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.

Creating a Culture of Continual Service Improvement

MSPmentor     

By Nimsoft's Phil LaForge
28 September, 2009
MSP Mentor

Like it or not, the reality for MSPs is that they’re only an SLA breach or significant outage away from losing a customer. This immense contractual pressure is a significant motivator that drives MSPs to develop sophisticated approaches to continuous service improvement...

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Nimsoft Helps Ingram Micro Resellers Tap Midmarket Opportunities

Phone Plus Magazine     

9 September, 2009
Phone Plus Magazine

Ingram Micro announced it has enhanced its Seismic managed services portfolio with options for the midmarket. Now, with the monitoring solutions from IT management firm Nimsoft Inc., the distributor is set to help resellers make moves for midmarket customers...

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Ingram Extends Managed Services Offerings to Mid-sized Businesses

IT Channel Planet     

8 September, 2009
IT Channel Planet

Distributor Ingram Micro has advanced its Seismic-branded portfolio of managed services to include mid-market solutions by enlisting an IT management and monitoring offering from Nimsoft Inc. Company officials said the agreement encompasses the entire suite of Nimsoft monitoring solutions, which will be housed under the Ingram services division’s Seismic banner and called Seismic Enterprise Monitoring powered by Nimsoft...

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Ingram's Seismic forges alliance with monitoring company

IT Business     

1 September, 2009
IT Business

Ingram Micro (NYSE: IM) added to its three-year managed services venture Seismic by announcing an alliance with NimSoft Inc. of Redwood City, Calif., a provider of monitoring solutions. According to the Santa Ana, Calif.-based distributor the NimSoft alliance addresses channel partners' need for a scalable, mid to large IT management and monitoring solution...

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Ingram Micro bolsters upmarket Seismic offerings with Nimsoft addition

eChannelLine     

31 August, 2009
eChannelLine

Distributor Ingram Micro has announced what it terms a 'powerful' alliance with Nimsoft, a provider of managed IT management and monitoring solutions aimed at the mid to large market. Ingram Micro North America will bring to market the entire portfolio of Nimsoft Monitoring Solutions under Ingram Micro Services Division's Seismic brand...

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Nimsoft Selected by Ingram Micro Seismic for Use in Larger, More Complex IT Infrastructures

CNN Money     

31 August, 2009
CNN Money

Nimsoft, the "Big 4" alternative for IT performance and availability monitoring solutions, today announced that Ingram Micro Inc. (NYSE: IM) will be featuring the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS) in its Seismic managed services offering, equipping medium and large VARs and MSPs with the robust monitoring capabilities they need to grow their businesses...

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Ingram Micro Strikes Alliance with Nimsoft

Business Solutions Magazine      

31 August, 2009
Business Solutions Magazine

Addressing channel partners’ need for a scalable, mid to large IT management and monitoring solution, Ingram Micro (NYSE: IM) has announced an alliance with Nimsoft, an emerging channel favorite and leading provider of next-generation performance and availability monitoring solutions. Under the new alliance, Ingram Micro North America will bring to market the entire portfolio of Nimsoft Monitoring Solution under Ingram Micro Services Division’s Seismic brand. The new performance and availability monitoring solution set will be called the Seismic Enterprise Monitoring powered by Nimsoft...

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Ingram Micro Seismic, Nimsoft to Partner On Managed Services

MSPmentor     

Joe Panettieri
28 August, 2009
MSP Mentor

The Ingram Micro Seismic team on Aug. 31 is expected to announce plans to offer Nimsoft’s software to VARs and managed service providers targeting mid-market and large enterprises. But this isn’t just a “reseller” deal. Here are some early details plus some observations about the evolving Master MSP  and remote monitoring markets...

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Ingram Adds Enterprise Managed Services With Nimsoft

ChannelWeb     

By Scott Campbell,
28 August, 2009
ChannelWeb

Ingram Micro (NYSE:IM) has signed a deal to sell Nimsoft's managing and monitoring solutions through the distributor's Seismic managed services portfolio. Nimsoft, based in Redwood City, Calif., is focused on midmarket and enterprise products and fills a hole in Seismic's portfolio in that regard, said Justin Crotty, vice president of services, North America, at Ingram Micro...

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Nimsoft Selected by Ingram Micro Seismic for Use in Larger, More Complex IT Infrastructures

Virtualization Journal     

31 August, 2009
Virtualization Journal

Nimsoft, the "Big 4" alternative for IT performance and availability monitoring solutions, today announced that Ingram Micro Inc. (NYSE: IM) will be featuring the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS) in its Seismic managed services offering, equipping medium and large VARs and MSPs with the robust monitoring capabilities they need to grow their businesses...

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Managed Services Revenue: The Good (And the Bad)

MSPmentor     

Joe Panettieri
29 July, 2009
MSP Mentor

Take a look at recent financial data points from CA Inc., Nimsoft and Siemens Enterprise Communications Group (SEN Group). You’ll notice an emerging trend: It’s hip to disclose recurring revenue and managed services revenue information. The reason: Wall Street and financial watchers consider the recurring revenue model a sign of business stability. Plus, there’s a need to rise above the MSP industry noise, where the mainstream press and some of the high-tech press continue to foolishly hype managed services as recession proof. Here’s some perspective…

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ISC Optimizes Managed Services and Operations with Nimsoft

ISC IT Solutions     

10 July 2009
Nimsoft & ISC IT Solutions

ISC is a highly accredited IT solution provider that offers a range of managed IT support services on a 24 x 7 basis.  These include user support, hosting in a custom-built data center, and monitoring and management from a dedicated network operations center (NOC).

The company’s management team realized that, in their effort to evolve and grow, they needed a monitoring solution that would offer greater efficiency and flexibility, so they could continue to expand and improve the services they provided.  To accomplish these objectives, the company’s IT leadership ultimately chose Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS).

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Open Source Monitoring: 4 Key Questions You Need to Ask

MSPmentor     

Joe Panettieri
30 July, 2009
MSP Mentor

Perhaps more than any other single technology, monitoring is a key contributor in the way the MSP services its clients. Monitoring capabilities play a vital role in how proactively an MSP’s staff can manage the infrastructure, how effectively they can be kept apprised of issues, and how quickly they can respond in terms of identifying and rectifying issues. Further, monitoring can be an enabler or a hindrance for MSPs looking to add new services and serve new clients—and in whether these new services can be delivered profitably. Consequently, monitoring can play a key role in an MSP’s competitive position...

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Nimsoft Makes Acquisition

MSPmentor     

Joe Panettieri
18 May, 2009
MSP Mentor

A few weeks ago, Nimsoft CEO Gary Read told me that a new acquisition opportunity crossed his desk every day. Now, Read is pulling the trigger on a managed services-oriented deal that will give Nimsoft's monitoring software new network discovery, topology and root cause analysis capabilities...

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Kudos to the MSPAlliance Education Committee

MSPAlliance     

By Ken Vanderweel (of Nimsoft)
15 May 2008
MSPAlliance

A bit late saying, but I wanted to share my positive impression of the MSPAlliance MSPWorld Conference held in Orlando two weeks ago.  The conference was well attended as usual and there was great knowledge exchange amongst the attendees...

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Business Service Management (BSM): Ready for Resellers?

The VAR Guy     

By Joe Panettieri
11 May, 2009
The VAR Guy

For the second time in two weeks, business service management (BSM) is converging with resellers and managed service providers (MSPs). The latest example involves Zyrion Inc., a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based start-up that has landed on several “up-and-comer” media watch lists in recent months. Still, not all BSM software providers are making major channel moves. Here’s the scoop...

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The MSP and the Whale: Landing Big Accounts That Feed Growth

MSPmentor     

By Ken Vanderweel (of Nimsoft)
30 April, 2009
MSP Mentor

At some point in their evolution, most mid-size MSPs will come to a critical juncture - one that will determine whether the future will be characterized by minimal growth and stagnancy, or by dramatic expansion. This juncture comes when the MSP looks to land a major, large account; one that can establish an entirely new level of validation and revenue...

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Five Factors to Consider before Leaping into Infrastructure Clouds

Computer Technology Review     

By Mark Rivington (of Nimsoft)
30 April 2009
Computer Technology Review

While a lot is being written about cloud computing, it seems much of the coverage amounts to forecasting, star gazing, and outright dreaming. I’d argue that what’s needed now is a healthy dose of pragmatism...

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Cloud Resource Auto-Scaling at Work

ENKI     

April 2009
ENKI Consulting

Since announcing automatic allocation and scaling of cloud resources in January, ENKI has been selling and providing customers with the ability to have their applications monitored by our monitoring system, and automatically have additional resources added and removed from their virtual private data centers to conform to varying loads and to save them money...

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Nimsoft Managed Services: Expanding Down Under (to Australia)

MSPmentor     

by Joe Panettieri
28 April 2009
MSPmentor

MSPmentor has been tracking Australia’s managed services market for about a year now. Overall, I suspect the Australia MSP opportunity is about one-tenth the size of the North American opportunity. But that’s still a big chunk of revenue up for grabs — which explains why Nimsoft is evangalizing a big managed services win in Australia...

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Cloud Computing and the Fist of Innovation

CIO     

By Michael Hugos
22 April 2009
CIO.com

“The credit crunch and liquidity crisis will make the invisible hand of economics the visible fist of innovation.” This comment from a thoughtful colleague brought several loosely related ideas into much clearer alignment. It comes from Michael Bogovich, an international program manager at Abbott Laboratories...

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ServiceKey: Unlocking MSP Opportunities?

MSPmentor     

by John Moore
17 April 2009
MSP Mentor

ServiceKey, a master MSP, is attracting a growing partner base with a portfolio of services that aim to address some basic end-customer needs. The Norcross, Ga. company strictly follows a channel model, providing services that VARs, integrations, MSPs and other channel partners offer under their own brand...

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Opening the Door to New MSP Opportunities: New Total Infrastructure Management service…From ServiceKey

Service Key     

31 March 2009
Service Key

Managed Service Providers (MSPs) can now offer ServiceKey new Total Infrastructure Management services to clients. ServiceKey selected Nimsoft, the fastest growing systems management company, to power their new managed service offering.  MSPs can now offer new revenue-enhancing advanced monitoring services to their clients—delivered as a service hosted by ServiceKey...

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IT shops pick point management tools to cut staff, speed installs

SearchDataCenter.com     

By Matt Stansberry
19 Mar 2009
SearchDataCenter.com

IT managers said they're turning to tools from companies such as SolarWinds and Nimsoft for what they don't offer: long implementation times, giant consulting engagements and features that admins won't use...

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10 Real Cost-Cutting Technologies For 2009

CRN ChannelWeb  

26 January, 2009
CRN ChannelWeb

It's no secret that customers are reluctant to part with their hard-earned cash during the economic downturn, but that doesn't mean IT sales will come to a standstill. Savvy solution providers will show that by spending a little now on the right technologies, customers will actually save down the road and gain a competitive edge over their rivals to boot...

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Nimsoft comes to Australia

ARN    

By Julia Talevski
23 January, 2009
ARN

US-based systems management provider, Nimsoft, aims to penetrate the Asia-Pacific region through establishing a presence in Sydney. The Australian office consists of two staff and will be headed up Nimsoft veteran and country manager, Sam Quinlan...

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Did Manage Services Or Executive Leadership Lift Eurodata’s Profits 21.5%?

MSPmentor  

By Joe Panettieri
9th January, 2009
MSP Mentor

More proof that the best managed service providers are holding up pretty well during the recession: Eurodata Systems PLC, a solutions provider in London, says managed services helped the company lift profits 21.5 percent (I assume that’s 2008 vs. 2007). The 120-person company says demand for its managed services grew 17% last year, and Eurodata expects the trend to accelerate in 2009...

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Rising demand for Managed Services leads to 21.5% growth in profits at Eurodata

Search by Headlines  

8th January, 2009
Search By Headlines

A surge in demand for Managed IT Services, created by organisations aiming to control technology costs without effecting service levels and reliability, has helped boost profits by 21.5% at award-winning IT solutions provider, Eurodata Systems. The company has seen demand for managed services and support grow by 17% during the current financial year and expect the trend to accelerate during 2009...

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Managed Service Providers Move Upstream

CRN ChannelWeb  

By Scott Campbell,
15 December, 2008
CRN ChannelWeb

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

TMCnet.com  

By Rhonda Ascierto
13 November 2008
TMCnet.com

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

MSPmentor  

By Joe Panettieri
8 October 2008
Managed Service Provider Mentor

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

eWeek Channel Insider  

By Pedro Pereira
8 Oct 2008
Channel Insider

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

MSPmentor  

By Joe Panettieri
25 August 2008
Managed Service Provider Mentor

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

SearchDataCenter.com  

By Mark Fontecchio
15 August 2008
SearchDataCenter.com

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

ChannelWeb  

By Scott Campbell
July 11, 2008
ChannelWeb

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

MSPmentor  

By Joe Panettieri
April 8, 2008
Managed Service Providermentor.com

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

MSPmentor  

By Joe Panettieri
April 1, 2008
Managed Service Providermentor.com

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

SearchServerVirtualization.com  

By Megan Santosus
March 4, 2008
SearchServerVirtualization.com

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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Nimsoft to Offer SAAS and More New Programs for Partners

eWeek Channel Insider  

By Jessica Davis
31 Jan 2008
Channel Insider

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

MSPmentor  

By Joe Panettieri
28 Jan 2008
Managed Service Providermentor.com

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

eWeek Channel Insider  

By Jessica Davis
January 3, 2008
eWeek Channel Insider

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

European Reseller  

By Gary Read
October 2007
European Reseller

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

CRN  

By Shelley Solheim
June 2007
CRN

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

eWeek channel Insider  

Hosted by Mike Vizard
May 2007
eWeek Channel Insider

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

CRN UK - Channelweb.co.uk  

By Sara Driscoll
30 Apr 2007
CRN UK - Channelweb.co.uk

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

The 451 Group  

By Dennis Callaghan
16 Feb 2007
The451 Group - Market Insight Service

Coming off a very successful 2006, Nimsoft isn't wasting much time adding new features to its software. No Touch Nimsoft creates another entry point for a company that has worked hard to make its software accessible to customers of all sizes, while Multi-Tenant Nimsoft gives the company some new beneficial features for its increasingly important Managed Service Provider channel...

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