Articles for Managed Service Providers
Nimsoft has been garnering a lot of coverage in the press—and a lot of this coverage pertains to our Managed Service Provider markets. Follow the links below to find out what the press has been saying about Nimsoft, its products, and its Managed Service Provider customers.
Managed Service Providers Move Upstream
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By Scott Campbell, |
More Managed Service Providers are taking their services offerings upstream and more experienced service providers are finding more success than newcomers, according to a study by Managed Service Provider platform vendor Nimsoft Inc. About 40 percent of the survey's respondents said their managed services sales to medium and large enterprises have resulted in revenue increases of more than 25 percent over the last 18 months...
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Service providers target the untapped SME green IT market
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By Rhonda Ascierto |
The first green IT certification program for managed service providers has been launched by industry standards group MSPAlliance, offering greater incentive to exploit the largely untapped green IT market among small and mid-sized enterprises. Given the size of the commercial opportunity, service providers are unlikely to be the only companies to benefit from the growing importance of green IT...
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Goldman Sachs Invests In Nimsoft, Managed Services
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By Joe Panettieri |
It's the ultimate sign of confidence in the managed services market. Amid the continuing economic turmoil and credit crunch, Goldman Sachs and several other firms have invested $12 million in Nimsoft – one of the software sector's fastest-growing companies and a key player in the managed services industry...
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Nimsoft Investment Validates Managed Services Model
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By Pedro Pereira |
Despite the global financial crisis, the software company completed a $12 million round of funding led by Goldman Sachs. Insiders say the deal erases any doubts that managed services is a fad...
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ConnectWise, Nimsoft Among Fastest-growing Software Companies
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By Joe Panettieri |
ConnectWise and Nimsoft, two prominent companies in the managed services market, rank among the United States’ fastest-growing privately held software companies, according to Inc. Magazine’s annual Inc. 5000 list...
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Firm snubs IBM, HP, CA and BMC, picks Nimsoft for network monitoring
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By Mark Fontecchio |
When John Melillo purchased IT performance monitoring software for his firm, he decided it was better to be a big fish in a small pond and chose software from Nimsoft, a 10-year-old performance and availability management vendor in Redwood City, Calif., that has about 700 customers...
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Managed Service Provider's Unix Opportunity Compels Platform Switch
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By Scott Campbell |
The decision - not to mention the process - of changing a managed services platform can cause a Managed Service Provider to have a few sleepless nights. You have to worry about choosing the right vendor, retraining your sales and engineering staff, and migrating your customers over in a seamless fashion...
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Nimsoft: Small Acquisition, Big IT Management Aspirations
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By Joe Panettieri |
How do you attract managed service providers and disrupt a traditional software market dominated by CA, BMC, Hewlett-Packard and IBM-Tivoli? For Nimsoft, the answer to that riddle involves organic growth coupled with acquisitions...
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Nimsoft CEO: No Sign Of A Slowdown Yet
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By Joe Panettieri |
Managed service providers can breathe a collective sigh of relief. The first quarter ended yesterday, and Managed Service Provider platform providers generally sound upbeat about the industry’s health. One prime example: In his personal blog, Nimsoft CEO Gary Read says his company has had another strong quarter...
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With application performance software, the Revere Group verifies service levels
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By Megan Santosus |
While data center managers are seemingly enamored with the cost benefits and adaptive advantages of virtualization, not everyone is so comfortable with the technology. Many customers who rely on the Chicago-based company to host their Web applications aren't sold on the merits of virtualization...
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Creating a Channel Program from Scratch (Podcast)
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By Michael Vizard |
Managed service providers who are having their services packaged and resold to customers are having to create their own channel programs. Tim Lambrecht, CEO of InCompass IT, explains how his company did it, in this Changing Channels podcast...
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Nimsoft to Offer SAAS and More New Programs for Partners
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By Jessica Davis |
Managed services platform provider Nimsoft is in the process of developing a software-as-aservice offering for its service provider partners to offer to their customers. The plans were among a handful for the Redwood City, Calif., company in 2008 that CEO Gary Read recently shared in an interview with Channel Insider...
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Nimsoft Financials Reinforce Managed Services Optimism
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By Joe Panettieri |
I still maintain that no tech sector is immune to an economic slowdown. But even the biggest bears have to admit the bull run continues for the managed services sector. The latest example: Nimsoft's 2007 revenue hit $29.4 million, up 77 percent from 2006...
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Nimsoft Intros Next-Gen Monitoring Dashboard
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By Jessica Davis |
The IT monitoring technology vendor and managed services company is getting set to release its next generation. On the heels of its recent announcement of a new online portal to drive IT service management, Nimsoft is expected to soon announce a similar offering for the Managed Service Provider side of its customer base...
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Good service could net European Managed Service Providers a slice of a €6.2 billion market
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By Gary Read |
Is it possible to place a figure on good service? How about €6.2 billion? This is the value that the European managed services market is expected to be worth by 2011. The forecast by the Broad Group is based on the first assessment of service offerings in the sector and the strategies of new market entrants...
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VMware Service-Level Monitoring Tool Targets Managed Service Providers
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By Shelley Solheim |
Service-level monitoring software provider Nimsoft, a vendor that has gained favor among several large Managed Service Providers, this week added support to its software for VMware virtualization environments...
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Podcast: Managed Services Futures
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Hosted by Mike Vizard |
In this Changing Channels, Mike Vizard talks to Nimsoft CEO Gary Read and FusionStorm CTO Vince Conroy about the future of managed services and the relationship between partners in the channel.
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Channel poised to land a share of Managed Service Provider market
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By Sara Driscoll |
Channel players are set to take a slice of the €6.3bn managed services provider market (Managed Service Provider), according to software vendor Nimsoft. Gary Read, chief executive at the firm, which is holding Managed Service Provider best practice seminars in the UK and US in May to educate Managed Service Providers, said that many resellers are already moving into this market sector...
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Nimsoft adds agentless monitoring, multi-tenant architecture to SLM arsenal
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By Dennis Callaghan |
Coming off a very successful 2006, Nimsoft isn't wasting much time adding new features to its software. No Touch Nimbus creates another entry point for a company that has worked hard to make its software accessible to customers of all sizes, while Multi-Tenant Nimbus gives the company some new beneficial features for its increasingly important Managed Service Provider channel...
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