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Nimsoft in the News
Managing IT assets where they live
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By Denise Dubie, 20 October 2009 Network World |
Enterprise IT managers are exploring new options when rolling out applications that often place IT assets outside of the corporate data center. Yet implementing software-as-a-service applications or deploying applications in the cloud shouldn’t prevent IT managers from monitoring performance and accessing historical trend data, according to Nimsoft...
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Nimsoft takes another step forward in cloud monitoring
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By Dana Blankenhorn, 20 October 2009 ZDNet |
Nimsoft, which specializes in monitoring tools for data centers, is entering the cloud market. CEO Gary Read said that, as of today, all the company’s performance monitors will become available for external environments, meaning they can deal with hosted providers, managed services, SaaS or clouds...
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Nimsoft Provides Visibility into the Cloud
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By Alex Williams, 20 October 2009 ReadWriteEnterprise |
Nimsoft is launching a benchmarking service today for enterprise customers that will help them define and measure the actual costs of cloud computing and monitor the performance of IT infrastructure...
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Application performance monitoring firm targets cloud computing
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By Mark Brunelli, 21 October 2009 Search Data Center |
With its new application performance monitoring software, Nimsoft has taken aim at the Big Four systems management technology providers. Nimsoft's offering lets users quickly close the monitoring divide between the internal data center and cloud computing environments...
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First to Deliver Unified Monitoring, Nimsoft Provides Complete Visibility into Business Applications Running Internally and Externally—From the Datacentre to Private, Hybrid and Public Clouds
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By Mark Brunelli, 21 October 2009 vmblog.com |
Nimsoft, the first provider of Unified Monitoring solutions, today announced that it has added a set of firsts to its Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS). These new capabilities enable Nimsoft customers to extend real-time monitoring and historical reporting beyond the virtualised datacentre to hosted, cloud- and SaaS-based resources and applications...
Nimsoft Launches Unified Dashboard for On-Premise, Cloud Monitoring
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Joe Panettieri 20 October, 2009 MSP Mentor |
Nimsoft has launched a Unified Monitoring dashboard (shown above) that allows managed service providers to track the health of on-premise systems and cloud applications — from Google Apps to Salesforce.com. In recent months, several vendors have told me they’re working on similar dashboards but I saw a demo of the Nimsoft offering last week and it seemed to work as advertised...
Go to article: Nimsoft Launches Unified Dashboard for On-Premise, Cloud Monitoring
Nimsoft Enables Evaluating and Tracking Hosted System Performance
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Brendan B Read 20 October, 2009 TMCnet |
To ensure optimal performance you need to track the efficiency of your systems. Yet how do you do that when they—for cost-saving and flexibility reasons—are hosted/in the cloud? Nimsoft has the answer with new capabilities added to its Nimsoft monitoring solution, or “NMS,” that extend real-time monitoring and historical reporting beyond the virtualized datacenter to hosted/cloud/SaaS (News - Alert)-based resources and applications...
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Nimsoft Unveils Performance Monitoring Site, Unifiedmonitoring.com
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David Hamilton 20 October, 2009 Web Host Industry Review |
Online monitoring solutions provider Nimsoft has launched the beta version of Unifiedmonitoring.com (www.unifiedmonitoring.com), a public service web portal that allows organizations to objectively evaluate the performance and availability of leading cloud, hosted and SaaS services.
Go to article: Nimsoft Unveils Performance Monitoring Site, Unifiedmonitoring.com
Nimsoft Provides Visibility into the Cloud
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20 October, 2009 TechNews.am |
Nimsoftis launching a benchmarking service today for enterprise customers that will help them define and measure the actual costs of cloud computing and monitor the performance of IT infrastructure. The benchmarking service monitors the multiple systems of an enterprise and pulls them into a unified view. These include internal systems, managed service providers, cloud-based and Software-as-a-Service investments...
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Nimsoft Extends Visibility into Business Applications Running Internally, Externally
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20 October, 2009 Enterprise Systems |
Nimsoft, a unified monitoring solutions developer, has added features to its Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS) that enable users to extend real-time monitoring and historical reporting beyond the virtualized data center to hosted, cloud-, and SaaS-based resources and applications...
Go to article: Nimsoft Extends Visibility into Business Applications Running Internally, Externally
Nimsoft Unveils Performance Monitoring Site, Unifiedmonitoring.com
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20 October, 2009 TheHostingNews |
Online monitoring solutions provider Nimsoft has launched the beta version of Unifiedmonitoring.com, a public service web portal that allows organizations to objectively evaluate the performance and availability of leading cloud, hosted and SaaS services...
Go to article: Nimsoft Unveils Performance Monitoring Site, Unifiedmonitoring.com
Upgraded: Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS)
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20 October, 2009 Virtualization.com |
Nimsoft today announced that it has added a set of firsts to its Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS). These new capabilities enable Nimsoft customers to extend real-time monitoring and historical reporting beyond the virtualised datacentre to hosted, cloud- and SaaS-based resources and applications...
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Nimsoft extends monitoring to the cloud
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Maxwell Cooter 21 October, 2009 TechWorld |
Network monitoring company Nimsoft has extended the reach of its software to monitor cloud services. The company has introduced probes to monitor the performance and availability of the likes of Google Apps for Business, Rackspace Cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and EC2, Salesforce and other similar services.
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Nimsoft Helps Ingram Micro Resellers Tap Midmarket Opportunities
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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...
Go to article: Ingram Adds Enterprise Managed Services With Nimsoft
Nimsoft Selected by Ingram Micro Seismic for Use in Larger, More Complex IT Infrastructures
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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)
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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
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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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Network Monitoring in the Enterprise
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By Richard "Zippy" Grigonis, July 2009 Internet Telephony |
Network Monitoring often conjures up such minutiae as router traffic, Quality of Service (Qos), Quality of Experience (QoE), intrusion detection, reporting and alerting on network and systems availability, usually under the control of a friendly, web-based GUI. But in fact the concept of network monitoring is becoming part of a much larger monitoring process that involves the real-time examination and tweaking of the whole business process...
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How to dramatically cut costs on network performance monitoring
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By Linda Musthaler, 19th June 2009 Network World |
This article is about a performance and availability monitoring solution that competes with the enterprise products from companies like CA, IBM, HP and BMC Software. At the same time, this solution is saving its users hundreds of thousands and even millions of dollars...
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Nimsoft Acquires the Assets of Cittio
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By Ellen Messmer 19 May, 2009 CIO |
Nimsoft acquires for an undisclosed sum the assets of Cittio to beef up its network mapping, topology capabilities...
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Nimsoft acquires the assets of Cittio
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By Ellen Messmer 19 May, 2009 InfoWorld |
Nimsoft announced Monday it had acquired for an undisclosed sum the intellectual property assets of Cittio, a maker of automated network and systems management software...
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Podcast: Nimsoft CEO Discusses Software Acquisition
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Joe Panettieri 18 May, 2009 MSP Mentor |
During this MSPmentor Live Podcast, Nimsoft CEO Gary Read escribes his company’s decision to acquire Cittio’s assets. Read explores what managed service providers and end-customers will gain from the deal, and he also examines the evolving MSP software landscape - which appears poised for consolidation. Now, listen in to the conversation...
Go to article: Podcast: Nimsoft CEO Discusses Software Acquisition
Indemnification, support woes plague open source systems management
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By Ellen Messmer 18 May, 2009 SearchDataCenter |
Over the past few years, open source systems management tools have nagged mainstream IT systems management vendors. And some tools like those from Nagios have been widely adopted...
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Nimsoft Makes Acquisition
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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
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By Ken Vanderweel (of Nimsoft) |
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?
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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
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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
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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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Nimsoft BSM Express - Discovery
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29th April 2009 Business Process Models |
Business service management (BSM) represents a critical endeavor, especially in these tough economic times. By aligning IT operations more closely with business objectives, organizations can realize benefits that are more essential than ever: reducing costs, improving productivity, etc...
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Nimsoft Managed Services: Expanding Down Under (to Australia)
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by Joe Panettieri 28th 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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Products of the Week
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27th April 2009 Network World |
[Re BSM Express] Key features: Provides views of how well the IT environment is delivering a particular service as well as business views that demonstrate IT’s impact on the bottom line. More info on BSM Express.
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Cloud Resource Auto-Scaling at Work
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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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Cloud Computing and the Fist of Innovation
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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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Nimsoft Releases Low-Cost Business Server Management Tool
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by James E. Powell 21 April 2009 Enterprise Systems |
Nimsoft, Inc.has released BSM Express, adding to the company's monitoring solutions portfolio. According to the company, "BSM Express associates and aggregates performance and availability metrics with specific business objectives so businesses can quickly visualize the health of their services and account for and measure the financial impact that poor performance or downtime have on the organization."
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Nimsoft Delivers Business View of IT with BSM Express
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by Alex Woodie 21 April 2009 IT Jungle |
Fast growing systems management software firm Nimsoft today is unveiling BSM Express, a new business service management (BSM) offering designed to show executives and other non-technical decision makers, via graphics and dashboards, how business is going, whether transactions are flowing as planned, and where problems in their IT infrastructure are originating...
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Nimsoft’s latest business services management offering promises to show IT value in hours vs. months for lower price point
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21 April 2009 Computer Technology Review |
Nimsoft introduced its latest offering, BSM Express, developed to be an easy-to-use add-on to Nimsoft’s monitoring solutions that dynamically shows how well IT services align with business goals. BSM Express associates and aggregates performance and availability metrics with specific business objectives, enabling the business to quickly visualize the health of their services and to account and measure the financial impact that poor performance or downtime has on the organization...
Go to article: Nimsoft’s latest business services management offering promises to show IT value in hours vs. months for lower price point
ServiceKey: Unlocking MSP Opportunities?
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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...
Go to article: ServiceKey: Unlocking MSP Opportunities?
Opening the Door to New MSP Opportunities: New Total Infrastructure Management service…From ServiceKey
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31 Mar 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...
Download press release: Opening the Door to New MSP Opportunities: New Total Infrastructure Management service…From ServiceKey
Network Operation Center Nimsoft Dashboards
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23 Mar 2009 Dashboards by Example |
Thanks to long time Dashboard Spy reader and availability dashboard enthusiast Ken Vanderweel of Nimsoft Inc, we have the opportunity to study an extensive series of performance dashboards that monitor the availability of services for Amway Online. Powered by Nimsoft and used by Amway’s Germany-based IT organization to monitor a host of service statistics, the Network Operation Center dashboard has been instrumental in improving the organization’s quality of service.
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IT shops pick point management tools to cut staff, speed installs
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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
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26 January, 2009 |
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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Case Study: Nottingham Building Society monitors progress after IT renewal
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By Dave Bailey |
... From a customer service point of view it paid for itself within the first hour and half, and for an ROI that's not bad. I've been round IT for 25 years and I've never seen anything make so much difference so quickly...
Go to article: Case Study: Nottingham Building Society monitors progress after IT renewal
Nimsoft comes to Australia
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By Julia Talevski |
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%?
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By Joe Panettieri |
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
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8th January, 2009 |
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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What Constitues a Sound Investment?
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By Mark Harris, |
With the uncertainty currently gripping the financial markets and memories of the dotcom era still fresh, a watershed has been established in terms of future investments...
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