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Nimsoft Press CoverageManaged Services Perspectives - Gary Read, Nimsoft
MSPAlliance Managed Services Perspectives podcasts provide valuable insight and analysis on relevant issues facing the global managed services industry. In addition, the Managed Services Insight series will interview MSPAlliance Members from around the globe. This series will provide listeners with important views and commentary by leading managed services experts.
Nimsoft Acquires, Builds Channels
Privately-owned Nimsoft has blown some of the $10m (£6.3m) it raised last year from venture capital on US software house Indicative Software for an undisclosed mixture of stock and cash. This fills a gap in its enterprise service level management solutions, and adds 22 to its 140 headcount...
IT Software Firm Nimsoft Grabs Indicative
IT management software maker Nimsoft has acquired Indicative Software, whose product lets companies track end-user response time, the companies announced Tuesday. Terms of the cash and stock deal were not disclosed...
Nimsoft Adds BSM With Indicative Acquisition
Service level management company Nimsoft is getting down to business with plans, announced today, to acquire Indicative Software, a business service management provider. The acquisition adds Indicative’s end-user response time monitoring of J2EE and .NET applications along with business service management to Nimsoft...
VCs Sit Tight As Nimsoft Nabs Indicative Software
Nimsoft Inc., a developer of software that manages information technology resources and application performance, has entered into an agreement to acquire Indicative Software Corp., which sells service management software...
Nimsoft Snags Indicative to Take On Big Management Rivals
Nimbus' acquisition of Indicative Software provides availability and performance management combined with business service management. Nimsoft on April 8 will bring new business service management functions into its fold when it announces its plans to acquire Indicative Software...
Nimsoft: Small Acquisition, Big IT Management Aspirations
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...
Nimsoft acquires Indicative
Nimsoft, a vendor with products aimed at IT performance and availability, announced Tuesday it has bought Indicative Software, a company with similar offerings, for an undisclosed sum. The combined organization will go up against Hewlett-Packard, IBM, BMC Software and CA, which are jockeying for leadership in the space...
Nimsoft Acquires Indicative
Nimsoft, a vendor with products aimed at IT performance and availability, announced Tuesday it has bought Indicative Software, a company with similar offerings, for an undisclosed sum. The combined organization will go up against Hewlett-Packard, IBM, BMC Software and CA, which are jockeying for leadership in the space...
Nimsoft Buys Indicative Software
Nimsoft, a Redwood City, Calif.-based provider of IT service-level management solutions, has acquired Fort Collins, Colo.-based competitor Indicative Software for an undisclosed amount. Nimsoft last year raised $10.3 million from JMI Equity and Northzone Ventures...
Nimsoft acquires Indicative Software
Nimsoft Inc. said Tuesday it acquired Indicative Software Inc. to add business service management and end user response time monitoring capabilities to its offerings.
Financial, staffing, and other details of Nimsoft's deal with the Ft. Collins, Colo-based company were not disclosed...
Nimsoft buys BSM firm to expand portfolio
Nimsoft is to acquire Indicative Software in an undisclosed stock and cash deal, the firm announced today. The acquisition will add business service management (BSM) and end-user response time monitoring capabilities to Nimsoft's portfolio of monitoring solutions and service level management...
Nimsoft kauft mit Indicative Software neue Überwachungsfunktionen
Der Spezialist für Business Service Management Nimsoft hat Indicative Software übernommen und bekommt somit mehr Funktionen für die Überwachung benutzerseitiger Antwortzeiten. Schon jetzt unterstützt die Nimsoft-Lösung die Überwachung von Netzwerk, Servern, Datenbanken und Anwendungen sowie Service Level Management (SLM)...
Nimsoft compra Indicative Software
El suministrador de soluciones de rendimiento y disponibilidad TI ha anunciado la compra de Indicative Software, una empresa con una oferta similar. Gary Read, CEO de Nimsoft, ha reconocido el solapamiento entre las tecnologías de ambas, pero subrayando que también existen diferencias clave que enriquecerán la oferta conjunta...
Nimsoft buys out Indicative as monitoring market grows
Consolidation entered the performance and availability systems market today with the acquisition of Indicative Software by Nimsoft. The deal is not because of downward market pressures, but CIOs looking to invest in monitoring systems...
Nimsoft CEO: No Sign Of A Slowdown Yet
Managed service providers can breathe a collective sigh of relief. The first quarter ended yesterday, and MSP 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...
Nimsoft NimBUS for VMware makes VMs nimbler
IT performance and availability vendor Nimsoft can now trigger VMware's own Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) to move virtual machines around when their performance fails to meet service level agreements...
With application performance software, the Revere Group verifies service levels
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...
More management vendors take on virtualization
Management software makers never get a moment's rest. As soon as a new technology takes off, they must get to work ramping up their management suites to tackle availability, fault and performance for the leading-edge trend...
Virtualisation growing pains
While some industry pundits are keen to talk about immaturity in the European virtualisation market, VMware CEO Diane Greene herself – in a Q&A session with the press – said that Europe is an established IT market with its own proven model for delivery that works well...
Rolling Review Wrap-Up: APM Suites
There's a lot of marketing hype and money swirling around next-generation application performance management tools. While many IT organizations strive for deep visibility into critical application metrics, they're fearful of products that depend on manual, labor-intensive approaches to deploy, manage and monitor applications—and for good reason...
Creating a Channel Program from Scratch (Podcast)
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...
Virtual Servers; Graphical Management
Putting a dynamic face on server virtualisation is key to operational success, says Gary Read president and CEO of Nimsoft...
Is less really more?
Concerns about floor space, spiralling costs and environmental impact have become a new focus of attention in the data centre and a new cadre of technologies has emerged in an effort to combat them...
Nimsoft to Offer SAAS and More New Programs for Partners
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...
Nimsoft Financials Reinforce Managed Services Optimism
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...
Norske Nimsoft vokser fortsatt kraftig
Nimsoft er et norsk programvareselskap som holder til på Skullerud, på østsiden av Oslo. Selskapet leverer programvare for overvåkning av IT-infrastruktur, forretningskritiske applikasjoner og servicenivåavtaler (SLA)...
Nimsoft økter kraftig
Det norske programvareselskapet Nimsoft AS vokser fort og avsluttet fjoråret med en salgsvekst på 77 prosent. Salget av programvare i 2007 nådde 29,4 millioner dollar (158 millioner kroner), mens den konsoliderte omsetningen i 2006 lå på13,2 millioner dollar...
Are you being served?
Advances in server technology are bringing virtualisation to the top of the IT agenda but how should this fit into a CIO’s strategy? The IT crowd is like a group of hangers-on always looking for the next big thing. That piece of technology they can hitch their wagons to which will propel them into further financial nirvana while providing their clients with a new and better service...
Nimsoft keeps momentum going, releases new management portal
Nimsoft wrote another chapter in its success story in 2007. The company continues to be strong in the midmarket while winning more enterprise deals and reaching still more companies through an expanding MSP channel...
Nimsoft Intros Next-Gen Monitoring Dashboard
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 MSP side of its customer base...
IT monitoring tool enables performance and availability clarity
Nimsoft, Inc., the "Big 4" alternative for IT performance and availability monitoring solutions, has unveiled the NimBUS Enterprise Console '2.0', a powerful online portal. It incorporates the next generation of intuitive dashboards built using Rich Internet Application technology that delivers dynamic views to help users track the health of their technology environment...
Nimsoft Flexes Its Dashboard
Performance management software vendor Nimsoft has gone a step further in the industry to increase the usability of monitoring the health of complex IT environments...
Nimsoft Beefs Up Enterprise Console
Systems management vendor Nimsoft has unveiled a new release of its Enterprise Console, incorporating Rich Internet App technology for more dynamic dashboard design...
Für die Feinabstimmung
Effektive IT-Infrastrukturen steigern den Geschäftserfolg
Der Unternehmensalltag zeigt, welche fatalen Folgen der Ausfall eines Servers oder einer wichtigen Callcenter-Anwendung haben kann – und sei es nur für ein paar Stunden. IT-Manager sehen sich damit konfrontiert, dass die Anforderungen ständig steigen und unternehmenskritische Applikationen rund um die Uhr verfügbar sein müssen...
Lösungen für das Service-Level-Management steigern die IT-Leistung in der Pharmaindustrie
Nicht nur die Produktion steht unter dem geschärften Blick der Controller, auch die IT muss sich dem Kostendruck beugen und effizient arbeiten. Mit Lösungen für das Service-Level-Management (SLM) erhalten Pharmaunternehmen einen ganzheitlichen Blick auf ihre IT-Infrastruktur und können die Qualität der IT-Serviceleistungen überprüfen und verbessern...
IT-Management in heterogenen Server-Umgebungen
Viele Firmen haben heterogene Server-Landschaften im Einsatz, die aus iSeries- und Windows-basierten Servern bestehen. Das führt jedoch oft zu einer inkonsistenten, inselartigen Infrastruktur und zu Schwierigkeiten beim IT-Management...
Nimsoft vokste 130 prosent
Det norske programvareselskapet Nimsoft leverer programvare for overvåking av IT-infrastruktur, forretningskritiske applikasjoner og servicenivåavtaler (SLA)...
Rolling Review: Nimsoft NimBUS
For the fifth installment of our ongoing application performance management software review, we brought Nimsoft's NimBUS into our labs. Nimsoft compares favorably with larger enterprise software vendors by offering scalable APM at prices well below its nearest competitors...
When IT service levels save lives
James Findlay explains how service level management helps keep our coastal waters safe...
Nimsoft Hires HP Exec for VP EMEA
Systems and infrastructure management vendor Nimsoft has hired a leading exec from Hewlett-Packard/Mercury to become its VP for EMEA....
Good service could net European MSPs a slice of a €6.2 billion market
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...
Service level monitoring increases UK coastal readiness
The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) is in the midst of a major programme to update its specialist monitoring and alert systems. It is rolling out service level monitoring and management tools to guarantee the uptime and performance of IT infrastructure key to its monitoring of over 1,000 Class A vessels at any one time and managing approximately 16,000 search and rescue (SAR) incidents a year...
Betfred measures server service levels
Betfred, an independent bookmaker, is ahead of schedule in its roll out of server monitoring and management technology to improve service level management of its mission-critical systems...
Maritime and Coastguard Agency employs remote management
The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) is improving support efforts on its disparate server systems and infrastructure by employing remote management software from Nimsoft...
Nimsoft extends flagship software to support VMware
Nimsoft has announced NimBUS SLM for VMware, extending its flagship service level management software to support virtual environments running on VMware's server virtualization software...
Performance-Messung für VMware
Der Anbieter von Service-Level-Management-Lösungen Nimsoft bietet nun Monitoring und Reporting für VMware-Umgebungen. Mit der Lösung 'NimBUS' lassen sich Service-Level sowohl bei Firmenkunden wie auch bei Managed Service Providern (MSP) von mehreren VMware Virtual Centers und dem ESX Server in Echtzeit überwachen...
Service Level Management for Servers, Apps, DBs, More
NimBUS, the vendor's core product offering, is a service level monitoring and reporting platform that is made available for multiple environments; including the monitoring of servers, databases, specific applications (such as Microsoft Exchange), and more. NimBUS is available now; the new NimBUS for VMware is priced at $750 per VMware Virtual Machine...
VMware Service-Level Monitoring Tool Targets MSPs
Service-level monitoring software provider Nimsoft, a vendor that has gained favor among several large MSPs, this week added support to its software for VMware virtualization environments...
Nimsoft Enhances VMWare Support
Nimsoft has taken advantage of new application programming interfaces from VMWare, enhancing its monitoring support for the virtualization vendor's software...
Nimsoft Offers Service-Level Monitoring Of VMware Stack
Nimsoft on Monday introduced for VMware virtualization environments monitoring software that analyzes server and application performance and compares results with service levels established by an IT department...
Nimsoft Beefs Up VM and Exchange Support
Systems management upstart Nimsoft will today announce two
Podcast: Managed Services Futures
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.
Nimsoft: Storming the Service Level Management Gates
Nimsoft has been busy in 2007. The company announced revenues surpassing $15 million in 2006, delivered a new product release, expanded coverage for Microsoft environments, penned a strategic partnership with Oracle, started a best practices program for its managed service provider customers, and snagged $10 million in venture capital to further its expansion. Let us take a look at what is fueling all this activity...
Oracle seeks higher-level view with top-down approach to Enterprise Manager
Oracle is raising the profile of its systems management product as it prepares to compete head-on with BMC, CA, IBM, and Hewlett-Packard in the market ... Oracle also announced a partnership with Nimsoft, provider of the NIMbus plug-in adapter for SAP R/3...
Channel poised to land a share of MSP market
Channel players are set to take a slice of the €6.3bn managed services provider market (MSP), according to software vendor Nimsoft. Gary Read, chief executive at the firm, which is holding MSP best practice seminars in the UK and US in May to educate MSPs, said that many resellers are already moving into this market sector...
Mastering the Mysteries of Managed Services
With major Managed Services hosted separately by CompTIA and the Managed Services Provider Alliance on tap for May, you can expect to hear a lot of the grousing from solution providers about the lack of profitability they are seeing when they first move their business towards a managed services model...
Bookmaker bets on real-time monitoring
Bookmaker Betfred is implementing server monitoring and management software to support rapid expansion plans and enable the introduction of real-time betting. The company is opening new shops at a rate of 15 a month, and needs to ensure its IT infrastructure is available and operating at maximum performance...
SAP-Kunden nutzen Oracle-Middleware
Mit Jürgen Kunz, Geschäftsführer von Oracle Deutschland, sprachen die CW-Redakteure Frank Niemann und Christoph Witte über Middleware-Strategien in einem von SAP dominierten Applikationsmarkt...
Oracle inks Nimsoft alliance to target SAP apps
Oracle accelerated its strategy to better support, and ultimately poach, SAP customers yesterday by inking a new technology alliance designed to provide joint Oracle and SAP customers with new tools for monitoring their SAP applications....
Nimsoft to Deliver Critical Monitoring of SAP R/3 to Oracle Enterprise Manager Customers
Nimsoft is working with Oracle to provide Oracle customers with a software solution for delivering SAP R/3 monitoring and performance data. Under a newly signed cooperative development agreement, Nimsoft and Oracle plan to integrate NimBUS with Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g to provide Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g customers the ability to monitor and manage SAP R/3...
Oracle Enterprise Manager to add support for SAP
Oracle Tuesday announced plans to extend the capability of its system management software to offer monitoring and management for SAP AG applications through a partnership with Nimsoft...
Oracle Making Noise Over Management Software
Oracle President Charles Phillips introduced Enterprise Manager 10g Release 3 in a move designed to increase sales of the management software pack. A multibilliondollar market, management software is a crucial part of any IT stack at a time when Web services and grid computing are throwing more applications into the serviceoriented architecture (SOA) hurlyburly...
Oracle Enterprise Manager to add support for SAP
Oracle Tuesday announced plans to extend the capability of its system management software to offer monitoring and management for SAP AG applications through a partnership with Nimsoft...
Building Service Level Management Into Business Continuity Planning
Mention the term business continuity and most people will talk about the need to plan for the unexpected and ensure that you can recover your data and systems should the worst happen. They would be right but for one thing…
Nimsoft adds agentless monitoring, multi-tenant architecture to SLM arsenal
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 MSP channel...
Nimsoft Streamlines Monitoring Tool Deployment
Nimsoft, as part of its effort to be the vendor to bring service-level management to medium-sized enterprises, set its sights on both midsize enterprises and managed services providers on Feb. 12 with the release of the latest version of its IT infrastructure monitoring tool, Nimbus...
Nimsoft bietet "berührungslose" Management-Tools
Das Systems-Management-Start-up Nimsoft, das erheblich einfachere Werkzeuge verspricht als der etablierte Wettbewerb, hat sein Winter-2007-Release mit neuen Auto-Discovery-Fähigkeiten ausgestattet...
Nimsoft automates service level management
Nimsoft made available this week upgraded software that the servicelevel management vendor says provides network managers with a "zero administration" tool...
Gute Position im expandierenden Markt für Service Level Management gesichert
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Nimsoft scores first funding round, reports continued growth
Nimsoft, founded in 1998, has closed on its first funding round, raising $10.3m from JMI Equity and Northzone Ventures. The company, though profitable and generating cash, will use the money as an 'insurance policy' as it pursues aggressive growth...
Nimsoft erhält Kapitalspritze
Nimsoft, ein Spezialist für Service-Level-Management, hat zwei Kapitalgeber gefunden. Die beiden Investmentfirmen JMI Equity und Northzone Ventures stecken 10,3 Millionen Dollar in das Software-Unternehmen...
Nimsoft erhält Kapitalspritze
Nimsoft, ein Spezialist für Service-Level-Management, hat zwei Kapitalgeber gefunden. Die beiden Investmentfirmen JMI Equity und Northzone Ventures stecken 10,3 Millionen Dollar in das Software-Unternehmen...
Software Maker Nimsoft Raises $10.3 Million
Nimsoft, a Norwegian infrastructure software maker, raised $10.3 million from JMI Equity of San Diego and Oslo-based Northzone Ventures. The company will use the venture funding to increase sales and marketing of products in the fast-growing service-level management market...
Nimsoft backed with $10.3M round
Norwegian infrastructure software maker Nimsoft Inc. raised $10.3 million from JMI Equity of San Diego and Oslobased Northzone Ventures in the 8yearold company's first outside equity investment, to boost sales and marketing of products in the fastgrowing servicelevel management market...
Service-level management player gets VC funding
The trend of investing in management software makers continues in 2007 as Nimsoft, a maker of service-level management software, grabs $10.3 million in venture capital funding...
Small IT Infrastructure firm takes on the big guys
Gary Read wants Nimsoft to the Salesforce.com of IT infrastructure management. He'd like his 2 year old company to wallop big established competitors by changing the rules of the game, he said...
Norwegian firm combines with US distributor to form SLM startup Nimsoft
As the software-as-a-service model continues to gain acceptance, software that monitors service-level agreements (SLAs) for these application services and the underlying infrastructure that powers them is likely to become a hot commodity. One company that's proving the market for this is Nimsoft...
Nimsoft's Real-World Approach to Managing End-to-End Application Services
IT is increasingly expected to manage, align, and optimize a complex infrastructure with critical business services. But while the current management marketplace is rich in choices and innovation – there is very little available that combines ease of use, deployment, and administration, with the breadth of functionality and analytics needed to answer these demands...
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"Our primary IT goal and challenge is to provide high service quality at all times, including times when resource demands are adversely impacted."
"NimBUS provides us with quick and actionable data, from a single management dashboard, which allows us to make strategic decisions within minutes and not hours. Best of all, NimBUS automatically delivers service performance reports so that our IT analysts can focus on business-expanding tasks. This provides us with a higher return on our investment." Bill Beal, Vice President Information Systems, Liberty Savings Bank
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