Nimsoft Company Backgrounder

Company Mission

Nimsoft, the first provider of Unified Monitoring™ solutions, enables its customers to successfully monitor and manage performance, availability, and business services across both internal and external IT infrastuctures—including SaaS, hosted, and cloud environments.

Nimsoft is delivering on the future of performance monitoring solutions by combining advanced functionality, complete coverage of both internal and external IT infrastructures, and business service alignment—all delivered in a platform that offers unprecedented ease of implementation, deployment, and use.

Market Vision

Today’s performance and availability solutions market is characterized primarily by large, complex product suites from established vendors. Typically, these solutions offer decades-old legacy technologies and are over engineered for the requirements of almost all customers.

As a result, users of these products must invest significant dedicated IT resources to implementation, customization, and ongoing maintenance, thereby embarking on an expensive, continuing process of technology investment and maintenance. In addition, these solutions are poorly suited for extension into externally hosted, SaaS, and cloud based environments, which represent an increasingly critical part of many organization’s IT service delivery infrastructures.

In contrast, Nimsoft has developed out-of-the-box solutions that manage the complexities of IT monitoring across multiple operating systems, applications, databases, and networks—whether these assets are internally or externally based. Nimsoft delivers all this via a solution that offers superior ease of use and rapid implementation. In fact, unlike traditional products, the Nimsoft solution can be installed in a matter of minutes and can be implemented and deployed enterprise wide in as little as a couple of hours.

Technology

Nimsoft’s solutions provide scalable, resilient, and reliable monitoring capabilities for organizations that want to proactively manage their internal and external IT infrastructures. It provides the full scope of performance and availability monitoring, from simple devicebased monitoring to sophisticated business service management. Nimsoft provides solutions for server monitoring, network monitoring, database monitoring, application monitoring, end user response time monitoring, service level monitoring, and business service management.

Over the last several years, Nimsoft has also established itself as an innovation leader in the area of management of the virtualized infrastructure. Already, hundreds of customers are relying on Nimsoft to monitor both their virtual and physical IT infrastructures in a holistic manner.

In October of 2009, Nimsoft announced its Unified Monitoring architecture, extending the Nimsoft solution set to seamlessly monitor SaaS, hosted, and cloud-based IT infrastructures. Customers can now extend their Nimsoft implementations to applications and infrastructures residing in these environments without adding additional products, staffing, or costs.

Company Overview

Since 2004, Nimsoft has consistently grown revenues in the high double digits, evidence of the market need for Nimsoft’s easyto- deploy solutions that slash costs on all fronts. The company is cash flow positive and continues to grow its business by adding the best service providers and corporate enterprises to its customer base.

Nimsoft’s customers include companies such as Alvaka Networks, Amway Corporation, Barclays Capital, Betfred, CDW Berbee, Canadian Natural Resources, Community Health Systems, Dekalb Medical Center, Easynet, Erie Insurance Group, Foley & Lardner, Fusion Storm, Ladbrokes Limited, Liberty Savings Bank, MTU Aero Engines, Northrop Grumman Corporation, Rackspace Managed Hosting, Ramesys, State of Montana, Steria, TriNet, and U.S. Veterans Administration.

About Nimsoft

Nimsoft is the first provider of Unified Monitoring™ solutions for virtualized data centers, hosted and managed services, cloud platforms, and SaaS resources. With a proven time to value measured in weeks, the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution™ (NMS) reduces an enterprise’s total cost of ownership by up to 80 percent compared to legacy systems management vendors, while scaling and extending to places they just cannot go.

The Nimsoft Unified Monitoring architecture eliminates the need to deploy a new monitoring solution for outsourced services, public or private clouds, or SaaS implementations. Nearly 1,000 customers use Nimsoft Unified Monitoring solutions, including both mid-market and global organizations such as Amway Corporation, Barclays Capital, Casual Male, European Medicines Agency (EMEA), Ladbrokes, TriNet, and hundreds of leading hosting, cloud, and managed service providers such as 1&1 Internet, CDW, Hitachi, and Rackspace.

For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com. To see the Nimsoft Unified Monitoring architecture in action, visit the beta version of the Nimsoft public portal at www.unifiedmonitoring.com.

Board of Directors

  • Anders Grindland, Chairman

  • Gary Read, President, CEO and Board Member

  • Dag Lund, Board Member

  • Saverio Merlo, Corporate Advisor and Board Member

  • Peter Arrowsmith, Board Member, JMI Equity

  • Torleif Ahlsand, Board Member, Northzone Ventures

  • David Campbell, Goldman Sachs

Facts at a Glance

  • Privately held

  • Headquarters in Redwood City, California

  • R&D based out of Norway and Fort Collins, Colorado

  • Regional offices throughout the United States, Germany, Norway, Australia, and the United Kingdom.

  • Partner representation in multiple other countries

  • Nearly 1000 customers in 36 countries across a diverse range of industries