance?
- How to plan on the back-end before you implement SLM: Can you put into place the processes your SLM helped you recognize you lacked?
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