Multiple Cisco Partners Delivering Managed Services using Nimsoft's World-class Monitoring Solution

Nimsoft Enables Cisco Partners to drive increased margins through managed services including solutions for both Cisco and non-Cisco environments

Redwood City, CA. – March 11, 2009 – Nimsoft, Inc., the “Big 4” alternative for IT performance and availability monitoring solutions, today announced that a growing number of Cisco Partners are using Nimsoft products to provide high value managed services to their customers.

They are using Nimsoft’s monitoring solutions to remotely manage and monitor the network, the data-center, and critical applications and business services such as Cisco UCM and hundreds of others.

Many Cisco partners are looking to deliver managed services to help their customers adopt new technologies faster as well as reduce the ongoing costs of managing their IT infrastructure. 

A study by the Ovum Group released in May of 2008 projects a $66 billion market for Managed Services by 20121 and Cisco partners are ideally placed to take advantage of this area of growth. Nimsoft offers an ideal solution for companies delivering managed services by providing the following differentiated capabilities:

  • Broad technology coverage enabling Managed Service Providers (MSP) to offer a substantial catalog of services

  • Subscription based pricing enabling MSPs to align their revenue and costs

  • Ease and speed of implementation that enables MSPs to “turn-up” new customers quickly and with minimum cost

  • No scripting required in the products enabling MSP engineers to “focus on customers not code”

  • A multi-tenant Service Visualization Portal enabling MSPs to demonstrate the value of their services to their customers

  • An unprecedented and unmatched support service reflecting the critical nature of MSPs business

“In today’s current economic environment, we are always looking for ways to grow our business and differentiate our service offerings”, said Vince Conroy, CTO of FusionStorm."As a Cisco Gold Partner that is using Nimsoft’s monitoring solutions, we are able to offer our clients a service that is of very high value to them - support for the breadth and depth of Cisco’s product portfolio.

"With Nimsoft, we are able to monitor and manage the latest products and standards, which provides us with greater visibility for managing issues and resolving potential problems. As a result, we are able to raise our profile with our customers and give them the assurances they need when selecting a managed service.”

“For Managed Service Providers and Cisco Partners that are looking to scale their business profitability, Nimsoft is the perfect partner . We understand the critical nature of their business and back that up with industry leading support.” said Gary Read, CEO of Nimsoft.

“In many cases, Cisco partners and MSPs are replacing legacy solutions from HP or others that have proven too costly and too complex or, are upgrading from open source solutions because they want their engineers focused on customers not code. Nimsoft is the clear market leader for mid to large Managed Service Providers.”

“IntelliNet is always looking for solutions that help us to remain competitive without adding to the cost and complexity of our service model,” said Vince Loparo, Vice President of Sales for IntelliNet Corporation in Cleveland, Ohio.  “With Nimsoft, we have a very easy-to-use monitoring solution that enables IntelliNet to effectively support the latest and greatest Cisco products in addition to a complete raft of other platforms and systems that are required by our rapidly growing customer base.  With Nimsoft, we can roll out new services very rapidly, which immediately demonstrate the business value of our service.”

In addition to FusionStorm and IntelliNet, dozens of Cisco Partners in many countries have turned to Nimsoft to provide their remote monitoring platform for managed services including CDW Berbee, Easynet, Eurodata, Logicalis, Longview Systems, NWN Corporation, Rackspace Managed Hosting, The Revere Group with many more actively evaluating.

1 Yahoo Finance - Ovum Projects $66 Billion Market for Four IP-Based Managed Services by 2012 http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/080519/0398358.html

About Nimsoft
Nimsoft is the fastest growing provider of next generation performance and availability monitoring solutions for the complete physical and virtualized IT infrastructure. The Nimsoft solutions redefine the standards for ease of use and speed of deployment - providing outstanding return on investment and unparalleled customer satisfaction. Over 780 customers in 36 countries rely on Nimsoft solutions to monitor their IT based business applications and services. These customers include mid-market and global organizations, such as Barclays Capital and Amway Corporation, Bay Area Rapid Transit, Ladbrokes, MTU Aero Engines, TriNet, TRW Automotive, and hundreds of leading managed service providers such as CDW Berbee, Easynet and Rackspace Managed Hosting. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com.

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Jenny Coupe
Nimsoft, Inc
Phone: +1 650 517 1975

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Ajay Nawathe
Nimsoft Ltd.
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Nimsoft AS
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