2011 Press Releases
Nimsoft to Showcase ITMaaS Solution at Gartner Data Center & IT Operations SummitCompany To Deliver Session on “Best Practices for Private Cloud and Virtualization Monitoring”Campbell, Calif – December 5, 2011 – Nimsoft today announced that it will showcase its IT Management-as-a-Service solution for virtual and cloud infrastructure in booth #N at Gartner Data Center & IT Operations Summit, December 5-7 at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas. As a premier sponsor, Nimsoft will highlight how its IT monitoring, IT service desk and cloud user experience products provide the essential capabilities IT organizations customers and service providers need to survive and thrive in the new cloud service delivery ecosystem. In addition, Andy Kicklighter, Nimsoft Senior Principal Product Manager deliver a session on “Best Practices for Private Cloud and Virtualization Monitoring” on Tuesday December 6 at 4:15 pm PT in the Augustus 1 room on the Emperor Level. Kicklighter will discuss how cloud and virtualization monitoring and service management can enable companies to set up and maintain SLAs for their mission critical applications and services within these vital infrastructure deployments. About NimsoftNimsoft provides integrated, IT management as service solutions for businesses and service provider customers globally, including 1&1, CDW, SoftLayer, SunGard Availability Services, Sur La Table, TriNet, and Virgin America. The company’s Nimsoft Unified Manager is an industry-leading solution that helps organizations easily monitor and manage IT services in increasingly complex business environments. Nimsoft solutions integrate with existing resources from the data center to the cloud, and are available on a pay-as-you-go basis. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com. Follow Nimsoft Legal NoticesCopyright © 2011 CA. All Rights Reserved. One CA Plaza, Islandia, N.Y. 11749. Nimsoft is a trademark of Nimsoft Inc. All other trademarks, trade names, service marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. ITIL® is a Registered Trade Mark of the Office of Government Commerce in the United Kingdom and other countries. Press Contact:Larry Smalheiser Honda MPE Deploys Nimsoft Monitor for Real-Time Network and User Experience MonitoringVisibility Into Performance of Cloud-Based Applications Enables Honda Australia MPE to Improve Service Delivery While Lowering CostsCampbell, Calif.–December 5, 2011–Nimsoft today announced that Honda Motorcycle and Power Equipment (MPE), Australia’s leading manufacturer and importer of Honda products, has deployed Nimsoft Monitor across its infrastructure to enhance its customer experience. Click to tweet: Honda MPE Deploys Nimsoft Monitor to Improve Service Delivery While Lowering Costs http://bit.ly/vwd4bO Nimsoft Monitor combines powerful monitoring and reporting features with browser-based, configurable dashboards and client portals to increase Honda MPE’s visibility into the performance of its applications, network devices and virtual hosts and servers. “Nimsoft Monitor not only delivers 24/7 visibility, it was extremely easy to deploy—within just a few days, we had the ability to proactively address network issues before they cause disruption,” said Craig Bassett, Senior IT Manager of Honda Australia Motorcycle and Power Equipment. Honda MPE will also deploy Nimsoft Real User Monitoring (RUM), a passive, non-intrusive, and cost-effective monitoring appliance to provide insight into how customers experience the company’s website. Together, Nimsoft Monitor and Nimsoft RUM will help enable Honda MPE to improve user response times, troubleshoot network issues more effectively, and be proactive in addressing potential problems before they impact users. Nimsoft Monitor is cloud-ready and easy to integrate with Honda MPE’s existing environments. The solution’s flexible, extensible architecture allows for the rapid addition of new monitoring capabilities to meet evolving business needs. Its comprehensive set of APIs allows for easy integration with various layers of cloud or IT infrastructure management. “If our customers become frustrated, they’ll go elsewhere—most likely to a competitor,” said Bassett. “Nimsoft RUM will give us insight into the end-user experience from our operations center, so we can fine-tune the website to better serve visitors and deliver a satisfying online experience that keeps customers coming back.” Nimsoft Monitor is a component of Nimsoft Unified Manager, a multi-tenant IT Management-as-a-Service solution that combines industry-leading infrastructure monitoring and ready-to-use ITIL®-based service management. “It is essential for companies like Honda MPE to achieve and maintain a superb user experience, even during high-volume seasonal peaks in utilization,” said Chris O’Malley, Nimsoft CEO. “Nimsoft Monitor helps Honda MPE ensure that its cloud environment is delivering this kind of experience, so it can keep its customers happy and its cloud vendors accountable.” About Honda Australia Motorcycle and Power EquipmentIt is estimated that approximately 1 million Honda products are used throughout Australia every day, which includes the use of motorcycles, power equipment, engines, outboards and motor vehicles. Honda MPE's sales for the 2010-2011 financial year exceeded $300 million which represented approximately 200,000 units. Products are manufactured and imported from Honda's many factories around the world including USA, Japan, Thailand, Italy, Belgium and China. Approximately 40,000 products are manufactured in Australia annually for both the local market and for export to New Zealand, South Africa, South Pacific, Eqypt, Saudi Arabia and Spain. Products are sold through a network of over 600 Australia wide dealers and original equipment manufacturers. About NimsoftNimsoft provides integrated, IT management as service solutions for businesses and service provider customers globally, including 1&1, CDW, SoftLayer, SunGard Availability Services, Sur La Table, TriNet, and Virgin America. The company’s Nimsoft Unified Manager is an industry-leading solution that helps organizations easily monitor and manage IT services in increasingly complex business environments. Nimsoft solutions integrate with existing resources from the data center to the cloud, and are available on a pay-as-you-go basis. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com. Follow Nimsoft Legal NoticesCopyright © 2011 CA. All Rights Reserved. One CA Plaza, Islandia, N.Y. 11749. Nimsoft is a trademark of Nimsoft Inc. All other trademarks, trade names, service marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. ITIL® is a Registered Trade Mark of the Office of Government Commerce in the United Kingdom and other countries. Press Contact:Larry Smalheiser Nimsoft CEO Chris O’Malley Declares Transformation of IT From Infrastructure Owner Into Service BrokerSpecial Role of IT Management-as-a-Service in Separating “Core vs. Chore” Highlighted in Panel Discussion Featuring ITMaaS Users and ProvidersLAS VEGAS, November 14, 2011 -- CA WORLD -- In an address today at CA World 2011 , Nimsoft CEO Chris O’Malley outlined the radical transformation of IT organizations from infrastructure owners to service brokers. O’Malley explained how this new model of IT is being driven by a “competitive vortex” where every company must master disruptive business models, intense stresses on organizational resources and relentlessly escalating customer expectations in order to thrive. Click to tweet: The Radical Transformation of IT: From Infrastructure Owner into Service Broker http://bit.ly/rJNvp1 In response, O’Malley said, IT organizations must transform themselves into highly agile and efficient service brokers---continuously optimizing their resourcing of both “chore” IT tasks such as infrastructure management and “core” imperatives such as customer experience and business model innovation. He also noted that the virtualization of IT infrastructure is leading to the virtualization of human capital, as enterprises more adaptively tap into the expertise and skills available via the cloud. “For IT to truly move at the speed of business, you have to let service providers do what they do best—and you have to be able to orchestrate collaboration between your service providers and your internal service owners in real time,” said O’Malley. “Essentially, IT has to transform itself from an operations-driven organization that maintains custody of infrastructure components to a value-driven organization that intelligently brokers services.” O’Malley observed that IT Management-as-a-Service is playing a central role in empowering IT organizations to make this critical transition. “IT organizations and their service provider partners need highly adaptive management tools that they can quickly apply to whatever services they deploy, at whatever scale they deploy them, wherever they happen to be in the cloud,” he explained. “That’s exactly what ITMaaS does.” He added that Nimsoft IT monitoring, IT service desk and cloud user experience products have been specifically designed to provide these essential capabilities to the broadening range of customers and service providers in the new cloud service delivery ecosystem. “Nimsoft uniquely delivers the information and collaboration tools that service providers and their customers need to make the new ‘service broker’ model for IT a reality,” he said. To illustrate how this model is already being adopted, O’Malley led a panel following his address that included:
Panelists discussed the current collaboration between PreserveSoft, Nimsoft, IT Authorities and Soaring Eagle—and described how that collaboration has enabled PreserveSoft to rapidly and cost-efficiently scale up its operations to meet the needs of home contractors with highly reliable, anytime/anywhere support services. “The model we have embraced for sourcing ‘chore’ IT deliverables from multiple service providers is agile, economical and highly reliable,” said Rowlands. “We are living proof that there are plenty of good reasons to both be a cloud company and engage multiple cloud partners.” “As a managed service provider focused on hosted infrastructure-as-a-service, the Nimsoft ITMaaS solution enables us to keep a close eye on our customers’ environments while keeping our own management software costs continually aligned with our present needs,” said Beckman. “Nimsoft also lets us give our customers full visibility into their critical environments, and allows us to seamlessly integrate specialist solution providers such as Soaring Eagle into our existing IT management processes.” “As more and more companies move their database servers from data centers to the cloud, it is essential for us to collaborate with the MSPs who are servicing our target customers,” said Garbus. “By forwarding us the appropriate alerts from Nimsoft, IT Authorities can instantly engage us when a customer like PreserveSoft shows even the slightest indication of a problem that may impact service levels to the end-user—so we can quickly intervene to fix the problem and protect the business from SLA breach or downtime.” About NimsoftNimsoft provides integrated, IT management as service solutions for businesses and service provider customers globally, including 1&1, CDW, SoftLayer, SunGard Availability Services, Sur La Table, TriNet, and Virgin America. The company’s Nimsoft Unified Manager is an industry-leading solution that helps organizations easily monitor and manage IT services in increasingly complex business environments. Nimsoft solutions integrate with existing resources from the data center to the cloud, and are available on a pay-as-you-go basis. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com. Follow NimsoftFollow Chris O’Malley, Nimsoft CEOLegal NoticesCopyright © 2011 CA. All Rights Reserved. One CA Plaza, Islandia, N.Y. 11749. Nimsoft is a trademark of Nimsoft Inc. All other trademarks, trade names, service marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. Press Contact:Bob Gordon PromonLogicalis Deploys Nimsoft Monitor to Improve Client SupportOn-demand, SaaS delivery model provides scalability, reduces overall IT spendCampbell, Calif.– October 25, 2011–Nimsoft announced that PromonLogicalis, the leading independent integrator of Information and Communication Technology solutions in Latin America, has deployed Nimsoft Monitor across managed client infrastructures to improve client support by proactively monitoring infrastructure performance with advanced, customizable reporting. PromonLogicalis needed to scale its business to support a growing number of managed services clients without a large up-front investment in hosting and monitoring infrastructure. Available as a SaaS solution, Nimsoft Monitor virtually eliminates a customer’s need for procuring and hosting monitoring infrastructure, simplifying the process of launching the solution. Nimsoft Monitor features a flexible, extensible architecture that enables the rapid addition of new monitoring capabilities to meet evolving business needs. The solution includes powerful monitoring and reporting features, as well as browser-based management through customizable dashboards and client portals. A comprehensive set of APIs allows easy integration with any layer of cloud or IT infrastructure management. “Nimsoft Monitor is modular and cloud-ready, which gives us the flexibility to meet the changing business requirements of our clients,” said Carlos Alves, Technology Manager at PromonLogicalis Latin America. “The Nimsoft pay-as-you-go business model aligns well with our managed services offering and allows us to efficiently scale our services as we take on more clients.” “Managed services represent a major growth opportunity for ICT companies like PromonLogicalis,” said Chris O’Malley, Nimsoft CEO. “Nimsoft Monitor directly supports this move to managed services by helping service providers better manage complex, dynamic IT infrastructure and giving customers the peace of mind that comes with real-time visibility into the status of their infrastructure.” Nimsoft Monitor is a component of Nimsoft Unified Manager, a multi-tenant IT Management as-a-Service solution that combines industry-leading infrastructure monitoring and ready- to-use ITIL®-based service management capabilities. About PromonLogicalis Latin America PromonLogicalis is Latin America’s leading independent integrator of ICT solutions, with operations in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay. PromonLogicalis has three main practice areas: Technical Consulting, Systems Integration, and Managed Services. Its offerings include solutions for information security, networking, data centers, network and system management, access technologies, and collaboration. All activities are supported by an Advanced Service Center staffed by highly qualified professionals and operating in accordance with world-class methodologies. PromonLogicalis works with corporations, landline and mobile carriers, pay-TV operators, cable companies and government to meet their needs throughout the value chain. For more information view: www.br.promonlogicalis.com About Nimsoft Nimsoft provides integrated, IT management as service solutions for businesses and service provider customers globally, including 1&1, CDW, SoftLayer, SunGard Availability Services, Sur La Table, TriNet, and Virgin America. The company’s Nimsoft Unified Manager is an industry-leading solution that helps organizations easily monitor and manage IT services in increasingly complex business environments. Nimsoft solutions integrate with existing resources from the data center to the cloud, and are available on a pay-as-you-go basis. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com. Legal Notices Copyright © 2011 CA. All Rights Reserved. One CA Plaza, Islandia, N.Y. 11749. Nimsoft is a trademark of Nimsoft Inc. All other trademarks, trade names, service marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. Press Contact: Larry Smalheiser Nimsoft Service Desk Enjoys Strong Adoption in Asia-Pacific RegionSaaS Solution Gains Quick Traction with Service Providers and EnterprisesSydney, Australia—October 18, 2011—Nimsoft today announced the strong adoption of Nimsoft Service Desk by customers across Asia-Pacific market. Since introducing the SaaS solution, Nimsoft has seen significant growth in demand from service provider and enterprise accounts including Hosted Continuity, Olive Solutions, Core Object, and Zeal Softech.Nimsoft Service Desk is a pure SaaS, multi-tenant solution for all aspects of IT service management that helps customers coordinate service delivery and increase customer satisfaction. The on demand solution provides ITIL®-based workflows and years of best-practice knowledge. Nimsoft Service Desk is a flexible, configurable solution that can be tailored to an organization’s specific needs without the cost and complexity associated with traditional code-based customization. “We needed to replace our out-dated and restricted service desk and monitoring solution to better support our business and our clients businesses,” said David Furey, Hosted Continuity CTO. “We wanted a functional, scalable, easily adaptable, multi-tenant and cost effective solution that would address existing and future clients, as well as our projected growth. After reviewing a wide array of solutions, we found that only Nimsoft had a solution that met all of our requirements.” Part of the Nimsoft Unified Manager solution, Nimsoft Service Desk can leverage the performance and availability monitoring information collected by Nimsoft Monitor to automatically generate service desk incidents as required, so service desk analysts can start to triage an issue—before users even notice service degradation. “After evaluating many tools, we found that Nimsoft was a best in class solution for our clients,” said Pravin Mohite, Olive Solutions CEO. “The wide range of devices and depth of monitoring impressed our team; and the smooth integration of Nimsoft Service Desk is invaluable for providing our clients a seamless monitoring and ticket management service. This is a beginning of a great relationship between Nimsoft and Olive.” Nimsoft Service Desk users can access a wide range of capabilities through a self-service portal. The portal allows users to submit change requests, request services, report incidents, and leverage a knowledge management engine to solve common problems immediately. “Many IT organizations in the Asia-Pacific region are being called upon to support more users with more services in increasingly complex computing environments,” said Chris O’Malley, Nimsoft CEO. “The broad and rapid uptake of Nimsoft Service Desk by these organizations clearly demonstrates that we are offering them the exact software solution they need to successfully achieve their efficiency and response-time objectives in these challenging times.” “Asia Pacific has the largest and fastest growing population of cloud connected consumers. The growth potential of the region is driving the adoption of cloud services and the demand for robust solutions to management cloud infrastructure,” said Lionel Lim, President, Asia Pacific, CA Technologies. “The adoption of Nimsoft Service Desk in Asia Pacific reflects this trend, and is part of our comprehensive unified management solution addressing the needs of this market development.” About Nimsoft Nimsoft provides integrated, IT management as service solutions for businesses and service provider customers globally, including 1&1, CDW, SoftLayer, SunGard Availability Services, Sur La Table, TriNet, and Virgin America. The company’s Nimsoft Unified Manager is an industry-leading solution that helps organizations easily monitor and manage IT services in increasingly complex business environments. Nimsoft solutions integrate with existing resources from the data center to the cloud, and are available on a pay-as-you-go basis. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com. Legal Notices Copyright © 2011 CA. All Rights Reserved. One CA Plaza, Islandia, N.Y. 11749. Nimsoft is a trademark of Nimsoft Inc. All other trademarks, trade names, service marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. ITIL® is a Registered Trade Mark of the Office of Government Commerce in the United Kingdom and other countries. Nimsoft Announces Comprehensive Monitoring for SAP EnvironmentsAutomated Solution Helps Customers Optimize Service Levels Across Physical, Virtual and Cloud Infrastructure While Minimizing Technology Ownership CostsCampbell, California – September 21, 2011 – Nimsoft today announced Nimsoft Monitor for SAP, an automated solution that enables customers to optimize service levels across physical, virtual and cloud environments while reducing their technology ownership costs. Nimsoft Monitor for SAP extends the comprehensive insight of Nimsoft Monitor to core SAP events and components including SAP NetWeaver®, SAP® ECC, ABAP™ and Java™ It also features a built-in, updateable knowledgebase of key performance indicators (KPIs) and associated best-practice thresholds to help administrators proactively address potential issues and quickly identify and resolve problems before they impact service levels. When used in conjunction with other Nimsoft Monitor products, it enables customers to gain a unified view into the networks, servers, databases and storage supporting SAP. AGENTIL™, a certified SAP Service Partner and Nimsoft Unified Management Alliance member, combined its deep knowledge of SAP with the powerful Nimsoft Unified Manager architecture and APIs to develop the solution. “Years of hands-on experience taught us how to implement and maintain high performance SAP systems,” said Jean-François Lauri, CEO of AGENTIL. “By embedding this knowledge into Nimsoft Monitor for SAP, customers can increase their operational efficiencies and overall SAP performance.” Litasco, the trading arm of LUKOIL, one of the largest oil companies in Russia, is using Nimsoft Monitor to maintain the performance and availability of its SAP infrastructure. “Nimsoft Monitor allows us to construct a simple web-based business management dashboard to see and manage SAP incidents and service availability,” said Jean-Christophe Massotte, CEO of LUKOIL Technology Services Geneva. “This visibility helps us reduce the risk of downtime so we can keep employees productive and avoid trading market failures.” Nimsoft Monitor for SAP users gain:
“Enterprise SAP environments have become highly dynamic due to both increasingly volatile business conditions and today’s extensively virtualized IT infrastructure,” said Chris O’Malley, Nimsoft CEO. “The SAP monitoring application and Nimsoft Monitor empower customers to stay on top of these dynamic SAP environments so they can achieve superlative service levels while driving down management overhead.” Nimsoft Monitor is a component of Nimsoft Unified Manager, a multi-tenant IT Management-as-a-Service solution that combines industry-leading infrastructure monitoring and ready-to-use ITIL®-based service management. About AGENTIL Founded in 2006, AGENTIL works with clients to design, build, integrate, manage, and optimize SAP and IT Service Management systems. The company’s expertise in managing SAP and other IT environments helps global 500 clients to improve productivity and increase operational efficiency. A Nimsoft Unified Alliance Partner, AGENTIL also provides a comprehensive SAP monitoring solution that gives customers a unified view of SAP and associated networks, servers, and databases. About Nimsoft Nimsoft provides integrated, IT management as service solutions for businesses and service provider customers globally, including 1&1, CDW, SoftLayer, SunGard Availability Services, Sur La Table, TriNet, and Virgin America. The company’s Nimsoft Unified Manager is an industry-leading solution that helps organizations easily monitor and manage IT services in increasingly complex business environments. Nimsoft solutions integrate with existing resources from the data center to the cloud, and are available on a pay-as-you-go basis. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com. Legal Notices Copyright © 2011 CA. All Rights Reserved. One CA Plaza, Islandia, N.Y. 11749. Nimsoft is a trademark of Nimsoft Inc. All other trademarks, trade names, service marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. ITIL® is a Registered Trade Mark of the Office of Government Commerce in the United Kingdom and other countries. Press Contact
Larry Smalheiser Nimsoft Wins MSPAlliance MSPWorld Cup Award™ 2011Recognized as Best in Show for Their Contributions to the Managed Services IndustryCampbell, California – Sept 20th, 2011 – Nimsoft, a leading provider of integrated, IT management as service solutions, today announced that it is been awarded the highly coveted MSPAlliance MSPWorld Cup Award™ at the MSPWorld Conference and Expo in Austin, TX. MSPAlliance and MSPWorld events are recognized worldwide as the premier gathering place for managed service providers (MSPs). This award recognizes technology enabling companies that have demonstrated consistent efforts to advance the cause of managed service providers across the globe by providing cutting edge technologies and solutions. “This award is a great tribute to our longstanding commitment to managed service providers,” said Ken Vanderweel, Nimsoft Director, Service Providers. “The combination of the Nimsoft Unified Manager solution’s rich features, multi-tenant architecture and flexible delivery model clearly demonstrates that we understand both the technical and business requirements of MSPs—and their broad adoption of our solution shows that we have a great cultural fit as well.” Comprised of more than 15,000 member companies, MSPAlliance is committed to increasing the reliability and dependability of managed mission-critical IT services. Through the industry’s only accreditation program and code of ethics, the MSPAlliance empowers companies to improve their respective return on investment in technology procurement and implementation. "We are honored that Nimsoft has been recognized for their achievements and hard work in the managed services profession,” said Charles Weaver, CEO of MSPAlliance. “Without these technologies and tools the managed service provider community throughout the world would not be able to deliver their solutions and services effectively. The MSPWorld Cup Awards were created so that the MSP community the world over could easily identify those companies that have been recognized for having the best enabling technology in their respective fields. The Best in Show winner is chosen for their stellar achievements and contributions to the advancement of the Managed Services Industry.” For additional information on the MSPAlliance or MSPWorld, please contact Celia Weaver at 1-530-891-1340. About Nimsoft Nimsoft provides integrated, IT management as service solutions for businesses and service provider customers globally, including 1&1, CDW, SoftLayer, SunGard Availability Services, Sur La Table, TriNet, and Virgin America. The company’s Nimsoft Unified Manager is an industry-leading solution that helps organizations easily monitor and manage IT services in increasingly complex business environments. Nimsoft solutions integrate with existing resources from the data center to the cloud, and are available on a pay-as-you-go basis. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com. About MSPAlliance For over 10 years, the MSPAlliance has been the only unified voice for the Managed Services Industry, and the only organization that promotes the highest level of professionalism, reliability and integrity. As the world's largest Professional Association and Accrediting Body for the Managed Services Industry, the MSPAlliance was created to meet the needs of the Managed Services Professional and to educate the end-user community on the benefits of using a Managed Service Provider. For more information about the MSPAlliance please visit www.mspalliance.com Legal Notices Copyright © 2011 CA. All Rights Reserved. One CA Plaza, Islandia, N.Y. 11749. Nimsoft is a trademark of Nimsoft Inc. All other trademarks, trade names, service marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. Press Contact:
Larry Smalheiser Dongbu CNI Delivers Cloud Services Powered by the CA AppLogic Cloud Platform and Nimsoft Unified ManagerJoint Customer Brings New Innovation to SMBs and Medical Institutions Using CA Technologies Cloud Computing PlatformISLANDIA, N.Y., and SINGAPORE – July 20, 2011 - CA Technologies Korea announced today that Dongbu CNI, Korea’s leading integrated IT service provider, has launched a cloud service platform (http://cloud.dongbucni.com) using the CA AppLogic® cloud platform, and Nimsoft Unified Manager. Dongbu CNI, which is growing its cloud business as part of its next generation business milestone, selected CA AppLogic software and Nimsoft Unified Manager to implement key functionalities, such as provisioning and execution control, in a faster and more cost-effective way for its cloud service platform. Dongbu CNI will provide cloud services to small medium businesses (SMBs) and medical institutions, which are facing challenges in establishing dedicated data centers and attracting skilled IT staff. CA AppLogic software offers a turnkey cloud computing platform that enables users to develop a virtual business service that consists of the application and the supporting infrastructure. The service is designed using a graphical tool, after which it can be hosted at either an on-premise data center or managed service provider. The platform offers fully automated provisioning, so clients do not have to worry about aspects like migration and scaling. The CA AppLogic platform has received numerous industry accolades, including HostReview's Annual Web Hosting Award, which cited the software as one of the top 10 best cloud solutions, and the Cloud Computing World Series Award for Best Cloud Platform. Nimsoft Unified Manager is an integrated solution for IT monitoring and service management that allows integrated management of all infrastructures, including server, storage, network and database in the IT and cloud environments, while improving the response time of applications and services. Through Nimsoft, companies are able to have greater visibility into the cloud environment and can provide high-availability services at affordable prices. “We are planning to offer cloud services utilizing CA Technologies and Nimsoft solutions, and will also start cloud environment implementation business for clients that want to operate their own cloud services. We will provide Software as a Service (SaaS) for various applications, including real-time transportation management system (TMS) service, server-based computing, IT service management (ITSM), enterprise portal and energy analytics,” said Myung-se Kim, Infrastructure Outsourcing Division Manager, Dongbu CNI. “Dongbu CNI’s implementation of a public cloud service platform in just two months is a prime example of how an enterprise is harnessing the power of the cloud to transform its business. Dongbu CNI benefitted from using our joint enterprise class solutions for a scalable, highly reliable cloud platform to deliver sophisticated business cloud services to its customers,” said Michael Choe, president, CA Technologies Korea. Dongbu CNI has also implemented server virtualization to decrease the total cost of ownership for clients and improve service efficiency. Since the process began in 2005, Dongbu CNI has completed the virtualization of over 80% of the servers at its affiliates. With strong virtualization know-how and server hosting business capability, the company is pushing ahead with its plan to launch the cloud business, having established a Cloud Service team in the second half of last year that will join hands with global companies. With over 17 years of experience and know-how accumulated through IT implementations, Dongbu CNI is now able to achieve greater competitiveness with end-to-end cloud management solutions from CA Technologies and Nimsoft. The company plans to penetrate the cloud market by targeting its affiliates and expanding its presence through joint marketing activities with both companies. 
Screen shot of Nimsoft Unified Manager running on Dongbu CNI’s cloud service platform.About Dongbu CNIDongbu CNI is a professional IT service company providing IT infrastructure and services to customers based on proven technologies in a variety of field such as sector finance, construction and chemical materials. Dongbu CNI’s vision “We Respect Customers’ Needs” emphasized constant self-development for employees to help them better understand customers, build expertise, and become customer relations experts. Dongbu CNI provides Korea’s best ITO services, specialized SI business solutions, and business outsourcing services. About NimsoftNimsoft provides integrated, modern IT management solutions for more than 1,000 enterprise and service provider customers globally, including 1&1, CDW, SoftLayer, SunGard Availability Services, Sur La Table, TriNet, and Virgin America. The company’s Nimsoft Unified Manager is an industry-leading solution that helps organizations easily monitor and manage IT services in increasingly complex business environments. Nimsoft products integrate with existing solutions at any point from the data center to the cloud, and are available on a pay-as-you-go basis. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com. Legal NoticesCopyright © 2011 CA. All Rights Reserved. One CA Plaza, Islandia, N.Y. 11749. All other trademarks, trade names, service marks, and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. Press Contact:Larry Smalheiser Nimsoft Expands Cisco UCS MonitoringCoverage for Cisco UCS Environments Provides Customers Visibility into the Health of Their EnvironmentsLAS VEGAS, Nev. – July 11, 2011– Today at Cisco Live, Cisco’s annual IT and communications conference, Nimsoft announced Nimsoft Monitor now features expanded coverage and additional advanced capabilities for use with Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) to provide customers with in-depth details of their cloud and data center platforms. The Cisco Unified Computing System is the first fabric computing platform that combines industry-standard, x86 compute resources with networking and storage access to form a single converged system. Cisco UCS is designed for dynamic, scalable, and highly virtualized data centers and cloud environments. Nimsoft Monitor runs on Cisco UCS and monitors its components within a single, common platform with customers’ other cloud and traditional IT resources―including network, software switches, storage, databases, virtualization, and Web applications. Nimsoft Monitor integrates with Cisco UCS and can automatically discover changes in physical Cisco UCS components (such as the chassis, fans, power supplies, and servers), as well as virtual resources and service profiles within Cisco UCS environments. Once physical, virtual, and services resources have been discovered, Nimsoft Monitor can apply user-defined automated monitoring policies that are in synch with Cisco UCS threshold policies to provide customers with full visibility into the end-to-end health of their environments. Enhancements to Nimsoft Monitor include:
“Pre-integrated, comprehensive infrastructure solutions like Cisco UCS represent a strategic, long-term option for enterprises and services providers looking to optimize the value, performance, and flexibility they get from their IT spend,” said Chris O’Malley, Nimsoft CEO. “Nimsoft Monitor uniquely enables customers to realize maximum benefits from their Cisco UCS investments by making it easy to maintain full visibility into both the Cisco UCS environment and the broader enterprise.” Extended Support for Vblock™ Environments Nimsoft Monitor also offers comprehensive, integrated monitoring coverage of the Vblock™ Infrastructure Platform, tracking physical, virtual, and application elements of Vblock environments including Vblock Series 300 and Vblock Series 700. “Comprehensive, robust monitoring capabilities are a critical factor to realizing optimal performance and business value from Vblock Infrastructure Platforms in the long term,” said Tony Conway, Vice President Services, MTI Europe. “We’ve chosen Nimsoft Monitor as a basis for our MTI Care Managed Services portfolio because these capabilities are so critical, both to our company and our clients. By enhancing the solution’s coverage with vendors such as EMC and the Cisco UCS environments, Nimsoft extends the advantages Nimsoft Monitor delivers.” To learn more, visit Nimsoft (Booth #2071) at Cisco Live. About Nimsoft Nimsoft provides integrated, modern IT management solutions for more than 1,000 enterprise and service provider customers globally, including 1&1, CDW, SoftLayer, SunGard Availability Services, Sur La Table, TriNet, and Virgin America. The company’s Nimsoft Unified Manager is an industry-leading solution that helps organizations easily monitor and manage IT services in increasingly complex business environments. Nimsoft products integrate with existing solutions at any point from the data center to the cloud, and are available on a pay-as-you-go basis. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com. Legal Notices Copyright © 2011 CA. All Rights Reserved. One CA Plaza, Islandia, N.Y. 11749. Nimsoft is a trademark of Nimsoft Inc. All other trademarks, trade names, service marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. Press Contact Larry Smalheiser Real Time Remote Services Deploys Nimsoft for Cloud-based MonitoringClients Benefit from Unified Management and Detailed ReportingCampbell, Calif.–June 28, 2011–Nimsoft today announced that Real Time Remote Services, a provider of remote management services, is deploying Nimsoft Monitor to deliver comprehensive monitoring of its clients’ critical applications and infrastructure. Nimsoft Monitor is a component of Nimsoft Unified Manager, a multi-tenant IT Management as-a-Service solution that combines industry-leading infrastructure monitoring and ready- to-use ITIL®-based service management capabilities. “We had been using remote monitoring services from a legacy enterprise software vendor for the past nine years, but we are continuously searching the marketplace for more competitive, flexible and cost-effective monitoring solutions,” said Ashley Pietersen, CEO of Real Time Remote Services. “We came to the conclusion that the Nimsoft Unified Manager platform is the best match for our present and future client base, which is moving more and more to cloud computing.” Nimsoft Monitor will enable Real Time Remote Services to deliver eRemote―a highly scalable, cloud-based monitoring services offering. End users benefit from increased availability of remotely managed services and more transparency into the performance and availability of those services through the Unified Management Portal. “I was impressed with the power of the Nimsoft solution and its ability to seamlessly integrate with our existing infrastructure,” said Pietersen. “With its tremendous flexibility and on-demand SaaS business model, Nimsoft Monitor makes it easy for us to address the growing needs of small-to medium-sized businesses for sophisticated IT monitoring capabilities.” “Nimsoft uniquely combines in-depth monitoring and broad compatibility with a cloud delivery model that’s a perfect fit for MSPs like Real Time Remote,” said Chris O’Malley, Nimsoft CEO. “The market for this kind of cloud-based, MSP-driven IT management is growing rapidly as business embrace the option of renting—rather than owning—IT resources.” About Real Time Remote Services Real Time Remote Services BV is a Dutch managed service provider offering remote monitoring solutions to ICT service organizations in the Netherlands that need 24/7 monitoring, but do not want to invest in a monitoring platform themselves. Besides providing standard monitoring solutions for data-environments, Real Time Remote Services has developed and deployed special alarm-management solutions for traditional PABX and VoIP platforms. About Nimsoft Nimsoft provides integrated, modern IT management solutions for more than 1,000 enterprise and service provider customers globally, including 1&1, CDW, SoftLayer, SunGard Availability Services, Sur La Table, TriNet, and Virgin America. The company’s Nimsoft Unified Manager is an industry-leading solution that helps organizations easily monitor and manage IT services in increasingly complex business environments. Nimsoft products integrate with existing solutions at any point from the data center to the cloud, and are available on a pay-as-you-go basis. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com. Legal Notices Copyright © 2011 CA. All Rights Reserved. One CA Plaza, Islandia, N.Y. 11749. Nimsoft is a trademark of Nimsoft Inc. All other trademarks, trade names, service marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. ITIL® is a Registered Trade Mark of the Office of Government Commerce in the United Kingdom and other countries. Press Contact: Megan Bucks Denovo Expands Cloud Services with NimsoftNimsoft Unified Manager Reduces Service Desk Overhead and Provides Proactive MonitoringCampbell, Calif.–June 21, 2011–Nimsoft today announced that Denovo Ventures, LLC (Denovo) will be deploying Nimsoft Unified Manager as part of its Enterprise Hosting and Cloud Computing Services offering to enable better efficiencies while improving service speed and quality. Nimsoft Unified Manager, a multi-tenant IT Management as-a-Service solution, combines industry-leading infrastructure monitoring (Nimsoft Service Desk). “To provide the quality of service our clients expect, we need service desk and monitoring solutions that support multiple clients and a flexible licensing model that enables economies of scale,” said Bill Hylton, executive vice president, Denovo Enterprise Hosting and Cloud Computing. “Nimsoft Unified Manager allows us to securely and efficiently segregate data in a shared environment to reduce costs.” Nimsoft Service Desk provides action-based workflows built on ITIL standards and years of best-practice knowledge to coordinate all aspects of service delivery and increase customer satisfaction. The flexible and configurable solution meets specific business requirements without the traditional long-term cost and complexity of code-based customization. Nimsoft Service Desk enables end-users to log requests and track progress in real time, providing Denovo staff with actionable information, while allowing end users to search a shared knowledge base for solutions to resolve their own issues. By increasing visibility and enabling proactive troubleshooting, Nimsoft Service Desk minimizes Denovo’s service desk overhead and helps keep costs down without sacrificing IT performance or reliability. “Nimsoft Service Desk provides self-service capabilities, so our clients can troubleshoot potential issues themselves,” said Hylton. “This helps eliminate costly, time-consuming ticket and service requests.” Denovo will also be deploying Nimsoft Monitor to proactively monitor disparate cloud environments, including both private and external/public clouds, and to help ensure SLA performance across its client base. “Nimsoft Unified Manager allows cloud solution providers like Denovo to improve their competitive position by more cost-effectively delivering better, faster service to a larger number of individual clients,” said Chris O’Malley, Nimsoft CEO. “Nimsoft also enables Denovo to provide the robust self-service capabilities that are so important for making the cloud a seamless extension to their clients’ end-to-end business operations.” About Denovo Established in 2003, Denovo Ventures, LLC is a full-service Enterprise Hosting/Cloud Computing and Professional Services firm with extensive expertise in designing, implementing and supporting enterprise software and hosting/cloud solutions. Denovo delivers enterprise hosting and cloud computing services from their SAS 70 certified data centers located in the United States. As an Oracle Platinum Partner, Denovo’s Professional Services team has over 150 years of Oracle J.D. Edwards and ERP experience and has successfully completed Oracle ERP implementation projects for a wide variety of commercial and public sector clients. The company serves a North American client base from offices located in Denver, CO; St. Louis, MO; Los Angeles CA; San Diego, CA; Kansas City, KS; and Atlanta, GA. About Nimsoft Nimsoft provides integrated, modern IT management solutions for more than 1,000 enterprise and service provider customers globally, including 1&1, CDW, SoftLayer, SunGard Availability Services, Sur La Table, TriNet, and Virgin America. The company’s Nimsoft Unified Manager is an industry-leading solution that helps organizations easily monitor and manage IT services in increasingly complex business environments. Nimsoft products integrate with existing solutions at any point from the data center to the cloud, and are available on a pay-as-you-go basis. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com. Legal Notices Copyright © 2011 CA. All Rights Reserved. One CA Plaza, Islandia, N.Y. 11749. Nimsoft is a trademark of Nimsoft Inc. All other trademarks, trade names, service marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. ITIL® is a Registered Trade Mark of the Office of Government Commerce in the United Kingdom and other countries. Press Contact Megan Bucks Nimsoft Expands Management Support for NetApp StorageEnables Customers to Optimize Service Levels While Driving Down Operational CostsCampbell, Calif.– June 15, 2011 – Nimsoft today announced enhanced monitoring capabilities for NetApp resources, enabling enterprises and service providers to optimize the performance and availability of their critical data center assets while driving down operational costs and maximizing service levels. Through its multi-tenant monitoring of NetApp storage, Nimsoft Monitor allows customers to readily integrate management of these resources into both cloud and non-cloud environments. “B2net has more than 1.5PB of mission critical client data under management,” said Jason Clark, Managing Director at B2net, a NetApp Reseller and Partner of the year. “The scale of this environment and the number of vital business services that rely on our NetApp platforms meant we needed a monitoring platform that could give us a single unified view for managing the performance of our clients highly complex and performance-intensive computing infrastructure. We closely collaborated with Nimsoft on its support for NetApp platforms. Nimsoft Monitor now makes it even easier for our administrators to get the timely, intuitive, and comprehensive information they need to track and optimize NetApp performance.” Nimsoft Monitor for NetApp provides administrators with comprehensive and detailed performance metrics to track and improve performance, including detailed monitoring of file systems, data movers, storage devices, physical enclosures, and network connections. The solution’s automated discovery, monitoring and reporting deliver exceptional administrative efficiency. “Intelligent storage environments like NetApp represent the future of IT infrastructure,” said Chris O’Malley, Nimsoft CEO. “To get maximum business value from their investments in these sophisticated infrastructure solutions, customers need equally sophisticated monitoring capabilities—which is exactly what Nimsoft delivers.” Nimsoft Monitor is a component of Nimsoft Unified Manager, a multi-tenant IT Management-as-a-Service solution that combines industry-leading infrastructure monitoring and ready-to-use ITIL®-based service management. About Nimsoft Nimsoft provides integrated, modern IT management solutions for more than 1,000 enterprise and service provider customers globally, including 1&1, CDW, SoftLayer, SunGard Availability Services, Sur La Table, TriNet, and Virgin America. The company’s Nimsoft Unified Manager is an industry-leading solution that helps organizations easily monitor and manage IT services in increasingly complex business environments. Nimsoft products integrate with existing solutions at any point from the data center to the cloud, and are available on a pay-as-you-go basis. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com. Legal Notices Copyright © 2011 CA. All Rights Reserved. One CA Plaza, Islandia, N.Y. 11749. Nimsoft is a trademark of Nimsoft Inc. NetApp is a registered trademark of NetApp, Inc. All other trademarks, trade names, service marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. Press Contact: Megan Bucks WatchMouse Introduces New In-App Monitoring for Mobile AppsWorld’s First Performance Monitoring Of Internet Connectivity And APIs In Native AppsSANTA CLARA, Calif. – (VELOCITY CONFERENCE) – June 14, 2011 – WatchMouse, a global industry leader in self-service website and application performance monitoring, today announced the introduction of its new In-App Monitoring (IAM) service, a pioneering technique for measuring and monitoring network performance in mobile apps. The WatchMouse IAM provides an open source library that developers can incorporate in their app, using simple, low-impact changes in the code to instruct which web service calls to monitor. IAM then collects performance data for the app publisher while ensuring privacy for the end-user. The new IAM service currently supports iOS applications; support for Android OS applications is planned for the near future. "Modern smartphone platforms like Apple’s iOS or Google’s Android OS all feature apps that rely heavily on the Internet connectivity of the device as well as availability and performance of the web services with which they communicate,” said Mark Pors, CTO at WatchMouse. “An app will not function as intended if the web service on which it relies is slow or the network falters, and users can end up frustrated, or worse, delete the app. WatchMouse IAM is the first product to give developers a way to measure the performance of apps as real users experience them" The new WatchMouse IAM provides actual user experience and performance data to enable app developers to pinpoint issues, improve the resilience (including fallback modes for their app), performance or reliability of the web services. The IAM library collects anonymized performance data, optionally stores it on the device, (to offload later when the device is connected to WiFi, thus saving costs), and delivers it to a data warehouse – either with WatchMouse or the app publisher. Data is then delivered via easy-to-read dashboard reports. The new WatchMouse IAM dashboard offers a wealth of insight and information including:
Additionally, once enough data is collected, the apps can be instructed to stop the collection of data and divert to the original mode of operation – as if the IAM library was never there. The end user is also totally in control and can opt-out of data collection at any point. No personal data is collected by IAM, nor will it inspect the actual traffic content between the app and the web service; only the amount of data, the speed, and any system or network errors are collected. IAM for Apple iOS is available for download and is published under the MIT open source license. Developers and app publishers who are interested in this new, unobtrusive method of mobile app performance monitoring are invited to test the IAM via IAM@watchmouse.com. Leading Irish MSP Leverages Nimsoft to Deliver Higher-Value ServicesNimsoft Monitor Provides PFH Clients Insight Into IT infrastructure and Services While Laying Groundwork for Cloud OfferingsCampbell, Calif.–June 7, 2011–Nimsoft today announced PFH Technology Group, Ireland's leading private Information and Communications Technology (ICT) company, is deploying Nimsoft Monitor to provide clients with 24/7 monitoring of their critical IT infrastructure and applications. By incorporating a comprehensive, unified monitoring solution into the rest of its core ICT offerings, PFH is able to attract and retain new enterprise clients and provide added value to existing clients. Nimsoft Monitor enables PFH to increase the value of its services by providing its clients improved transparency and visibility into the performance and availability of those services. At the same time, Nimsoft Monitor is enabling PFH to reduce its operational overhead. “Our clients have to drive down their IT costs, even as they leverage technology to deliver greater value to their businesses,” said Jason Boyle, director of PFH Technology Group. “By implementing Nimsoft Monitor, we can give our clients the insight they need to maximize the performance of their existing IT investments and more intelligently project their future capacity requirements.” Boyle added that Nimsoft Monitor is also ideal for supporting PFH’s cloud initiatives―since its architecture is ideally suited for supporting dynamic hosting and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) environments. “Nimsoft uniquely supports the strategic direction of service providers, such as PFH, that are looking to deliver comprehensive, easy-to-implement solutions,” said Chris O’Malley, Nimsoft CEO. “With Nimsoft Monitor, PFH clients will gain broader visibility into their existing IT investments and help ensure that their service-level expectations are consistently being met or exceeded.” Nimsoft Monitor is a component of Nimsoft Unified Manager, a multi-tenant IT Management As-A-Service solution that combines industry-leading infrastructure monitoring and ready- to-use ITIL®-based service management capabilities in a single solution. About PFH PFH, Ireland’s largest privately-owned Information & Communications Technology (ICT) Company, currently employs 200 people between offices in Dublin, Cork, and Galway. This includes 80 engineers to service clients nationwide. PFH brings great technology together using its experience and expertise to deliver winning business strategies for its clients. For more information, visit www.pfh.ie About Nimsoft Nimsoft provides integrated, modern IT management solutions for more than 1,000 enterprise and service provider customers globally, including 1&1, CDW, SoftLayer, SunGard Availability Services, Sur La Table, TriNet, and Virgin America. The company’s Nimsoft Unified Manager is an industry-leading solution that helps organizations easily monitor and manage IT services in increasingly complex business environments. Nimsoft products integrate with existing solutions at any point from the data center to the cloud, and are available on a pay-as-you-go basis. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com. Legal Notices Copyright © 2011 CA. All Rights Reserved. One CA Plaza, Islandia, N.Y. 11749. Nimsoft is a trademark of Nimsoft Inc. All other trademarks, trade names, service marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. ITIL® is a Registered Trade Mark, and a Registered Community Trade Mark of the Office of Government Commerce. Press Contact: Megan Bucks Nimsoft 415-601-3632 Megan.bucks@nimsoft.com RackForce Deploys Nimsoft for 24/7 Monitoring of Cloud SolutionsLeading Canadian MSP Adds Value and Speeds Problem Resolution With IT Management-as-a-ServiceCampbell, Calif.–May 25, 2011–Nimsoft today announced that RackForce, a leading provider of hybrid cloud computing solutions, has deployed Nimsoft Monitor to provide 24/7 monitoring of its clients’ critical infrastructure. Nimsoft Monitor is an IT monitoring and management solution architected for modern IT. Available either on demand or on premise, this solution provides the visibility needed to proactively monitor and manage performance and availability across even the most complex environments. “The versatility of Nimsoft Monitor is ideally suited for RackForce’s secure multi-tenant, highly scalable hybrid Cloud services. This helps ensure we meet our SLA requirements and provide our clients with much more detailed reporting and performance metrics that we couldn’t provide in the past,” said Brian Fry, co-founder and vice president of RackForce. “It is an ‘Ah-ha!’ solution that delivers the right functionality at the right price—and it aligns perfectly with our everything-as-a-service delivery model.” The Nimsoft Unified Management Portal will allow Rackforce to provide its clients with improved insight into the health of their infrastructure while enabling reduced support and overall operating costs. With Nimsoft Monitor and its drill-down features, RackForce’s IT staff will also be able to filter out false positives, rapidly troubleshoot and resolve service interruptions, and pro-actively address other potential problems. “Because Nimsoft Monitor is fully featured, integration-ready, and so easy to configure and deploy, it is the ideal monitoring solution for cloud solution providers,” said Chris O’Malley, Nimsoft CEO. “Our flexible business terms enable cloud providers to adaptively align their spend with their constantly changing business needs.” Nimsoft Monitor and the Unified Management Portal are components of Nimsoft Unified Manager, a multi-tenant IT Management as-a-Service solution that combines industry-leading infrastructure monitoring and ready- to-use ITIL®-based service management. About RackForce Networks Inc. RackForce is a leading provider of green hybrid cloud computing services from its strategically located facilities in Kelowna, BC and Toronto, ON Canada. Its cloud focused dynamic datacenter design forms the foundation for enterprise class compute, colocation and network services that are delivered to a worldwide customer base. For more information, visit www.rackforce.com. For media information please visit http://www.rackforce.com/information_center.html. About Nimsoft Nimsoft provides integrated, modern IT management solutions for more than 1,000 enterprise and service provider customers globally, including 1&1, CDW, SoftLayer, SunGard Availability Services, Sur La Table, TriNet, and Virgin America. The company’s Nimsoft Unified Manager is an industry-leading solution that helps organizations easily monitor and manage IT services in increasingly complex business environments. Nimsoft products integrate with existing solutions at any point from the data center to the cloud, and are available on a pay-as-you-go basis. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com. Legal Notices Copyright © 2011 CA. All Rights Reserved. One CA Plaza, Islandia, N.Y. 11749. Nimsoft is a trademark of Nimsoft Inc. All other trademarks, trade names, service marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. ITIL® is a Registered Trade Mark of the Office of Government Commerce in the United Kingdom and other countries. Press Contact: Larry Smalheiser Nimsoft Survey Reveals Growing Embrace of Managed Service Providers by Large and Mid-Sized CompaniesHalf of Participating IT Executives Foresee Possibility of MSPs Managing 100% of Their EnvironmentCampbell, Calif.–May 19, 2011–Nimsoft today released the results of its Enterprise Requirements for MSPs 2011 survey, which reveals the growing embrace of Managed Services Providers (MSPs) by large and mid-sized companies nationwide. The survey, conducted in association with Enterprise Management Associates™ (EMA), collected responses, experiences and opinions from executives, mid-level managers and individual IT contributors. All participants were currently engaged with an MSP, planning to engage an MSP, or had used MSP services in the past. IT professionals indicated that their top three motivations for engaging an MSP were the opportunity to reduce costs (41%), access to improved technical expertise/depth (37%), and the ability to better focus on core business (36%). "The survey clearly demonstrates that MSPs are extremely attractive partners for IT organizations that are under growing pressure to do more with less,” said Phil LaForge, vice president of the Nimsoft service provider business. “As they continue to gain market momentum, MSPs will keep evolving their capabilities to offer clients an even more robust range of high-value management services.” As a measure of how enthusiastically the industry is embracing the MSP model, nearly one-third (31%) of respondents—and half of all surveyed IT executives—indicated that they could envision a time when all of their IT would be managed by MSPs. Additional highlights of the survey include:
“In general, the research indicated a broad existing practice and future interest in use of MSPs across a number of technology and organization areas,” said Jim Frey, EMA managing research director. “We recommend that any organization seeking to balance business priorities against near-term and long-term operating costs consider MSPs, either as a means to supplement existing staff and organizations or as a primary approach to operations.” Nimsoft recently announced Nimsoft Unified Manager, a multi-tenant IT Management as-a-Service solution that combines industry-leading infrastructure monitoring and ready- to-use ITIL®-based service management capabilities in a single solution. By unifying monitoring and service management, Nimsoft Unified Manager empowers MSPs to more efficiently and effectively optimize their corporate clients’ delivery of IT services across various types of infrastructure―including public and private cloud environments. Register to hear Nimsoft and EMA present the survey results during a webinar today at 11 a.m. Pacific Time. Following the live event, a replay of the webinar will be available. A second webinar on June 9, 2011 will focus on the role that MSP offerings can play in meeting top IT management priorities in the enterprise. Please register to attend here. About Nimsoft Nimsoft provides integrated, modern IT management solutions for more than 1,000 enterprise and service provider customers globally, including 1&1, CDW, SoftLayer, SunGard Availability Services, Sur La Table, TriNet, and Virgin America. The company’s Nimsoft Unified Manager is an industry-leading solution that helps organizations easily monitor and manage IT services in increasingly complex business environments. Nimsoft products integrate with existing solutions at any point from the data center to the cloud, and are available on a pay-as-you-go basis. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com. Legal Notices Copyright © 2011 CA. All Rights Reserved. One CA Plaza, Islandia, N.Y. 11749. Nimsoft is a trademark of Nimsoft Inc. All other trademarks, trade names, service marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. Press Contact: Larry Smalheiser DigitalGlobe Deploys Nimsoft Monitor To Optimize Performance of Client-Facing ApplicationsUnified Monitoring and Customizable Dashboards Enhance Visibility, Simplify ReportingCampbell, Calif.–May 17, 2011–Nimsoft announced that DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI), a leading global provider of high-resolution earth imagery solutions, is deploying Nimsoft Monitor for comprehensive monitoring of its IT infrastructure and applications. Nimsoft Monitor will replace disparate tools that DigitalGlobe is using within its infrastructure. By providing a clear, consolidated view of DigitalGlobe’s environment, the solution will better empower the company’s IT staff to help ensure optimal performance of its client-facing applications. Nimsoft Monitor was selected for its ease of use and cross-platform integration. DigitalGlobe’s IT team will also benefit from the solution’s Unified Management Portal, which provides a single view of its systems and applications—as well as the ability to create customized reports that meet the requirements of different audiences. “Nimsoft Monitor allows us to consolidate diverse monitoring and reporting functions into a single solution that is easier to manage and use,” said Sonya DeWitt, manager of the business solutions team at DigitalGlobe. “With Nimsoft Monitor, we can create customized dashboards and reports to meet our clients’ requirements―from technical personnel who need highly granular data on specific events to executive management requesting a top-level view of system and application performance.” DigitalGlobe will also use Nimsoft Unified Manager to monitor systems and applications at remote locations, including the company’s cloud-based services. Nimsoft Monitor cloud support will help ensure the quality and consistency of those services. “Nimsoft Monitor seamlessly integrates with complex cloud and on-premise environments, so customers like DigitalGlobe can quickly and cost-effectively gain the ability to more proactively and efficiently protect the reliability of critical services,” said Chris O’Malley, Nimsoft CEO. “This ability is especially important for emerging enterprises that need to aggressively invest in growth without sacrificing customer satisfaction or over-allocating resources to IT operations.” Nimsoft Monitor is a component of Nimsoft Unified Manager, a multi-tenant IT Management As-A-Service solution that combines industry-leading infrastructure monitoring and ready- to-use ITIL®-based service management capabilities in a single solution. About Nimsoft Nimsoft provides integrated, modern IT management solutions for more than 1,000 enterprise and service provider customers globally, including 1&1, CDW, SoftLayer, SunGard Availability Services, Sur La Table, TriNet, and Virgin America. The company’s Nimsoft Unified Manager is an industry-leading solution that helps organizations easily monitor and manage IT services in increasingly complex business environments. Nimsoft products integrate with existing solutions at any point from the data center to the cloud, and are available on a pay-as-you-go basis. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com. About DigitalGlobe DigitalGlobe is a leading global provider of commercial high-resolution earth imagery products and services. Sourced from its own advanced satellite constellation, its imagery solutions support a wide variety of uses within defense and intelligence, civil agencies, mapping and analysis, environmental monitoring, oil and gas exploration, infrastructure management, Internet portals and navigation technology. With its collection sources and comprehensive ImageLibrary (containing more than one billion square kilometers of earth imagery and imagery products) it offers a range of on- and off-line products and services designed to enable customers to easily access and integrate our imagery into their business operations and applications. For more information, visit http://www.digitalglobe.com. Legal Notices Copyright © 2011 CA. All Rights Reserved. One CA Plaza, Islandia, N.Y. 11749. Nimsoft is a trademark of Nimsoft Inc. All other trademarks, trade names, service marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. ITIL® is a Registered Trade Mark of the Office of Government Commerce in the United Kingdom and other countries. Press Contact: Larry Smalheiser IPR International Selects Nimsoft Unified Manager to Enhance ZoneIT Cloud Services with Real-time Monitoring and Self-service PortalsCombined Infrastructure Monitoring and Service Management Capabilities Drive Down Costs While Delivering Greater Value to ClientsCampbell, Calif.–April 20, 2011–Nimsoft announced that IPR International, a private data protection and cloud service provider, has selected Nimsoft Unified Manager to provide unified management of client infrastructure and services. Nimsoft Unified Manager is an easy-to-deploy/easy-to-operate, multi-tenant IT Management as-a-Service solution that combines industry-leading infrastructure monitoring and ready-to-use ITIL®-based service management. IPR expects to add substantial value to its offerings by optimizing service levels and providing its clients full visibility into their cloud infrastructure and services with the Unified Management Portal. IPR will replace several existing point solutions with Nimsoft Unified Manager, enabling the reduction of costs associated with providing the management and maintenance of multiple tools. IPR also expects the more proactive approach to system and service troubleshooting made possible by the Nimsoft solution to save time and money. “Nimsoft Unified Manager is a comprehensive management solution that gives us an extensive view of our clients’ infrastructures so we can more quickly and efficiently resolve potential problems before they affect service to our clients,” said Dan Dayanim, director of client service delivery at IPR. “Nimsoft Unified Manager easily integrates with our other operational systems so we can flexibly assign tasks, rapidly respond to requests, and better scale our capacity to support more clients.” “Nimsoft Unified Manager is designed to meet the needs of service providers like IPR that want to deliver highly reliable, highly economical cloud offerings to clients,” said Chris O’Malley, Nimsoft CEO. “Its performance, scalability, multi-tenancy, ease of integration and ease of use are exactly what service providers need to achieve both their technical and business objectives.” About IPR International IPR began with a deep professional and personal commitment to help IT clients backup their data and recover from disasters. Today, IPR protects petabytes of data from around the globe in geographically diverse data centers. The IPR Reading BCC and Wilmington CCC afford clients production, dedicated recovery and computing environments. IPR’s flexible, personalized Managed Data Center and Infrastructure Services have been virtualized for ZoneIT Private Cloud Services. IPR enjoys a >90% client retention rate, as well as 30% annual growth per year. IPR has been named one of the “Fastest Growing Companies” in the Philadelphia Region (“Philadelphia 100”) in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2009. Mike Emmi, Chairman and CEO, has received multiple awards and recognitions for his leadership in the technology industry and charitable and civic work. For more information, visit www.iprintl.com About Nimsoft Nimsoft provides integrated, modern IT management solutions for more than 1,000 enterprise and service provider customers globally, including 1&1, CDW, SoftLayer, SunGard Availability Services, Sur La Table, TriNet, and Virgin America. The company’s Nimsoft Unified Manager is an industry-leading solution that helps organizations easily monitor and manage IT services in increasingly complex business environments. Nimsoft products integrate with existing solutions at any point from the data center to the cloud, and are available on a pay-as-you-go basis. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com. Legal Notices Copyright © 2011 CA. All Rights Reserved. One CA Plaza, Islandia, N.Y. 11749. Nimsoft is a trademark of Nimsoft Inc. All other trademarks, trade names, service marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. ITIL® is a Registered Trade Mark of the Office of Government Commerce in the United Kingdom and other countries. Press Contact: Larry Smalheiser Nimsoft Launches Nimsoft Unified Manager, a Single Solution Combining IT Monitoring and Service ManagementHighly Adaptable, Multi-Tenant IT Management-As-A-Service Solution Designed to Meet Modern IT’s Rapidly Evolving Business NeedsCAMPBELL, Calif. – April 5, 2011 – Nimsoft today announced Nimsoft Unified Manager, a multi-tenant IT Management As-A-Service solution that combines industry-leading infrastructure monitoring and ready- to-use ITIL®-based service management capabilities in a single solution. By unifying monitoring and service management, Nimsoft Unified Manager empowers service providers and IT organizations to more efficiently and effectively optimize delivery of IT services to business users across internal and external IT infrastructures―including public and private cloud environments. The solution is built on the successful Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (now known as Nimsoft Monitor) and the customer-proven Nimsoft Service Desk technology. “The need to constantly drive down costs, combined with ever-expanding technology complexity, are driving IT organizations to adopt new technologies and processes,” said David Coyle, research vice president, IT operations at Gartner. “Flexible, unified solutions that promote integration between monitoring and management will be key selection criteria over the coming years.” Nimsoft Unified Manager provides intuitive, out-of-the-box logic and bi-directional integration between monitoring and service management to meet the needs of today’s collaborative, fast-paced IT operations. It will be offered either on-demand (SaaS) or on-premise. This integration between monitoring and service management radically improves the productivity of IT operations―helping to ensure that problems and potential problems are quickly and accurately addressed based on their impact to the business. "Managing client private cloud infrastructure and protecting sensitive client data in globally distributed data centers is our business. Now the Nimsoft Unified Manager gives our ZoneIT Private Cloud clients visibility into their virtual systems and our customer service team improved support tools to scale,” commented Dan Dayanim, Director, Client Services Delivery at IPR International, LLC. “We’ve been searching for a unified solution that pulls together monitoring for our multi-vendor private cloud infrastructure with our ITIL service delivery model and a centralized multi-tenant client portal. We’re excited that the Nimsoft platform fits our strategic direction and will help drive growth." Nimsoft Unified Manager features an intuitive, unified experience that guides users through ITIL-based workflows—from alarms to alerts to problem resolution—while streamlining service delivery, enabling reduced business downtime and improved service quality. Built on a proven, lightweight multi-tenant architecture, Nimsoft Unified Manager enables businesses and service providers to embrace established, emerging and future technology maximizing service quality and reducing total cost of ownership and overall IT complexity. Additional capabilities of Nimsoft Unified Manager include:
“Business moves too fast for companies to get bogged down in costly implementations of complex IT management applications that can’t respond to constant changes in modern IT infrastructure and services,” said Gary Read, Nimsoft CEO. “With Nimsoft Unified Manager, our customers can maintain the deep visibility they need into the computing environments that form the central nervous system of today’s modern IT organizations and deliver critical highly available services at low costs whether in the data center or the cloud.” Nimsoft Unified Manager features flexible licensing, deploy-as-you-need implementation, and will be offered with a choice of on-premise or on-demand SaaS delivery. To view a live webcast on Nimsoft Unified Manager on April 5 from 8-10 AM Pacific Time, please visit here. For a replay, visit here. Supporting QuotesBeing able to offer our clients this combined SaaS monitoring and service desk solution is a significant benefit," commented Barry White, Operations Director at MNIS. "We see the offering as a clear path for us to increase the ways we can help our clients improve visibility, reporting and management of their business processes and operations, ultimately resulting in measurable business success.” “We use Nimsoft solutions to nimbly and cost-efficiently deliver highly reliable services to a demanding and rapidly growing client base,” said Chris Poe, CTO at Atrion Networking Corporation, a New England-based service provider and systems integrator to the mid- and small enterprise market. “By enabling the consolidation of an even broader set of infrastructure monitoring and service management capabilities into a single platform, we believe Nimsoft Unified Manager will empower service providers and IT organizations to provide even greater value to their clients and create improved operational efficiencies—allowing organizations to more effectively run their IT operations.” “In today’s demanding business climate, where information is rapidly changing and moving in the data center and the cloud, failure is not an option,” said Kalyan Kumar, AVP and worldwide head cross tower functional services HCL Technologies. “The need for unified tools that can effectively manage the situation, drive down operational costs and mitigate risk has grown exponentially. This expansion of Nimsoft offerings to include both monitoring and service desk capabilities in Nimsoft Unified Manager provides us with a simple, proven way to manage a modern IT infrastructure." “As a technology partner to Nimsoft, we expect to see strong market acceptance of the Nimsoft Unified Manager solution," said JF Lauri, Managing Director at ERP management company AGENTIL. “The solution combines proven capabilities, and gives service providers and IT organizations an efficient technology solution that to us, represents the next generation of ITSM management and monitoring." “The Nimsoft Unified Manager solution helps us enable organizations to easily account for and manage the ever-changing needs of today's evolving business environment,” said Dave Lewis, CEO at systems integration, training and consultancy company Mibtree. “The fact that Nimsoft has successfully brought together the IT monitoring and service management sides of the equation will prove to be a tremendous asset to business. It’s yet another example of the company’s commitment to offering a comprehensive approach to IT for the modern organization.” “As a Nimsoft IT service management alliance partner, we see tremendous business value in offering a wide variety of IT capabilities as a utility service,” said Jason Bystrak, Director of Sales, Ingram Micro North America’s Services Division. “Nimsoft Unified Manager will further enable our mutual cloud and managed service provider partners to offer detailed insight and comprehensive service management features to today's increasingly mobile and socially connected end user community. This flexible solution will help ensure our partners are well equipped to manage today's constantly evolving modern IT services and infrastructure in a more cost effective and efficient manner.” "Uniting service desk capabilities with monitoring into a single offering like this makes sense," said Fred Broussard, research director, Enterprise System Management Software, IDC. "Leveraging a common architecture allows service providers and IT organizations to reduce IT management cost and complexity.” About NimsoftNimsoft provides integrated, modern IT management solutions for more than 1000 enterprise and service provider customers globally, including 1&1, CDW, SoftLayer, Sur La Table, TriNet, and Virgin America. The company’s Nimsoft Unified Manager is an industry-leading solution which helps organizations easily monitor and manage IT services in increasingly complex business environments. Nimsoft products integrate with existing solutions at any point from the data center to the cloud, and are available on a pay-as-you-go basis. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com Legal NoticesCopyright © 2011 CA. All Rights Reserved. One CA Plaza, Islandia, N.Y. 11749. ITIL® is a Registered Trade Mark of the Office of Government Commerce in the United Kingdom and other countries. Nimsoft is a trademark of Nimsoft Inc. 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Mahindra Satyam Partners with Nimsoft to Deliver Enterprise-class Monitoring Services to ClientsMulti-Tenancy and Online Reporting Capabilities Enable Cost-Effective and High-Value Visibility into Infrastructure and Application HealthCampbell, Calif. - March 22, 2010 - Nimsoft today announced that Mahindra Satyam, a leading global business and information technology services company has deployed the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS) on its Unified Service Management Platform (USMP)―a managed services platform developed to optimize client infrastructure performance and service levels. Mahindra Satyam leverages the multi-tenancy and online reporting capabilities of NMS to provide mid-market and on-demand/managed hosting clients with cost-effective, enterprise-class monitoring services. NMS combines a highly-scalable cloud monitoring platform with customizable portals to help USMP meet the scalability, complexity and service performance requirements of its clients’ enterprise IT service demands. “To remain competitive, service providers must find ways to reduce the total cost of managed service delivery, while increasing the availability and performance of their IT infrastructure,” said Gary Read, Nimsoft CEO. “With NMS and its multi-tenancy capabilities, Mahindra Satyam is able to meet this market need with rich, high value monitoring.” “Nimsoft was a compelling choice for us because of its powerful features and flexible pricing models—which are well aligned with the needs of emerging economies,” said Jothiganesh Nagarajan, Mahindra Satyam vice president. “By integrating NMS with our USMP, we will enable clients to seamlessly gain a single view of their IT environments and to effectively embrace the cloud even in multi-provider scenarios.” About Mahindra Satyam Mahindra Satyam is part of the $7.1 billion Mahindra Group, a global federation of companies and one of the top 10 industrial firms based in India. Mahindra Satyam development and delivery centers in the US, Canada, Brazil, the UK, Hungary, Egypt, UAE, India, China, Malaysia, Singapore, and Australia serve numerous clients, including many Fortune 500 organizations. About Nimsoft Legal Notices Press Contact: Global IT Services Company Delivers Proactive Monitoring to Clients with Nimsoft Monitoring SolutionG7 InfoTech Adds Value to Technology Solutions and Reduces Operating ExpensesCampbell, Calif. - March 9, 2010 - Nimsoft today announced G7 InfoTech, a global IT solutions and services company is deploying the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS) to provide proactive monitoring of its clients critical systems and applications. With NMS, G7 InfoTech will be able to deliver greater business value to clients in the mid-market segment by maintaining full visibility into the status of critical infrastructure and services while reducing its operational costs. NMS offers comprehensive functionality and features that enable G7 InfoTech to effectively monitor more clients with little additional administrative overhead. This unified monitoring approach gives G7 InfoTech’s clients a single view of their infrastructure, allowing them to keep track of their systems via the Nimsoft Unified Monitoring Portal. “By improving the automation of IT management processes and tasks, NMS is helping us lower our operational costs,” said Balaji Karthikeyan, executive vice president of G7 InfoTech. “With NMS, our team has been able to automate 35 percent of our level-1 tickets, resulting in a 28 percent operating expense savings.” InfoTech plans to deploy NMS to up to 500 customers by the end of 2011, replacing several open source and off-the-shelf monitoring solutions already in place. In addition to providing 24/7 remote, real-time monitoring capabilities for clients’ infrastructures, NMS will be a critical component in G7 InfoTech’s new cloud services offering. “Nimsoft enables value-aggressive service providers like G7 InfoTech to deliver greater value to more clients at less cost,” said Gary Read, Nimsoft CEO. “Our NMS solution is particularly useful for service providers who are leveraging their dynamic hosting and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) environments to launch innovative cloud computing services. It makes it so much easier for them to respond to changing business requirements and provide clients with the transparency that the market demands.” About G7 InfoTech About Nimsoft Legal Notices Press Contact: DataCenter Finland Oy Efficiently Enhances Service-Level Management with Nimsoft Monitoring SolutionAdvanced Monitoring Capabilities Empower Leading Nordic Service Provider to Track Availability and Performance From End-User’s PerspectiveCampbell, Calif. - February 23, 2010 - Nimsoft today announced that DataCenter Finland Oy, an IT infrastructure service provider, has deployed the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS) across its IT infrastructure to optimize service availability and performance by monitoring application behavior from the end-user’s perspective. By providing comprehensive functionality in a single application, NMS is helping DataCenter Finland Oy to minimize the costs associated with the integration and maintenance of the multiple monitoring tools it had been using. Many service providers measure availability as a percentage of server uptime. This method, however, may not accurately reflect the availability of the service to the end-users. For example, the connection between the end-user and the service provider’s servers can be disrupted by a network failure that may not be immediately obvious to the service provider. NMS addresses these service monitoring issues by putting the most relevant infrastructure and response time metrics at the service provider’s fingertips with intuitive SLA reporting features. This provides Datacenter Finland Oy with valuable insight into the current health and performance trends of the services it hosts for its business clients. NMS also enables DataCenter Finland Oy to better evaluate and control how to optimally allocate infrastructure resources to deliver higher service levels to its clients at less cost. "NMS enables us to diligently monitor the network and system components of the service delivery chain all the way to the end-user, immediately notifying our technical staff of any potential problems so we can avert disruptions even before they impact our clients," Ilmari Vallo, CEO of DataCenter Finland Oy. "We also use the detailed reports generated by NMS to provide our clients with accurate, credible documentation that their SLAs are consistently being met." NMS provides comprehensive coverage for heterogeneous multi-tenant environments, allowing DataCenter Finland Oy to monitor multiple, diverse platforms and applications from a single interface. Designed for compatibility with a full range of physical and virtual environments, NMS is integration-ready and provides streamlined configuration and deployment. Additionally, it can be licensed under flexible business terms that align well with service provider, SaaS and cloud business models. "Nimsoft delivers solutions that uniquely and adaptively address the technology and business requirements of service providers like DataCenter Finland Oy," said Gary Read, Nimsoft CEO. "Our unified approach enables these service providers to streamline their operations, delight their clients, and achieve sustainable competitive advantages in a rapidly evolving global XaaS marketplace." About DataCenter Finland Oy About Nimsoft Legal Notices Press Contact: ITS InfoCom Improves Service Levels to Clients, Reduces Costs With Nimsoft Unified Monitoring SolutionMulti-National Hosted Solutions Provider Leverages NMS to Streamline Monitoring Complex Infrastructure and Paves Way for Cloud OfferingsCAMPBELL, Calif. - February 2, 2011 - Nimsoft today announced that ITS InfoCom, a multinational IT solutions company, has deployed the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS) to monitor its clients’ infrastructures. NMS virtually eliminates the need to integrate multiple disparate systems while adding significant value. In addition to providing unified access to historical data and automated alerting features through custom portals, NMS provides resiliency features that help ITS InfoCom ensure the availability of its clients’ critical infrastructure and applications. By deploying NMS, ITS InfoCom is able to consolidate the functionality of multiple monitoring tools into a single solution, significantly reducing the operational overhead associated with managing those tools and allowing staff resources to be allocated to other critical tasks. With the Nimsoft Unified Monitoring Portal, ITS InfoCom can give its clients greater visibility into their hosted infrastructures and increased confidence that their systems and applications are running optimally. “Improving our monitoring capabilities with NMS has allowed us to significantly improve the cost/benefit ratio we offer our clients,” said Alex Gonzalez, ITS InfoCom corporate operations director. “Since implementing NMS and migrating our installed base to the solution, we have reduced new client set up time by 50% while lowering ongoing monitoring platform management costs by 35%.” Gonzalez added that the solution’s suitability for monitoring dynamic hosting and infrastructure as a service (IaaS) environments is ideal for supporting ITS InfoCom’s new cloud offerings. "Nimsoft delivers strategic value to services providers seeking to capitalize on the growing demand cloud solutions," said Gary Read, Nimsoft CEO. "Our unique infrastructure monitoring technology makes Nimsoft the ideal partner for service providers that need to respond to a rapidly-changing market while sustaining business performance." About ITS InfoComITS InfoCom is a multinational company offering Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) services to organizations throughout North, Central & South America and the Caribbean. With 14 years of market experience and over 1300 employees in eleven countries the company is able to provide a unique depth of ICT expertise to deliver reliable and cost-effective near-shore Managed Service solutions. www.ITSInfoCom.com About NimsoftNimsoft provides Unified Monitoring solutions for virtualized data centers, hosted and managed services, cloud platforms, and SaaS resources. The Nimsoft Unified Monitoring architecture virtually eliminates the need to deploy a new monitoring solution for outsourced services, public or private clouds, or SaaS implementations. Over 1000 customers use Nimsoft Unified Monitoring solutions, including hundreds of leading hosting, cloud and managed service providers such as 1&1, BlueLock, CDW, Hitachi, QTS, Rackspace, SoftLayer and Troubadour. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com or to see Nimsoft Unified Monitoring in action, visit the Nimsoft public portal at www.unifiedmonitoring.com. Legal NoticesCopyright © 2011 CA. All Rights Reserved. One CA Plaza, Islandia, N.Y. 11749. Nimsoft is a trademark of Nimsoft Inc. All other trademarks, trade names, service marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. Press ContactLarry SmalheiserTrainer Communications 925-271-8211 nimsoft@trainercomm.com Nimsoft Sees Expanding Market Adoption for Cloud-Based IT MonitoringCustomers Seek Benefits Of On Demand Monitoring Solutions That Are Easy to Deploy and Adapt to Rapidly Changing RequirementsCAMPBELL, Calif. - January 27, 2011 - Nimsoft today announced widespread customer acceptance of its cloud-based IT monitoring solutions. Led by the demand of enterprise and service provider customers for better ways to monitor cloud environments, deployment of Nimsoft On Demand and the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS) have risen in line with predictions of rapid growth in this market from leading industry analysts. Nimsoft solutions enable enterprises and service providers to provide clients with insight into the performance and health of their networks and applications on a 24x7 basis via easy-to-use, fully customizable monitoring portals and elastic widgets. Several key accomplishments which helped Nimsoft capitalize on the growing market for cloud-based IT monitoring over the last year include:
Nimsoft gained more than 125 new customers in 2010 with over 3 dozen during the most recent quarter. These include Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Awantek SDN BHD, Carpathia Hosting, Inc., Flagship Solutions Group, G7 Infotech, Mahindra Satyam, and RackForce. "2010 was indeed the 'Year of the Cloud' for Nimsoft," said Gary Read, Nimsoft CEO. "We saw continued growth in the demand from both enterprise and service providers for solutions that enable granular, end-to-end monitoring of critical services-regardless of where the underlying infrastructure for those services happens to reside." About NimsoftNimsoft provides Unified Monitoring solutions for virtualized data centers, hosted and managed services, cloud platforms, and SaaS resources. The Nimsoft Unified Monitoring architecture virtually eliminates the need to deploy a new monitoring solution for outsourced services, public or private clouds, or SaaS implementations. Over 1000 customers use Nimsoft Unified Monitoring solutions, including hundreds of leading hosting, cloud and managed service providers such as 1&1, BlueLock, CDW, Hitachi, QTS, Rackspace, SoftLayer and Troubadour. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com or to see Nimsoft Unified Monitoring in action, visit the Nimsoft public portal at www.unifiedmonitoring.com. Legal NoticesCopyright© 2011 CA. All Rights Reserved. One CA Plaza, Islandia, N.Y. 11749. Nimsoft is a trademark of Nimsoft Inc. All other trademarks, trade names, service marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. Press ContactLarry SmalheiserTrainer Communications 925-271-8211 nimsoft@trainercomm.com Belgium's Leading Postal Provider Deploys Nimsoft to Improve Service Quality and AvailabilityNMS Enables bpost to More Efficiently and Proactively Monitor Complex Mission-critical InfrastructureCAMPBELL, Calif. - January 19, 2011 - Nimsoft today announced that bpost, Belgium's leading postal company, has implemented the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS) to improve operational efficiency and quality of service through a more streamlined and proactive monitoring of its IT infrastructure. NMS integrates with bpost's existing platforms and applications, making deployment across its expansive infrastructure fast and virtually seamless. The solution will be used to proactively monitor both bpost's physical and virtual servers, as well as numerous network elements. After a large-scale evaluation in which three companies were invited to perform a proof of concept (POC), bpost chose NMS for its service-level monitoring capabilities, customized reporting features, and extensive out-of-the-box data collection probes. NMS will replace numerous point solutions with a comprehensive set of integrated monitoring capabilities, including end-to-end monitoring of the end-user experience. "Efficient, proactive monitoring of our IT environment and applications in a cost-effective way is essential as we seek to optimize service quality and remain price-competitive in a deregulated postal market," said Bart De Wachter, Head of ICT Infrastructure, Operations and Support at bpost. "NMS delivered everything we needed to meet our evolving IT monitoring challenges-including ease of use, ease of deployment, integration with our existing infrastructure, reduced administrative overhead, gradual extension to business process monitoring and actual positive impact on our mean-time-to-repair" Among its many other capabilities, NMS will enable bpost to accurately measure service responsiveness and reliability from the end-user's perspective. The added insight into the end-user experience will help bpost's IT team proactively mitigate problems and safeguard staff productivity. "By monitoring both the health of its IT infrastructure components and the actual end-user experience, bpost can more effectively compete in a rapidly evolving postal services market that is highly dependent upon the performance of critical information systems," said Gary Read, Nimsoft CEO. "bpost's selection of Nimsoft after its extensive evaluation of alternative products underscores the superiority of our technology and our exceptional alignment with the changing needs of today's IT organizations." About bpostbpost is the leading postal operator in Belgium, marketing a wide range of products and services in mail and related markets. bpost's core business is collecting, sorting, transporting and delivering letters and parcels. bpost and its subsidiaries provide solutions in document management, certified electronic communication, international added value services and more. Services are provided to businesses under the name bpost business. International activities are operated under the name bpost international. Bank van De Post/Banque de La Poste, a joint venture of bpost and BNP Paribas Fortis, markets a range of banking and insurance products. The Belgian State holds 50% + 1 share of bpost. The remaining shares are held by CVC Capital Partners. About NimsoftNimsoft provides Unified Monitoring solutions for virtualized data centers, hosted and managed services, cloud platforms, and SaaS resources. The Nimsoft Unified Monitoring architecture virtually eliminates the need to deploy a new monitoring solution for outsourced services, public or private clouds, or SaaS implementations. Over 1000 customers use Nimsoft Unified Monitoring solutions, including hundreds of leading hosting, cloud and managed service providers such as 1&1, BlueLock, CDW, Hitachi, QTS, Rackspace, SoftLayer and Troubadour. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com or to see Nimsoft Unified Monitoring in action, visit the Nimsoft public portal at www.unifiedmonitoring.com. Legal NoticesCopyright© 2011 CA. All Rights Reserved. One CA Plaza, Islandia, N.Y. 11749. Nimsoft is a trademark of Nimsoft Inc. All other trademarks, trade names, service marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. Press ContactLarry SmalheiserTrainer Communications 925-271-8211 nimsoft@trainercomm.com Leading German IT Full-Service Provider Chooses Nimsoft to Unify Monitoring of Critical Infrastructure and Applicationsoperational services GmbH & Co. KG Improves Systems Availability and Response Times by Replacing Multiple Tools with NMSCAMPBELL, Calif. - January 12, 2011 - Nimsoft today announced that operational services GmbH & Co. KG, a joint venture between T-Systems International GmbH and Fraport AG, Germany's leading airport management company, has deployed the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS) to monitor its complex, high performance data center infrastructure. operational services (OS) runs the critical applications that support core operations such as flight scheduling, security, and facilities management for Frankfurt Airport and other clients. Its data center includes more than 800 physical and virtual servers. Uptime and reliability of an organization's IT infrastructure are essential. Minute-to-minute operations at Frankfurt Airport-one of the biggest and busiest travel hubs in Europe-and OS's other clients depend on the responsiveness and reliability of applications running in OS's data center. NMS enables OS to monitor its specialized applications and systems from a single, unified console. This unified monitoring simplifies IT management and enables OS to respond much more rapidly to any issues that might interrupt critical services. OS selected NMS for its ability to unify monitoring of diverse infrastructure components, ease of use and deployment, and rich feature set, which includes SLA reporting, customizable probes and automated alerting. Prior to deploying NMS, OS used multiple legacy monitoring solutions which were not well integrated with each other. "Before deploying NMS, we had to use half a dozen different monitoring solutions to keep an eye on all the 'moving parts' in our data center," said Christian Petsch, team coordinator of system management and tools at OS. "With NMS, we can consolidate data from all of our systems, so we have deeper insight into our environment and can be much more proactive about heading off potential problems, no matter how small or subtle they might appear to be." OS adds to the growing number of IT service providers turning to Nimsoft for their particularly demanding data center monitoring needs. "Service providers like OS face special IT monitoring challenges, because they have to support service delivery to multiple clients and have a much more dynamic data center environment than the typical standalone enterprise," said Gary Read, Nimsoft CEO. "NMS meets these challenges by consolidating tools, and making it easier for service providers to adaptively monitor complex and dynamic environments-so they can exceed their clients' service-level requirements, while controlling their own cost of operations." About operational services GmbH&Co. KGoperational services GmbH & Co. KG is active on the market as a joint venture between Fraport and T Systems (50/50) since 2005. As a full service provider their company concentrates competences in the operation of data centres as well as solution know-how in the topics tracking & tracing, collaboration systems, identity & access management and consulting. Their 500 employees stand out due to their high flexibility and highest service level for their clients. They focus on the market segments airport, automotive and RFID on the basis of their core competences, gained through long-term experience. For more information visit: www.operational-services.de About NimsoftNimsoft provides Unified Monitoring solutions for virtualized data centers, hosted and managed services, cloud platforms, and SaaS resources. The Nimsoft Unified Monitoring architecture virtually eliminates the need to deploy a new monitoring solution for outsourced services, public or private clouds, or SaaS implementations. Over 1000 customers use Nimsoft Unified Monitoring solutions, including hundreds of leading hosting, cloud and managed service providers such as 1&1, BlueLock, CDW, Hitachi, QTS, Rackspace, SoftLayer and Troubadour. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com or to see Nimsoft Unified Monitoring in action, visit the Nimsoft public portal at www.unifiedmonitoring.com. Legal NoticesCopyright© 2011 CA. All Rights Reserved. One CA Plaza, Islandia, N.Y. 11749. Nimsoft is a trademark of Nimsoft Inc. All other trademarks, trade names, service marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. Press ContactLarry SmalheiserTrainer Communications 925-271-8211 nimsoft@trainercomm.com 2010 Press Releases Basefarm Deploys Nimsoft Monitoring Solution to Safeguard Performance and Availability of Hosted Service InfrastructureUnified Monitoring Solution Uniquely Able to Accommodate Top European Service Provider's Complex, Highly Dynamic IT EnvironmentCAMPBELL, Calif. - December 14, 2010 - Nimsoft today announced that Basefarm, a leading Northern European provider of operational and IT services, is deploying the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS) across its infrastructure of 3,000 servers and the services and the applications running on those servers. NMS provides a robust, flexible solution for monitoring complex Web-based services and applications. Basefarm selected NMS for its scalability, detailed reporting and customized dashboards, which enable the company to optimize the client experience and deliver a greater range of large-scale services. Basefarm's client base spans a broad range of industries, so it must be able to effectively deliver services with high traffic and complexity-such as portals, online publications, streaming, search engines, and e-commerce. NMS will replace the numerous open source and commercial solutions that Basefarm had been using to monitor its infrastructure. "Prior to selecting NMS, we evaluated a number of open source alternatives as well as the Microsoft SCOM solution," said Bjart Kvarme, Basefarm CTO. "NMS demonstrated the scalability and functionality necessary to support our growing and constantly changing business." NMS will support Basefarm's newest cloud computing services, which include Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). "NMS will be a key technology enabler as Basefarm expands its offerings to address clients' rapidly evolving cloud strategies," said Kvarme. "Service providers like Basefarm face a dual challenge having to both successfully manage their own environments and give their clients visibility into the appropriate portion of those environments," said Gary Read, Nimsoft CEO. "NMS is uniquely able to provide this essential two-fold functionality-while also offering the flexibility Basefarm needs as it adapts to constantly changing customer requirements." About BasefarmBasefarm is one of Northern Europe's leading providers of operational and IT-related services on the net. Basefarm delivers operational services to business and organizations that use the Internet as an important customer channel. It directs services towards clients that have high quality demands, anticipate growth, and aim for a steady rate of development. It specializes in effective operation of services with high traffic and complexity, such as portals, online publications, streaming services, search engines, and e-commerce solutions. More than 130 clients deliver services in 15 European countries. Basefarm has about 200 employees divided into offices in Oslo, Stockholm and Amsterdam. About NimsoftNimsoft provides Unified Monitoring solutions for virtualized data centers, hosted and managed services, cloud platforms, and SaaS resources. The Nimsoft Unified Monitoring architecture eliminates the need to deploy a new monitoring solution for outsourced services, public or private clouds, or SaaS implementations. Over 800 customers use Nimsoft Unified Monitoring solutions, including hundreds of leading hosting, cloud and managed service providers such as 1&1, BlueLock, CDW, Hitachi, QTS, Rackspace, SoftLayer and Troubadour. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com or to see Nimsoft Unified Monitoring in action, visit the Nimsoft public portal at www.unifiedmonitoring.com. Legal NoticesCopyright © 2010 CA. All Rights Reserved. One CA Plaza, Islandia, N.Y. 11749. Cisco Unified Computing System and Cisco Systems are registered trademarks or trademarks of Cisco Systems, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the United States and certain other countries. Nimsoft and Nimsoft Unified Monitoring are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other trademarks, trade names, service marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. Press ContactLarry SmalheiserTrainer Communications 925-271-8211 nimsoft@trainercomm.com SunGard Availability Services Selects Nimsoft Monitoring SolutionCAMPBELL, Calif. - December 10, 2010 - Nimsoft announced today that SunGard Availability Services has selected the Nimsoft Monitoring System (NMS) as the monitoring solution for its Enterprise Cloud Services offering. NMS addresses many of the challenges associated with the deployment of public and private clouds with unique features like status and usage monitoring, trending, detailed reporting, SLA tracking, and integration with a comprehensive environment that continuously monitors both the physical and virtual infrastructure. Deployed with a reliable, highly scalable, architecture that optimizes system resources or network bandwidth, NMS provides extensive APIs for integration to existing tools and cloud-compatible business models. NMS will also allow SunGard Availability Services to track service levels on behalf of customers through client-facing service dashboards. "Our customers rely on us to provide highly available services to support their mission critical applications," said Rob Walters, vice president of product management at SunGard Availability Services. "The intuitive Nimsoft APIs enable us to provide comprehensive, proactive managed services and allow us to deploy customized monitoring policies on the fly. By incorporating NMS in our cloud offering, we can give clients real-time insight into what's happening in their IT environments, while mitigating potential problems and delivering higher availability of business-critical services." "Nimsoft continues to develop targeted solutions for service providers eager to tap into the market potential of the cloud," said Gary Read, Nimsoft CEO. "NMS delivers features, such as programmable APIs, that service providers need to deliver reliable, highly available cloud services while empowering them to drive down costs with automation and economies of scale." About SunGard Availability ServicesSunGard Availability Services provides disaster recovery services, managed IT services, information availability consulting services and business continuity management software to 10,000 customers in North America and Europe. With five million square feet of datacenter and operations space, SunGard assists IT organizations across virtually all industry and government sectors to prepare for and recover from emergencies by helping them minimize their computer downtime and optimize their uptime. Through direct sales and channel partners, we help organizations ensure their people and customers have uninterrupted access to the information systems they need in order to do business. To learn more, visit www.sungardas.com or call 1-800-468-7483. About SunGardSunGard is one of the world's leading software and technology services companies. SunGard has more than 20,000 employees and serves 25,000 customers in 70 countries. SunGard provides software and processing solutions for financial services, higher education and the public sector. SunGard also provides disaster recovery services, managed IT services, information availability consulting services and business continuity management software. With annual revenue exceeding $5 billion, SunGard is ranked 380 on the Fortune 500 and is the largest privately held business software and IT services company. For more information, visit www.sungard.com About NimsoftNimsoft provides Unified Monitoring solutions for virtualized data centers, hosted and managed services, cloud platforms, and SaaS resources. The Nimsoft Unified Monitoring architecture eliminates the need to deploy a new monitoring solution for outsourced services, public or private clouds, or SaaS implementations. Over 800 customers use Nimsoft Unified Monitoring solutions, including hundreds of leading hosting, cloud and managed service providers such as 1&1, BlueLock, CDW, Hitachi, QTS, Rackspace, SoftLayer and Troubadour. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com or to see Nimsoft Unified Monitoring in action, visit the Nimsoft public portal at www.unifiedmonitoring.com. Legal NoticesCopyright © 2010 CA. All Rights Reserved. One CA Plaza, Islandia, N.Y. 11749. Cisco Unified Computing System and Cisco Systems are registered trademarks or trademarks of Cisco Systems, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the United States and certain other countries. Nimsoft and Nimsoft Unified Monitoring are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other trademarks, trade names, service marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. Press ContactLarry SmalheiserTrainer Communications 925-271-8211 nimsoft@trainercomm.com Nimsoft Delivers New Tool for Rackspace Cloud MonitoringFree Download Provides Rich Visibility Into Hosted ServersCAMPBELL, Calif. - December 9, 2010 - Nimsoft today announced the availability of Nimsoft Cloud Monitor, a new tool for monitoring Rackspace cloud-based servers. Nimsoft leveraged its extensive experience with cloud hosting and collaborated with Rackspace to develop this new tool-which enables customers to track usage, performance and availability of cloud-based servers hosted by Rackspace. "Cloud-based hosting services are gaining increased adoption because of the cost and flexibility advantages they provide," said Dennis Callaghan, senior analyst, enterprise software at The 451 Group. "The more organizations are able to integrate performance and availability monitoring of cloud infrastructure services with monitoring of the rest of their IT environments, the better equipped they'll be to maximize the benefits-as well as the overall performance and availability-of the cloud services they use." Nimsoft Cloud Monitor complements the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS), which enables organizations to monitor and manage a wide range of diverse applications and services, from the data center to the cloud, with a single easy-to-deploy solution. "Organizations running applications on the server infrastructure hosted by Rackspace need to continually verify that those servers are performing optimally and pro-actively head off any problems that could potentially impact service levels," said Gary Read, Nimsoft CEO. "With our complimentary Nimsoft Cloud Monitor tool, administrators gain this essential visibility into their cloud infrastructure-while still enjoying all the economic and operational benefits of Rackspace hosting." Nimsoft Cloud Monitor offers a broad range of useful capabilities:
Nimsoft Cloud Monitor is available via complimentary download at http://www.nimsoft.com/rs/monitoring.php. The Nimsoft Cloud Monitor will be licensed on a no-charge basis for a limited time and the license will terminate upon the conclusion of the free period; additional terms and restrictions apply. The software requires an active Rackspace account to operate and the Nimsoft license does not include any Rackspace services or third party systems required to operate the software. This offer made to end users located in the United States only. About NimsoftNimsoft provides Unified Monitoring solutions for virtualized data centers, hosted and managed services, cloud platforms, and SaaS resources. The Nimsoft Unified Monitoring architecture eliminates the need to deploy a new monitoring solution for outsourced services, public or private clouds, or SaaS implementations. Over 1000 customers use Nimsoft Unified Monitoring solutions, including hundreds of leading hosting, cloud and managed service providers such as 1&1, BlueLock, CDW, Hitachi, QTS, Rackspace, SoftLayer and Troubadour. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com or to see Nimsoft Unified Monitoring in action, visit the Nimsoft public portal at www.unifiedmonitoring.com. Legal NoticesCopyright © 2010 CA. All Rights Reserved. One CA Plaza, Islandia, N.Y. 11749. Cisco Unified Computing System and Cisco Systems are registered trademarks or trademarks of Cisco Systems, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the United States and certain other countries. Nimsoft and Nimsoft Unified Monitoring are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other trademarks, trade names, service marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. Press ContactLarry SmalheiserTrainer Communications 925-271-8211 nimsoft@trainercomm.com Leading Business and IT Services Provider Rolls Out Nimsoft Monitoring Solution Across Client BaseComplete Business Systems Adds Value, Credibility With Unified Monitoring SolutionCAMPBELL, Calif. - November 30, 2010 - Nimsoft today announced that Colorado-based Complete Business Systems, Inc. (CBS), a leading full-service office technology provider, is deploying the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS) across its client base to provide 24/7 real-time monitoring and alerting for critical systems, applications and infrastructure. CBS builds strongly bonded long-term relationships with its clients and offers a one-stop shop for their technology needs. Deploying NMS will help CBS build and maintain these relationships by validating its services through customized dashboard visualization, real-time reporting and by optimizing server performance with proactive granular monitoring. "The Nimsoft unified monitoring approach fits perfectly with our company's approach to client relationships," said Ray Tannenbaum, vice president of operations at CBS. "Nimsoft enables our IT services business to proactively monitor performance of the services we provide in real-time, while adding credibility to our recommendations with hard data." CBS also uses NMS internally to monitor its own environment, which includes Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X platforms, Microsoft Exchange and SQL. In addition to more than 120 standard probes, NMS includes customizable probes and standard baseline and alarm threshold settings that enable CBS administrators to configure alarm settings, for early problem notification to proactively avoid service interruptions and quickly remedy problems. These capabilities help increase customer satisfaction by helping to ensure CBS's ability to respond to its clients' needs around the clock. In the near future, CBS plans to use the NMS dashboard functionality to create customizable portals that give clients additional visibility into the health and performance of their IT environments. "NMS helps CBS build lasting relationships with its clients by providing functional transparency, facilitating fact-based communication and helping ensure that the services they deliver meet or exceed expectations," said Gary Read, Nimsoft CEO. "We continue to develop flexible, customizable IT monitoring solutions that meet the unique business needs of service providers like CBS, so they can deliver differentiated value and capitalize on the growing market demand for their offerings." About CBSBased in Denver, Colorado and locally owned and operated, Complete Business Systems (CBS) has been meeting the office technology needs of small and mid-sized businesses for nearly two decades. As one of Colorado's leading full-service office technology provider, CBS provides a complete suite of services, from IT solutions to integrated document management to copier repair and supplies, to businesses of all sizes. CBS has been a Microsoft Global Partner for 5 years. For more information, visit http://www.completebusinesssystems.com/index.html. About NimsoftNimsoft provides Unified Monitoring solutions for virtualized data centers, hosted and managed services, cloud platforms, and SaaS resources. The Nimsoft Unified Monitoring architecture eliminates the need to deploy a new monitoring solution for outsourced services, public or private clouds, or SaaS implementations. Over 800 customers use Nimsoft Unified Monitoring solutions, including hundreds of leading hosting, cloud and managed service providers such as 1&1, BlueLock, CDW, Hitachi, QTS, Rackspace, SoftLayer and Troubadour. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com or to see Nimsoft Unified Monitoring in action, visit the Nimsoft public portal at www.unifiedmonitoring.com. Legal NoticesCopyright © 2010 CA. All Rights Reserved. One CA Plaza, Islandia, N.Y. 11749. Cisco Unified Computing System and Cisco Systems are registered trademarks or trademarks of Cisco Systems, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the United States and certain other countries. Nimsoft and Nimsoft Unified Monitoring are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other trademarks, trade names, service marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. Press ContactLarry SmalheiserTrainer Communications 925-271-8211 nimsoft@trainercomm.com MTI Selects Nimsoft Monitoring Solution to Support Delivery of Innovative Vblock-Based Cloud OfferingsSpecialist Cloud Infrastructure Consultancy Leverages NMS to Provide Clients with Differentiated Visibility into Their InfrastructureCAMPBELL, Calif. - November 22, 2010 - Nimsoft today announced that MTI, a specialist cloud infrastructure consultancy, has selected Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS) as the foundation for MTI Care, a service that provides clients with comprehensive remote monitoring, alerting and analysis of their VblockT-based cloud environments. MTI manages public and private cloud IT infrastructures for clients, including Vblock™ Infrastructure Packages. Vblock is an initiative of VCE that integrates components from Cisco, EMC and VMware. Nimsoft recently announced the addition of comprehensive monitoring for private cloud Vblock Infrastructure Packages to its unified monitoring architecture in September this year, enabling end-to-end performance and availability monitoring of network storage, compute and application layers. Through its partnership with Nimsoft, MTI places itself at the forefront of the VBlock industry initiative. "By outsourcing infrastructure to MTI, businesses can substantially reduce capital expenses and shift allocation of IT resources from 'housekeeping' to strategic opportunities," said Aad Dekkers, Chief Marketing Officer at MTI. "With Nimsoft technology, we make this value proposition even more compelling by enabling clients to retain or even improve their visibility into the health of the infrastructure they outsource to us." With a unified monitoring approach and an architecture that is ideal for cross-platform Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) environments, NMS will enable MTI to proactively monitor and address problems with client infrastructure and Vblock Infrastructure Packages before they impact the business. NMS delivers essential monitoring, event correlation and analysis capabilities not provided with standard Vblock Infrastructure Packages. In addition to its support for Vblock, NMS was chosen by MTI for its modular architecture and customizable probes-which allow MTI to respond to the specific requirements of diverse client infrastructures. "The flexible, modular architecture of NMS is perfect for managed service providers like MTI that are embracing Vblock and must respond to diverse client needs and expectations," said Gary Read, Nimsoft CEO. "Nimsoft is dedicated to providing comprehensive, state-of-the-art monitoring solutions that fulfill the requirements of today's rapidly emerging cloud marketplace." About MTIMTI is a trusted expert in the provision of information infrastructure solutions to more than 1200 customers across EMEA, successfully supporting 2000+ installations. From global enterprise companies to local specialist businesses, MTI delivers storage, computing, virtualization, networking and data center solutions and services across all continents from its European base in UK, Germany, France and The Netherlands. For more information, visit www.mti.com. About NimsoftNimsoft provides Unified Monitoring solutions for virtualized data centers, hosted and managed services, cloud platforms, and SaaS resources. The Nimsoft Unified Monitoring architecture eliminates the need to deploy a new monitoring solution for outsourced services, public or private clouds, or SaaS implementations. Over 800 customers use Nimsoft Unified Monitoring solutions, including hundreds of leading hosting, cloud and managed service providers such as 1&1, BlueLock, CDW, Hitachi, QTS, Rackspace, SoftLayer and Troubadour. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com or to see Nimsoft Unified Monitoring in action, visit the Nimsoft public portal at www.unifiedmonitoring.com. Legal NoticesCopyright © 2010 CA. All Rights Reserved. One CA Plaza, Islandia, N.Y. 11749. Cisco Unified Computing System and Cisco Systems are registered trademarks or trademarks of Cisco Systems, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the United States and certain other countries. Nimsoft and Nimsoft Unified Monitoring are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other trademarks, trade names, service marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. Press ContactLarry SmalheiserTrainer Communications 925-271-8211 nimsoft@trainercomm.com RapidScale Leverages Nimsoft to Deliver Value-Added Monitoring of Cloud InfrastructureNMS Enables IaaS Provider to Safeguard End-user Experience and Ensure Performance of Clients. Critical ApplicationsCAMPBELL, Calif. - November 2, 2010 - Nimsoft announced that RapidScale, a leading infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) provider, is using the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS) to deliver 24/7, end-to-end monitoring across its entire client base. NMS helps enable RapidScale to ensure optimal availability and performance of hosted services and applications, while providing customers with greater understanding of their own customers' end-user experience through transaction monitoring. RapidScale delivers infrastructure, desktop and disaster recovery as hosted services to clients across diverse industries. Many of these clients have multiple locations across the globe and depend on technology infrastructure and applications to keep business running 24/7. With end-to-end, unified monitoring capabilities, NMS enables RapidScale to fine-tune applications and services according to the client's needs, thereby improving service availability and performance. "NMS delivers the flexibility we need to respond to client requirements, so we can differentiate ourselves from other IaaS providers," said William Hiatt, co-founder and CTO at RapidScale. "With NMS, we are able to offer clients co-control over their environments, which in turn gives them peace of mind. At any time, they can sign into the NMS portal to understand the end user experience, helping them enforce their service-level agreements and provide an optimal experience to their own customers." Additionally, the solution's flexibility allows RapidScale to accommodate diverse client requirements. NMS unifies monitoring across platforms, applications and infrastructure, greatly simplifying the process of monitoring multiple client environments and providing RapidScale's internal staff and clients a single view of their systems. "To succeed, RapidScale has to meet the needs of demanding clients running complex applications with high availability and performance requirements," said Gary Read, Nimsoft CEO. "By providing comprehensive visibility into the behavior of those applications, NMS helps RapidScale rigorously protect its clients' interests-and thereby deliver greater value in a highly competitive cloud marketplace." About RapidScaleFounded by a team of technology executives that believe infrastructure should be like a utility, RapidScale delivers Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) and Desktop as a Service (DaaS) to customers nationwide. RapidScale is passionate about delivering first-rate customer service, allowing customers to focus on their core business without worrying about infrastructure. RapidScale has customers across a diverse set of verticals, from hospitality to manufacturing to general businesses. For more information, visit www.rapidscale.net. About NimsoftNimsoft provides Unified Monitoring solutions for virtualized data centers, hosted and managed services, cloud platforms, and SaaS resources. The Nimsoft Unified Monitoring architecture eliminates the need to deploy a new monitoring solution for outsourced services, public or private clouds, or SaaS implementations. Over 800 customers use Nimsoft Unified Monitoring solutions, including hundreds of leading hosting, cloud and managed service providers such as 1&1, BlueLock, CDW, Hitachi, QTS, Rackspace, SoftLayer and Troubadour. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com or to see Nimsoft Unified Monitoring in action, visit the Nimsoft public portal at www.unifiedmonitoring.com. Legal NoticesCopyright © 2010 CA. All Rights Reserved. One CA Plaza, Islandia, N.Y. 11749. Cisco Unified Computing System and Cisco Systems are registered trademarks or trademarks of Cisco Systems, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the United States and certain other countries. Nimsoft and Nimsoft Unified Monitoring are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other trademarks, trade names, service marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. Press ContactLarry SmalheiserTrainer Communications 925-271-8211 nimsoft@trainercomm.com New Nimsoft Cloud Readiness Assessment Tool Helps Customers Ensure Their Ability to Monitor Next-Generation IT InfrastructureSupport for Cisco UCS, Vblock and Usage Metering Also Facilitates Migration to Cloud ModelCAMPBELL, Calif. - October 27, 2010 - Nimsoft today delivered a new online diagnostic tool that enables clients to quickly assess their readiness for monitoring cloud environments, and also announced support for Cisco® Unified Computing System (UCS), Cisco's next-generation automated blade-server system infrastructure. These two announcements-combined with previously announced support for Vblock Infrastructure Packages and usage metering-underscore the differentiated Nimsoft value proposition for organizations seeking to exploit the advantages of cloud computing. The IT Monitoring Cloud Readiness Self Assessment tool helps IT teams gauge their current cloud monitoring capabilities and challenges, so they can make well-informed decisions about how to optimally manage their planned cloud environments. After taking a brief online survey, users receive a customized report that quantifies their technical readiness, organizational preparedness and IT/business alignment. Based on these results, the tool provides best-practices guidance about how an organization can safeguard the success of its cloud initiatives with effective monitoring. "Cloud computing offers organizations tremendous business value-but it also requires IT to adopt a whole new approach to management and operations," said Gary Read, Nimsoft CEO. "Nimsoft is helping customers make this transition by providing IT teams with a practical way to quickly gauge how well-equipped they are to monitor the cloud and to determine where they need to address potential technology and process deficits." Support for Cisco UCS and other Cloud RequirementsNimsoft has also added comprehensive monitoring support for Cisco UCS to the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS). Cisco UCS is designed for dynamic, scalable and highly virtualized data centers and cloud environments. NMS adapts to the flexibility inherent in Cisco UCS, discovering changes in physical elements (fans, power supplies, servers, etc.) and then applying monitoring through the use of service profiles that facilitates the configuration and deployment of the solution. NMS also monitors Cisco UCS components within a single, common framework with other cloud and traditional data center resources, including network, storage, virtualization, web applications and more. "As customers look to Cisco UCS for its significant economic advantages, they have to meet the new monitoring challenges presented by highly virtualized processing environments," said Chris Chrobocinski, vice president managed services for MTM, a national provider of innovative IT solutions. "With its support for Cisco UCS integration into our Virtual Desktop Alliance solution, NMS uniquely enables us to help our customers fully realize the benefits of private clouds-providing us with clear competitive advantages and the ability to offer new services that deepen our account penetration." In recent months, Nimsoft has also:
About NimsoftNimsoft provides Unified Monitoring solutions for virtualized data centers, hosted and managed services, cloud platforms, and SaaS resources. The Nimsoft Unified Monitoring architecture eliminates the need to deploy a new monitoring solution for outsourced services, public or private clouds, or SaaS implementations. Over 800 customers use Nimsoft Unified Monitoring solutions, including hundreds of leading hosting, cloud and managed service providers such as 1&1, BlueLock, CDW, Hitachi, QTS, Rackspace, SoftLayer and Troubadour. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com or to see Nimsoft Unified Monitoring in action, visit the Nimsoft public portal at www.unifiedmonitoring.com. Legal NoticesCopyright © 2010 CA. All Rights Reserved. One CA Plaza, Islandia, N.Y. 11749. Cisco Unified Computing System and Cisco Systems are registered trademarks or trademarks of Cisco Systems, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the United States and certain other countries. Nimsoft and Nimsoft Unified Monitoring are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other trademarks, trade names, service marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. Press ContactLarry SmalheiserTrainer Communications 925-271-8211 nimsoft@trainercomm.com MTI launches new cloud-based and managed servicesMTI Cloud and MTI Care powered by EMC Atmos and Nimsoft, respectivelyGODALMING, UK, OCTOBER 20, 2010 - MTI, the specialist cloud infrastructure consultancy and qualified member of the Vblock™ partner ecosystem for VCE, a coalition of Cisco, EMC, and VMware, today announces the launch of two new service offerings: MTI Cloud and MTI Care. MTI Care provides for the remote monitoring, alerting and analysis of client infrastructure, enabling early notification of potential problems and the ability to address those problems without impacting client business. MTI Care's service offering utilises the Nimsoft Monitoring System (NMS). MTI Care will be available for the remote monitoring of clients' virtualised environments, servers, operating systems, networks, storage, back-up and Vblock™ Infrastructure Packages. Separately, MTI has adopted EMC's Atmos storage platform for the provision of services under the MTI Cloud brand. MTI Cloud's new offering will include enabling storage, data archiving and tape cloning as a service. MTI provides all of its services through its MTI Insight services division. Today's announcement adds MTI Care and MTI Cloud to the group's existing service brands MTI Consult (which provides consultancy services) and MTI Create (providing project services). Tony Conway, Vice-President of Services at MTI comments: "MTI Care and MTI Cloud complement and expand our existing service offering and allow us to remain at the forefront of the European cloud infrastructure industry. Nimsoft was only recently released for the complete monitoring of VblockTM Infrastructure Packages so we are at the forefront of this industry initiative by making it available to our clients." Aad Dekkers, MTI's Chief Marketing Officer said: "We're excited to be leveraging the EMC Atmos platform as part of our commitment to providing MTI Cloud services. We believe these service offerings will provide significant value to customers who are looking to drive down the cost of securely storing and archiving their corporate data." MTI is launching both MTI Care and MTI Cloud at IPExpo, London, on 20 October 2010. A number of MTI employees, including Tony Conway, Aad Dekkers and Richard Flanders, MTI's Product Marketing Director, will be attending the event and will be available to answer questions from interested parties. About MTIMTI Europe has a background of more than 20 years' expertise as a technology innovator and provides customers with strategic consultancy, technical expertise and a single point of contact that eliminates complexities while delivering operational efficiencies and competitive advantages. More information is available at www.mti.com or you can follow us on Twitter @MTI_Technology. VMware and VMworld are registered trademarks and/or trademarks of VMware, Inc. in the United States and/or other jurisdictions. Press ContactChampion CommunicationsTel: 0207 268 3076 MTI@championcomms.com SoftLayer® Launches Nimsoft Monitoring SolutionProvides Advanced Monitoring for Hosted Cloud SolutionsDALLAS, TX - October 12, 2010 - SoftLayer Technologies® the innovative on-demand data center services provider, today announced it has launched the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS). NMS provides SoftLayer customers advanced monitoring capabilities designed to improve management of their hosted environment and increase the performance and availability of their business applications. Key advantages include:
"We believe in empowering our customers, and that means not only giving them complete control over their services but also giving them all the information they need to make informed decisions about their infrastructure," said Sam Fleitman, SoftLayer Chief Operations Officer. "NMS' robust capabilities enable us to adapt the solution to nearly any customer environment and provide detailed metrics with efficient, easy-to-understand reports." All SoftLayer customers will receive the same standard-level monitoring, including automated alerts and reporting on critical health indicators. They also have the option to upgrade to more comprehensive database, application, and infrastructure service monitoring. Additionally, NMS' extensive APIs provide seamless, bi-directional data communications with management applications, such as configuration management databases and service desks. This enables tight integration between NMS and customers' management environments, as well as between NMS and SoftLayer's automated deployment and operations process, enabling the company to quickly scale the service to tens of thousands of servers. For more information, visit www.softlayer.com. About SoftLayer TechnologiesHeadquartered in Dallas, Texas, SoftLayer is a best-in-class, infrastructure-as-a-service provider with data centers in Dallas, Seattle, and Washington, DC, and network Points of Presence across the US. SoftLayer integrates and automates all IT elements, allowing customers to create cloud, dedicated, or seamless hybrid computing environments managed through a single interface. Enterprises of any size can have complete control, security, scalability, and ease-of-management in an on-demand IT solution. For more information, please visit www.softlayer.com or call 866.398.7638. Press ContactJames McDowellmarketing@softlayer.com +1 214 442 0600 nimsoft@trainercomm.com L7 Deploys Nimsoft Monitoring Solution to Support Cloud Computing and Vblock DeploymentsInfrastructure-as-a-Service Provider Delivers Added Value with 24/7 Monitoring And Customized Reporting to Key ClientsCAMPBELL, Calif. - October 12, 2010 - Nimsoft today announced that L7, an Australia-based infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) provider, has deployed Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS) to provide valued-added monitoring of critical systems, including Vblock Infrastructure Packages. NMS enables L7 to provide clients with comprehensive performance monitoring and capacity planning as well as customized reporting for constituencies ranging from front-line IT staff to upper management. These capabilities allow L7 to differentiate its offerings with enhanced, consolidated visibility into infrastructure health, thereby helping to ensure performance levels and increase customer satisfaction. L7 offers consulting, integration and managed services to companies of all sizes. NMS provides insight into critical systems and applications, presenting key information in a clear, concise way via customized reporting and real-time dashboards. L7 can present a high-level aggregate view of critical information for upper management or more detailed views for technical audiences. "NMS is a much simpler and more practical management solution than anything else we compared in the market, and it delivers the automation we need to fulfill the demanding requirements of clients with geographically-dispersed networks," said Glenn McAtee, general manager of managed services at L7. "NMS also plays a central role in our go-to-market strategy, since it enables us to differentiate ourselves with added value in an extremely competitive market." NMS Supports L7's IaaS Strategy with Vblock MonitoringL7 will also use NMS to support the deployment of Vblock infrastructure packages to customers as it rolls out its cloud computing initiatives. Vblock Infrastructure Packages are integrated cloud solutions packages from the Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) coalition-a collaboration of Cisco, EMC and VMware. NMS provides complete monitoring for Vblocks, either as an on premise or on-demand (SaaS) offering. "With our delivery of the first complete monitoring solution for private cloud Vblock Infrastructure Packages, Nimsoft extends the industry leadership of our unified monitoring architecture-especially when it comes to the needs of forward-thinking IaaS providers like L7," said Gary Read, Nimsoft CEO. "Monitoring all aspects of Vblock cloud environments holistically, rather than looking at individual parameters for each component, enables service providers to address potential issues before they impact critical services dramatically optimizing agility and driving down costs." In addition to deploying NMS across customer infrastructures, L7 is using NMS internally to help deliver consistent, reliable business operations. "We're focused on offering cloud services and have a number of Vblock deals in process," said McAtee. "The combination of Vblock and NMS will be instrumental in helping us both improve internal operational efficiencies and deliver the highest quality of service to our clients." About L7L7 Solutions is an Information Technology and Consulting company with a vision to be the market leader in delivering innovative business solutions. Based in Perth, Western Australia, L7 is comprised of four discrete business units . Advisory, Integration, Managed Services and Training. About NimsoftNimsoft provides Unified Monitoring solutions for virtualized data centers, hosted and managed services, cloud platforms, and SaaS resources. The Nimsoft Unified Monitoring architecture eliminates the need to deploy a new monitoring solution for outsourced services, public or private clouds, or SaaS implementations. About 800 customers use Nimsoft Unified Monitoring solutions, including hundreds of leading hosting, cloud and managed service providers such as 1&1, BlueLock, CDW, Hitachi, QTS, Rackspace, SoftLayer and Troubadour. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com or to see Nimsoft Unified Monitoring in action, visit the Nimsoft public portal at www.unifiedmonitoring.com. Legal NoticesCopyright © 2010 CA. All Rights Reserved. One CA Plaza, Islandia, N.Y. 11749. Nimsoft and Nimsoft Unified Monitoring are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other trademarks, trade names, service marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. Press ContactLarry SmalheiserTrainer Communications 925-271-8211 nimsoft@trainercomm.com Bluehawk Deploys Nimsoft Unified Monitoring To Help Manage Advanced Cloud NOC EnvironmentClients Benefit from Immediate, Comprehensive Visibility into Critical Infrastructure and ApplicationsCAMPBELL, Calif. - October 5, 2010 - Nimsoft today announced Bluehawk Networks is using the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS) to deliver advanced unified monitoring solutions that proactively identify network and system issues before they reach a critical stage for clients. NMS will monitor Bluehawk Networks' current cloud-based, hosted offerings for backup and recovery, Virtual Desktop Integration (VDI), and network security in the company's Network Operating Center (NOC). With NMS, Bluehawk Networks differentiates itself from competing solution providers by delivering superior remote monitoring services to its clients. Bluehawk's previous monitoring solution didn't scale sufficiently to support the company's fast-growing client base and the increasing complexity of its NOC. Furthermore, that solution only provided basic SNMP monitoring. Using NMS, Bluehawk can scale its monitoring capabilities as required and achieve deep insight into its NOC conditions. It can also offer clients ready-made probes for business-critical applications such as Microsoft Exchange and SQL, as well as customizable dashboards and reporting tools. NMS also enables Bluehawk to deploy probes quickly and easily, which can dramatically reduce both the time and cost required to respond to client requirements. "We selected Nimsoft and its large suite of custom probes to help monitor applications, virtual machines and specific hardware platforms," said Robert Naragon, vice president of technology and services at Bluehawk Networks. "With Nimsoft, we're well positioned to rapidly expand our client base-while delivering NOC-based remote systems monitoring above and beyond their expectations." Bluehawk Networks evaluated several solutions before selecting NMS for its complete feature set. Prompt pre- and post-sales support were also key factors in Bluehawk's decision. "MSPs like Bluehawk need to differentiate themselves from their competitors by offering more robust monitoring and reporting, nimble responsiveness, and superior service levels-all at the right price," said Gary Read, Nimsoft CEO. "Nimsoft offers comprehensive, resource-efficient monitoring solutions necessary to achieve these objectives across even the most complex and heterogeneous cloud-based operating environments." About Bluehawk NetworksBluehawk Networks is a next-generation IT Service Management company providing ITIL & Pink Verify help desk services and strategic IT assessment and provisioning to SMB and F1000 companies. Bluehawk Networks clients leverage the company's remote and onsite IT maintenance and management services supported by a world-class US based 24x7 network operations center. To greatly increase end user satisfaction while lower operating costs, Bluehawk Networks has developed Insite™, the industry's first and only cloud-based, ITIL v3.1-certified ITSM solution that runs as a native Salesforce application on the Force.com platform. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Jose, CA, Bluehawk Networks maintains strategic partnerships with Salesforce.com, Dell, VMware, Microsoft and other key vendors. For more information, visit www.bluehawknetworks.com. About NimsoftNimsoft provides Unified Monitoring solutions for virtualized data centers, hosted and managed services, cloud platforms, and SaaS resources. The Nimsoft Unified Monitoring architecture eliminates the need to deploy a new monitoring solution for outsourced services, public or private clouds, or SaaS implementations. About 800 customers use Nimsoft Unified Monitoring solutions, including hundreds of leading hosting, cloud and managed service providers such as 1&1, BlueLock, CDW, Hitachi, QTS, Rackspace, SoftLayer and Troubadour. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com or to see Nimsoft Unified Monitoring in action, visit the Nimsoft public portal at www.unifiedmonitoring.com. Legal NoticesCopyright © 2010 CA. All Rights Reserved. One CA Plaza, Islandia, N.Y. 11749. Nimsoft and Nimsoft Unified Monitoring are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other trademarks, trade names, service marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. Press ContactLarry SmalheiserTrainer Communications 925-271-8211 nimsoft@trainercomm.com Nimsoft Extends Unified Monitoring with Comprehensive Solution for VblockNimsoft first to deliver specific monitoring for Vblock Infrastructure Packages combined with other heterogeneous data center and cloud resourcesCAMPBELL, Calif. - September 28, 2010 - Nimsoft today announced the addition of complete monitoring for private cloud Vblock Infrastructure Packages to the Nimsoft unified monitoring architecture-enabling end-to-end performance and availability monitoring of network, storage, compute and application layers. By monitoring Vblock cloud environments as a whole-rather than as individual components-the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS) enables service providers and enterprises to more quickly discover and address the root causes of issues that can impact critical IT services. Complete monitoring for Vblock is available as an option to the on premise Nimsoft Monitoring Solution or the recently released Nimsoft On Demand (SaaS) offering. "Vblock is changing the face of the data center and-until now-no one has had a single answer for monitoring it," said Gary Read, Nimsoft CEO. "Nimsoft is enabling companies to take full advantage of the power of Vblock-based private clouds today and thereby gain the considerable competitive advantages that result from a cost-efficient, responsive and reliable IT environment." Vblock Infrastructure Packages are integrated cloud solutions packages from the Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) coalition-a collaboration of Cisco, EMC and VMware. Vblock offers a well-integrated, low-risk way for service providers and enterprises to deploy clouds that leverage performance-optimized, certified solutions. "The Vblock solution is generating significant and growing interest among both enterprises and hosted service providers, and with it comes an opportunity to rethink management along the same lines of convergence," said Jim Frey, research director, Enterprise Management Associates. "By providing the first comprehensive monitoring capability for the Vblock Infrastructure Package, NMS will help service providers extend value to enterprises looking to 'virtually' realize business agility with Vblock." More than 25 Vblock certified partners and solution providers-including Dimension Data, FusionStorm, L7, Long View Systems, Midwave, MSN Communications, MTI, and UNIS LUMIN-are actively using NMS. "As a Vblock-certified partner of the VCE coalition, MSN Communications is enthused about the prospects of this compelling new data center architecture," said Eric Lehto, advanced technologies manager, MSN Communications. "By delivering its pioneering support for Vblock performance and availability management, Nimsoft will enable us to improve our service and most fully capitalize on the business opportunity Vblock presents." NMS helps service providers and enterprises get maximum business value from their investments in Vblock technology by:
"By delivering a complete, integrated technology stack, the Vblock infrastructure is sure to gain increased market adoption," said Dennis Callaghan, The451Group, senior analyst, Enterprise Software. "Once deployed, an organization's ability to monitor Vblock performance will play a critical role in the degree to which it is able to realize the value of its investment. Through its comprehensive unified monitoring coverage of the Vblock environment and current data center platforms, Nimsoft is poised to address a significant, and growing, market need." NMS is aligned with the Vblock performance portability features and is able to adjust its monitoring with customers workloads. By utilizing its multi-tenant, flexible and dynamic unified monitoring architecture, NMS is able to transfer the monitoring of Vblock environments to any party at any time-without disruption or loss of data. The inherent portability of the Nimsoft solution gives both enterprise customers and service providers unprecedented flexibility when it comes to building, hosting and managing cloud resources. "One of the keys to success when it comes to delivering private clouds is giving customers full visibility into their cloud environments," said Vince Conroy, CTO of FusionStorm. "With Nimsoft, we can offer this visibility as a part of our total Vblock offering.while at the same time driving down our operating costs and optimizing our service levels." Leading-Edge TechnologyAdditional technology components have been added to the Nimsoft unified monitoring architecture to enable proactive monitoring and rapid root-cause analysis on Vblock Infrastructure Packages:
These features complement existing capabilities directly applicable to the Vblock environment. NMS virtual environment capabilities include management instances, VM hosts (hypervisors), and hosted OS instances. Application support includes databases, email servers, web servers and other applications running within the Vblock. NMS and Nimsoft On Demand interoperate with native Ionix functions and make monitoring data available via customizable portlets and dashboards. Supporting Quotes"For enterprises and service providers alike, the Vblock is a game-changing platform for rapidly deploying cloud infrastructures. The ability to provide a complete monitoring solution that provides a holistic view into the health and performance of a Vblock across all the various subsystems, alleviates some of the biggest management concerns that customers have."
"We're focused on offering cloud services and have a number of Vblock deals in process. The combination of Vblock and NMS is going to be instrumental in helping us both improve internal operational efficiencies and deliver the highest quality of service to our clients."
"As the first company to ship Vblock 1 in Europe, the ability to include Nimsoft IT monitoring in our Vblock offerings will be very attractive to current and future clients. This latest enhancement from Nimsoft builds on our existing relationship and offerings we have in place based on the Nimsoft solution."
"EMC, Cisco and VMware are three of our most highly trusted partners, and we expect a very positive reaction to what Nimsoft brings to the Vblock stack. We look forward to using the Nimsoft Unified Monitoring solution to help more enterprises better manage their virtualization solutions and ultimately reach their strategic goals."
"When organizations deploy Vblock, they receive all the power and complexity of a full data center in what is in effect a 'cloud in a box.' Nimsoft enables us to help our clients understand and fully optimize their Vblock environments, so they can maximize value from these investments."
"The combination of Vblock and NMS will be instrumental in helping us both improve internal operational efficiencies and deliver the highest quality of service to our clients."
"Long View is committed to helping our clients accelerate their private cloud deployments and maximize the IT efficiencies these approaches can provide. With its support for Vblock, Nimsoft will be invaluable in helping us ensure our clients fully capitalize on this opportunity. Nimsoft provides leadership in this space and our partnership is growing as Long View continues to support and manage environments in both the public and private cloud arenas."
"By adopting Vblock, UNIS LUMIN's clients stand to gain a host of benefits, but they rely on us to monitor and manage these deployments. By leveraging NMS for our Keystone Partnered Solutions to monitor Vblock environments, we can deliver more value to clients and help them see greater ROI on their investment."
Nimsoft WebinarPlease join Nimsoft on October 14th to learn all about the extension of Unified Monitoring into Vblock. Click here to register: https://nimsoftevents.webex.com/nimsoftevents/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=920310310 About NimsoftNimsoft provides Unified Monitoring solutions for virtualized data centers, hosted and managed services, cloud platforms, and SaaS resources. The Nimsoft Unified Monitoring architecture eliminates the need to deploy a new monitoring solution for outsourced services, public or private clouds, or SaaS implementations. About 800 customers use Nimsoft Unified Monitoring solutions, including hundreds of leading hosting, cloud and managed service providers such as 1&1, BlueLock, CDW, Hitachi, QTS, Rackspace, SoftLayer and Troubadour. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com or to see Nimsoft Unified Monitoring in action, visit the Nimsoft public portal at www.unifiedmonitoring.com. Legal NoticesCopyright © 2010 CA. All Rights Reserved. One CA Plaza, Islandia, N.Y. 11749. Nimsoft and Nimsoft Unified Monitoring are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other trademarks, trade names, service marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. Press ContactLarry SmalheiserTrainer Communications 925-271-8211 nimsoft@trainercomm.com Lead IT Consulting Taps Nimsoft On Demand To Deliver Value-Added IT Management Services Over The CloudPay-As-You-Go Pricing Enables Service Provider to Meet Customer Needs On a Flexible, On-Demand BasisCAMPBELL, Calif. - September 14, 2010 - Nimsoft today announced that Lead IT Consulting has deployed Nimsoft On Demand across its cloud-based services infrastructure. Nimsoft On Demand virtually eliminates the need for Lead IT to procure, configure and manage its own monitoring infrastructure. This cloud-based model will enable Lead IT to dramatically reduce capital and operating expenses, while providing it with highly flexible monitoring capabilities that integrate seamlessly with its broader cloud-based business strategy. Nimsoft On Demand also supports Lead IT's business strategy by offering pay-as-you-go pricing, which allows Lead IT to be agile and align its costs with current customer demand. Nimsoft On Demand will enable Lead IT to provide clients with insight into the health and performance of their networks and applications on a 24x7 basis via intuitive, fully customizable monitoring portals and elastic portlets. Lead IT evaluated several monitoring products before selecting Nimsoft On Demand, and found that Nimsoft On Demand had the best resource coverage, and was the easiest to deploy, configure and use among the products it reviewed. Its highly intuitive client service dashboards make it possible for Lead IT to save time and money by virtually eliminating help desk and service calls. "Nimsoft On Demand is the only monitoring solution that provides the richness of detail and the clarity of data presentation our clients require to feel in control of their cloud environments," said Bob Deasy, Lead IT's chief strategist. "Nimsoft was also the only vendor who could deliver these capabilities under a pricing structure rationalized for the cloud market." Lead IT adds to the growing number of managed service providers utilizing Nimsoft to more effectively and cost-efficiently meet the needs of clients that-because of market challenges and uncertainties-are demanding greater value and flexibility from their IT vendors. "By freeing up their time and resources, Nimsoft On Demand allows managed service providers like Lead IT to focus on core competencies and business development," said Gary Read, Nimsoft CEO. "Our dedication to supporting cloud-based models is especially helpful to service providers that need to position themselves for growth while rigorously controlling costs." Nimsoft On Demand is compatible with a wide range of public cloud environments-including Salesforce™, Amazon Web Services™, Rackspace Cloud™, Microsoft Windows Azure™ and Google App™ Engine. About Lead ITLead IT combines high-level business strategy with deep engineering expertise to bridge the gaps between a company's executive staff, its systems administrators and its technologies. A full-service technology advisor, Lead IT offers a wide variety of services, including discovery and strategic planning, systems integrity and availability provisioning, instrumentation and technology management and business continuity planning. From cost reduction to process refinement, systems optimization or problem resolution, Lead IT consistently delivers unbiased recommendations and services that bring together underlying systems and overarching business goals. For more information, visit www.LeadITConsulting.net About NimsoftNimsoft provides Unified Monitoring solutions for virtualized data centers, hosted and managed services, cloud platforms, and SaaS resources. The Nimsoft Unified Monitoring architecture eliminates the need to deploy a new monitoring solution for outsourced services, public or private clouds, or SaaS implementations. About 800 customers use Nimsoft Unified Monitoring solutions, including hundreds of leading hosting, cloud and managed service providers such as 1&1, BlueLock, CDW, Hitachi, QTS, Rackspace, SoftLayer and Troubadour. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com or to see Nimsoft Unified Monitoring in action, visit the Nimsoft public portal at www.unifiedmonitoring.com. Legal NoticesCopyright © 2010 CA. All Rights Reserved. One CA Plaza, Islandia, N.Y. 11749. Nimsoft and Nimsoft Unified Monitoring are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other trademarks, trade names, service marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. Press Contact:Larry SmalheiserTrainer Communications 925-271-8211 nimsoft@trainercomm.com GreenQloud Partners with Nimsoft to Provide Unified Monitoring For Carbon-Neutral Infrastructure-as-a-Service OfferingInnovative Cloud Provider Enhances Green IT Value Proposition With Visibility Into Critical Performance MetricsCAMPBELL, Calif. - September 7, 2010 - Nimsoft today announced that GreenQloud has selected the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS) to provide clients with 24x7 visibility into its unique carbon-neutral compute cloud. As an integrated component of GreenQloud's Truly Green. Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offering, NMS will deliver comprehensive, intuitive monitoring of clients' critical applications, systems and network resources via customized portals. GreenQloud's Truly Green service takes advantage of Iceland's hydro and geothermal energy sources-as well as its cool climate-to drastically reduce carbon emissions associated with powering and cooling IT infrastructure. This enables clients to reduce IT-related energy costs and get relief from the growing tax burdens now being levied for carbon emissions. By implementing NMS, GreenQloud will be able to combine its powerful "Green IT" value proposition with state-of-the-art cloud resource monitoring. "Clients are very interested in becoming more environmentally responsible when it comes to IT, but they certainly don't want to achieve that responsibility at the cost of service quality or peace of mind," said Eirikur Hrafnsson, CEO and co-founder of GreenQloud. "With Nimsoft, we are complementing our best-of-the-best energy model with best-of-the-best monitoring capabilities". NMS integrates seamlessly with the Truly Green cloud and supports GreenQloud's pay-per-use pricing model. NMS also enables GreenQloud to offer clients a flexible set of monitoring options ranging from a baseline package to a variety of premium add-ons. "It is very rewarding to have NMS recognized by an industry leader like GreenQloud as the top solution for providing IaaS clients with secure, adaptable visibility into their pay-per-use cloud resources," said Gary Read, Nimsoft CEO. "We are particularly excited about the opportunity to support a partner that is tackling the very critical and timely issue of Green IT". About GreenQloudHeadquartered in Iceland, GreenQloud is Truly Green™ because it is 100% powered by renewable geothermal and hydropower energy. Being Truly Green means that GreenQloud doesn't need to compromise in computing power and will always strive to use the best hardware available. GreenQloud is also uniquely situated right between Europe and North America and can deliver hosting and storage for both markets from one place due to the multiple high speed fiber connections to Iceland. For more information, visit http://www.greenqloud.com/ About NimsoftNimsoft provides Unified Monitoring solutions for virtualized data centers, hosted and managed services, cloud platforms, and SaaS resources. The Nimsoft Unified Monitoring architecture eliminates the need to deploy a new monitoring solution for outsourced services, public or private clouds, or SaaS implementations. About 800 customers use Nimsoft Unified Monitoring solutions, including hundreds of leading hosting, cloud and managed service providers such as 1&1, BlueLock, CDW, Hitachi, QTS, Rackspace, SoftLayer and Troubadour. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com or to see Nimsoft Unified Monitoring in action, visit the Nimsoft public portal at www.unifiedmonitoring.com. Legal NoticesCopyright © 2010 CA. All Rights Reserved. One CA Plaza, Islandia, N.Y. 11749. Nimsoft and Nimsoft Unified Monitoring are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other trademarks, trade names, service marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. Press ContactLarry SmalheiserTrainer Communications 925-271-8211 nimsoft@trainercomm.com Global Data Systems Chooses Nimsoft for Unified Monitoring of Clients' Cloud InfrastructuresNimsoft Monitoring Solution replaces multiple tools and adds business value with intuitive client-facing portalsCAMPBELL, Calif. - August 18, 2010 - Nimsoft today announced that Global Data Systems (GDS), a leading provider of network solutions, will deploy the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS) to replace multiple tools in its network operations center (NOC). NMS enables unified monitoring of client infrastructures―virtually eliminating the need to manage and integrate multiple disparate monitoring tools—while adding significant value with an intuitive client-facing portal and automated alerting features. NMS also supports GDS's strategic migration to more virtualized, cloud-based infrastructure. "Our value proposition centers around freeing up resources for our clients, so they can focus on their core competencies and not worry about IT," said Chris Wickman, managed services manager at GDS. "By unifying our monitoring services with NMS, our clients will be able to more easily access the real-time information they need about the health and performance of their applications—and GDS will be better able to offer competitively differentiated cloud offerings." GDS currently runs 11 different tools in its NOC to provide clients with complete monitoring, trend analysis, historical analysis and trouble-ticketing. By deploying NMS, GDS expects to eliminate seven of those systems; thereby significantly reducing its technology integration and ownership costs. NMS will also reduce GDS's scripting and management workloads without compromising functionality. GDS clients will benefit from the added visibility and insight that NMS will give them into their infrastructures, as well as from the reduced costs resulting from GDS's own cost savings. "NMS helps service providers like GDS deliver significant value to their clients by enhancing capabilities while reducing costs," said Gary Read, senior vice president and general manager of Nimsoft. "As GDS continues to evolve its cloud offerings, Nimsoft will continue to develop solutions that keep pace with their innovation." About Global Data Systems, Inc.Established in 1987, Louisiana-based Global Data Systems is a leading provider of networking solutions, with a comprehensive suite of IP technologies and total lifecycle support. GDS offers the foundation for delivering critical services and applications with a suite of solutions that includes MPLS and IP-based VPNs, converged voice, physical and logical security, wireless infrastructures and 24x7x365 support and maintenance. GDS designs, builds and manages complete network solutions to meet our clients' needs in the most competitive ways possible. We enhance the way our clients do business by customizing solutions, which fully integrate into existing networks. For more information, please visit www.getgds.com. About NimsoftNimsoft provides Unified Monitoring solutions for virtualized data centers, hosted and managed services, cloud platforms, and SaaS resources. The Nimsoft Unified Monitoring architecture eliminates the need to deploy a new monitoring solution for outsourced services, public or private clouds, or SaaS implementations. About 800 customers use Nimsoft Unified Monitoring solutions, including hundreds of leading hosting, cloud and managed service providers such as 1&1, BlueLock, CDW, Hitachi, QTS, Rackspace, SoftLayer and Troubadour. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com or to see Nimsoft Unified Monitoring in action, visit the Nimsoft public portal at www.unifiedmonitoring.com. Legal NoticesCopyright © 2010 CA. All Rights Reserved. One CA Plaza, Islandia, N.Y. 11749. Nimsoft and Nimsoft Unified Monitoring are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other trademarks, trade names, service marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. Press ContactLarry SmalheiserTrainer Communications 925-271-8211 nimsoft@trainercomm.com Virtual Ark Integrates Nimsoft On Demand To Give Clients Rich Insight Into Its Next-Generation SaaS OfferingsAutomation and Cost Savings Enable Growing MSP to Deliver Greater Business Value to Large Enterprise CustomersCAMPBELL, Calif. - August 10, 2010 - Nimsoft today announced that international managed service provider (MSP) Virtual Ark has deployed Nimsoft On Demand as an integrated component of the Virtual Ark Platform. Nimsoft On Demand enables Virtual Ark to deliver highly scalable application managed services to large enterprise customers as part of its next-generation Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offerings, which give clients on-demand access to their traditional on-premise core business applications in the cloud. Companies are increasingly looking to SaaS for pay-per-use pricing, high availability, reduced capital and operating expense, and other benefits. Virtual Ark enables ISVs to rapidly enter this SaaS market by converting and managing traditional applications to work in public or private clouds, without significant re-engineering or the need for multi-tenant application redevelopment, and without the upfront investment and financial commitments typically faced by ISVs. With Nimsoft On Demand as a core component of its platform, Virtual Ark can provide clients with competitively differentiated real-time monitoring of SaaS resources. User-friendly dashboards offer at-a-glance information about the availability and performance of critical applications and services. Its comprehensive reporting tools also provide IT staff with deep insight into applications and services hosted in the cloud. Nimsoft On Demand significantly reduces the need for Virtual Ark to procure, implement and manage monitoring technology every time it adds more infrastructure or a new application. This helps lower Virtual Ark’s costs while enhancing its business agility. The solution’s “pay as you go” pricing also allows Virtual Ark to cost-efficiently grow its business and immediately respond to changing client needs. In addition, Virtual Ark expects to gain significant long-term ROI by using Nimsoft to focus on core competencies rather than on managing complex monitoring systems. “With Nimsoft On Demand, Virtual Ark can cost-effectively give end-users full visibility into their applications and assure our ISV partners that their service levels will meet or exceed market requirements,” said Marty Gauvin, CEO and president of Virtual Ark. “Nimsoft continues to be an innovator in monitoring services. With Nimsoft On Demand we can focus on what we do best: bringing applications and services of proven business value to companies looking for a smarter way to do IT.” Prior to selecting Nimsoft, Virtual Ark reviewed numerous monitoring solutions. Some were not scalable enough, while others were too complex and time-consuming to implement. Nimsoft On Demand was chosen for its unified monitoring capabilities, its ability to integrate with multiple cloud infrastructures, and its proven on-demand delivery model. Nimsoft On Demand is compatible with a wide range of public cloud environments, such as Amazon Web Services™, Rackspace Cloud™, Microsoft Windows Azure™, and Google App™ Engine. “On demand monitoring is a key enabler of SaaS and powerfully enhances its core value proposition,” said Gary Read, CEO of Nimsoft. “Virtual Ark’s choice of Nimsoft as its strategic monitoring solution, confirms that our approach to SaaS enablement is superior to the competition and that it offers differentiated value to today’s top MSPs.” About Virtual ArkVirtual Ark is an international application managed services company that uses next-generation Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) enabled by the cloud, to provide large enterprise organizations with on-demand global access to their core business applications on existing public and private cloud services. This next-generation SaaS model provided by Virtual Ark offers substantial competitive advantages to enterprises through a "pay-as-you-use" system that reduces fixed costs for IT and increases flexibility for rapidly responding to market demands. For more information, visit www.virtualark.com About NimsoftNimsoft provides Unified Monitoring solutions for virtualized data centers, hosted and managed services, cloud platforms, and SaaS resources. The Nimsoft Unified Monitoring architecture eliminates the need to deploy a new monitoring solution for outsourced services, public or private clouds, or SaaS implementations. About 800 customers use Nimsoft Unified Monitoring solutions, including hundreds of leading hosting, cloud and managed service providers such as 1&1, BlueLock, CDW, Hitachi, QTS, Rackspace, SoftLayer and Troubadour. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com or to see Nimsoft Unified Monitoring in action, visit the Nimsoft public portal at www.unifiedmonitoring.com. Legal NoticesCopyright© 2010 CA. All Rights Reserved. One CA Plaza, Islandia, N.Y. 11749. Nimsoft and Nimsoft Unified Monitoring are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft, Inc. The Rackspace Cloud is a trademark of Rackspace US, Inc. Amazon Web Services and Amazon EC2, are trademarks or registered trademarks of Amazon Web Services LLC. Google and Google Apps are trademarks of Google Inc. Amazon Web Services and Amazon EC2, are trademarks or registered trademarks of Amazon Web Services LLC. Microsoft is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks, trade names, service marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. Press Contact:Larry SmalheiserTrainer Communications 925-271-8211 nimsoft@trainercomm.com University of Technology, Sydney, Deploys Nimsoft Monitoring SolutionNMS enables proactive monitoring and alerting to improve end-user experience with a broad range of university applicationsCAMPBELL, Calif. - August 3, 2010 - Nimsoft today announced that the University of Technology of Sydney, Australia (UTS) has deployed the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS) to monitor all of its core applications across its production, test and disaster recovery data centers, enabling proactive mitigation of incidents through automated alerting. With NMS, the IT team can proactively address issues before users become aware of a problem, saving the staff time and money and helping ensure availability and uptime of critical applications. As one of the five major universities in Sydney, UTS has approximately 24,000 full-time students. The campus has two datacenters, one for production and one for testing and disaster recovery. The IT team supports hundreds of applications in student computer labs across the university to meet a wide range of student needs, as well as business applications like CRMs, email and databases to support university administration. The datacenters house a number of diverse platforms and systems in both physical and virtual environments. Prior to deploying NMS, UTS’s IT team used a number of point monitoring solutions, but had no end-to-end view of the user experience. With the Nimsoft unified monitoring capabilities, UTS’s team can monitor 10-12 systems on a single dashboard, which saves time and enables more rapid problem resolution. Early warning and detection of threshold violations are displayed in an easy-to-read format, helping the team identify problems quickly, and drill down to find the root cause of issues. "With NMS, we’re aware of problems before they affect users, and we can send out a message to say they are already addressing it," said the Manager of Application Services at UTS. "The solution is easy to use and adapts quickly to new situations, so if we find something is occurring and we don’t already have an alert, we can quickly create one to make sure the problem doesn’t happen again. NMS lets us monitor a number of different platforms and applications with a single solution, reducing the complexity of our monitoring approach. Also, because NMS is browser-based, we can make the dashboards open to other departments, increasing transparency and providing more visibility into the health of their applications." UTS uses NMS dashboards for at-a-glance access to critical information to help keep applications up and running. NMS generates in-depth reports on critical systems and applications, and the dashboards provide an overall snapshot of performance measures and alerts, allowing administrators to click and drill down into specific information and proactively manage or circumvent potential problems. "The world-class infrastructure that UTS has implemented to support its vibrant, digitally voracious student body includes a complex mix of Unix, Linux, Windows and VMware resources running a full range of sophisticated applications," said Gary Read, senior vice president and general manager of Nimsoft. "NMS gives UTS the adaptable, full-featured monitoring and alerting it needs to ensure service levels across the infrastructure—even as the way it is being used continues to change." About UTSCreated in 1989 under the University of Technology, Sydney Act of the New South Wales parliament and located in the hub of Sydney’s central business district, UTS has developed rapidly to become one of the largest and most respected universities in Australia. Delivering professionally focused courses and topical research, UTS is committed to practical education and development within an international perspective. It is this unique combination of practicality, international awareness and city culture, which distinguishes UTS from other universities. For more information, visit http://www.uts.edu.au/ About NimsoftNimsoft provides Unified Monitoring solutions for virtualized datacenters, hosted and managed services, cloud platforms, and SaaS resources. The Nimsoft Unified Monitoring architecture eliminates the need to deploy a new monitoring solution for outsourced services, public or private clouds, or SaaS implementations. About 800 customers use Nimsoft Unified Monitoring solutions, including emerging enterprises such as Casual Male, European Medicines Agency (EMEA), Ladbrokes, Sur La Table, TriNet, and Virgin America. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com or to see Nimsoft Unified Monitoring in action, visit the Nimsoft public portal at www.unifiedmonitoring.com. Legal NoticesCopyright © 2010 CA. All Rights Reserved. One CA Plaza, Islandia, N.Y. 11749. Nimsoft and Nimsoft Unified Monitoring are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. VMware is a registered trademarks and/or trademarks of VMware, Inc. in the United States and/or other jurisdictions. Amazon Web Services and Amazon EC2, are trademarks or registered trademarks of Amazon Web Services LLC. All other trademarks, trade names, service marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. Press Contact:Larry SmalheiserTrainer Communications 925-271-8211 nimsoft@trainercomm.com Nimsoft Extends Unified Monitoring To Elastic IT ServicesUsage Metering, Elastic Portlets and Unified Service Dashboards Support Next Generation of Service Provider Offerings With "See As You Go―Pay As You Go" MonitoringCAMPBELL, Calif. - July 27, 2010 - Nimsoft today announced new “see as you go—pay as you go” capabilities of its industry-leading, unified monitoring solutions that enable service providers to bring elastic IT offerings to market. Available as part of the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS) and Nimsoft On Demand offerings, the extended feature set includes real-time usage metering, elastic portlets and unified service dashboards. Service providers and IT staffs can now automatically create and deliver monitoring data and alerts that expand and contract with cloud and virtualized service delivery, while tracking and archiving usage in real time for auditing and billing purposes. “Nimsoft is well-known for its flexible, scalable approach to monitoring internal and external cloud services,” said Albert Lee, senior analyst, Enterprise Management Associates. “These real-time usage metering capabilities and customized dashboards look to be a practical development for IT administrators to monitor and manage infrastructure and services, in line with the continued growth of the ‘pay as you go’ model we are seeing increasingly embraced across the industry.” Elastic IT services are highly appealing to customers who want their costs to dynamically align with their actual utilization. These new Nimsoft capabilities simplify the real-time monitoring and management of infrastructures that service providers use to deliver elastic IT services—enabling them to automate the presentation of monitoring dashboards to clients and flexibly bill for their monitoring services. “Our ISV partners are extending their on-premise enterprise application products to include on-demand SaaS ones,” said Marty Gauvin, CEO and president of Virtual Ark, an international managed services company. “With these new features, Nimsoft On Demand allows us to adjust monitoring services depending on our clients’ dynamic needs. This enables us to align our costs closely to revenues from end users buying the SaaS solutions we provide through our ISV partners, thereby significantly reducing both the risk and cost of delivering an on-demand SaaS version of their traditional enterprise applications. The enhanced Nimsoft solution will help us continue to provide premiere service levels and improve both our top and bottom lines.” Key enhancements to NMS and Nimsoft On Demand include:
"Virtualization and the implementation of public and private clouds are driving a major shift in the way IT services are delivered,” said Gary Read, Nimsoft CEO. “Our ‘see as you go―pay as you go’ unified monitoring solutions enable IT staffs and service providers to better understand and manage these new delivery models―without requiring incremental investments, re-learning of technology or implementation of new infrastructure requirements.” The new unified monitoring capabilities are now available for both NMS and Nimsoft On Demand as features of the solution, to new and existing customers alike, at no additional cost. About NimsoftNimsoft provides Unified Monitoring solutions for virtualized data centers, hosted and managed services, cloud platforms, and SaaS resources. The Nimsoft Unified Monitoring architecture eliminates the need to deploy a new monitoring solution for outsourced services, public or private clouds, or SaaS implementations. About 800 customers use Nimsoft Unified Monitoring solutions, including hundreds of leading hosting, cloud and managed service providers such as 1&1, BlueLock, CDW, Hitachi, Rackspace, SoftLayer and Troubadour. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com or to see Nimsoft Unified Monitoring in action, visit the Nimsoft public portal at www.unifiedmonitoring.com. Legal NoticesCopyright © 2010 CA. All Rights Reserved. One CA Plaza, Islandia, N.Y. 11749. Nimsoft and Nimsoft Unified Monitoring are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. VMware is a registered trademarks and/or trademarks of VMware, Inc. in the United States and/or other jurisdictions. Amazon Web Services and Amazon EC2, are trademarks or registered trademarks of Amazon Web Services LLC. All other trademarks, trade names, service marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. Press Contact:Larry SmalheiserTrainer Communications 925-271-8211 nimsoft@trainercomm.com New Nimsoft Placement Center Delivers Service Offerings, Ever-Growing Company ReachNimsoft Expands Cloud Coverage, Product Offerings, Notes Strong Market Adoption RatesCAMPBELL, Calif. - July 20, 2010 - Nimsoft today announced it has launched a new partner program that significantly expands the breadth of training and professional services available to customers. Additionally, the company announced the continued, rapid expansion of its services, solutions, and market adoption—for both traditional data center deployments and cloud environments. New Placement Center Program Yields Extended Service CoverageThrough the new Nimsoft Placement Center program, the company has dramatically expanded its services coverage. The Placement Center is a program that matches Nimsoft customers with service providers who have the in-depth, hands-on expertise needed to deliver product training and professional services, including implementation services, new probe development, and product customization. One third of all Nimsoft services are being provided by these partners―including dakoServ, Enki, IntelliNet Corporation (Cleveland, OH) and Mibtree―and new partners are continually joining the program. Penetration in Cloud ServicesThe unparalleled capabilities of the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS) include its scalability, ease of use, and support for dynamic virtualized environments. This unique package has led to broad adoption of the solution, not only with enterprises adopting cloud services, but also with cloud service providers seeking to optimize the performance and availability of their infrastructures. Leading cloud service providers including GreenQloud, OpSource and SoftLayer, have recently selected and deployed NMS. Enhanced Solution OfferingsIn recent weeks, Nimsoft has delivered a host of new features and capabilities to its Unified Monitoring Architecture including:
Compatibility and Industry EngagementNimsoft has also augmented its existing infrastructure coverage with expanded monitoring capabilities for high-availability cluster servers, Exchange servers, Cisco Unified Communications, Microsoft Office Communications Server, VMware, and more. In addition, through the Nimsoft Unified Monitoring Alliance (NUMA), Nimsoft has expanded its monitoring coverage, both in the data center and in the cloud. New NUMA members include Tooblue Technologies, Pineapp Canada and Diamond Informatics GmbH. Expanded Market AdoptionThrough its leading offerings and unparalleled customer focus, Nimsoft continues to enjoy strong demand and new customer wins. In recent months, Nimsoft has added more than 30 new customers, including Eventus Solutions, GLENCOM Systems, Global Data Systems, Lead IT Consulting, R2 Unified Technologies, SoftLayer, TC Computer Systems, and Virtual Ark. “Today’s technology markets are undergoing intensive change as companies embrace the economic and operational advantages of virtualization and the cloud," said Gary Read, Nimsoft CEO. “The broad acceptance of Nimsoft solutions by these companies is clear evidence that we have uniquely and successfully responded to these changes with a monitoring approach that is effective, efficient and practical.” About NimsoftNimsoft provides Unified Monitoring™ solutions for virtualized data centers, hosted and managed services, cloud platforms, and SaaS resources. The Nimsoft Unified Monitoring architecture eliminates the need to deploy a new monitoring solution for outsourced services, public or private clouds, or SaaS implementations. About 800 customers use Nimsoft Unified Monitoring solutions, including hundreds of leading hosting, cloud and managed service providers such as 1&1, BlueLock, CDW, Hitachi, Rackspace, SoftLayer and Troubadour. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com or to see Nimsoft Unified Monitoring in action, visit the Nimsoft public portal at www.unifiedmonitoring.com. Legal NoticesCopyright © 2010 CA. All Rights Reserved. One CA Plaza, Islandia, N.Y. 11749. Nimsoft and Nimsoft Unified Monitoring are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other trademarks, trade names, service marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. Press ContactLarry SmalheiserTrainer Communications 925-271-8211 nimsoft@trainercomm.com Nimsoft Asserts Leadership in the Service Provider MarketIT Monitoring Innovator Enables Broad Range of Industry Customers to Enhance Operations and Improve Business PerformanceCAMPBELL, Calif. - July 13, 2010 - Nimsoft today announced its continued strategic drive to become the leading provider of monitoring solutions to all service providers. The company’s customer base now includes a wide range of service providers including managed service, managed hosting, cloud services, outsourcing, and web hosting companies. These service providers gain strategic operational advantages with Nimsoft Unified Monitoring which provides a complete solution that can scale and deploy more efficiently, simplify management of service offerings, and provide better visibility into critical systems and application infrastructure. Nimsoft Unified Monitoring solutions also provide key benefits to providers serving specific markets by
In addition, Nimsoft helps providers adjust to a recent shift as enterprises move operations from their data centers to third-party providers. As certain enterprises make this transition, they expect to have the same visibility into service provider environments as they did into their own data centers. Providers that implement Nimsoft Unified Monitoring will have a competitive advantage, as it enables them to offer their clients full visibility with a single view into their services. "Taken as a whole, the service provider market is a multi-billion dollar market that promises to continue growing at a healthy clip over the next few years," commented Antonio Piraino, Vice President, Tier1 Research. "Service Providers are looking for a comprehensive monitoring solution that offers flexible IT visibility and the management tools needed to easily monitor and control increasingly complex systems during this period of rapid growth.” Top Providers Worldwide Rely On Nimsoft SolutionsNimsoft solutions are used by top U.S. and international service providers.
"Nimsoft is committed to the services provider market and believe our most significant growth will come from this segment over the next five years," said Gary Read, Nimsoft CEO. “Our continued goal is to provide service providers with products that enable them to innovate, aggressively grow their businesses, and capitalize on the burgeoning demand for high-value, high reliability services that are easy to acquire and easy to monitor.” About NimsoftNimsoft provides Unified Monitoring™ solutions for virtualized data centers, hosted and managed services, cloud platforms, and SaaS resources. The Nimsoft Unified Monitoring architecture eliminates the need to deploy a new monitoring solution for outsourced services, public or private clouds, or SaaS implementations. About 800 customers use Nimsoft Unified Monitoring solutions, including hundreds of leading hosting, cloud and managed service providers such as 1&1, BlueLock, CDW, Hitachi, Rackspace, SoftLayer and Troubadour. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com or to see Nimsoft Unified Monitoring in action, visit the Nimsoft public portal at www.unifiedmonitoring.com. Legal NoticesCopyright © 2010 CA. All Rights Reserved. One CA Plaza, Islandia, N.Y. 11749. Nimsoft and Nimsoft Unified Monitoring are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other trademarks, trade names, service marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. Press ContactLarry SmalheiserTrainer Communications 925-271-8211 nimsoft@trainercomm.com Nimsoft On Demand Displaces SilverBack at American IntegrationGreater Availability and Deeper Visibility into Clients’ Infrastructure Creates Competitive Advantage for IT Solutions ProviderCAMPBELL, Calif. - July 7, 2010 - Nimsoft today announced that American Integration, an IT solutions and management provider, is replacing its existing SilverBack monitoring tools with Nimsoft On Demand—a full-featured unified monitoring solution that delivers broad visibility into business services running in hosted, remote and cloud-based infrastructures. Nimsoft On Demand provides real-time monitoring capabilities under a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) delivery model. This delivery model can be more cost-effective and more rapidly deployed than SilverBack—which often requires on-premise administration and management. Prior to selecting Nimsoft On Demand, American Integration evaluated several other SaaS solutions. The evaluation team assessed numerous factors, and found that many of the competing solutions were strong in areas such as patch management but lacked the advanced IT monitoring capability to enable true enterprise visibility. The solutions also lacked the SNMP monitoring capabilities American Integration desired. “Customers have zero tolerance for loss of visibility into their environments,” said Danny Owens, President of American Integration. “With Nimsoft On Demand, we can maintain that critical visibility, even when our customers experience hardware problems—and we can implement the kind of granular, scalable monitoring we need to go up-market and win competitive deals.” American Integration’s evaluation team selected Nimsoft on Demand based on key differentiators including powerful security features and advanced dashboards—which make it easy to drill down into detailed graphs and statistics for a deep understanding of the network, applications, servers and database performance. In addition to enabling advanced troubleshooting and proactive avoidance of IT problems, these dashboards also eliminate the need for American Integration to deliver uptime reports to clients. By providing greater availability and deeper visibility into complex IT infrastructures, Nimsoft On Demand is enabling American Integration to more successfully pursue and win business from larger customers. “With Nimsoft on Demand, American Integration can better meet the needs of large and small customers alike,” said Gary Read, senior vice president and general manager of the Nimsoft business unit at CA Technologies. “This allows them to capture more market share, keep their customers happier and optimize their operating margins.” About American IntegrationAmerican Integration, Inc. is an IT solutions and management provider committed to understanding the business needs and philosophy of our clients. We provide the highest business value and efficiency gains possible through IT solutions, management and strategic outsourcing services. These solutions and services include business process consulting, planning and implementing of business critical IT systems and processes, IP Telephony, security, remote help desk, remote monitoring, management and onsite issue and task resolution. This is done through the utilization of industry specific tools, trained and expert staff, ITIL-based best practices, quality control and management. For more information, send an email to info@americanintegration.com or visit www.americanintegration.com About NimsoftNimsoft provides Unified Monitoring™ solutions for virtualized data centers, hosted and managed services, cloud platforms, and SaaS resources. The Nimsoft Unified Monitoring architecture eliminates the need to deploy a new monitoring solution for outsourced services, public or private clouds, or SaaS implementations. About 800 customers use Nimsoft Unified Monitoring solutions, including hundreds of leading hosting, cloud and managed service providers such as 1&1, BlueLock, CDW, Hitachi, QTS, Rackspace, SoftLayer and Troubadour. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com or to see Nimsoft Unified Monitoring in action, visit the Nimsoft public portal at www.unifiedmonitoring.com. Legal NoticesCopyright© 2010 CA. All Rights Reserved. One CA Plaza, Islandia, N.Y. 11749. Nimsoft and Nimsoft Unified Monitoring are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other trademarks, trade names, service marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. Press ContactLarry SmalheiserTrainer Communications 925-271-8211 nimsoft@trainercomm.com Nimsoft Expands Unified Monitoring Coverage, Enhances Management InterfaceProvides Customers Visibility Into Power, Google Apps, Google AppEngine and Rackspace Cloud OfferingsCAMPBELL, Calif. - June 23, 2010 - Nimsoft today announced enhancements to the Nimsoft Unified Monitoring™ architecture that enable customers to better monitor and manage critical business applications across all types of infrastructure—from the data center to the cloud—including SaaS, hosted and virtualized environments. The main enhancements are:
“Customers have recognized the tremendous value Nimsoft provides by delivering a single view of both the internal data center and external cloud-based services,” said Gary Read, Nimsoft CEO. “With these enhancements, we are further augmenting that value proposition by adding to the resources we can monitor, and providing even more sophisticated ways to view and understand today’s increasingly complex and dynamic IT environments.” With the release of the Unified Monitoring Portal, customers gain a comprehensive, intuitive, Web-based interface. Customers can instrument and view the monitoring of their internal data center, and their internal and external cloud-based services. By using industry-standard portal and portlet technology, the Unified Monitoring Portal provides access to Nimsoft information, along with information and the GUI from third parties that have written to those standards. Customers will have the ability to customize the portal as their needs and IT roles dictate. The expanded monitoring coverage is delivered in three new offerings:
"As demand for QTS cloud services continued to grow, we recognized that pre-virtualization tools were not suitable for managing heterogeneous environments. After evaluating alternatives, we selected Nimsoft Unified Monitoring, which allows us to provide transparency to our clients for their infrastructure and applications," said Kurt Stoever, QTS vice president of service support. "QTS’ deployment of the Nimsoft Unified Monitoring Portal and Unified Reporter provides the tools our customers need to ensure the performance and reliability of their entire IT infrastructure; both virtual and physical." These new offerings augment the comprehensive monitoring coverage of Nimsoft Unified Monitoring solutions, which can monitor core enterprise assets—including networks, databases, applications and virtualized environments. About NimsoftNimsoft provides Unified Monitoring™ solutions for virtualized data centers, hosted and managed services, cloud platforms, and SaaS resources. The Nimsoft Unified Monitoring architecture eliminates the need to deploy a new monitoring solution for outsourced services, public or private clouds, or SaaS implementations. About 800 customers use Nimsoft Unified Monitoring solutions, including hundreds of leading hosting, cloud and managed service providers such as 1&1, BlueLock, CDW, Hitachi, Rackspace, SoftLayer and Troubadour. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com or to see Nimsoft Unified Monitoring in action, visit the Nimsoft public portal at www.unifiedmonitoring.com. Legal NoticesCopyright© 2010 CA. All Rights Reserved. One CA Plaza, Islandia, N.Y. 11749. Nimsoft and Nimsoft Unified Monitoring are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other trademarks, trade names, service marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. Press Contact:Larry SmalheiserTrainer Communications 925-271-8211 nimsoft@trainercomm.com QTS Unifies and Improves Monitoring Services of Hosted IT Infrastructure with Nimsoft Monitoring SolutionLeading service provider to replace multiple systems with NMS to achieve greater insight, automation, customization and cost savingsCAMPBELL, Calif. - June 22, 2010 - Nimsoft today announced that QTS (Quality Technology Services) is deploying the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS) to provide a unified monitoring platform for its clients’ complex infrastructures. NMS will monitor a broad range of network elements, systems, and applications for QTS clients, and provide comprehensive insight into system health and performance. This will enable QTS to deliver the benefit of improved systems and application availability to its clients, faster problem resolution, and better visibility into the operation and reliability of their hosted infrastructure. With 12 data centers nationwide, QTS is a full-service technology infrastructure company and is the third largest data center company in the U.S. The company, formed by numerous acquisitions, was looking to consolidate several monitoring systems and streamline operations. QTS chose Nimsoft for its scalability, easy customization, extensive dashboard and client portal features. The solution’s redundancy and automatic failover also fulfilled QTS reliability requirements. "NMS uniquely addresses the monitoring requirements of service providers and their clients," said Nauman Chughtai, director of applications at QTS. "With NMS, we can deliver maximum uptime to our customers—while controlling our overall infrastructure management costs." NMS allows QTS to save significant time and money through automation. When an event comes in, NMS automatically opens a ticket and captures all the metrics needed to take care of the issue. "We will be able to reduce the time it takes us to clear an incident from the ticketing system by up to 60%," said Chughtai. "Faster issue identification and resolution leads to improved customer satisfaction and enables us to ensure the availability of the systems and applications we support for our clients." In the future, QTS plans to leverage NMS to support its cloud offerings, enabling clients to automatically provision services from a web-based portal. Built on the same platform as NMS, QTS client-facing portals will allow customers to view reporting and monitoring activities from any browser. By providing clients with more visibility into the health of their systems and applications, QTS can reduce call center costs and further increase customer satisfaction. "Unlike most competing solutions, NMS is easily customizable and enables service providers like QTS to more adaptively meet the varied and constantly changing needs of all kinds of customers," said Gary Read, Nimsoft CEO. "By choosing NMS, QTS has gained flexible, scalable monitoring capabilities that fit well with its managed service business model and provide the automation and cost savings necessary for profitable growth." About Quality Technology ServicesQTS (Quality Technology Services) is a leading national provider of data center facilities and professionally managed IT, cloud computing and hosting services to enterprise businesses. With 12 locations in eight states, QTS owns, operates and manages more than 3.5 million square feet of secure, state-of-the-art data center infrastructure and provides mission-critical IT operations for performance and cost-efficiency. Global enterprises, financial companies, and services providers rely upon QTS ITIL certified services organization and expertise to manage their mission-critical IT infrastructures. QTS uniquely combines customized data center solutions, co-location and fully managed hosting solutions to over 700 customers in the United States. For more information about QTS, please visit www.qualitytech.com or call toll free 866.210.8238. About NimsoftNimsoft provides Unified Monitoring™ solutions for virtualized data centers, hosted and managed services, cloud platforms, and SaaS resources. The Nimsoft Unified Monitoring architecture eliminates the need to deploy a new monitoring solution for outsourced services, public or private clouds, or SaaS implementations. About 800 customers use Nimsoft Unified Monitoring solutions, including hundreds of leading hosting, cloud and managed service providers such as 1&1, BlueLock, CDW, Hitachi, QTS, Rackspace, SoftLayer and Troubadour. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com or to see Nimsoft Unified Monitoring in action, visit the Nimsoft public portal at www.unifiedmonitoring.com. Legal NoticesCopyright© 2010 CA. All Rights Reserved. One CA Plaza, Islandia, N.Y. 11749. Nimsoft and Nimsoft Unified Monitoring are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other trademarks, trade names, service marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. Press Contact:Larry SmalheiserTrainer Communications 925-271-8211 nimsoft@trainercomm.com BlueLock Deploys Nimsoft Monitoring Solution to Scale Deployment and Management of Cloud OfferingsUnified Monitoring provides cloud service provider with optimized visibility into critical systems and application infrastructureCAMPBELL, Calif. - June 15, 2010 - Nimsoft today announced that BlueLock has deployed the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS) across its infrastructure, which supports delivery of a diverse range of cloud hosting offerings to enterprise and SMB customers. NMS replaced Nagios, providing BlueLock with greater monitoring capabilities required to effectively manage large client configurations and reduce the time required to set up new customers. During phase one of the rollout, BlueLock implemented NMS across its internal IT infrastructure. In phase two of the roll out, BlueLock will create web portals for its customers, so they can have direct, real-time visibility into the performance and health of their critical systems. "NMS gives us tremendous flexibility and scalability while reducing the time and effort it takes to set up new customers," said Chris Hartmann, system engineer at BlueLock. "Nimsoft also offers us a wide range of application-specific probes—as well as the ability to quickly and easily write custom probes using Nimsoft APIs." BlueLock’s cloud hosting offerings utilize a variety of platforms and technologies—including UNIX, Windows, Active Directory, Oracle, SQL Server and networking equipment from multiple vendors. According to Hartmann, it was relatively difficult and time-consuming to configure new customers with Nagios. For a typical environment of five servers, Hartmann’s team would have to spend two-four hours setting up all necessary monitoring functions NMS, in contrast, reduced that time to 30 minutes or less by automating many aspects of configuration. NMS also makes it easy for BlueLock to provide its customers with web portals that offer intuitive, graphical insight into systems and application status. "NMS reduces BlueLock’s management costs even as it allows them to offer greater value to their clients," said Gary Read, Nimsoft CEO. "BlueLock can also use NMS performance metrics and trending information to proactively address their customers’ changing needs with recommendations for increased capacity, infrastructure upgrades and other service enhancements." BlueLock plans to deploy NMS across its entire BlueLock CloudSuite by the end of the year, starting with Virtual Cloud Enterprise and Virtual Cloud Professional clients, and continuing with its with vCloud Express clients. About BlueLockBlueLock is an experienced provider of cloud computing and managed IT services, offering the people, expertise and IT infrastructure in a world-class, SAS 70 certified datacenter. BlueLock CloudSuite, a comprehensive set of cloud computing solutions, offers a tailored selection of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) environments to best configure users’ computing resources. With CloudSuite’s array of public and virtual private cloud computing solutions, clients have the ability to utilize cloud resources based on their specific needs to optimize deployment, management, and investment. Recently named the 2009 Service Provider of the Year for the Americas by VMware, the global leader in virtualization technology solutions, BlueLock offers solutions for the developer to the Fortune 500 executive. BlueLock, a Collina Ventures company, is privately-held and headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. For more information, visit www.bluelock.com. About NimsoftNimsoft provides Unified Monitoring™ solutions for virtualized data centers, hosted and managed services, cloud platforms, and SaaS resources. The Nimsoft Unified Monitoring architecture eliminates the need to deploy a new monitoring solution for outsourced services, public or private clouds, or SaaS implementations. About 800 customers use Nimsoft Unified Monitoring solutions, including hundreds of leading hosting, cloud and managed service providers such as 1&1, BlueLock, CDW, Hitachi, Rackspace, SoftLayer and Troubadour. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com or to see Nimsoft Unified Monitoring in action, visit the Nimsoft public portal at www.unifiedmonitoring.com. Legal NoticesCopyright© 2010 CA. All Rights Reserved. One CA Plaza, Islandia, N.Y. 11749. Nimsoft and Nimsoft Unified Monitoring are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other trademarks, trade names, service marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. Press ContactLarry SmalheiserTrainer Communications 925-271-8211 nimsoft@trainercomm.com Troubadour Deploys Nimsoft Monitoring Solution Across Virtual Data CenterEnd-to-end monitoring solution enables highly available cloud services for hundreds of customersCAMPBELL, Calif. - June 7, 2010 - Nimsoft today announced that Troubadour is using the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS) to create an advanced service offering called ClientView, as part of its new virtual data center (VDC). ClientView will provide highly scalable monitoring and alerting for customers, helping Troubadour further differentiate its extensive service offering in the marketplace. It will also provide customers with the tools they need for improving the performance and security of their critical business applications. Troubadour provides innovative solutions for security, high availability and IP telephony to customers in the Southwestern US. The company also helps monitor and manage mission-critical IT infrastructures. NMS enables Troubadour to deliver a Unified Monitoring™ solution with a flexible pricing model that is ideal for managed service delivery. Additionally, by adding monitoring as a managed service to its list of offerings, Troubadour provides additional value that helps close new deals and retain existing business. “We wanted a highly scalable solution that made our clients feel like they were getting the best deal on the market,” said Jay Kirby, Troubadour co-founder and executive vice president of sales and marketing. “With Nimsoft, we can monitor on-site devices as well as devices and applications hosted in our cloud environment. NMS allows us to provide this collaborative model with a high degree of built-in flexibility and customization, while helping us deliver the high availability of systems and applications our customers expect.” Prior to deploying NMS, the IT team at Troubadour used a variety of low-end monitoring systems to meet customers’ individual requests. The team decided to take a more holistic approach in monitoring services delivered through the VDC, and evaluated a variety of solutions before selecting Nimsoft. NMS in the VDC enables reliable services in the cloud Constructed to initially support up to 5,000 virtual hosts, Troubadour’s VDC provides a hosted cloud environment for customers’ mission-critical systems and applications. With Nimsoft, the VDC can provide 24/7 monitoring and alerting plus dashboard-level views of customers’ individual environments. Customers can access the same dashboards over the Web any time, from any browser. They can also customize the dashboards to meet their specific business needs. Using the flexible customization features of NMS, Troubadour can even create dashboards with customer logos and branding. “In the highly competitive cloud infrastructure space where Troubadour operates, differentiated value is absolutely essential to growth and profitability,” said Gary Read, Nimsoft CEO. “With Nimsoft, Troubadour can achieve this differentiation with advanced monitoring services that can be adaptively priced to meet the needs of customers who only want to pay for what they need, when they need it." About TroubadourTroubadour is an advanced technology firm specializing in Unified Communications, Security, Data Center and Wireless solutions. For over a decade, Troubadour has become renowned for helping hundreds of government and enterprise organizations throughout the southwest and their locations around the globe solve their toughest business technology objectives. Troubadour employs senior engineers, project managers and consultants with advanced certifications in each of their practice lines. Troubadour’s influence and industry recognition extends from the field troops to the executive offices of the international theatre, and includes Partner and Product Advisory Boards for Cisco, Compellent, Ingram, Channel Insider and others; Cisco Systems Inc. Global Security Partner of the Year; and, Ziff Davis Bulls Eye Awards for Innovator and Deployment of the Year, 2009. For more information visit www.troubadourltd.com. About NimsoftNimsoft provides Unified Monitoring™ solutions for virtualized data centers, hosted and managed services, cloud platforms, and SaaS resources. The Nimsoft Unified Monitoring architecture eliminates the need to deploy a new monitoring solution for outsourced services, public or private clouds, or SaaS implementations. About 800 customers use Nimsoft Unified Monitoring solutions, including hundreds of leading hosting, cloud and managed service providers such as 1&1, BlueLock, CDW, Hitachi, Rackspace and SoftLayer. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com or to see Nimsoft Unified Monitoring in action, visit the Nimsoft public portal at www.unifiedmonitoring.com. Legal NoticesCopyright© 2010 CA. All Rights Reserved. One CA Plaza, Islandia, N.Y. 11749. Nimsoft and Nimsoft Unified Monitoring are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other trademarks, trade names, service marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. Press Contact:Larry SmalheiserTrainer Communications 925-271-8211 nimsoft@trainercomm.com Saint Louis University Expands Nimsoft Solution to Improve Transparency, Monitor End-User ExperienceFast-growing organization benefits from unified monitoring of physical and virtual servers, networking components and applicationsCAMPBELL, Calif. - June 2, 2010 - Nimsoft today announced that Saint Louis University (SLU) is expanding its deployment of the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS) across its IT infrastructure to increase the transparency to IT staff across SLU's campuses, proactively serve customers and resolve potential issues before they become problems. SLU is adding capabilities that will enable the IT team to monitor additional physical servers, virtual servers, networking equipment, and the health of services and applications delivered to end users. Nearly 20,000 students, faculty staff and researchers - as well as parents and alumni - access SLU's IT services 24/7. With such a large, diverse customer base, a monitoring system that could handle a wide variety of systems, applications and operating systems was essential. "We manage 137 virtual servers and 230 physical servers running different operating systems," said Peter Juan, Director of the Infrastructure Operations Group at SLU. "NMS supports all of our diverse needs, efficiently and affordably, and monitors all systems, components and applications through a single, unified interface. We can support the infrastructure today, and easily add components as our needs change and grow, without having to buy and maintain multiple, costly solutions." SLU's IT team began using Nimsoft in 2006, replacing disjointed open source solutions, to monitor its physical server infrastructure and accommodate rapid growth that required monitoring additional servers. Now, the team plans to expand the solution's capabilities to monitor applications and networking components on virtual servers. New capabilities include support for SNMP to enable the monitoring of network components. The Nimsoft service delivery portal will enable SLU's IT staff to create executive-level score cards and customizable dashboards for customers. Additionally, a new module that supports Synthetic Transaction Monitoring will enable SLU to monitor the health of applications and services delivered to users, from the user's perspective. The unified monitoring capabilities of NMS will provide SLU with a centralized, global view of the infrastructure and support a more services-oriented approach to IT that helps to improve end-user satisfaction. Unified monitoring also helps to reduce the impact of network issues by providing a more comprehensive understanding of how services and applications are actually performing. "NMS provides a central management platform for all of SLU's services, from hardware to networking equipment and applications," said Gary Read, Nimsoft CEO. "SLU's IT team benefits from a unified global view of the infrastructure that it can present back to users via customized dashboards. Our support for diverse operating systems and hardware, as well as virtual servers, is ideal for SLU's diverse and growing infrastructure. Nimsoft continues to work with SLU to deliver the functionality and features it needs to support its broad customer base." About SLUSaint Louis University is a Jesuit, Catholic university ranked among the top research institutions in the nation. The University fosters the intellectual and character development of more than 13,000 students. Founded in 1818, it is the oldest university west of the Mississippi and the second oldest Jesuit university in the United States. Through teaching, research, health care and community service, Saint Louis University has provided one-of-a-kind education, leadership and service for nearly two centuries. For more information, visit http://www.slu.edu/ About NimsoftNimsoft provides Unified Monitoring™ solutions for virtualized data centers, hosted and managed services, cloud platforms, and SaaS resources. The Nimsoft Unified Monitoring architecture eliminates the need to deploy a new monitoring solution for outsourced services, public or private clouds, or SaaS implementations. About 800 customers use Nimsoft Unified Monitoring solutions, including emerging enterprises such as Casual Male, European Medicines Agency (EMEA), Ladbrokes, Sur La Table, TriNet, Virgin America, and hundreds of leading hosting, cloud and managed service providers such as 1&1, BlueLock, CDW, Hitachi, and Rackspace. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com or to see Nimsoft Unified Monitoring in action, visit the Nimsoft public portal at www.unifiedmonitoring.com. Legal NoticesCopyright© 2010 CA. All Rights Reserved. One CA Plaza, Islandia, N.Y. 11749. Nimsoft and Nimsoft Unified Monitoring are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other trademarks, trade names, service marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. Press Contact:Larry SmalheiserTrainer Communications 925-271-8211 nimsoft@trainercomm.com SoftLayer Chooses Nimsoft Monitoring Solution as the Standard Monitoring Platform for Managed Hosting CustomersInitial deployment of over 25,000 systems will help increase performance and availability of cloud-based services and applicationsREDWOOD CITY, Calif. - May 26, 2010 - Nimsoft today announced that SoftLayer, a leading provider of hosting and cloud computing solutions, will standardize on the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS) to offer enhanced infrastructure and application solutions to its managed hosting customers. NMS will enable SoftLayer customers to benefit from tiered levels of monitoring, according to business needs. Initially, SoftLayer will deploy more than 25,000 systems, with the goal of increasing the performance and availability of hosted business applications. SoftLayer customers receive the same standard-level monitoring, which includes automated alerts and reporting on critical health indicators. NMS APIs feature bi-directional data integration into related IT service management applications, such as configuration management databases and service desks, enabling customers to easily integrate SoftLayer's NMS-based management services into their own IT management environments. Customers can upgrade to more comprehensive levels of monitoring with database, application and infrastructure service monitoring, and Service Level Agreements (SLAs). NMS tracks SLA agreements against operational and business metrics, and can forecast violations with warning alerts. SoftLayer expects to be fully functional and live with advanced monitoring for all customers in about three months. "What differentiates SoftLayer is our ability to provide not only the management tools to control a company's hosted infrastructure, but also the intelligence to make informed decisions about that managed infrastructure," said Sam Fleitman, SoftLayer Chief Operations Officer. "NMS offers a robust reporting tool, which enables us to adapt to nearly any customer environment and provide detailed metrics with efficient, easy to understand reports. Additionally, full API access allows us to seamlessly integrate NMS into our automated deployment and operations process and quickly scale to tens of thousands of servers." Prior to deploying NMS, SoftLayer had been using open source tools that did not provide the enterprise-oriented feature set that SoftLayer expected and customers demanded. NMS offers full transparency from all elements within the infrastructure, through any application stack. "The ability to provide customers with full visibility into the cloud is an important competitive advantage for service providers like SoftLayer," said Gary Read, Nimsoft CEO. "SoftLayer's decision to standardize on Nimsoft underscores our leadership in providing these essential Unified Monitoring solutions for the rapidly growing cloud market." About SoftLayerFounded in 2005, SoftLayer provides global, on-demand datacenter and hosting services from facilities across the U.S. We leverage best-in-class connectivity and technology to innovate industry-leading, fully automated solutions that empower enterprises with complete access, control, security, and scalability. With this insightful strategy and our peerless technical execution, we have created the truly virtual data center.and made traditional hosting and managed/unmanaged services obsolete. For more information, visit www.softlayer.com. About NimsoftNimsoft provides Unified Monitoring™ solutions for virtualized data centers, hosted and managed services, cloud platforms, and SaaS resources. The Nimsoft Unified Monitoring architecture eliminates the need to deploy a new monitoring solution for outsourced services, public or private clouds, or SaaS implementations. About 800 customers use Nimsoft Unified Monitoring solutions, including emerging enterprises such as Casual Male, European Medicines Agency (EMEA), Ladbrokes, Sur La Table, TriNet, Virgin America, and hundreds of leading hosting, cloud and managed service providers such as 1&1, BlueLock, CDW, Hitachi, and Rackspace. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com or to see Nimsoft Unified Monitoring in action, visit the Nimsoft public portal at www.unifiedmonitoring.com. Legal NoticesCopyright© 2010 CA. All Rights Reserved. One CA Plaza, Islandia, N.Y. 11749. Nimsoft and Nimsoft Unified Monitoring are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other trademarks, trade names, service marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. Press Contact:Larry SmalheiserTrainer Communications 925-271-8211 nimsoft@trainercomm.com Exceptional Execution and New Products Drive Major Customer Wins and Milestone Achievements for NimsoftExpanded Cloud Offerings Set Solid Foundation for FutureCA World, Las Vegas - May 17, 2010 - Nimsoft today announced several significant enterprise and service provider customer wins and the introduction of several exciting new products—including Nimsoft On Demand, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) version of the company’s flagship monitoring solution. “Our strategy for cloud computing is clearly paying near-term dividends in terms of sales and partnerships—while also providing us with a strong foundation for capitalizing on the market’s enormous long-term potential,” said Gary Read, Nimsoft CEO. “Now, with the CA Technologies acquisition complete, we’ll be able to bring even more resources to bear in maximizing this potential.” Following is more information about some of the recent accomplishments:
About NimsoftNimsoft provides Unified Monitoring™ solutions for virtualized data centers, hosted and managed services, cloud platforms, and SaaS resources. The Nimsoft Unified Monitoring architecture eliminates the need to deploy a new monitoring solution for outsourced services, public or private clouds, or SaaS implementations. About 800 customers use Nimsoft Unified Monitoring solutions, including emerging enterprises such as Casual Male, European Medicines Agency (EMEA), Ladbrokes, Sur La Table, TriNet, Virgin America, and hundreds of leading hosting, cloud and managed service providers such as 1&1, BlueLock, CDW, Hitachi, and Rackspace. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com or to see Nimsoft Unified Monitoring in action, visit the Nimsoft public portal at www.unifiedmonitoring.com. Legal NoticesCopyright© 2010 CA. All Rights Reserved. One CA Plaza, Islandia, N.Y. 11749. Nimsoft and Nimsoft Unified Monitoring are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. Google and Google Apps are trademarks of Google Inc. The Rackspace Cloud is a trademark of Rackspace US, Inc. All other trademarks, trade names, service marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. Press Contact:Larry SmalheiserTrainer Communications 925-271-8211 nimsoft@trainercomm.com Incentra Deploys Nimsoft Monitoring Solution to Customers Seeking Increased Visibility into IT Infrastructure Health and PerformanceManaged Service Provider Adds Unified Monitoring and Alerting to Remote Management Capabilities with NMSRedwood City, Calif. - May 4, 2010 - Nimsoft, a business unit of CA, Inc. (NASDAQ:CA), today announced that Incentra, a complete IT services provider, will integrate the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS) into their proprietary Service Operation Support platform called GridWorks. With the NMS enhancement, Incentra can centrally monitor and manage customers’ hardware, networking devices, operating systems, applications, storage devices and backup services over a VPN connection, all with a single, unified solution. NMS provides Incentra and its customers greater visibility into the health and performance of critical IT systems, while enabling event management and promoting rapid incident resolution. A private company with 50 employees and more than $12 million in annual revenue, Incentra offers a unique combination of enterprise-class IT managed services. NMS will be white labeled and sold as a service offering called GridWatch, which is accessible through the Incentra GridWorks Service Operations Support system. By incorporating NMS into GridWorks, Incentra can now offer everything from monitoring and alerting to full administration and management of a customer’s entire IT stack. “NMS lets us monitor and provide alerts for a much broader, diverse group of network elements, services and applications, without having to use multiple platforms,” said Mike Parsons, president of Incentra. “NMS gives us the flexibility to produce reports and write scripts to automate tasks based on alarms. The solution is easy to deploy and use, and helps us eliminate many manual tasks that were costing us time and money, while providing a robust, flexible monitoring service that integrates well with our business model.” “NMS has enabled Incentra to deliver monitoring services that target critical devices and specific problem providing greater visibility across an entire datacenter. This creates a more flexible sales model and enables them to reach a broader customer base,” said Gary Read, senior vice president and general manager of the Nimsoft business unit at CA. Incentra can also customize NMS dashboards to deliver very granular data and enable customers to view the health of multiple systems on a single screen. This is a differentiator that sets Incentra and its GridWorks platform apart from the competition, and leads to enhanced customer satisfaction as well as optimal infrastructure performance. Incentra will continue to roll out its monitoring and alerting capabilities using NMS to more customers in the coming months. About Incentra, LLCIncentra, LLC is an industry leading international provider of managed IT operational support services. Since 2000, Incentra has been providing a broad range of managed services that deliver 24x7 operational, administrative and full management support of the core infrastructure devices and applications that comprise an enterprise data center. For more information, visit www.incentra.com or click here to view the power of Incentra’s GridWatch Infrastructure Monitor/Alert and Notification service. About NimsoftNimsoft provides Unified Monitoring™ solutions for virtualized data centers, hosted and managed services, cloud platforms, and SaaS resources. The Nimsoft Unified Monitoring architecture eliminates the need to deploy a new monitoring solution for outsourced services, public or private clouds, or SaaS implementations. About 800 customers use Nimsoft Unified Monitoring solutions, including emerging enterprises such as Casual Male, European Medicines Agency (EMEA), Ladbrokes, Sur La Table, TriNet, Virgin America and hundreds of leading hosting, cloud and managed service providers such as 1&1, BlueLock, CDW, Hitachi, and Rackspace. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com or to see Nimsoft Unified Monitoring in action, visit the Nimsoft public portal at www.unifiedmonitoring.com. Legal NoticesCopyright© 2010 CA. All Rights Reserved. One CA Plaza, Islandia, N.Y. 11749. Nimsoft and Nimsoft Unified Monitoring are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other trademarks, trade names, service marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. Press Contact:Joe FranscellaTrainer Communications 925-271-8213 nimsoft@trainercomm.com Virgin America Gains Insight to Performance of Critical Applications with Nimsoft Monitoring SolutionNMS helps airline improve service levels through rapid growth by providing business-level view of critical systems performanceREDWOOD CITY, CA, April 27, 2010 - Nimsoft, a business unit of CA, Inc. (NASDAQ:CA), today announced that Virgin America, a fast-growing, California-based airline, has implemented the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS) to monitor its entire infrastructure, as well as the end-user performance of critical applications. NMS reporting and dashboards provide executives insight into service delivery, translating IT performance into a clear view of business processes. NMS is replacing Virgin America’s existing point monitoring solution, providing richer functionality and unified monitoring capabilities. By implementing NMS, the IT organization at Virgin America can proactively monitor critical systems and provide better management and response times to potential issues. “Virgin America has been growing since its founding, adding more airports and serving more guests,” said Ravi Simhambhatla, Virgin America chief information officer. “With a more diverse and extensive infrastructure, we outgrew our existing point solution, and were looking to upgrade to a fully supported, enterprise-class monitoring solution. NMS offers tremendous ease of use and a rich feature set that is ideal for our business requirements, without the high cost.” Virgin America’s mission is to make “flying good again.” The progressive airline offers new planes and innovative amenities such as mood-lit cabins, custom designed leather seats, power outlets and a video touch-screen at every seatback. “Virgin America is on the cutting edge of airline innovation and technology, so it’s fitting that the company selected Nimsoft to watch over its most critical systems and applications,” said Gary Read, senior vice president and general manager of the Nimsoft business unit at CA. “With NMS, the company can accommodate the growth of its infrastructure without a significant resource increase. NMS provides automated alerting, informative dashboards and granular insight into Virgin’s critical systems, enabling faster response time to incidents and proactive infrastructure management and troubleshooting.” About Virgin AmericaHeadquartered in California and launched in August 2007, Virgin America is one of the fastest growing start-up U.S. airlines of all time and currently employs over 1500 people. Virgin America offers guests attractive fares and a host of innovative features aimed at reinventing air travel. The airline’s base of operations is San Francisco International Airport’s modern International Terminal. The airline’s new aircraft offer interactive in-flight entertainment systems and power outlets near every seat for electronic gear. Virgin America offers in-flight internet service on every flight and hosts the largest in-flight entertainment library in the U.S. skies via its touch-screen Red™ seatback system. In just over two years flying, the airline was named "Best Domestic Airline” in the Condé Nast Traveler Readers’ Choice Awards and in Travel + Leisure’s World’s Best Awards two years running. For more, please visit: www.virginamerica.com About NimsoftNimsoft provides Unified Monitoring™ solutions for virtualized datacenters, hosted and managed services, cloud platforms, and SaaS resources. The Nimsoft Unified Monitoring architecture eliminates the need to deploy a new monitoring solution for outsourced services, public or private clouds, or SaaS implementations. About 800 customers use Nimsoft Unified Monitoring solutions, including emerging enterprises such as Casual Male, European Medicines Agency (EMEA), Ladbrokes, Sur La Table, TriNet, Virgin America and hundreds of leading hosting, cloud and managed service providers such as 1&1, BlueLock, CDW, Hitachi, and Rackspace. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com or to see Nimsoft Unified Monitoring in action, visit the Nimsoft public portal at www.unifiedmonitoring.com. Legal NoticesCopyright © 2010 CA. All Rights Reserved. One CA Plaza, Islandia, N.Y. 11749. Nimsoft and Nimsoft Unified Monitoring are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other trademarks, trade names, service marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. Press ContactJoe FranscellaTrainer Communications 925-271-8213 nimsoft@trainercomm.com Océ Chooses Nimsoft to Monitor Customer-Facing Call Center ApplicationsInternational technology company employs Nimsoft Unified Monitoring to boost application performance, improve customer satisfactionREDWOOD CITY, CA, April 20, 2010 - Nimsoft, a business unit of CA, Inc. (NASDAQ:CA), today announced that Océ, a leading international provider of digital document management technology and services, has chosen the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS) to monitor the performance of its customer-facing call center applications. NMS will help Océ improve customer satisfaction by providing insight into the end-user experience and enabling IT staff to eliminate performance inconsistencies. With annual direct sales of more than $3 billion, Océ maintains a large workforce of over 22,000 people. Controlling IT costs is essential; however, since more than 70 percent of the company’s revenue comes from service and service contracts, it is critical for call center agents to have immediate access to the information they need. By providing increased insight and control over the performance of Océ’s call center applications, NMS helps improve customer service and satisfaction, without the high cost of other legacy monitoring solutions. "Prior to selecting NMS, we were experiencing performance issues in our call center applications," said Richard Geelen, ICT Operations Manager at Océ. "There was a lack of stability—the applications performed well some of the time, but there was no consistency. By monitoring application performance, we can minimize those fluctuations and improve the end user experience. Unlike many other monitoring solutions, NMS offers an attractive price/performance ratio, along with impressive features such as customizable dashboards and ease of use." Nimsoft demonstrated the solution’s full range of capabilities and its ability to accommodate multiple platforms and applications. "Like many of our customers, Océ maintains a mixed environment and broad range of platforms," said Gary Read, senior vice president and general manager of CA’s Nimsoft Business Unit. "Unifed monitoring helps cut costs and simplify monitoring across the organization. Océ can deploy NMS across its call center applications now, and then extend it to other areas of the IT infrastructure." Océ is initially deploying Nimsoft across its most customer-facing applications. The company will soon begin to monitor other applications, such as its Web-based "Webshop", where customers acquire accessories and media for their printing environments. About OcéOcé is one of the world’s leading providers of document management and printing for professionals. The broad Océ offering includes office printing and copying systems, high speed digital production printers and wide format printing systems for both technical documentation and color display graphics. Océ is also a foremost supplier of document management outsourcing. Many of the world’s Fortune 500 companies and leading commercial printers are Océ customers. The company was founded in 1877. With headquarters in Venlo, the Netherlands, Océ is active in over 90 countries and employs some 22,000 people worldwide. Total revenues in 2009 amounted to € 2.6 billion. Océ is listed on NYSE Euronext in Amsterdam. About NimsoftNimsoft provides Unified Monitoring™ solutions for virtualized datacenters, hosted and managed services, cloud platforms, and SaaS resources. The Nimsoft Unified Monitoring architecture eliminates the need to deploy a new monitoring solution for outsourced services, public or private clouds, or SaaS implementations. About 800 customers use Nimsoft Unified Monitoring solutions, including emerging enterprises such as Casual Male, European Medicines Agency (EMEA), Ladbrokes, Sur La Table, TriNet, Virgin America and hundreds of leading hosting, cloud and managed service providers such as 1&1, BlueLock, CDW, Hitachi, and Rackspace. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com or to see Nimsoft Unified Monitoring in action, visit the Nimsoft public portal at www.unifiedmonitoring.com. Legal Notices Copyright© 2010 CA. All Rights Reserved. One CA Plaza, Islandia, N.Y. 11749. Nimsoft and Nimsoft Unified Monitoring are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other trademarks, trade names, service marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. Press Contact:Stephanie DelaeyCA Communications Manager, Benelux and Nordics Tel: + 44 (0) 1753 242 262 Mob: + 44 (0) 7500 122 155 stephanie.delaey@ca.com Nimsoft On Demand Delivers Unified Monitoring via Full-Featured SaaS SolutionInnovative SaaS IT Management Empowers Emerging Enterprises and Service Providers to Quickly and Easily Implement Unified Monitoring from the Datacenter to the CloudREDWOOD CITY, CA, April 13, 2010 - Nimsoft, a business unit of CA, Inc. (NASDAQ:CA), today announced availability of Nimsoft On Demand, a Software as a Service (SaaS) Unified Monitoring™ solution that delivers the robust capabilities and benefits of IT monitoring as an on-demand solution. With Nimsoft On Demand, emerging enterprises and Managed Service Providers (MSPs) can maintain visibility into their business-critical IT infrastructure—including both their internal assets and those in the cloud—without having to purchase, administer or deploy monitoring hardware and software on their own premises. Nimsoft On Demand is built on the proven technology of the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS), which provides broad, scalable, extensible, rapidly deployable and easy-to-use IT monitoring in a single product. It enables customers to implement NMS Unified Monitoring capabilities under an adaptable subscription model, allowing them to pay only for the level of monitoring they use at any given time. With Nimsoft On Demand, organizations can:
"I have been waiting for an on-demand solution that makes sense in terms of functionality and cost effectiveness," said beta tester Toby Hosterman, CIO of National Pain Institute. "I’m anticipating Nimsoft On Demand will deliver all the functionality we’ve come to expect and help us lower the administrative burden on our small IT staff." Nimsoft On Demand monitors external IT resources—including SaaS applications such as Salesforce.com® and Google Apps™, and infrastructure cloud services such as Rackspace Cloud™, Amazon Web Services™, Terramark and BlueLock. It also monitors internal resources including Microsoft® Exchange servers and virtualized data centers powered by VMware and Citrix. To begin using Nimsoft On Demand, customers can visit www.nimsoft.com/ondemand, and request a trial. After logging in, Nimsoft On Demand quickly begins to provide IT departments with visibility into their internal datacenter and cloud infrastructure. "IDC forecasts a 2009-2013 CAGR of 26% for the worldwide cloud services market, which includes software-as-a-service offerings," explains Mary Johnston Turner, research director for enterprise system management software at IDC. "As more and more organizations implement public cloud and SaaS solutions they will need access to monitoring capabilities that provide end-to-end visibility across internally run applications and public services and can be deployed just as quickly as the services they are monitoring." In addition to appealing to emerging enterprises seeking to minimize fixed technology overhead costs, Nimsoft On Demand offers a compelling value proposition to MSPs that need to quickly and cost-effectively respond to the growing market demand for outsourced IT management. "A growing number of customers want to offload IT management tasks to a trustworthy service provider, so they can focus their attention and resources on their core business competencies," said Renee Symons, SyCom Technologies vice president, services operations. "We selected Nimsoft On Demand and its rich set of on-demand monitoring capabilities to help us profitably meet this growing market. We expect it to lower our total cost of service delivery and provide a foundation upon which we can build higher-value/higher-margin offerings." Nimsoft On Demand further extends CA's portfolio of IT Management SaaS solutions – which include CA Clarity PPM On Demand and CA ecoSoftware. "Nimsoft customers and prospects can now turn to the cloud with confidence, knowing that Nimsoft On Demand allows them to take advantage of the flexibility and cost savings of SaaS without sacrificing the quality, breadth or ease-of-use of their monitoring capabilities," said Gary Read, senior vice president and general manager of the Nimsoft Business Unit at CA. "Nimsoft now uniquely provides customers the flexibility to use either on-premise or SaaS-based management solutions to monitor their IT infrastructure, from the datacenter to the cloud." Additional Supporting Quotes "As companies deliver more IT services in the cloud, they will also explore their options for managing their entire IT infrastructure from the cloud. Nimsoft On Demand can monitor and manage IT services from the datacenter to the cloud with no new on-premise product infrastructure, reducing complexity and lowering IT management costs."
"IT professionals are recognizing that SaaS-based data center management solutions can give them the same benefits as their business user counterparts—greater functionality at lower costs with more flexibility and fewer risks. The new Nimsoft On Demand solution gives IT organizations a timely alternative to traditional on-premise systems to meet their rapidly changing requirements."
"Cloud Computing and SaaS are shaking up the traditional IT service delivery model which is best demonstrated by the success of household names such as Salesforce and Amazon. Many companies are beginning to investigate how they can manage not only the traditional datacenter, but these new platforms as well. SaaS products like Nimsoft On Demand can assist with this revolution and deliver IT infrastructure monitoring across cloud computing and the traditional datacenter while removing the need to manage an on premise product infrastructure. This allows organizations to improve the flexibility of managing their infrastructure and reduce the management cost."
"The continued focus within midsize organizations and enterprises to reduce IT costs and maximize network performance is certainly fueling demand for Cloud Computing and SaaS solutions. The new Nimsoft on Demand solution presents a great opportunity for our VAR and MSP partners to engage their current and prospective customers on the value of managed IT services and discuss the cost savings and efficiency gains these solutions bring to the business. We are thrilled to bring this SaaS solution from Nimsoft to our growing channel partner base."
About NimsoftNimsoft provides Unified Monitoring™ solutions for virtualized datacenters, hosted and managed services, cloud platforms, and SaaS resources. The Nimsoft Unified Monitoring architecture eliminates the need to deploy a new monitoring solution for outsourced services, public or private clouds, or SaaS implementations. About 800 customers use Nimsoft Unified Monitoring solutions, including emerging enterprises such as Casual Male, European Medicines Agency (EMEA), Ladbrokes, Sur La Table, TriNet, and hundreds of leading hosting, cloud and managed service providers such as 1&1, BlueLock, CDW, Hitachi, and Rackspace. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com or to see Nimsoft Unified Monitoring in action, visit the Nimsoft public portal at www.unifiedmonitoring.com. Legal NoticesCopyright© 2010 CA. All Rights Reserved. One CA Plaza, Islandia, N.Y. 11749. Nimsoft and Nimsoft Unified Monitoring are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. Google and Google Apps are trademarks of Google Inc. The Rackspace Cloud is a trademark of Rackspace US, Inc. Amazon Web Services and Amazon EC2, are trademarks or registered trademarks of Amazon Web Services LLC. Salesforce.com is a trademark or registered trademark of Salesforce.com, Inc. in the United States and other countries. Microsoft is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in the U.S. and other countries. All other trademarks, trade names, service marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. Press ContactJoe FranscellaTrainer Communications 925-271-8213 nimsoft@trainercomm.com CA Technology Leaders to Address Cloud Management and Security Issues at Cloud ExpoCompany Also To Participate in Business Software Alliance Cybersecurity ForumsISLANDIA, N.Y., April 12, 2010 – CA (NASDAQ: CA) today announced that three of its technology leaders will speak at the 5th International Cloud Expo being held April 19–21 at the Javits Convention Center in New York City. All are presenting on Monday, April 19.
About CACA (NASDAQ: CA), the world's leading independent IT management software company, helps customers optimize IT for better business results. CA's Enterprise IT Management solutions for mainframe and distributed computing enable Lean IT—empowering organizations to more effectively govern, manage and secure their IT operations. For more information, visit www.ca.com. Connect with CALegal NoticesCopyright © 2010 CA. All Rights Reserved. One CA Plaza, Islandia, N.Y. 11749. All trademarks, trade names, service marks, and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. Press ContactsLeanne AgurkisCA, Inc. Phone: (386) 738-1912 Leanne.Agurkis@ca.com Rackspace Standardizes on Nimsoft Unified Monitoring Solution for Managed Hosting, Internal IT and Cloud InfrastructuresAlliance Allows Rackspace to Improve Monitoring Capabilities and Better Serve CustomersREDWOOD CITY, Calif. and SAN ANTONIO, April 7, 2010 – Nimsoft, a business unit of CA, Inc. (NASDAQ:CA), today announced Rackspace® Hosting (NYSE:RAX), the world’s leader in the hosting and cloud computing industry, is standardizing on Nimsoft to offer enhanced infrastructure and application solutions to its managed hosting customers and to monitor its internal IT and cloud infrastructures. The relationship will allow Rackspace to extend its Managed Hosting offerings to include more in-depth operating system and application monitoring. With the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution, Rackspace can provide a more robust monitoring service to its managed hosting customers around the performance and availability of business applications hosted with Rackspace. “We are dedicated to delivering Fanatical Support® every day to our customers. Standardizing on the Nimsoft solution is another example of our deep commitment in this area,” said Steve Mills, chief information officer, Rackspace. “We chose Nimsoft because they develop their product suite with service providers in mind. In addition, the Nimsoft solution is able to support the scale and highly dynamic nature of our business and our infrastructure.” The Rackspace Deployment Rackspace is one of more than 300 service providers utilizing the industry-leading Nimsoft Monitoring Solution. This relationship allows Rackspace managed hosting customers to benefit from tiered levels of monitoring according to their business needs. The Nimsoft Monitoring Solution will be deployed across more than 60,000 Microsoft® Windows® and Linux® systems. All Rackspace managed hosting customers will be provided with a standard level of monitoring which alerts and reports on critical system health indicators. These customers will be able to easily upgrade to more comprehensive levels of monitoring that will include databases and applications as well as other infrastructure services. “We are delighted Rackspace recognized our unique ability to address the special challenges inherent when delivering unified IT management solutions,” said Gary Read, senior vice president and general manager of the Nimsoft Business Unit at CA. “Their choice of Nimsoft as a technology partner once again underscores our position as a leader in unified monitoring. We look forward to helping Rackspace continue to deliver and enhance their commitment to Fanatical Support.” About NimsoftNimsoft provides Unified Monitoring™ solutions for virtualized datacenters, hosted and managed services, cloud platforms, and SaaS resources. The Nimsoft Unified Monitoring architecture eliminates the need to deploy a new monitoring solution for outsourced services, public or private clouds, or SaaS implementations. About 800 customers use Nimsoft Unified Monitoring solutions, including emerging enterprises such as Casual Male, European Medicines Agency (EMEA), Ladbrokes, TriNet, and hundreds of leading hosting, cloud and managed service providers such as 1&1, BlueLock, CDW, Hitachi, and Rackspace. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com or to see Nimsoft Unified Monitoring in action, visit the Nimsoft public portal at www.unifiedmonitoring.com. Legal NoticesCopyright© 2010 CA. All Rights Reserved. One CA Plaza, Islandia, N.Y. 11749. Nimsoft and Nimsoft Unified Monitoring are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. Rackspace and Fanatical Support are trademarks of Rackspace US, Inc. Microsoft and Windows are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in the U.S. and other countries. All other trademarks, trade names, service marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. Press ContactsJoe FranscellaTrainer Communications 925-271-8213 nimsoft@trainercomm.com Rita O'Brien
CA Completes Nimsoft Acquisition
ISLANDIA, N.Y, March 17, 2010 – CA, Inc. (NASDAQ:CA) today announced it has completed its acquisition of privately-held Nimsoft, Inc.—a leading provider of IT performance and availability monitoring solutions for emerging enterprises and Managed Service Providers (MSPs)—for $350 million in an all-cash transaction. The acquisition significantly extends CA’s ability to meet the unique IT management needs of emerging enterprises and MSPs, both of which are playing leading roles in the growth of cloud computing. Nimsoft’s technology and go-to-market approach also will leverage CA’s presence in growing international markets—where the Company expects cloud computing and hosted/managed services to play a central role in business development. “We believe that the acquisition of Nimsoft by CA will result in enhanced monitoring solutions in the area of hosted/managed services,” said Kevin Crowe, Director of Managed Services of Long View Systems. “Nimsoft technology, combined with CA’s commitment to cloud computing, will provide us with a robust solution that will allow us to create more value for our clients and will enable us to continue to evolve and innovate as an MSP.” The acquisition also will extend CA’s leadership position in the Service Assurance market segment, offering one of the most comprehensive suites of IT monitoring and management solutions in the industry. Nimsoft will operate as a standalone business unit within CA's Cloud Products & Solutions Business Line. For additional information, please visit http://www.ca.com/nimsoft. About NimsoftNimsoft is the first provider of Unified Monitoring™ solutions for virtualized datacenters, hosted and managed services, cloud platforms, and SaaS resources. The Nimsoft Unified Monitoring architecture eliminates the need to deploy a new monitoring solution for outsourced services, public or private clouds, or SaaS implementations. About 800 customers use Nimsoft Unified Monitoring solutions, including both mid-market and global organizations such as Amway Corporation, Barclays Capital, Casual Male, European Medicines Agency (EMEA), Ladbrokes, TriNet, and hundreds of leading hosting, Cloud and Managed Service Providers such as 1&1, CDW, Hitachi, and Rackspace. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com or to see Nimosoft Unified Monitoring in action, visit the Nimsoft public portal at www.unifiedmonitoring.com. About CACA (NASDAQ: CA), the world's leading independent IT management software company, helps customers optimize IT for better business results. CA's Enterprise IT Management solutions for mainframe and distributed computing enable Lean IT—empowering organizations to more effectively govern, manage and secure their IT operations. For more information, visit www.ca.com. Connect with CATrademarksCopyright © 2010 CA. All Rights Reserved. One CA Plaza, Islandia, N.Y. 11749. Nimsoft and Nimsoft Unified Monitoring are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. Google and Google Apps are trademarks of Google Inc. The Rackspace Cloud is a trademark of Rackspace US, Inc. Amazon Web Services and Amazon EC2, are trademarks or registered trademarks of Amazon Web Services LLC. Salesforce.com is a trademark or registered trademark of Salesforce.com, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks, trade names, service marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. CA does not provide legal advice. No software product referenced herein serves as a substitute for your compliance with any laws (including but not limited to any act, statute, regulation, rule, directive, standard, policy, administrative order, executive order, and so on (collectively, “Laws”)) referenced herein or any contract obligations with any third parties. You should consult with competent legal counsel regarding any such Laws or contract obligations. Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking StatementsCertain statements in this communication (such as statements containing the words "believes," "plans," "anticipates," "expects," "estimates" and similar expressions) constitute "forward-looking statements" that are based upon the beliefs of, and assumptions made by, the Company's management, as well as information currently available to management. These forward-looking statements reflect the Company's current views with respect to future events and are subject to certain risks, uncertainties, and assumptions. A number of important factors could cause actual results or events to differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements, including: global economic factors or political events beyond the Company's control; general economic conditions, including concerns regarding a global recession and credit constraints, or unfavorable economic conditions in a particular region, industry or business sector; impact of revenue recognition accounting policies on operating results; failure to expand channel partner programs; ability to adequately manage and evolve financial reporting and managerial systems and processes; ability to successfully integrate acquired companies and products into existing businesses; competition in product and service offerings and pricing; ability to retain and attract qualified key personnel; rapid technological and market changes; dependence on third party operating systems and software; use of software from open source code sources; discovery of errors in the Company's software and potential product liability claims; significant amounts of debt and possible future credit rating changes; the failure to protect the Company's intellectual property rights and source code; the timing of orders from customers and channel partners; reliance upon large transactions with customers; sales to government customers; breaches of the Company’s software products and the Company’s and customers’ data centers and IT environments; lack of market growth in key product areas; use of third party microcode; third party claims of intellectual property infringement or royalty payments; fluctuations in foreign currencies; failure to successfully execute restructuring plans and related sales model changes; successful outsourcing of various functions to third parties; potential tax liabilities; and these factors and the other factors described more fully in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company assumes no obligation to update the information in this communication, except as otherwise required by law. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof. Press ContactsBob GordonCA, Inc. Phone: 631-523-3192 bobg@ca.com Kelsey Doherty
Technium Chooses Nimsoft for Scalable Architecture and Unified Monitoring CapabilitiesService Provider Expands Business with Operational NetworkingREDWOOD CITY, Calif. - March 16, 2010 - Nimsoft, the first provider of Unified Monitoring™ solutions, today announced that Technium Consulting has successfully expanded its business in operational monitoring since deploying the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS). For over 10 years, Technium Consulting has provided top-notch networking expertise for mid-sized enterprise customers with multiple remote sites and 24x7 network operation for critical application requirements. Technium has built its reputation in high availability, disaster recovery, and network security design, architecture and monitoring services. However, to continue to grow its business, the company recognized a need to expand its outsourcing portfolio. When developing a growth plan, Technium determined its existing network monitoring solution wasn’t scalable and would limit the company’s growth potential. “The GroundWork Open Source network monitoring platform fell short in several key areas for us,” said Michael Joseph, President of Technium. “The architecture was not scalable without extensive labor to customize —each server had to be managed separately—the interfaces lacked executive-level reporting capabilities, and in the current architecture remote monitoring probes were limited to network and server performance.” Technium evaluated an array of products and found the majority lacked the scalable architecture the company needed. Nimsoft was selected because the unified monitoring capabilities of NMS provide scalability as well as a wider and deeper view into overall network health. Nimsoft also enables the Technium sales team to offer existing customers and prospects clear, convincing, graphical snapshots that demonstrate how to get the most of their network investments. “The flexible, scalable, multi-tier unified monitoring architecture and unified remote management platform allow us to add customers without adding staff,” Joseph explains. “We can also generate an array of customer-specific executive-level reports to help our clients really understand what is going on in their network.” Joseph has already seen how the new capabilities can generate additional sales opportunities. “Nimsoft has really helped us change and grow our business to a much larger degree than we ever thought possible. We’re in a lot more conversations,” he reports. In the four months since deploying NMS, Technium has already engaged in new accounts due in part to the solution’s unified monitoring capabilities. Joseph explains that annual revenue growth has averaged 25 percent over the past 5 years, but is forecasted to jump to 40 percent this coming year, based on growing sales activities, due in large part to Nimsoft. “Thanks to Nimsoft, we’re moving our business to focus on operational monitoring. I see a new level of excitement when we present our story in sales calls.” About Technium ConsultingTechnium, Inc. is a network consulting firm with a core value of partnership with enterprise customers. Technium focuses on key areas where deep skill in complex technology provides value that cannot be cost-effectively attained inhouse. The TechINFORM™ program provides operational skills and talent to configure and manage top notch tools for monitoring business applications, servers and communications. The TechCONTROL™ program adds engineering services and remediation with their 24x7 Network Operations Center (NOC) team. The TechSECURE™ program provides a complete program and services for security management. Finally Technium offers a host of consultative services under the TechCONSULT™ program. For more information, visit http://www.techniumconsulting.com. About NimsoftNimsoft is the first provider of Unified Monitoring™ solutions for virtualized datacenters, hosted and managed services, cloud platforms, and SaaS resources. With a proven time to value measured in weeks, the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution™ (NMS) reduces an enterprise’s total cost of ownership by up to 80 percent compared to legacy systems management vendors, while scaling and extending to places they just cannot go. The Nimsoft Unified Monitoring architecture eliminates the need to deploy a new monitoring solution for outsourced services, public or private clouds, or SaaS implementations. Nearly 1,000 customers use Nimsoft Unified Monitoring solutions, including both mid-market and global organizations such as Amway Corporation, Barclays Capital, Casual Male, European Medicines Agency (EMEA), Ladbrokes, TriNet, and hundreds of leading hosting, cloud and managed service providers such as 1&1, CDW, Hitachi, and Rackspace. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com. To see Nimsoft Unified Monitoring in action, visit the Nimsoft public portal at www.unifiedmonitoring.com. Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2010 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. Press ContactMegan BucksNimsoft Inc. +1 415 601 3632 Joe Franscella
CA to Acquire Nimsoft
ISLANDIA, N.Y. and REDWOOD CITY, CA., March 10, 2010 – CA Inc., (NASDAQ:CA) today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held Nimsoft, Inc.—a leading provider of IT performance and availability monitoring solutions for emerging enterprises and Managed Service Providers (MSPs)—in an all-cash transaction valued at $350 million. The acquisition significantly extends CA’s ability to meet the unique IT management needs of emerging enterprises and MSPs, both of which are playing leading roles in the growth of cloud computing. CA estimates that emerging enterprises, which it categorizes as organizations with annual revenues from $300 million to $2 billion, will account for approximately a quarter of the software spending in CA’s market space by 2013. By leveraging Nimsoft’s market expertise and technology, CA expects to add an entirely new set of customers to its base, which historically has been comprised of large enterprises. Nimsoft’s technology and go-to-market approach also will leverage CA’s presence in growing international markets—where the Company expects cloud computing and hosted/managed services to play a central role in business development. “With our planned acquisition of Nimsoft, CA will be equipped to capture several important growth market segments—including emerging enterprises, emerging national economies, and the MSPs who are providing these customers with IT management services via the cloud,” said Chris O’Malley, CA’s executive vice president, Cloud Products and Solutions Business Line. “Penetration of these markets will further expand our global leadership in IT management and complement our existing strength with large enterprise customers.” Nimsoft Unified Monitoring Solution The Nimsoft Unified Monitoring™ solution is designed to allow MSPs complete visibility into the performance and availability of their customers’ business applications across both internal and external IT infrastructures. Its broad capabilities and easy deployment and automated maintenance make it an optimal solution for MSPs. Its automated implementation can help accelerate time-to-value and its advanced features are specifically designed to streamline monitoring of a wide range of business applications for multiple customers—advantages that MSPs around the world are leveraging to improve service, expand offerings, and boost margins. Nimsoft has developed monitoring and reporting solutions for public cloud and on-demand offerings like Google Apps™ for Business, The Rackspace Cloud™, Amazon Web Services™ and EC2, Salesforce.com, as well as internal applications, databases, and physical and virtual server environments. Today’s announcement follows CA’s recent acquisitions of Cassatt, NetQoS and Oblicore and the planned acquisition of 3Tera. “As the way organizations deploy business services continues to shift, the way they manage those services must also shift,” said Dennis Callaghan, senior analyst at The 451 Group. “CA’s acquisition of Nimsoft—following its other recent acquisitions in the cloud computing space—demonstrates that CA is expanding its capabilities to meet the needs of its existing enterprise customers while also stepping up to address those of the emerging enterprise and MSP sectors.” The acquisition also will extend CA’s leadership position in the Service Assurance market segment, offering one of the most comprehensive suites of IT monitoring and management solutions in the industry. These solutions provide IT organizations with complete insight into application behaviors and infrastructure health, helping them to ensure the reliability of critical business services and optimally utilize available hardware capacity. Nimsoft was originally established as Nimbus Software in 1998 and renamed Nimsoft in 2004. It has approximately 800 customers, including nearly 300 MSPs and operates primarily in the United States and Europe. CA intends to work closely with Nimsoft’s robust network of MSPs, hosting providers, outsourcing providers and partners to penetrate emerging markets. “CA and Nimsoft are a perfect match,” said Gary Read, Nimsoft president and CEO, who will be joining CA. “We are joining a company that wrote the book on enterprise management. We’re bringing a very strong track record of success in the hosted and managed services segment and with mid-market enterprises. CA clearly shares our commitment to address customers’ evolving requirements for the management of their IT systems, including their move to virtualization and the cloud.” Nimsoft’s operations will report under CA’s Cloud Products and Solutions Business Line. It is anticipated that the majority of Nimsoft’s approximately 120 employees will remain with CA after the completion of the transaction, which is expected to close by the end of CA’s fourth fiscal quarter, ending March 31, 2010. The acquisition is expected to have minimal impact on fiscal year 2010 results and to be dilutive to earnings per share in fiscal year 2011. For the latest news and updates about this acquisition, please visit http://www.ca.com Conference CallCA will hold a conference call to discuss the strategic acquisition at 4:45p.m. ET today. Individuals can access the call via webcast at http://ca.com/invest, or by calling 1-888-378-4439. The international participant number is 1-719-325-2212. The webcast will be archived on the website. About CACA (NASDAQ: CA), the world's leading independent IT management software company, helps customers optimize IT for better business results. CA's Enterprise IT Management solutions for mainframe and distributed computing enable Lean IT—empowering organizations to more effectively govern, manage and secure their IT operations. For more information, visit www.ca.com. Connect with CAAbout NimsoftNimsoft is the first provider of Unified Monitoring™ solutions for virtualized datacenters, hosted and managed services, cloud platforms, and SaaS resources. The Nimsoft Unified Monitoring architecture eliminates the need to deploy a new monitoring solution for outsourced services, public or private clouds, or SaaS implementations. About 800 customers use Nimsoft Unified Monitoring solutions, including both mid-market and global organizations such as Amway Corporation, Barclays Capital, Casual Male, European Medicines Agency (EMEA), Ladbrokes, TriNet, and hundreds of leading hosting, Cloud and Managed Service Providers such as 1&1, CDW, Hitachi, and Rackspace. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com or to see Nimosoft Unified Monitoring in action, visit the Nimosft public portal at www.unifiedmonitoring.com TrademarksCopyright © 2010 CA. All Rights Reserved. One CA Plaza, Islandia, N.Y. 11749. Nimsoft and Nimsoft Unified Monitoring are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. Google and Google Apps are trademarks of Google Inc. The Rackspace Cloud is a trademark of Rackspace US, Inc. Amazon Web Services and Amazon EC2, are trademarks or registered trademarks of Amazon Web Services LLC. 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Alegent Health Rolls Out Unified Monitoring Solution Across Entire IT InfrastructureLeading healthcare organization uses NMS to automate alerting and ensure optimal performance and availability of critical systemsRedwood City, Calif. - March 9, 2010 - Nimsoft, Inc., the first provider of Unified Monitoring™ solutions, today announced that Alegent Health is using the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS) to monitor the health and performance of more than 600 servers, both physical and virtual, for its 10 hospitals in the larger Omaha, Nebraska area. Alegent, the largest faith-based healthcare system in Nebraska and southwest Iowa, will use NMS to maintain high service levels, control costs and keep critical systems running 24x7. Ranked first in the country in quality and patient satisfaction by the Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement (NRHI) in 2008, Alegent Health plans to deploy NMS across its entire infrastructure, including all network elements, databases and applications. The solution’s automatic alerting features are particularly important to Alegent, whose staff must react quickly to potential network issues before critical systems such as those supporting the intensive care unit are affected. NMS will offer a unified view of the entire infrastructure, including Alegent’s HP and Unix servers, as well as complex medical applications and databases that must stay available 24x7. The new solution enables Alegent to significantly cut administrative and maintenance costs while simplifying operations. “NMS is helping us reduce costs by consolidating numerous point solutions for monitoring we had in place, while providing additional features such as automatic alerting, customizable dashboards and reporting that help us maximize performance and availability of our most critical systems.” said Ken Lawonn, vice president of Information Technology at Alegent Health. “Now we can monitor all components of our IT infrastructure with a single, unified solution that is easy to use and provides a more comprehensive view of our infrastructure. The solution is also ITIL-based, which will simplify integration as we roll out our ITIL processes.” “Nimsoft is focused unified monitoring of the complete infrastructure—internal components and applications as well as components and applications in the cloud— to help companies reduce costs while optimizing the performance of their networks,” said Gary Read, Nimsoft president and CEO. “We are pleased to be helping Alegent Health continue to deliver superior patient care by helping ensure critical systems remain up and running at all times.” About Alegent HealthAlegent Health is the largest not-for-profit, faith-based healthcare system in Nebraska and southwestern Iowa with 10 hospitals, more than 100 sites of service, over 1,300 physicians on its medical staff and 9,000 employees. Alegent Health is ranked first in the country in quality and patient satisfaction according to the Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement (NRHI). That exceptional commitment to providing patient focused care for the body, mind and spirit of every person keeps Alegent Health faithful to its Mission, which was inspired by its sponsors, Catholic Health Initiatives and Immanuel Health Systems. At Alegent Health, patients and their families find a continuum of care, from women's and children's services, primary care, wellness counseling, and senior care to cardiovascular services, orthopaedics, oncology, physical rehabilitation and behavioral health. Alegent Health is online at www.alegent.com. About NimsoftNimsoft is the first provider of Unified Monitoring™ solutions for virtualized datacenters, hosted and managed services, cloud platforms, and SaaS resources. With a proven time to value measured in weeks, the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution™ (NMS) reduces an enterprise’s total cost of ownership by up to 80 percent compared to legacy systems management vendors, while scaling and extending to places they just cannot go. The Nimsoft Unified Monitoring architecture eliminates the need to deploy a new monitoring solution for outsourced services, public or private clouds, or SaaS implementations. Nearly 1000 customers use Nimsoft Unified Monitoring solutions, including both mid-market and global organizations such as Amway Corporation, Barclays Capital, Casual Male, European Medicines Agency (EMEA), Ladbrokes, TriNet, and hundreds of leading hosting, cloud and managed service providers such as 1&1, CDW, Hitachi, and Rackspace. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com or to see Nimsoft Unified Monitoring in action, visit the Nimsoft public portal at www.unifiedmonitoring.com. Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2010 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. Press Contact:Joe FranscellaTrainer Communications 925-271-8213 nimsoft@trainercomm.com NSPI Provides Unified Monitoring Services to Customers Through the Use of NimsoftTechnology Services Provider Gains Scalability and Flexibility, While Consolidating Data from Many Sources into Single Customer ViewRedwood City, Calif. - March 2, 2010 - Nimsoft, Inc., the first provider of Unified Monitoring™ solutions, today announced that Network Services Plus Inc. (NSPI) is converting all of its customers to the Nimsoft Monitoring System (NMS). NSPI, a leading provider of technology services to medium sized and Fortune 1000 companies, will leverage the unified monitoring capabilities of NMS to monitor hosted and premise-based customer environments. NSPI is migrating to NMS from the Dell/Silverback monitoring solutions to take advantage of the unified monitoring capabilities and alerting features of the Nimsoft platform. NSPI provides a variety of services to customers, from Microsoft Hosting Services to full Data Center Outsourcing Services and disaster recovery solutions. Customer satisfaction is key to continuing to grow the business. NSPI will leverage NMS dashboard functionality across mixed environments that include cloud computing models, virtual and physical hardware, and networking equipment to provide a consistent interface for customers. Additionally, NMS alerting features will enable NSPI to respond to issues quickly and efficiently, further improving service levels. “The previous solution from Silverback was geared toward the requirements of small businesses and could not scale to meet the needs of our enterprise customers,” said Doug Gallant, CTO at NSPI. “NSPI takes a customer-centered approach, and we want to make sure our customers’ networks, equipment and applications are always available to them. NMS embodies the technical capabilities as well as a superior UI, drawing on data from a variety of systems to provide a single, unified view of performance for our customers.” During a 3-day proof of concept, NMS was tested across all OS types, with a particular focus on Exchange monitoring and including a hosted Cisco VoIP solution and Active Directory. Nimsoft was selected for its completeness and scalability, and for its ability to monitor a wide variety of applications, systems and platforms. By standardizing the communication for data collection, data aggregation, and data analysis, NMS supports all computing components and infrastructures, including private cloud-computing environments, as well as the evolving internal datacenter. “Our unified monitoring approach aligns well with NSPI’s charter to monitor a wide variety of systems and applications, as well as its focus on customer care,” said Gary Read, Nimsoft CEO. “The scalability and flexibility of NMS was attractive to NSPI. NMS allows NSPI to create a customized experience for each client, regardless of the environment, and deliver a single version of the truth. It also enables NSPI to simplify and standardize on-boarding new customers, saving the company time and money.” About NSPIFor more than 22 years, NSPI has been focused on the implementation and support of technology solutions that enable customers to accelerate growth, productivity and profitability. Delivering technology solutions requires deep professional expertise and experience; NSPI delivers both attributes when developing and supporting customer solutions. NSPI is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, IBM Advanced Business Partner and a Cisco Premier Partner. For more information, call to speak to a representative at 800.783.3871 or visit www.nspi.com. About NimsoftNimsoft is the first provider of Unified Monitoring™ solutions for virtualized datacenters, hosted and managed services, cloud platforms, and SaaS resources. With a proven time to value measured in weeks, the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution™ (NMS) reduces an enterprise’s total cost of ownership by up to 80 percent compared to legacy systems management vendors, while scaling and extending to places they just cannot go. The Nimsoft Unified Monitoring architecture eliminates the need to deploy a new monitoring solution for outsourced services, public or private clouds, or SaaS implementations. Nearly 1000 customers use Nimsoft Unified Monitoring solutions, including both mid-market and global organizations such as Amway Corporation, Barclays Capital, Casual Male, European Medicines Agency (EMEA), Ladbrokes, TriNet, and hundreds of leading hosting, cloud and managed service providers such as 1&1, CDW, Hitachi, and Rackspace. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com or to see Nimsoft Unified Monitoring in action, visit the Nimsoft public portal at www.unifiedmonitoring.com. Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2010 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. Press ContactMegan BucksNimsoft Inc. +1 415 601 3632 DataCenter Finland Oy Efficiently Enhances Service-Level Management with Nimsoft Monitoring SolutionAdvanced Monitoring Capabilities Empower Leading Nordic Service Provider to Track Availability and Performance From End-User’s PerspectiveCampbell, Calif. - February 23, 2010 - Nimsoft today announced that DataCenter Finland Oy, an IT infrastructure service provider, has deployed the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS) across its IT infrastructure to optimize service availability and performance by monitoring application behavior from the end-user’s perspective. By providing comprehensive functionality in a single application, NMS is helping DataCenter Finland Oy to minimize the costs associated with the integration and maintenance of the multiple monitoring tools it had been using. Many service providers measure availability as a percentage of server uptime. This method, however, may not accurately reflect the availability of the service to the end-users. For example, the connection between the end-user and the service provider’s servers can be disrupted by a network failure that may not be immediately obvious to the service provider. NMS addresses these service monitoring issues by putting the most relevant infrastructure and response time metrics at the service provider’s fingertips with intuitive SLA reporting features. This provides Datacenter Finland Oy with valuable insight into the current health and performance trends of the services it hosts for its business clients. NMS also enables DataCenter Finland Oy to better evaluate and control how to optimally allocate infrastructure resources to deliver higher service levels to its clients at less cost. "NMS enables us to diligently monitor the network and system components of the service delivery chain all the way to the end-user, immediately notifying our technical staff of any potential problems so we can avert disruptions even before they impact our clients," Ilmari Vallo, CEO of DataCenter Finland Oy. "We also use the detailed reports generated by NMS to provide our clients with accurate, credible documentation that their SLAs are consistently being met." NMS provides comprehensive coverage for heterogeneous multi-tenant environments, allowing DataCenter Finland Oy to monitor multiple, diverse platforms and applications from a single interface. Designed for compatibility with a full range of physical and virtual environments, NMS is integration-ready and provides streamlined configuration and deployment. Additionally, it can be licensed under flexible business terms that align well with service provider, SaaS and cloud business models. "Nimsoft delivers solutions that uniquely and adaptively address the technology and business requirements of service providers like DataCenter Finland Oy," said Gary Read, Nimsoft CEO. "Our unified approach enables these service providers to streamline their operations, delight their clients, and achieve sustainable competitive advantages in a rapidly evolving global XaaS marketplace." About DataCenter Finland OyDataCenter Finland Oy provides reliable ICT-infraservices, with a professional staff for companies requiring high usability and dependable performance in a safe environment. DataCenter has profitable and expanding business activities with a budget of over 10 million euros in 2011. There are 50 employees, most of which have completed ITIL and/or ISO20000 certificates. DataCenter offices are located in Helsinki and Espoo. For more information, visit www.datacenter.fi. About NimsoftNimsoft provides Unified Monitoring solutions for virtualized data centers, hosted and managed services, cloud platforms, and SaaS resources. The Nimsoft Unified Monitoring architecture virtually eliminates the need to deploy a new monitoring solution for outsourced services, public or private clouds, or SaaS implementations. Over 1000 customers use Nimsoft Unified Monitoring solutions, including hundreds of leading hosting, cloud and managed service providers such as 1&1, BlueLock, CDW, Hitachi, QTS, Rackspace, SoftLayer and Troubadour. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com or to see Nimsoft Unified Monitoring in action, visit the Nimsoft public portal at www.unifiedmonitoring.com. Legal NoticesCopyright © 2011 CA. All Rights Reserved. One CA Plaza, Islandia, N.Y. 11749. Nimsoft is a trademark or registered trademark of Nimsoft Inc. All other trademarks, trade names, service marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. Press ContactLarry SmalheiserTrainer Communications 925-271-8211 nimsoft@trainercomm.com Barret Deploys Nimsoft Monitoring SolutionSwedish IT Service Provider Reduces Risk, Improves End-User SatisfactionRedwood City, Calif. - February 16, 2010 - Nimsoft, Inc., the first provider of Unified Monitoring™ solutions, today announced that Barret, who delivers a range of hosted and on-site IT solutions to companies in Sweden, is using the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS) to monitor infrastructure, services and applications for its customers. NMS will provide insight to the end-user’s experience and help Barret ensure availability and performance of applications and services. Prior to choosing NMS, Barret used freeware and point monitoring solutions to monitor hardware parameters like disk space and processor load, but had no visibility into the quality of the services delivered. By adding real-time, end-user monitoring to its service offering, Barret not only improves customer satisfaction but differentiates itself with a value-added service. “We wanted to keep the infrastructure very simple, while adding the ability to see how our services really worked from an end-user perspective,” said Kjell Flemström, IT Manager at Barret. “Although our previous monitoring solution provided insight into how the hardware performed, we didn’t have a clear idea of how our services were working. With Nimsoft, we can monitor hardware and applications, as well as response times and performance, with one centralized, unified solution. NMS allows us to simplify our infrastructure and reduce costs, while improving satisfaction among our customers.” NMS was chosen for its rich feature set, scripting capabilities and customizable probes, which Barret can use to monitor proprietary or specialized applications. Additionally, alerts are sent via email to notify administrators of potential issues before they bring down the network or affect services. Nimsoft alerting features enable more proactive troubleshooting, further improving service levels. With Nimsoft, Barret can fully realize the cost savings and performance gains promised by private and public cloud computing. NMS offers the ease of use, zero-touch setup, comprehensive infrastructure coverage, and sophisticated end-user response monitoring capabilities that cloud computing environments require. The solution provides unrivalled support for infrastructure, platform and software as a service (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS) computing models, giving customers unparalleled flexibility in the way they design and use their IT infrastructures. “Service Providers must distinguish themselves in the marketplace with reliable service offerings that help smaller companies reduce risk and save money,” said Gary Read, Nimsoft president and CEO. “Using NMS, Barret can more easily and cost-effectively provide these benefits to customers. At the same time Barret reduces operational costs by using a single tool to monitor hardware, applications and services, both on-site and in the cloud, and can provide customized solutions with features and pricing to meet the needs of each customer.” About BarretFounded in 1997 and based in Ostersund, Sweden, Barret has 35 employees and more than 500 corporate customers. Barret complements or acts as its customers’ IT department, providing services in the areas of system maintenance, system development, system operations, Software as a Service (SaaS), online desktop, the third-party applications, service desk, customized outsourcing and communications. Barret has partnered with large telecom and datacom providers, including Ericsson, Solectron, Flextronics, Saab, TeliaSonera, Teracom and Tele2. Its goal is to be a full-service provider that streamlines the development, operation and management of its customers’ technical and administrative systems. For more information, visit www.barret.se About NimsoftNimsoft is the first provider of Unified Monitoring™ solutions for virtualized datacenters, hosted and managed services, cloud platforms, and SaaS resources. With a proven time to value measured in weeks, the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution™ (NMS) reduces an enterprise’s total cost of ownership by up to 80 percent compared to legacy systems management vendors, while scaling and extending to places they just cannot go. The Nimsoft Unified Monitoring architecture eliminates the need to deploy a new monitoring solution for outsourced services, public or private clouds, or SaaS implementations. Nearly 1000 customers use Nimsoft Unified Monitoring solutions, including both mid-market and global organizations such as Amway Corporation, Barclays Capital, Casual Male, European Medicines Agency (EMEA), Ladbrokes, TriNet, and hundreds of leading hosting, cloud and managed service providers such as 1&1, CDW, Hitachi, and Rackspace. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com or to see Nimsoft Unified Monitoring in action, visit the Nimsoft public portal at www.unifiedmonitoring.com. Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2010 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. Press ContactMegan BucksNimsoft Inc. +1 415 601 3632 Nimsoft to Participate in Goldman Sach’s Conference Call SeriesPresenting The Next-generation of IT Management SoftwareRedwood City, Calif. - February 15, 2010 - Nimsoft, Inc., the first provider of Unified Monitoring™ solutions, today announced that Gary Read, president and CEO will participate in Goldman Sach’s In-Your-Office Conference Call: "The next-generation of IT management software and implications for incumbents." The call, hosted by Derek Bingham, will take place Friday, February 19, 2010 at 11:00 am EST. To join the call, dial 973-528-0056 or 877-208-2954 and provide the conference entry code 569203. A replay of the call will be available for two weeks and can be accessed at 973-528-0005 or 800-332-6854 with the replay code 569203. Nimsoft enables its customers to successfully monitor and manage performance, availability, and business services across IT infrastructures—including SaaS, hosted, and cloud environments. The Nimsoft Unified Monitoring architecture eliminates the need to deploy a new monitoring solution for outsourced services, public or private clouds, or SaaS implementations. About NimsoftNimsoft is the first provider of Unified Monitoring™ solutions for virtualized datacenters, hosted and managed services, cloud platforms, and SaaS resources. With a proven time to value measured in weeks, the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution™ (NMS) reduces an enterprise’s total cost of ownership by up to 80 percent compared to legacy systems management vendors, while scaling and extending to places they just cannot go. The Nimsoft Unified Monitoring architecture eliminates the need to deploy a new monitoring solution for outsourced services, public or private clouds, or SaaS implementations. Nearly 1000 customers use Nimsoft Unified Monitoring solutions, including both mid-market and global organizations such as Amway Corporation, Barclays Capital, Casual Male, European Medicines Agency (EMEA), Ladbrokes, TriNet, and hundreds of leading hosting, cloud and managed service providers such as 1&1, CDW, Hitachi, and Rackspace. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com or to see Nimsoft Unified Monitoring in action, visit the Nimsoft public portal at www.unifiedmonitoring.com. Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2010 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. Press ContactMegan BucksNimsoft Inc. +1 415 601 3632 Momentum to Use Nimsoft Monitoring System to Generate Incremental RevenueTiered Monitoring Services Enables Flexible Business Model for IT Service ProviderRedwood City, Calif. - February 9, 2010 - Nimsoft, Inc., the first provider of Unified Monitoring™ solutions, today announced that Momentum Advanced Solutions (“Momentum”) has purchased the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS) to use for monitoring systems and applications within its clients’ IT infrastructures. Nimsoft will be replacing the current monitoring solution, giving Momentum customers the ability to monitor system health down to the application level with a single, unified solution. Momentum, a leading-edge Internet outsourcing company with a state of the art five million-dollar server hosting facility, serves the US and Canada with best-in-class managed hosting services, including dedicated server hosting and co-location Web hosting. By providing managed network monitoring services using NMS, Momentum helps its customers avoid the economic impact of downtime—measured in lost revenue, lost productivity, and reduced customer service, while gaining opportunities for incremental revenue based on tiered monitoring service offerings. “The most reliable method of protecting yourself from network downtime is around-the-clock monitoring and support,” said Terry Whiffing, Vice President of Managed Service Operations at Momentum. “But many companies can't provide this service in-house. By leveraging the Nimsoft solution, we can provide unified monitoring and management and help our customers cut costs and free up internal resources. Plus, unlike other solutions on the market, NMS is a multi-tenant solution that’s ideal for service providers. The solution can monitor hundreds of customer environments, but we manage it as one.” With NMS, Momentum is able to offer clients an anytime, anywhere view of the health of their systems through MomentumCentral.com, a Web-based portal. Clients can view customized dashboards that display advanced system and Web analytics, review measurements of customer response of Web-based campaigns, and receive 24 x 7 alerts and problem notification. This eliminates the need for developing and managing in-house monitoring systems that can be costly and resource-intensive. “NMS is ideal for service providers like Momentum who want a flexible pricing model for customizable service offerings,” said Gary Read, Nimsoft president and CEO. “Its ability to monitor the entire stack, from the application down to the server helps Momentum ensure a superior end-user experience while taking the burden of managing multiple systems off their hands. With NMS, Momentum can provide a tiered offering with tiered pricing, and generate incremental revenue while helping customers grow their business.” About MomentumMomentum is a leader in Web outsourcing services. Its solutions provide customers with the innovation, integration, and operational expertise needed to reduce costs and/or improve productivity by outsourcing their mission critical, web-based applications and infrastructure to Momentum. Headquartered in Markham, Ontario, Momentum has offices in Ottawa, Windsor, Calgary and Toronto. For more information, visit www.momentum.com About NimsoftNimsoft is the first provider of Unified Monitoring™ solutions for virtualized datacenters, hosted and managed services, cloud platforms, and SaaS resources. With a proven time to value measured in weeks, the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution™ (NMS) reduces an enterprise’s total cost of ownership by up to 80 percent compared to legacy systems management vendors, while scaling and extending to places they just cannot go. The Nimsoft Unified Monitoring architecture eliminates the need to deploy a new monitoring solution for outsourced services, public or private clouds, or SaaS implementations. Nearly 1000 customers use Nimsoft Unified Monitoring solutions, including both mid-market and global organizations such as Amway Corporation, Barclays Capital, Casual Male, European Medicines Agency (EMEA), Ladbrokes, TriNet, and hundreds of leading hosting, cloud and managed service providers such as 1&1, CDW, Hitachi, and Rackspace. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com or to see Nimsoft Unified Monitoring in action, visit the Nimsoft public portal at www.unifiedmonitoring.com. Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2010 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. Press ContactMegan BucksNimsoft Inc. +1 415 601 3632 Nimsoft to Present Cloud Vision at Investor Conferences in February and March 2010Redwood City, Calif. - February 8, 2010 - Nimsoft, Inc., the first provider of Unified Monitoring™ solutions, today announced that Gary Read, president and CEO will present to the investment community at the Thomas Weisel Partners Technology and Telecom Conference on Tuesday, February 9, 2010. Read will also present Wednesday, February 24, 2010 at the Pacific Crest Emerging Technology Summit in San Francisco, CA. and at America’s Growth Capital 6th Annual West Coast Emerging Growth Conference on Tuesday, March 2, 2010 in San Francisco. Mr. Read will present his perspective on the market and the success in deploying the Nimsoft Unified Monitoring solution in organizations around the globe. Nimsoft enables its customers to successfully monitor and manage performance, availability, and business services across IT infrastuctures—including SaaS, hosted, and cloud environments. The Nimsoft Unified Monitoring architecture eliminates the need to deploy a new monitoring solution for outsourced services, public or private clouds, or SaaS implementations. About NimsoftNimsoft is the first provider of Unified Monitoring™ solutions for virtualized datacenters, hosted and managed services, cloud platforms, and SaaS resources. With a proven time to value measured in weeks, the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution™ (NMS) reduces an enterprise’s total cost of ownership by up to 80 percent compared to legacy systems management vendors, while scaling and extending to places they just cannot go. The Nimsoft Unified Monitoring architecture eliminates the need to deploy a new monitoring solution for outsourced services, public or private clouds, or SaaS implementations. Nearly 1000 customers use Nimsoft Unified Monitoring solutions, including both mid-market and global organizations such as Amway Corporation, Barclays Capital, Casual Male, European Medicines Agency (EMEA), Ladbrokes, TriNet, and hundreds of leading hosting, cloud and managed service providers such as 1&1, CDW, Hitachi, and Rackspace. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com or to see Nimsoft Unified Monitoring in action, visit the Nimsoft public portal at www.unifiedmonitoring.com. Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2010 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. Press Contact
Securex Ensures End-user Satisfaction with Nimsoft Monitoring SolutionNMS replaces multiple monitoring systems, reducing complexity while ensuring application performance and availabilityRedwood City, Calif. - February 2, 2010 - Nimsoft, Inc., the first provider of Unified Monitoring™ solutions, today announced that Securex is using the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS) to monitor its entire IT infrastructure. Securex specializes in providing specific expertise, consulting and innovative solutions in all areas of human capital management to individuals, start-ups and self-employed, as well as small, medium and large enterprises. NMS helps Securex ensure a superior end-user experience by closely tracking the response times and availability of its applications, while providing a unified monitoring solution across the company’s entire IT infrastructure that’s easy to configure and maintain. The Belgium-based company first engaged with Nimsoft to execute a proof-of-concept (PoC) that would enable IT staff to evaluate NMS application performance monitoring features in its environment. Securex’s infrastructure consists of a mix of physical and virtual servers running Windows and Linux, as well as an IBM mainframe system. During the PoC, IT staff discovered the solution’s rich feature set and ease of use, and found that it provided the same functionality as multiple solutions in a single, integrated solution. Securex decided to replace the current monitoring solutions with NMS across its entire infrastructure. “Our business revolves around the applications we provide to our customers. Their consistent performance is critical,” said Ignace Schiettecatte, Technical Manager of Open Systems Infrastructure at Securex. “Nimsoft not only has the application monitoring features we were looking for, it also reduces complexity and saves us time and hassle. We decided to replace our legacy system with Nimsoft so we could simplify our monitoring strategy with a single, integrated, end-to-end solution. Nimsoft delivers the features and functionality we need, and is ready for the future as well.” Nimsoft delivers complete monitoring capabilities for Securex’s entire IT infrastructure. With fully integrated event, performance and availability, end-user response, SLA and business service monitoring, NMS addresses virtually any monitoring requirement. Easy-to-use and deploy, the solution provides bi-directional data integration into related applications such as CMDB and service desk, delivering high levels of satisfaction and rapid ROI. NMS offers customizable dashboards that deliver complete, easy-to-analyze views into the real-time status of critical business systems—a must-have for ensuring end user satisfaction. NMS dashboards are Web-enabled for remote accessibility and provide access control features. With a quick glance, Securex can check on the customer’s experience with its applications and proactively address any issues that may affect performance or availability. “The staff at Securex likes the solution’s ease of configuration and use, and benefits from a financial perspective from having one integrated solution that does everything,” said Gary Read, Nimsoft president and CEO. “Additionally, less staff is required to configure and maintain the solution, so employees who were once bogged down with administrative tasks can redirect their efforts to work that adds business value.” Today, all new network elements and systems are integrated with the Nimsoft solution. About SecurexSecurex offers specific expertise, consulting and innovative solutions in all areas of human capital management. Its client portfolio includes individuals, starters and self-employed, as well as small, medium and large enterprises. In May 2009, Securex repositioned its brand, with a renewed logo, the baseline ‘human capital matters’ and 6 competences centres: HR Services, Health & Safety, HR Insurance, HR Consulting, Social Admin and HR Research. Securex offers a wide range of products and services, ranging from a health insurance fund for individuals, payroll services and insurance products through consulting in the areas of recruitment, health & safety, talent management and research for self-employed and enterprises. Securex achieved a turnover of 220 million euro’s in 2008. In Belgium, Securex employs 1.500 employees spread amongst 26 regional offices. They take care of the services for more than 150,000 individuals and enterprises, for more than 110,000 self-employed and for 5,400 privileged partner-accountants and -brokers. Securex is also active in Luxemburg and France.To learn more, log on to www.securex.eu. About NimsoftNimsoft is the first provider of Unified Monitoring™ solutions for virtualized datacenters, hosted and managed services, cloud platforms, and SaaS resources. With a proven time to value measured in weeks, the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution™ (NMS) reduces an enterprise’s total cost of ownership by up to 80 percent compared to legacy systems management vendors, while scaling and extending to places they just cannot go. The Nimsoft Unified Monitoring architecture eliminates the need to deploy a new monitoring solution for outsourced services, public or private clouds, or SaaS implementations. Nearly 1000 customers use Nimsoft Unified Monitoring solutions, including both mid-market and global organizations such as Amway Corporation, Barclays Capital, Casual Male, European Medicines Agency (EMEA), Ladbrokes, TriNet, and hundreds of leading hosting, cloud and managed service providers such as 1&1, CDW, Hitachi, and Rackspace. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com or to see Nimsoft Unified Monitoring in action, visit the Nimsoft public portal at www.unifiedmonitoring.com. Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2010 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. Press ContactMegan BucksNimsoft Inc. +1 415 601 3632 Demand for Cloud Management Solutions Fuels Record-Breaking Year at NimsoftNimsoft Solidifies Leadership Position with Over 40 Percent Growth and Over $50 Million in BookingsREDWOOD CITY, Calif. – Feb. 1, 2010 – Nimsoft, the first provider of Unified Monitoring™ solutions, announced today that demand for monitoring that encompasses both the datacenter and the cloud propelled Nimsoft to a profitable and record-breaking year in 2009. The Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS) captured market share as the solution of choice for leading managed service providers (MSPs), hosting providers, public cloud providers, and global enterprises. Nimsoft led the industry with the first Unified Monitoring solution capable of managing internal datacenters together with private and public cloud environments. “2009 was an exceptional year for Nimsoft,” said Gary Read, Nimsoft president and CEO. “Despite the global recession, Nimsoft customers invested in solutions that not only provide immediate value and cost savings, but also position them for the future as they expand into hybrid IT infrastructures.” 2009 financial highlights include:
During the year, MSPs looking to expand their service catalog and profitably grow their business chose Nimsoft for its ability to offer monitoring of so many different environments with excellent customer visualization. MSPs also appreciated the capability of NMS to support hundreds of different customers from a single instance. Large enterprises embraced Nimsoft in order to move to a more dynamic infrastructure and enhance customer satisfaction. Hosting and cloud providers selected Nimsoft for scalable monitoring solutions that could be deployed into their rapidly growing infrastructures in an automated and touch-less manner. Sample new 2009 customers include:
“Our outlook is tremendous,” said Read. “Analyst firms across the board are predicting rapid growth in cloud management solutions. IDC predicts that cloud management investments will swell to $44 billion by 2013, and Nimsoft is positioned as a leader in this area. We are very pleased that leading enterprises and service providers choose Nimsoft for end-to-end monitoring regardless of where the infrastructure resides.” About NimsoftNimsoft is the first provider of Unified Monitoring™ solutions for virtualized datacenters, hosted and managed services, cloud platforms, and SaaS resources. With a proven time to value measured in weeks, the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution™ (NMS) reduces an enterprise’s total cost of ownership by up to 80 percent compared to legacy systems management vendors, while scaling and extending to places they just cannot go. The Nimsoft Unified Monitoring architecture eliminates the need to deploy a new monitoring solution for outsourced services, public or private clouds, or SaaS implementations. Nearly 1,000 customers use Nimsoft Unified Monitoring solutions, including both mid-market and global organizations such as Amway Corporation, Barclays Capital, Casual Male, European Medicines Agency (EMEA), Ladbrokes, TriNet, and hundreds of leading hosting, cloud and managed service providers such as 1&1, CDW, Hitachi, and Rackspace. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com. To see Nimsoft Unified Monitoring in action, visit the Nimsoft public portal at www.unifiedmonitoring.com. Nimsoft, the Nimsoft logo, Nimsoft Unified Monitoring, and Unified Monitoring are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft, Inc. All other company and product names herein are recognized to be the property of their respective companies. © 2010 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. Press Contact:Joe FranscellaTrainer Communications 925-271-8213 nimsoft@trainercomm.com Health Dialog Chooses Nimsoft Monitoring Solution for End-to-End Monitoring of Critical ApplicationsNMS reports on end-user experience in real time to ensure performance and availabilityRedwood City, Calif. - January 26, 2010 - Nimsoft, Inc., the first provider of Unified Monitoring™ solutions, today announced Health Dialog, a leading provider of care management, healthcare analytics and decision support, has deployed the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS) to perform real-time end-user monitoring of its Collaborative Care Center (HDC3) Web-based application. The solution helps ensure performance and availability of HDC3 to a user base of internal and external health professionals who provide disease management and wellness services to over 20 million members. "Nimsoft offers a single, unified solution for monitoring our mission critical applications," said Ken Holton, Director of IT infrastructure. "NMS doesn’t take an army to support or require additional infrastructure. It provides us with out-of-the-box end-user response monitoring capabilities that let us hit the ground running. With NMS, we’re getting the information we need to ensure application performance and availability and to take proactive steps to reduce the risk of downtime." Holton said Nimsoft was selected for its ease of use, cost-effectiveness and its rich feature set for monitoring Web-based applications. IT staff can experience what application users experience. Holton said, "Being able to see what our users see can make the difference in terms of uptime and productivity for our health coaches." "Health Dialog has a significant Web presence with multiple external websites and critical applications," said Gary Read, Nimsoft president and CEO. "With NMS, they are able to consolidate into a single monitoring solution, thereby reducing licensing costs, hardware and infrastructure while benefitting from the end-user response information they need to keep their external-facing applications up and running smoothly." About Health DialogHealth Dialog is a leading provider of healthcare analytics and decision support. The firm is a private, wholly-owned subsidiary of Bupa, a global provider of healthcare services. Health Dialog helps healthcare payors improve healthcare quality while reducing overall costs. Company offerings include health coaching for medical decisions, chronic conditions, and wellness; population analytic solutions; and consulting services. Health Dialog helps individuals participate in their own healthcare decisions, develop more effective relationships with their physicians, and live healthier, happier lives. For more information please visit www.healthdialog.com. About NimsoftNimsoft is the first provider of Unified Monitoring™ solutions for virtualized datacenters, hosted and managed services, cloud platforms, and SaaS resources. With a proven time to value measured in weeks, the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution™ (NMS) reduces an enterprise’s total cost of ownership by up to 80 percent compared to legacy systems management vendors, while scaling and extending to places they just cannot go. The Nimsoft Unified Monitoring architecture eliminates the need to deploy a new monitoring solution for outsourced services, public or private clouds, or SaaS implementations. Nearly 1,000 customers use Nimsoft Unified Monitoring solutions, including both mid-market and global organizations such as Amway Corporation, Barclays Capital, Casual Male, European Medicines Agency (EMEA), Ladbrokes, TriNet, and hundreds of leading hosting, cloud and managed service providers such as 1&1, CDW, Hitachi, and Rackspace. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com. To see Nimsoft Unified Monitoring in action, visit the Nimsoft public portal at www.unifiedmonitoring.com. Nimsoft, the Nimsoft logo, Nimsoft Unified Monitoring, and Unified Monitoring are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft, Inc. All other company and product names herein are recognized to be the property of their respective companies. © 2010 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. Press Contact:Megan BucksNimsoft Inc. +1 415 601 3632 Credit Agricole Replaces IBM Tivoli with Nimsoft Monitoring SolutionLeading Financial Institution Leverages NMS to Improve Service Levels, Simplify OperationsRedwood City, Calif.—January 21, 2010—Nimsoft, Inc., the first provider of Unified Monitoring™ solutions, announced that Credit Agricole Deveurope has deployed the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS) across its network infrastructure to monitor systems and applications that serve more than 11,000 brokers. NMS allows Credit Agricole Deveurope to reduce response times to loan inquiries and improve service levels to its customers with around-the-clock, Unified Monitoring. Credit Agricole Deveurope is a Dutch subsidiary of the French bank Credit Agricole, one of the largest financial institutions in Europe. Credit Agricole Deveurope is one of the largest consumer finance institutions of the Netherlands with a history of almost 90 years. NMS is being used to monitor Credit Agricole Deveurope's applications and dealer interface, as well as its virtual services in a mixed VMware and IBM IT environment. Credit Agricole Deveurope had been using IBM Tivoli monitoring solutions, but found they were too complicated and did not provide a high-level business view of system and application performance. Nimsoft proved easier to use and maintain and delivered the features needed in a single solution. "In the Dutch market, fast response times are essential for selling our financial products and services," said Leon Schurgers, IT Manager at Credit Agricole Deverurope. "Our brokers rely on our fully electronic business model. The network and applications must perform at optimal levels at all times to enable fast and efficient response to inquiries. NMS reporting and dashboard features translate IT performance into a clear view of business processes—information that we use to improve service levels." Nimsoft is also helping Credit Agricole Devereurope's IT department improve internal service levels by communicating better with various business units. "NMS is a comprehensive, solution that fits well with Credit Agricole Deveurope's mixed-platform environment, allowing them to monitor all aspects of its business, from the network to the business processes," said Gary Read, Nimsoft president and CEO. "NMS dashboards provide an easy-to-read, customizable interface that clearly displays key information and enhances communications between IT staff and other business units in Credit Agricole Deveurope's organization. NMS reduces overhead and is more manageable than legacy or point solutions." Credit Agricole Deveurope is now working with Nimsoft to develop requirements for a new interface, which can be used to monitor payment-processing forms sent through an external clearing house. This new interface will connect third-party suppliers with business processes in the Nimsoft environment. About Credit Agricole DeveuropeCrédit Agricole Deveurope is the market leader in consumer finance in The Netherlands and a subsidiary of Crédit Agricole S.A.. The company strongly believes in long-term relationships. This conviction is emphasized by its sound and solid acceptance procedure when it comes to supplying consumer credits, thereby guaranteeing both top quality business and a strong market position. About NimsoftNimsoft is the first provider of Unified Monitoring™ solutions for virtualized datacenters, hosted and managed services, cloud platforms, and SaaS resources. With a proven time to value measured in weeks, the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution™ (NMS) reduces an enterprise's total cost of ownership by up to 80 percent compared to legacy systems management vendors, while scaling and extending to places they just cannot go. The Nimsoft Unified Monitoring architecture eliminates the need to deploy a new monitoring solution for outsourced services, public or private clouds, or SaaS implementations. Nearly 1,000 customers use Nimsoft Unified Monitoring solutions, including both mid-market and global organizations such as Amway Corporation, Barclays Capital, Casual Male, European Medicines Agency (EMEA), Ladbrokes, TriNet, and hundreds of leading hosting, cloud and managed service providers such as 1&1, CDW, Hitachi, and Rackspace. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com. To see Nimsoft Unified Monitoring in action, visit the beta version of the Nimsoft public portal at www.unifiedmonitoring.com. Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2010 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. Press Contact:Megan BucksNimsoft Inc. +1 415 601 3632 Nimsoft Adds InfoSpace to its Growing Client BaseNMS simplifies incident identification and troubleshooting, providing Unified Monitoring right out of the boxRedwood City, Calif. - January 12, 2010—Nimsoft, Inc., the first provider of Unified Monitoring™ solutions, announced today that InfoSpace Inc, a leader in private-label search technology, has selected the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS) to be deployed across its two production datacenters. NMS will help InfoSpace continue to ensure its 24/7 availability for its branded Web sites, including Dogpile, InfoSpace, WebCrawler, MetaCrawler and DoGreatGood. NMS will monitor more than 800 virtual and physical servers, as well as other critical infrastructure, to help the company eliminate troubleshooting issues, and prevent potential downtime. “Through Unified Monitoring capabilities, NMS can identify the exact causes of network issues via dashboards and reporting features,” said Leo Chang, CTO at InfoSpace. “This will help us minimize the time it might take to investigate and resolve IT issues on our own.” InfoSpace’s production environment consists of VMware virtual servers and HP physical servers running Windows or Linux, Cisco networking equipment and HP storage arrays. Load balancers coordinate between the datacenters in Seattle and Virginia, splitting the live traffic. “InfoSpace’s priority is availability and scalability to meet the needs of its partners and Internet users,” said Gary Read, Nimsoft president and CEO. “They didn’t need a lot of customization—they needed an easy-to-deploy unified monitoring platform that was reliable and provided the insight to quickly troubleshoot and prevent network issues from interfering with business processes. NMS provides the probes and modules InfoSpace needs right out of the box, so it can get up and running quickly with a single, comprehensive solution across the entire infrastructure.” About Nimsoft Inc.Nimsoft is the first provider of Unified Monitoring™ solutions for virtualized datacenters, hosted and managed services, cloud platforms, and SaaS resources. With a proven time to value measured in weeks, the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution™ (NMS) reduces an enterprise’s total cost of ownership by up to 80 percent compared to legacy systems management vendors, while scaling and extending to places they just cannot go. The Nimsoft Unified Monitoring architecture eliminates the need to deploy a new monitoring solution for outsourced services, public or private clouds, or SaaS implementations. Nearly 1,000 customers use Nimsoft Unified Monitoring solutions, including both mid-market and global organizations such as Amway Corporation, Barclays Capital, Casual Male, European Medicines Agency (EMEA), Ladbrokes, TriNet, and hundreds of leading hosting, cloud and managed service providers such as 1&1, CDW, Hitachi, and Rackspace. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com. To see Nimsoft Unified Monitoring in action, visit the Nimsoft public portal at www.unifiedmonitoring.com. Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. InfoSpace.com, InfoSpace, Dogpile, DoGreatGood, MetaCrawler, WebCrawler and other marks are trademarks of InfoSpace, Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2010 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. Press Contact:Megan BucksNimsoft Inc. +1 415 601 3632 2009 Press Releases Midwave Enhances IT Service Offering with Nimsoft Monitoring SolutionNMS delivers powerful troubleshooting capabilities to improve service levels and increase client satisfactionRedwood City, Calif. – December 14, 2009 – Nimsoft, Inc., the first provider of Unified Monitoring™ solutions, announced that IT services and solutions provider Midwave is deploying the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS) across 20 of its clients’ IT infrastructures. The solution will allow Midwave to improve service levels with insightful, powerful troubleshooting capabilities, customized dashboard and reporting features, and around-the-clock monitoring on all network elements. An IT consulting and shared services provider headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minn., Midwave integrates multiple technologies for clients to support datacenter efficiencies, secure environments and collaborative solutions. By migrating existing open source and low-end monitoring solutions to NMS, Midwave is helping clients reduce IT budgets while providing efficiency and insight into their IT environments. “Our clients have diverse, complex environments with both virtual and physical systems, and a variety of business-critical applications,” said Phil O’Konski, vice president of integration services at Midwave. “Although we evaluated multiple tools it was clear that Nimsoft provided the broadest offering as well as a business focus that aligns with our vision for providing effective decision support through IT analytics. NMS speeds troubleshooting by helping our consultants identify the root cause of events and restore services quickly, so we can keep clients’ environments running non-stop and improve client satisfaction.” “We are excited about beginning this long-term relationship with Midwave to help grow its business and provide tremendous value to Midwave clients through comprehensive monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities,” said Gary Read Nimsoft president and CEO. “Nimsoft enables Midwave to provide additional services to help its clients operate more efficiently.” About Midwave CorporationMidwave is an IT services firm dedicated to helping medium to large companies and government agencies tackle the most complex IT issues. Combining advisory services with a broad portfolio of technical specialties, Midwave is uniquely equipped to both conceive and execute effective solutions. Midwave is a privately held company headquartered in Minneapolis, Minn. It has grown to 115 employees since its inception in 1999. To learn more, log on to www.midwave.com. About Nimsoft Inc.Nimsoft is the first provider of Unified Monitoring™ solutions for virtualized datacenters, hosted and managed services, cloud platforms, and SaaS resources. With a proven time to value measured in weeks, the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution™ (NMS) reduces an enterprise’s total cost of ownership by up to 80 percent compared to legacy systems management vendors, while scaling and extending to places they just cannot go. The Nimsoft Unified Monitoring architecture eliminates the need to deploy a new monitoring solution for outsourced services, public or private clouds, or SaaS implementations. More than 900 customers use Nimsoft Unified Monitoring solutions, including both mid-market and global organizations such as Amway Corporation, Barclays Capital, Casual Male, European Medicines Agency (EMEA), Ladbrokes, TriNet, and hundreds of leading hosting, cloud and managed service providers such as 1&1, CDW, Hitachi, and Rackspace. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com or to see Nimsoft Unified Monitoring in action, visit the Nimsoft public portal at www.unifiedmonitoring.com. Nimsoft, the Nimsoft logo, Nimsoft Unified Monitoring, and Unified Monitoring are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft, Inc. All other company and product names herein are recognized to be the property of their respective companies. © 2009 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. Press Contact:Megan BucksNimsoft Inc. +1 415 601 3632 SMART Technologies Arms New Headquarters with Nimsoft Monitoring SolutionInteractive whiteboard technology pioneer takes holistic approach to optimize service levels across its new high-performance IT infrastructureRedwood City, Calif. – December 8, 2009 – Nimsoft, Inc., the first provider of Unified Monitoring™ solutions, today announced that SMART Technologies is deploying the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS) across its new, state-of-the-art high-performance IT infrastructure at its Calgary Headquarters. The pioneer and market leader in easy-to-use interactive whiteboards and other group collaboration tools will rely on NMS to monitor its diverse IT environment including hundreds of physical and virtual production servers, its backbone networking and storage infrastructure, and its Cisco IP Telephone systems. The company is also using NMS to monitor off-site locations such as its manufacturing plant in Ontario and operations facilities in Europe. By taking a holistic approach to infrastructure monitoring with a single, comprehensive solution, Nimsoft enables SMART to cut operational costs, while helping ensure 24x7 uptime. “The monitoring solution we had in place prior to deploying Nimsoft was not meeting our growing business needs,” said Rod Taylor, Senior Manager of Information Services (IS) Service Operations at SMART. “We hit a brick wall with it in terms of scope and size. After evaluating a number of alternatives, it was clear Nimsoft met all of our requirements and would enable us to reduce administrative and operational overhead. NMS was fast and easy to deploy, and it displays the data we need across all systems and platforms in a single screen, simplifying monitoring and reporting and eliminating many manual tasks. Ultimately, this saves us time and money.” Deploying NMS across the entire infrastructure required just two servers, as opposed to the 10 or more servers other solutions needed. This reduction in hardware represents a savings of more than $60,000 and provides a more streamlined approach that is easier to manage and maintain. SMART is realizing additional cost savings by eliminating the need to hire dedicated full-time employees to maintain the monitoring system. “As SaaS and cloud-based services become increasingly important, companies need a single enterprise-class solution to monitor both internal and external environments,” said Gary Read, Nimsoft president and CEO. “NMS is a feature-rich, comprehensive solution that simplifies and unifies monitoring diverse infrastructure components, applications and systems across their entire IT infrastructure without the high overhead of legacy solutions. With locations around the world, SMART can rely on NMS to scale quickly and cost-effectively as business needs dictate.” About Smart TechnologiesSMART Technologies introduced the world’s first interactive whiteboard in 1991 and today remains the global interactive whiteboard category leader, providing easy-to-use, integrated hardware, software and services that improve the way the world collaborates and learns. For more than 20 years, innovation and commitment to excellence have been at the core of its business. SMART revolutionized the education market with products that empower educators to improve student outcomes by effectively implementing technology products that support all learning styles and environments. The company helps business people achieve better results with products that enable more productive meetings and collaborative work. Its success is driven by a deep commitment to and engagement with both the education and business communities. SMART offers products, resources and services that positively transform the way people learn and work. About Nimsoft Inc.Nimsoft is the first provider of Unified Monitoring™ solutions for virtualized datacenters, hosted and managed services, cloud platforms, and SaaS resources. With a proven time to value measured in weeks, the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution™ (NMS) reduces an enterprise’s total cost of ownership by up to 80 percent compared to legacy systems management vendors, while scaling and extending to places they just cannot go. The Nimsoft Unified Monitoring architecture eliminates the need to deploy a new monitoring solution for outsourced services, public or private clouds, or SaaS implementations. Nearly 1000 customers use Nimsoft Unified Monitoring solutions, including both mid-market and global organizations. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com or to see Nimsoft Unified Monitoring in action, visit the Nimsoft public portal at www.unifiedmonitoring.com. Nimsoft, the Nimsoft logo, Nimsoft Unified Monitoring, and Unified Monitoring are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft, Inc. All other company and product names herein are recognized to be the property of their respective companies. © 2009 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. Press Contact:Megan BucksNimsoft Inc. +1 415 601 3632 Nimsoft provides standardized Enterprise IT Monitoring solution to Leading Financial InstitutionNimsoft supports the service oriented infrastructure (SOI) model at one of the world’s largest global banksRedwood City, Calif. – December 1, 2009 – Nimsoft, a fast growing provider of IT performance and availability monitoring solutions, today announced that it will deliver its Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS) for IT performance and availability monitoring to Deutsche Bank. Nimsoft is one of the first major suppliers of monitoring software to meet the requirements of Deutsche Bank’s variable commercial Service Oriented Infrastructure (SOI) model. NMS is scalable enough to handle the company’s needs, while at the same time being extremely easy to use and deploy. Aligned to Deutsche Bank’s SOI model, Nimsoft monitoring and capacity capabilities will provide quality of service metrics via a bus architecture to the company’s central event and capacity management systems. These open systems in turn will provide detailed insight into the health and performance of the underlying infrastructure. The flexible Nimsoft licensing model allows the Bank to take advantage of a pay-as-you-use principle. Overall the Bank will be able to achieve significant cost savings over the life of this agreement. “During the evaluation process, we not only proved our ability to monitor the IT infrastructure, but also demonstrated unparalleled scalability, breadth of coverage, and quality of support,” said Gary Read, Nimsoft president and CEO. “Signing an agreement with a leading brand like Deutsche Bank is a tremendous validation, not only of our next-generation solutions, but the company and people that stand behind those solutions. Deutsche Bank has become the second of the world’s major Investment Banks to implement the Nimsoft monitoring solution.” NMS represents next-generation offerings for monitoring the performance and availability of the entire IT infrastructure, both physical and virtualized. The Nimsoft Monitoring Solution is comprised of fully integrated event, performance and availability, end-user response, service level and business service monitoring. The deployment at Deutsche Bank will be focused on server subsystem/virtualization monitoring, however will also include application monitoring to cover infrastructure services such as email, web, messaging and application hosting. About NimsoftNimsoft is a fast growing provider of next-generation performance and availability monitoring solutions for the complete physical, virtual, and cloud-based IT infrastructure. Nimsoft solutions redefine the standards for ease of use and speed of deployment—providing outstanding return on investment and unparalleled customer satisfaction. Over 850 customers in 36 countries rely on Nimsoft solutions to monitor their IT-based business applications and services, including cloud environments. These customers include mid-market and global organizations, such as Barclays Capital, Amway Corporation, Bay Area Rapid Transit, Ladbrokes, MTU Aero Engines, TriNet, and TRW Automotive, and hundreds of leading managed service providers, such as CDW Hosting Services, ENKI, Thomas Duryea, Easynet, and Rackspace Managed Hosting. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com. Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2009 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. Press Contact:Megan BucksNimsoft Inc. +1 415 601 3632 Tridex Systems Reaps Significant Benefits with NimsoftNimsoft Saves Managed Service Provider Time and Its Customers MoneyRedwood City, Calif. – November 24, 2009 – Nimsoft, the first provider of Unified Monitoring™ solutions, today announced that Tridex Systems reported significant costs savings for itself and its customers since deploying the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS). Tridex Systems, a managed service provider in Colorado, helps mid-sized businesses extract more value from their IT investment. The company had been using a mix of different network monitoring tools, but no combination provided all of the functionality they needed. Managing alerts had also become a real challenge; the IT staff was spending more time evaluating and clearing their mailboxes of false alerts than responding to them. Tridex set out to find a solution partner that could not only handle its monitoring needs, but also help solve its alerting issues. Nimsoft was selected, in part, for its self-acting alert capability—a real differentiator from its competitors. “NMS not only sends out a ‘service-down’ alert, it automatically brings a service back online without any action from our IT staff,” explains Mary Bennett, Director of Managed Services for Tridex. “We can always review the event log to determine whether we need to do additional work, but the key is getting the service back up quickly with no discernable break in function.” NMS allows Bennett to limit the number of alerts generated by a single fault and to turn off alerts during specific time periods. “Now we see one alert per incident, instead of dozens, and we know that if it’s outside the maintenance window we need to pursue it. Our email volume has been cut in half,” she says. Bennett estimates that the self-healing alerts and subsequent reduction in emails reduced the workload on her IT team by about 20%. Bennett also finds the summary reports generated by NMS extremely valuable. Performance reports can be broken out by customer and by server for convenient account tracking. In the past, quantifying slowing performance was difficult; estimates were based on gut feel or user complaints. “With NMS, we’re able to actually observe trends and specifically identify when and where performance degrades,” Bennett notes. “When I present reports, the clearly designed graphical summaries help executives immediately grasp the situation. Getting buy-in for new servers, memory, and other equipment is very straightforward now, thanks to Nimsoft.” NMS has also enabled Tridex Systems to offer a valuable new service to customers– monitoring network traffic between remote sites. In one case, after just one week of monitoring, Tridex could show that although the customer was paying for a full T1 line, they were only receiving fractional T1 bandwidth from the telecom provider. In other cases, they’ve been able to advise customers that based on usage trends, they don’t need full T1 lines, fractional T1 lines will suffice, significantly slashing their monthly telecom bills. “Tridex’s ongoing satisfaction with their decision to deploy Nimsoft illustrates how hard we work with our customers to ensure they get the solutions they need," said Gary Read, Nimsoft president and CEO. “We continue to add sophisticated features while constantly raising the bar on the rest of the industry for ease of use.” About Tridex Systems, Inc.Tridex Systems, Inc. is a team of highly experienced network, server and storage management professionals committed to connecting people through innovative, high-quality products, services and solutions. With undeniable teamwork, experience and an aggressive business plan, Tridex can provide the solutions needed to run a business effectively and efficiently. Using agile and adaptive technology resources, Tridex brings the best IT solutions for a secure, reliable and redundant IT environment to support business-critical systems, applications and functions. About NimsoftNimsoft is the first provider of Unified Monitoring solutions for virtualized datacenters, hosted and managed services, cloud platforms, and SaaS resources. With a proven time to value measured in weeks, the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution reduces an enterprise’s total cost of ownership by up to 80 percent compared to legacy systems management vendors, while scaling and extending to places they just cannot go. The Nimsoft Unified Monitoring architecture eliminates the need to deploy a new monitoring solution for outsourced services, public or private clouds, or SaaS implementations. Nearly 1,000 customers use Nimsoft Unified Monitoring solutions, including both mid-market and global organizations such as Amway Corporation, Barclays Capital, Casual Male, European Medicines Agency (EMEA), Ladbrokes, TriNet, and hundreds of leading hosting, cloud and managed service providers such as 1&1, CDW, Hitachi, and Rackspace. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com. To see Nimsoft Unified Monitoring in action, visit the Nimsoft public portal atwww.unifiedmonitoring.com. Nimsoft, the Nimsoft logo, Nimsoft Monitoring Solution, and Unified Monitoring are all registered trademarks or trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2009 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. Press Contact:Megan BucksNimsoft Inc. +1 415 601 3632 European Medicines Agency Improves User Experience with Nimsoft Monitoring SolutionNimsoft Provides Application Monitoring Services for Proactive Problem ResolutionRedwood City, Calif. – November 17, 2009 – Nimsoft, the first provider of Unified Monitoring™ solutions, today announced the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) is using the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS) to monitor its entire network infrastructure. A decentralized body of the European Union with headquarters in London, EMEA’s main responsibility is to protect and promote public and animal health through the evaluation and supervision of medicines for human and veterinary use. NMS allows the IT staff to proactively address potential network issues and ultimately improve the user’s experience with applications and services. NMS is deployed across the agency’s datacenter, a multi-platform environment of roughly 500 servers, 2 firewall clusters and about 120 other network elements. As a government agency, EMEA must conform to strict regulations for service levels, availability and performance. Prior to deploying NMS, EMEA was using an off-the-shelf monitoring solution from a different vendor, but it did not perform service management reporting or provide the capabilities needed to ensure application performance. The existing solution was also difficult to use and not customizable. "Before deploying Nimsoft, we had no visibility into application performance issues, and could only address problems with the hardware,” said Oscar Diez, section head at the EMEA datacenter. “NMS allows us to simulate the user experience to proactively identify and address potential issues with applications, before we receive complaints from our users. NMS also enables us to create customizable dashboards and reports quickly and easily, eliminating much of the manual tasks previously required to use our scorecard system.” Currently, EMEA is using NMS to monitor its entire infrastructure, including its servers, switches, routers, applications and the interfaces and traffic to and from roughly 50 other National Competent Agencies. “Nimsoft delivers comprehensive, full-featured monitoring solutions that are easy to use and manage, and provide great visibility into all aspects of a company’s IT infrastructure,” said Gary Read, CEO at Nimsoft. “NMS helps large organizations like EMEA ensure availability and performance, improve user satisfaction, and eliminate much of the time spent troubleshooting network issues. This eliminates downtime and will save the EMEA IT organization time and money in the long-term by freeing up resources to focus on developing and improving services.” About EMEAThe European Medicines Agency (EMEA) is a decentralized body of the European Union with headquarters in London. Its main responsibility is the protection and promotion of public and animal health, through the evaluation and supervision of medicines for human and veterinary use. About NimsoftNimsoft is the first provider of Unified Monitoring™ solutions for virtualized datacenters, hosted and managed services, cloud platforms, and SaaS resources. With a proven time to value measured in weeks, the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution™ (NMS) reduces an enterprise’s total cost of ownership by up to 80 percent compared to legacy systems management vendors, while scaling and extending to places they just cannot go. The Nimsoft Unified Monitoring architecture eliminates the need to deploy a new monitoring solution for outsourced services, public or private clouds, or SaaS implementations. Nearly 1000 customers use Nimsoft Unified Monitoring solutions, including both mid-market and global organizations such as Amway Corporation, Barclays Capital, Casual Male, European Medicines Agency (EMEA), Ladbrokes, TriNet, and hundreds of leading hosting, cloud and managed service providers such as 1&1, CDW, Hitachi, and Rackspace. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com. To see Nimsoft Unified Monitoring in action, visit the Nimsoft public portal atwww.unifiedmonitoring.com. Nimsoft, the Nimsoft logo, Nimsoft Unified Monitoring, and Unified Monitoring are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft, Inc. All other company and product names herein are recognized to be the property of their respective companies. © 2009 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. Press ContactJoe FranscellaTrainer Communications nimsoft@trainercomm.com 925-271-8213 Nimsoft Appoints James Malone Director of Sales for Northern EuropeFormer IBM Tivoli Sales Manager brings extensive industry expertise to the roleRedwood City, Calif. – November 9, 2009 – Nimsoft, the first provider of Unified Monitoring™ solutions, today announced the appointment of James Malone as director of sales for Northern Europe. Malone will drive the continued growth of the UK, Nordic and Benelux regions. Malone brings over 15 years of IT industry experience in Northern Europe with over ten of those selling Service Management software in the region. He previously worked at Micromuse, where he specialized in managing Service Provider accounts across Northern Europe and was UK Sales Manager during the company’s acquisition by IBM Tivoli. He subsequently joined the Tivoli UK management team running the UK Commercial & Industrial Business group. Prior to IBM/Micromuse, Malone had successful stints at Texas Instruments semiconductor division and Cognito. “I’m thrilled to be joining Nimsoft during this exciting time,” said James Malone. “The recent announcement of the Nimsoft Unified Monitoring architecture has resonated with customers looking for a single product that enables complete visibility and monitoring, while eliminating the need to invest in additional products every time IT infrastructures change or expand.” “I’m very pleased to have James join the European sales leadership team,” said Dixon Fiske, Nimsoft vice president of worldwide sales. “Nimsoft has established itself as the monitoring vendor of choice for large enterprises and service providers. I am confident that James’ talent and his years of selling to service providers will strengthen our presence in Northern Europe.” About Nimsoft Inc.Nimsoft is the first provider of Unified Monitoring™ solutions for virtualized datacenters, hosted and managed services, cloud platforms, and SaaS resources. With a proven time to value measured in weeks, the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution™ (NMS) reduces an enterprise’s total cost of ownership by up to 80 percent compared to legacy systems management vendors, while scaling and extending to places they just cannot go. The Nimsoft Unified Monitoring architecture eliminates the need to deploy a new monitoring solution for outsourced services, public or private clouds, or SaaS implementations. Nearly 1000 customers use Nimsoft Unified Monitoring solutions, including both mid-market and global organizations. For more information, visitwww.nimsoft.com or to see Nimsoft Unified Monitoring in action, visit the Nimsoft public portal at www.unifiedmonitoring.com. Nimsoft, the Nimsoft logo, Nimsoft Unified Monitoring, and Unified Monitoring are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft, Inc. All other company and product names herein are recognized to be the property of their respective companies. © 2009 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Arrowgrass Deploys Nimsoft to Ensure 100 Percent UptimeGlobal hedge fund selects Nimsoft for powerful, integrated infrastructure monitoringRedwood City, Calif. – November 4, 2009 – Nimsoft, the first provider of Unified Monitoring™ solutions, today announced that Arrowgrass Capital Partners LLP, a global multi-strategy hedge fund, is using the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS) to monitor its primary and failover datacenters. NMS enables Arrowgrass to provide near 100 percent uptime to the trading desk, in an industry in which downtime is unacceptable. A spin-off of Deutsche Bank with offices in London and New York, Arrowgrass trades around the clock across all three regions. To meet the demands of the fast-paced, information-intensive nature of the trading industry, Arrowgrass built its infrastructure to be available, secure and robust. NMS, an essential part of that infrastructure, enables Arrowgrass to keep close tabs on its mission-critical systems and applications at all times, and address potential problems before they cause outages or delays. Prior to deploying NMS, Arrowgrass evaluated HP OpenView for monitoring its systems. The OpenView solution was rejected on grounds of initial cost and the on-going maintenance it required. Arrowgrass turned to Nimsoft on the recommendation of a hedge fund infrastructure solutions company. NMS provides Arrowgrass with detailed performance data and visibility into the health of its network and systems. Customizable dashboards display a variety of at-a-glance information about disk usage, capacity planning and performance trends, while keyword searching features assist with analysis and troubleshooting. “Nimsoft was up and running in just two days with no need for additional consulting,” said Darren Rodohan, Arrowgrass CTO. “The solution enables us to reduce overall costs while simplifying troubleshooting and speeding time to repair.” Real-time Proactive Monitoring Minus the ComplexitySince implementing NMS, Arrowgrass has reduced the complexity of its monitoring solution, while gaining greater visibility into the network. Arrowgrass uses Nimsoft to monitor its datacenters and connectivity between its New York and London hubs, which include multiple physical servers per site together with many virtual machines running across the two sites, and a VMware ESX™ cluster. NMS monitors all of the company’s network activity, including its main trading system, Imagine Software, as well as connections to remote FTP sites used to send and receive data from the firm’s Prime Brokers. User Response monitoring and alerting keeps Arrowgrass’s IT staff, as well as a third-party managed service provider, abreast of potential issues in real-time, so they can react quickly and prevent service disruption. Response time probes for MS Exchange and other mission-critical applications also help ensure customer satisfaction. “In a business where zero downtime is expected all the time, effective, detailed and insightful infrastructure monitoring is essential,” said Gary Read, CEO of Nimsoft. “The Nimsoft solution helps Arrowgrass maintain 100 percent uptime with nonstop monitoring and real-time alerts, while substantially cutting costs and saving resources—benefits that are particularly critical at this time.” About Arrowgrass Capital Partners LLPArrowgrass Capital Partners is a regulated alternative investment manager, focusing on a global multi-strategy approach, across a broad range of asset classes. The investment management activities take place within a rigorous risk-management culture, supported by a world-class infrastructure platform. To learn more about Arrowgrass, please visit www.arrowgrass.com. About Nimsoft Inc.Nimsoft is the first provider of Unified Monitoring™ solutions for virtualized datacenters, hosted and managed services, cloud platforms, and SaaS resources. With a proven time to value measured in weeks, the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution™ (NMS) reduces an enterprise’s total cost of ownership by up to 80 percent compared to legacy systems management vendors, while scaling and extending to places they just cannot go. The Nimsoft Unified Monitoring architecture eliminates the need to deploy a new monitoring solution for outsourced services, public or private clouds, or SaaS implementations. Nearly 1000 customers use Nimsoft Unified Monitoring solutions, including both mid-market and global organizations. For more information, visitwww.nimsoft.com or to see Nimsoft Unified Monitoring in action, visit the Nimsoft public portal at www.unifiedmonitoring.com. Nimsoft, the Nimsoft logo, Nimsoft Unified Monitoring, and Unified Monitoring are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft, Inc. All other company and product names herein are recognized to be the property of their respective companies. © 2009 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Casual Male Retail Group Ensures Optimal Performance of E-commerce Sites with Nimsoft Monitoring SolutionsLeading online retailer leverages flexibility and customization of comprehensive monitoring toolRedwood City, Calif. – October 26, 2009 – Nimsoft, the first provider of Unified Monitoring™ solutions, today announced Casual Male Retail Group (CMRG) has deployed the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS) to monitor all of the company’s corporate systems. After evaluating monitoring solutions from multiple vendors, the IT team chose Nimsoft for its flexibility and rich feature set. With NMS in place, Casual Male Retail Group can ensure fast response times and website availability to its online customer base. The largest specialty retailer of big and tall men's apparel, CMRG has more than 490 store locations and substantial e-commerce and catalog operations. With so much of its business dependent on the operation of its IT infrastructure, performance and reliability are critical requirements. "Downtime is simply unacceptable, because it can lead to lost sales, frustrated customers and brand implications,” said Dave Potter, Director of IT Infrastructure at CMRG. “To ensure 100% uptime and the best possible user experience, constant monitoring of all systems and applications is essential. Nimsoft allows us to track historical data, monitor sales and performance, correlate software and hardware issues, and forecast capacity needs for peak traffic times. The ability to capture key data and monitor our infrastructure with a high degree of detail and granularity lets us quickly and efficiently address issues before they become real network threats.” Unlike tools previously used by the IT team, NMS provides deep visibility and a high degree of flexibility in designing custom probes for specific applications. Customized dashboards provide a single view of the online e-commerce environment, allowing administrators to view one site or all sites simultaneously, and review detailed metrics quickly. “NMS alerts administrators at CMRG of potential issues and keeps them abreast of the network’s health 24x 7,” said Gary Read, Nimsoft president and CEO. “By simply glancing at the dashboard, administrators can assess the performance of all systems, and decide to take action or allocate additional resources, if necessary. This saves the IT staff considerable time and worry.” About Casual MaleCasual Male Retail Group, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, is the largest specialty retailer of big and tall men’s apparel with retail operations in the United States and London, England and direct businesses throughout the United States, Canada and Europe. Casual Male Retail Group, Inc. currently operates 401 Casual Male XL retail stores and 66 Casual Male XL outlet stores under the trade names “Casual Male Big & Tall”, “Casual Male XL” and “Casual Male XL Outlets”, and 27 Rochester Clothing retail locations under the trade name “Rochester Big & Tall”. Casual Male Retail Group, Inc.’s direct business includes catalogs and e-commerce web sites atwww.casualmale.com, www.rochesterclothing.com, www.livingxl.com,www.btdirect.com and www.shoesxl.com, which support its brands and product extensions. Casual Male Retail Group, Inc., through its wholly-owned Canadian subsidiary, offers selected Casual Male merchandise on the www.sears.com and www.sears.ca, Sears’ Canadian websites, as well as in co-branded Casual Male and Sears Canada catalogs. About Nimsoft Inc.Nimsoft is the first provider of Unified Monitoring™ solutions for virtualized datacenters, hosted and managed services, cloud platforms, and SaaS resources. With a proven time to value measured in weeks, the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution™ (NMS) reduces an enterprise’s total cost of ownership by up to 80 percent compared to legacy systems management vendors, while scaling and extending to places they just cannot go. The Nimsoft Unified Monitoring architecture eliminates the need to deploy a new monitoring solution for outsourced services, public or private clouds, or SaaS implementations. Nearly 1000 customers use Nimsoft Unified Monitoring solutions, including both mid-market and global organizations such as Amway Corporation, Barclays Capital, Casual Male, European Medicines Agency (EMEA), Ladbrokes, TriNet, and hundreds of leading hosting, cloud and managed service providers such as 1&1, CDW, Hitachi, and Rackspace. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com or to see Nimsoft Unified Monitoring in action, visit the beta version of the Nimsoft public portal atwww.unifiedmonitoring.com. Nimsoft, the Nimsoft logo, Nimsoft Unified Monitoring, and Unified Monitoring are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft, Inc. All other company and product names herein are recognized to be the property of their respective companies. © 2009 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Nimsoft Monitoring Solution is Day-One ready for Windows 7 and 2008 R2Redwood City, Calif. – October 22, 2009 – Nimsoft, the first provider of Unified Monitoring™ solutions, today announced immediate support for Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2. Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS) may now be hosted on workstations and servers running these releases. Nimsoft system probes support monitoring Windows 7 desktops and servers running Windows Server 2008 R2. “Our customers need to be able to quickly embrace new technologies and platforms like the cloud, SaaS implementations and new operating system releases by vendors such as Microsoft,” said Gary Read Nimsoft president and CEO. “In step with today’s release of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, we have tested NMS 4.0 to ensure we are ready to offer immediate support.” NMS offers a full range of support for the various Microsoft environments and NMS 4.0 system, network, remote monitoring, virtualization (VMware & Microsoft Hyper-V) and SQL Server components are ready for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 environments. About NimsoftNimsoft is the first provider of Unified Monitoring™ solutions for virtualized datacenters, hosted and managed services, cloud platforms, and SaaS resources. With a proven time to value measured in weeks, the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution™ (NMS) reduces an enterprise’s total cost of ownership by up to 80 percent compared to legacy systems management vendors, while scaling and extending to places they just cannot go. The Nimsoft Unified Monitoring architecture eliminates the need to deploy a new monitoring solution for outsourced services, public or private clouds, or SaaS implementations. Nearly 1000 customers use Nimsoft Unified Monitoring solutions, including both mid-market and global organizations such as Amway Corporation, Barclays Capital, Casual Male, European Medicines Agency (EMEA), Ladbrokes, TriNet, and hundreds of leading hosting, cloud and managed service providers such as 1&1, CDW, Hitachi, and Rackspace. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com or to see Nimsoft Unified Monitoring in action, visit the beta version of the Nimsoft public portal at www.unifiedmonitoring.com. Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2009 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 World's Largest Web Hosting Provider Chooses Nimsoft for Monitoring1&1 Selects Nimsoft to Monitor Tens of Thousands of ServersRedwood City, Calif. – October 21, 2009 – Nimsoft, the first provider of Unified Monitoring™ solutions, today announced that Web hosting provider 1&1 Internet has selected the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS) for monitoring its entire server infrastructure. With about 1.2 billion Euros in revenues, 8 million customers, and 10 million domains being managed, 1&1 is the largest Web hosting provider in the world. In order to deliver its portfolio of shared and dedicated hosting, ISP, and new cloud computing services, 1&1 needs to manage a vast infrastructure that includes more than 65,000 servers. The IT staff at 1&1 realized it needed to replace the existing open source monitoring solution in order to most effectively optimize the performance and reliability of its servers. After evaluating solutions from IBM, Hyperic and Nimsoft, the staff found that only NMS offered the combination of scalability, ease of deployment, and security they required. “In the end, we found that Nimsoft was the only solution that met our requirements for scalability, ease, and off-the-shelf capabilities, while at the same time delivering the flexibility we’d need to adapt to our evolving requirements,” said Henning Kettler, CTO 1&1. “As a result, we’re able to deploy quickly and get immediate benefits and have confidence that the solution will deliver value in the long term.” Its distributed architecture and security model makes NMS an ideal solution for large and geographically diverse businesses such as 1&1. The solution’s secure model for gathering and distributing monitoring data helps 1&1 optimize the security of its infrastructure while offering the scalability required to effectively aggregate the massive amounts of monitoring data being generated by the company’s server infrastructure. “1&1’s selection of Nimsoft is a tremendous testament to the scalability of our solution,” said Gary Read, Nimsoft president and CEO. “With NMS, 1&1 gains the ability to efficiently monitor its vast infrastructure, and so reduce administrative time and expense, while at the same time boosting the availability and performance of its services.” About 1&1 Internet1&1 Internet Inc. is a subsidiary of United Internet, a profitable public company with a market cap of $2 billion. 1&1 was founded in 1988 and hosts more than 10 million domain names, while more than 65,000 servers run on the company’s five state-of-the-art data centers. 1&1’s global community is over 9 million customer contracts strong. About NimsoftNimsoft is the first provider of Unified Monitoring™ solutions for virtualized datacenters, hosted and managed services, cloud platforms, and SaaS resources. With a proven time to value measured in weeks, the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution™ (NMS) reduces an enterprise’s total cost of ownership by up to 80 percent compared to legacy systems management vendors, while scaling and extending to places they just cannot go. The Nimsoft Unified Monitoring architecture eliminates the need to deploy a new monitoring solution for outsourced services, public or private clouds, or SaaS implementations. Nearly 1000 customers use Nimsoft Unified Monitoring solutions, including both mid-market and global organizations such as Amway Corporation, Barclays Capital, Casual Male, European Medicines Agency (EMEA), Ladbrokes, TriNet, and hundreds of leading hosting, cloud and managed service providers such as 1&1, CDW, Hitachi, and Rackspace. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com or to see Nimsoft Unified Monitoring in action, visit the beta version of the Nimsoft public portal at www.unifiedmonitoring.com. Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2009 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Live at Unifiedmonitoring.com: Cloud vs. Hosted vs. Datacenter, SaaS vs. On PremiseWhich Services Deliver, Which Fall Short? Nimsoft Invites You to Judge for YourselfRedwood City, Calif. – October 20, 2009 – Nimsoft, the first provider of Unified Monitoring™ solutions, today announced the availability of 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. Unifiedmonitoring.com has aggregated status feeds for the leading cloud and SaaS providers on the site, providing prospective users with real-time visibility into the availability and performance of these IT resources. The portal also provides historical data and benchmarks that can be used to evaluate performance over time. Beta users can use the free information to evaluate services prior to making a purchasing decision or to gain insight into services already in use within their organizations. In the cloud window, visibility into Amazon Web Services and Rackspace Cloud are provided; in the mail options window, the third-party hosted Nimsoft Exchange and Google Gmail are featured; and in the SaaS view, Salesforce.com data is provided. Any SaaS or cloud vendors that want to participate in the unifiedmonitoring.com status portal can do so by visiting the site. In addition to checking status updates on the site, users can subscribe to email alerts. “The unifiedmonitoring.com portal demonstrates a commitment by Nimsoft to provide visibility into all internal and external IT resources,” said Gary Read, Nimsoft president and CEO. “Through this free public service, organizations can get the data and transparency needed to understand the current and historical performance and availability of these services, and to decide for themselves which providers deliver as advertised. The portal also demonstrates how a Unified Monitoring solution can be used to benchmark and compare internal to outsourced services, paving the way to more-intelligent cloud adoption. We are excited to unveil this beta version of the service and are looking forward to feedback from users as we move toward general availability.” Organizations wishing to implement their own Unified Monitoring dashboards should contact Nimsoft through the links at www.unifiedmonitoring.com. About NimsoftNimsoft is the first provider of Unified Monitoring™ solutions for virtualized datacenters, hosted and managed services, cloud platforms, and SaaS resources. With a proven time to value measured in weeks, the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution™ (NMS) reduces an enterprise’s total cost of ownership by up to 80 percent compared to legacy systems management vendors, while scaling and extending to places they just cannot go. The Nimsoft Unified Monitoring architecture eliminates the need to deploy a new monitoring solution for outsourced services, public or private clouds, or SaaS implementations. Nearly 1000 customers use Nimsoft Unified Monitoring solutions, including both mid-market and global organizations such as Amway Corporation, Barclays Capital, Casual Male, European Medicines Agency (EMEA), Ladbrokes, TriNet, and hundreds of leading hosting , cloud and managed service providers such as 1&1, CDW, Hitachi, and Rackspace. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com or to see Nimsoft Unified Monitoring in action, visit the beta version of the Nimsoft public portal at www.unifiedmonitoring.com. Nimsoft, the Nimsoft logo, Nimsoft Unified Monitoring, and Unified Monitoring are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft, Inc. All other company and product names herein are recognized to be the property of their respective companies. © 2009 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. Press ContactsJoe FranscellaTrainer Communications Nimsoft@trainercomm.com 925-271-8213
First to Deliver Unified Monitoring, Nimsoft Provides Complete Visibility into Business Applications Running Internally and Externally—From the Datacenter to Private, Hybrid and Public CloudsNimsoft Monitoring Solution Enables Customers to Expand with Confidence by Monitoring Cloud Platforms and SaaS Applications, Including Those from Rackspace, Amazon, Salesforce.com, and GoogleRedwood City, Calif. – October 20, 2009 – 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 virtualized datacenter to hosted, cloud- and SaaS-based resources and applications. By extending monitoring from the virtualized datacenter to the cloud, customers will gain complete visibility over their entire IT infrastructure, enabling them to measure and improve service delivery, allocate computing resources for maximum performance, and enforce service level agreements (SLAs). NMS is based on a scalable and extensible architecture that enables complete visibility and monitoring from a single product, eliminating the need to invest in additional products every time IT infrastructures change or expand. By monitoring all computing resources, Nimsoft customers will be able to make better decisions as they transition to a combination of internal and external environments. New feature set delivers additional capabilities for monitoring both internal and external environments including:
In addition to providing Unified Monitoring for the broadest range of IT systems and applications in use today, these new features deliver:
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About NimsoftNimsoft is the first provider of Unified Monitoring™ solutions for virtualized datacenters, hosted and managed services, cloud platforms, and SaaS resources. With a proven time to value measured in weeks, the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution™ (NMS) reduces an enterprise’s total cost of ownership by up to 80 percent compared to legacy systems management vendors, while scaling and extending to places they just cannot go. The Nimsoft Unified Monitoring architecture eliminates the need to deploy a new monitoring solution for outsourced services, public or private clouds, or SaaS implementations. Nearly 1,000 customers use Nimsoft Unified Monitoring solutions, including both mid-market and global organizations such as Amway Corporation, Barclays Capital, Casual Male, European Medicines Agency (EMEA), Ladbrokes, TriNet, and hundreds of leading hosting, cloud and managed service providers such as 1&1, CDW, Hitachi, and Rackspace. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com. To see Nimsoft Unified Monitoring in action, visit the beta version of the Nimsoft public portal at www.unifiedmonitoring.com. Nimsoft, the Nimsoft logo, Nimsoft Unified Monitoring, and Unified Monitoring are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft, Inc. All other company and product names herein are recognized to be the property of their respective companies. © 2009 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. Press ContactsJoe FranscellaTrainer Communications Nimsoft@trainercomm.com 925-271-8213
Nimsoft Reports "Off the Charts" Q3 ResultsAll Metrics Show Dramatic Increases led by a 120% increase in new bookingsRedwood City, Calif. – October 13, 2009 – Nimsoft, the “Big 4” alternative for IT performance and availability monitoring solutions, today announced another exceptional quarter of record financial results and major customer wins coupled with further recognition by industry partners and analysts. The company’s most recent results demonstrate strong and growing demand for the Nimsoft solution—even in an uncertain economy. Monthly Recurring Revenue was up over 60% from the prior year and New Bookings more than doubled, up over 120%. Nimsoft continues to generate positive cash flow and be profitable. During Q3, nearly 80% of new bookings were generated from recurring revenue contracts. Nimsoft has been cash flow positive for every quarter in 2009, and the company expects to continue to be cash flow positive for Q4 and the entire year. Compared to the prior year, the company’s order backlog (contractually committed orders that have not yet been shown as revenue) was up by over 70% to nearly $40 million. In addition to servicing mid-market organizations, Nimsoft is increasingly establishing itself as the monitoring vendor of choice for large enterprises and service providers. Notable customer wins include:
Additionally, on August 31st, Nimsoft announced that Ingram Micro Inc. (NYSE: IM) is featuring 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. Nimsoft and Ingram Micro secured their first joint customer in September. Nimsoft was also recognized by Gartner in its “Challenger” section of the Magic Quadrant for Event Correlation and Analysis, being the only sub-$1 billion vendor to make it “above the line” in ability to execute. “We are naturally pleased with our performance this quarter,” said Gary Read, President and CEO of Nimsoft. “But, beyond the headline financial results, it is clear that Nimsoft is rapidly establishing itself as the de-facto standard in many markets. It is gratifying that the dedication and work ethic of our highly talented employee base is being recognized by customers, partners, and analysts.” “The Nimsoft Monitoring Solution, already the leading product in its category, continues to advance more rapidly than any of its competitors,” stated Read. “We will be making ground-breaking announcements on October 20th that will clearly show the power and flexibility of the Nimsoft platform to address the business needs of customers not just today, but well into the future.” About NimsoftNimsoft is the fastest growing provider of next-generation performance and availability monitoring solutions for the complete physical, virtual, and cloud-based IT infrastructure. Nimsoft solutions redefine the standards for ease of use and speed of deployment—providing outstanding return on investment and unparalleled customer satisfaction. Over 850 customers in 36 countries rely on Nimsoft solutions to monitor their IT-based business applications and services, including cloud environments. These customers include mid-market and global organizations, such as Barclays Capital, Amway Corporation, Bay Area Rapid Transit, Ladbrokes, MTU Aero Engines, TriNet, and TRW Automotive, and hundreds of leading managed service providers, such as CDW Hosting Services, ENKI, Thomas Duryea, Easynet, and Rackspace Managed Hosting. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com. Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2009 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 BrainLAB Ensures Optimal Performance of Services and Applications with Nimsoft Monitoring SolutionSoftware Innovator Consolidates Multiple Tools with NMS, Saves on Management and AdministrationRedwood City, Calif. – October 12, 2009 – Nimsoft, Inc., the "Big 4" alternative for IT performance and availability monitoring solutions, today announced that BrainLAB has deployed the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS) in its main datacenter in Germany. BrainLAB is one of the leaders in software-driven systems for targeted, less-invasive medical treatments. NMS is being used to monitor the company’s servers and applications, ensuring optimal performance of business-critical systems. BrainLAB will be replacing multiple monitoring tools with Nimsoft. BrainLAB’s main datacenter in Germany houses a mixed platform environment consisting of physical and virtual servers. By deploying NMS, BrainLAB can monitor all of its hardware and applications to ensure delivery of service-level agreements (SLAs), minimize downtime and perform proactive mitigation of potential network and system problems. “NMS is very modular and flexible,” said Steffen Kammerer, Manager of IT Infrastructure at BrainLAB. “We can deploy clients and perform updates automatically, use scripts to customize our own probes, and monitor SLAs on all of our systems with a single tool. Plus, we can control everything from a centralized location with a user-friendly interface." "The NMS architecture enables us to deploy the solution to datacenters in Hong Kong and Chicago, and control it from our headquarter in Germany. This helps us cut operational and administrative costs significantly, while ensuring optimal performance on our servers, networking devices and applications.” NMS monitors the BrainLAB SharePoint portal, MS Exchange environment and its software development environment, which have interdependencies. IT administrators receive an alarm if an issue arises, enabling proactive risk mitigation before an issue takes down multiple systems or affects customers. The company is also working on implementing an escalation concept to automate the process of alarming specific individuals on a “needs-to-know” basis. This will eliminate many manual tasks and increase response time to network and system issues. “The modularity and flexibility of NMS is well suited to the diverse and expanding IT environment of BrainLAB, and will enable the company to cut costs and save time,” said Gary Read, CEO of Nimsoft. “BrainLAB is taking advantage of this flexibility by customizing the Nimsoft probes as their requirements evolve.” BrainLAB expects to roll out NMS in three other datacenters within the next two years. About BrainLABBrainLAB develops, manufactures and markets software-driven medical technology that enables procedures that are more precise, less invasive, and also less expensive than traditional treatments. Among the core products are image-guided systems that provide highly accurate real-time information used for navigation during surgical procedures. This utility has been further expanded to serve as a computer terminal for physicians to more effectively access and interpret diagnostic scans and other digital medical information for better informed decisions. BrainLAB solutions allow expansion from a single system to operating suites to digitally integrated hospitals covering all subspecialties from neurosurgery, orthopedics, ENT, CMF to spine & trauma and oncology. With 3300 systems installed in over 75 countries, BrainLAB is a market leader in image-guided technology. The privately held BrainLAB group, founded in 1989, is headquartered in Munich, Germany, and today employs 950 people in 16 offices across Europe, Asia, Australia, North and South America. For more information, visit BrainLAB at www.brainlab.com About Nimsoft Inc.Nimsoft is the fastest growing provider of next generation performance and availability monitoring solutions for the complete physical, virtual and cloud based 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 850 customers in 36 countries rely on Nimsoft solutions to monitor their IT based business applications and services including cloud environments. 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, ENKI, Thomas Duryea, Easynet and Rackspace Managed Hosting. For more information, visitwww.nimsoft.com Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2009 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Nimsoft Readies for Tandberg support as they extend their world class monitoring solution for Cisco Unified Communications ManagerRedwood City, Calif. – October 5, 2009 – Nimsoft, the “Big 4” alternative for IT performance and availability monitoring solutions, today announced plans to add support for Tandberg to its Cisco Unified Communications Manager (UCM) probe. As more organizations turn to UCM for communications infrastructure–including voice, video, data, and mobile applications–the Nimsoft Cisco UCM probe has become a crucial component to monitor key health and performance metrics for the entire unified communication system. The UCM probe allows organizations to gain the insights needed to optimize system performance and availability. As customers embrace the Tandberg Total Solution, Nimsoft will be there to support this multi-faceted solution comprised of the Tandberg Video Communication Server, Tandberg Management Suite, Multipoint Control Units, and the Telepresence Server. Nimsoft will deliver performance and availability statistics 24x7, enabling the Tandberg solution to be optimized to deliver on its ROI promise. Nimsoft plans to leverage the extremely scalable Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NSM) to extend the key metrics for the Cisco UCM to present a unified view using Tandberg SNMP MIBs and proprietary private enterprise MIBs. NMS will report on data points such as Status (callStatus, callTable, incomingTable, outgoingTable), Logging (callTable, billing info), Services (streaming & VNC), and System (codec hardware & software info). There are also plans to code to some of the special private enterprise traps. “Digging deep into business applications management is a focus for us at Nimsoft," says Gary Read, Nimsoft president and CEO. "The NMS architecture was designed to address the concerns of systems managers working overtime to manage many diverse environments. NMS connects these environments and alerts the IT team of any infrastructure issues before customers alert them. At Nimsoft, we do the worrying so our customers don’t need to.” Join us on Tuesday October 6th at 11AM PDT / 2PM EDT for a live webinar, and experience the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution. To register, please visit the webinars events page athttp://www.nimsoft.com/events/webinars.php . About NimsoftNimsoft is the fastest growing provider of next-generation performance and availability monitoring solutions for the complete physical, virtual, and cloud-based IT infrastructure. Nimsoft solutions redefine the standards for ease of use and speed of deployment—providing outstanding return on investment and unparalleled customer satisfaction. Over 850 customers in 36 countries rely on Nimsoft solutions to monitor their IT-based business applications and services, including cloud environments. These customers include mid-market and global organizations, such as Barclays Capital, Amway Corporation, Bay Area Rapid Transit, Ladbrokes, MTU Aero Engines, TriNet, and TRW Automotive, and hundreds of leading managed service providers, such as CDW Hosting Services, ENKI, Thomas Duryea, Easynet, and Rackspace Managed Hosting. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com. Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2009 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Foodstuffs South Island Gains Visibility, Reduces Complexity with NimsoftNMS provides a unified view of infrastructure health and performance for easy troubleshootingRedwood City, Calif. – September 28, 2009 – Nimsoft, Inc., the "Big 4" alternative for IT performance and availability monitoring solutions, today announced that Foodstuffs South Island, one of the three regional co-operatives that collectively make up New Zealand's largest grocery distributor, has deployed the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS) across 100 of its core production servers. NMS provides monitoring of these services, giving Foodstuffs' IT staff increased visibility into the health of its infrastructure and a central repository of performance information and service data. The solution simplifies compliance and troubleshooting, and provides a single, integrated view of Foodstuffs' IT environment. The company's diverse IT infrastructure is comprised of Windows, VMware, and IBM AIX and AS 400s. To simplify network monitoring and troubleshooting, technical staff needed a solution that provided a single view into the health of all systems in the network. "Nimsoft offers broad coverage with support for all operating systems, VMware, Microsoft SQL and DB2, and it provides tremendous visibility into our core production servers," said Gary Cowens, IT Operations Services Manager at Foodstuffs South Island. "The scalable solution will grow with our organization and offers the right feature set for our business environment. It also provides us the flexibility to customize dashboards and reporting, which makes it easier to understand and report on the performance of our infrastructure to management." Taking a staged approach, Foodstuffs South Island plans to roll out NMS across its entire infrastructure after creating customized dashboards that provide a high-level business-centric view of its systems and services. During phase two of the NMS deployment, Foodstuffs South Island will implement alerting functions to warn administrators of potential problems. Monitoring and alerting will focus on business services as well as the infrastructure to ensure service levels comply with the ITIL framework for IT infrastructure best practices. "By deploying NMS, Foodstuffs South Island is already seeing the benefits of our integrated monitoring solution," said Gary Read, Nimsoft President and CEO. "As they roll out the full feature set of the solution, customizable dashboards and reporting will provide even greater visibility and productivity gains. Instead of deciphering complicated point-solutions that monitor different parts of the infrastructure, staff will be able to get the information they need from a single interface that is easy to understand. These capabilities will improve uptime and create IT efficiencies, allowing staff to focus on other mission-critical tasks and not waste time troubleshooting systems." About Foodstuffs South Island Limited, New ZealandFoodstuffs South Island Ltd supplies the nine PAK'nSAVE, 39 New World, 83 Four Square retail supermarkets in the South Island, and more than 147 On the Spot convenience stores, and 24 Liquorland retail stores. Under the Foodstuffs South Island umbrella also falls 16 Henry's Beer Wines & Spirits full service liquor stores, and subsidiary foodservice brand Trents Wholesale Limited. Foodstuffs comprises of three regional co-operatives; Foodstuffs South Island Limited, Foodstuffs Wellington Co-operative Society and Foodstuffs Auckland Limited. Combined they are New Zealand's largest grocery distributor. About NimsoftNimsoft is the fastest growing provider of next generation performance and availability monitoring solutions for the complete physical, virtual and cloud based 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 850 customers in 36 countries rely on Nimsoft solutions to monitor their IT based business applications and services including cloud environments. 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, ENKI, Thomas Duryea, Easynet and Rackspace Managed Hosting. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2009 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 ISC Optimizes Managed Services and Operations with NimsoftComprehensive Coverage Enables ISC to Replace Several Point ProductsRedwood City, Calif. – September 21, 2009 – Nimsoft, Inc., the alternative to Big 4 IT performance and availability monitoring solutions, today announced that ISC has employed the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS) to monitor a host of critical systems and services, including servers, end user response times, and virtualized infrastructures. Established in 1984, ISC is a highly accredited solution provider that offers IT infrastructure supply and implementation, as well as a range of 24x7 managed IT support services. To address the company’s growth and evolving customer requirements, ISC’s managed services team sought a monitoring solution that would offer the efficiency and flexibility they needed to expand and improve their services. To accomplish these objectives, the company’s leadership ultimately chose to replace several point products with NMS. “After our first look at the Nimsoft solution we were impressed,” said Jason Bass, Technical Director, ISC. “NMS’ comprehensive capabilities meant we could use one product instead of four, and the solution was very easy to set up and manage. Now, all our monitoring data comes into NMS, equipping us with one central location for consistent alerts, reporting, and monitoring, which is exceedingly efficient.” Since deploying NMS, ISC has realized a range of benefits:
“Monitoring capabilities can have a direct and significant impact on the level and types of services an MSP provides its customers,” explained Gary Read, president and CEO of Nimsoft. “Our solutions deliver intuitive service level insights, broad coverage of traditional and emerging technologies, and unrivaled ease of use, helping managed service providers (MSPs) expand and improve their services, while boosting margins. That’s why Nimsoft is becoming the de facto monitoring standard for MSPs around the world.” About ISCEstablished in 1984, ISC is a highly accredited IT solution provider. With annual revenues exceeding £60m, over 300 employees, offices across the UK, and an extensive portfolio of services, ISC is the partner of choice for many businesses. For more information, visitwww.iscnet.co.uk. About NimsoftNimsoft is the fastest growing provider of next-generation performance and availability monitoring solutions for the complete physical, virtual, and cloud-based IT infrastructure. Nimsoft solutions redefine the standards for ease of use and speed of deployment—providing outstanding return on investment and unparalleled customer satisfaction. Over 850 customers in 36 countries rely on Nimsoft solutions to monitor their IT-based business applications and services, including cloud environments. These customers include mid-market and global organizations, such as Barclays Capital, Amway Corporation, Bay Area Rapid Transit, Ladbrokes, MTU Aero Engines, TriNet, and TRW Automotive, and hundreds of leading managed service providers, such as CDW Hosting Services, ENKI, Thomas Duryea, Easynet, and Rackspace Managed Hosting. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com. Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2009 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 650 517 1975 Jamie Dudley and Ross Fujii Join Nimsoft Executive TeamDudley and Fujii Will Help Lead Next Phase of Company GrowthRedwood City, Calif. – September 14, 2009 – Nimsoft, Inc., the Big 4 alternative for IT performance and availability monitoring solutions, announced today that Jamie Dudley and Ross Fujii have joined the company’s executive team. Dudley takes the post of VP of Sales for the Americas, while Fujii signs on as Engineering Vice President and technology visionary. Dudley will lead the charge in developing and expanding new revenue channels in the Americas, and help drive a consistent, global approach to managing sales operations. He will report to Dixon Fiske, who has been promoted to VP of Worldwide Sales. Fujii, as the former VP Engineering for Cittio (whose assets Nimsoft acquired in May 2009), was originally helping Nimsoft to transition key intellectual property from that solution into the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution. In his new position with Nimsoft he will be responsible for future-looking engineering initiatives. In particular he will play a key role in developing the Nimsoft Cloud strategy and products that will be revealed in October of this year. “Dudley and Fujii are both great additions to our executive team. They possess the experience and skills to contribute significantly to our next phase of growth,” says Gary Read, Nimsoft president and CEO. “Nimsoft operates a fast paced environment and both individuals are already proving themselves an excellent fit with this dynamic yet collaborative culture.” Dudley is a fifteen-year software sales veteran with positions at start-ups, mid caps, and major software vendors. He has extensive experience developing and executing corporate acquisition integration plans as well as growing and managing worldwide sales and pre-sales engineering teams. He was previously VP WW Sales at AlarmPoint, and prior to that held well-regarded sales leadership positions at Quest, Peregrine, and Oracle. Fujii is a fifteen-year veteran in software development and system architecture design spanning multiple technology platforms. He held Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Engineering positions at Cittio, and was instrumental in developing the company’s monitoring platform, the technology of which is now being added into the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution. Prior to Cittio, Fujii co-founded IdealWave Systems, an e-commerce consulting firm, and was a founding employee at XUMA, Inc., an e-business managed service provider. About NimsoftNimsoft is the fastest growing provider of next generation performance and availability monitoring solutions for the complete physical, virtual and cloud based 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 850 customers in 36 countries rely on Nimsoft solutions to monitor their IT based business applications and services including cloud environments. 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 Hosting Services, ENKI, Thomas Duryea, Easynet and Rackspace Managed Hosting. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Hitachi Relies on Nimsoft to Monitor and Manage Cloud Computing EnvironmentsMonitoring Sophistication in Virtual Environments Enables Managed Service Provider to Deliver New Monitoring Service to CustomersRedwood City, Calif. – September 08, 2009 – Nimsoft, the alternative to Big 4 IT performance and availability monitoring solutions, today announced that Hitachi Software Engineering has employed the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS) to monitor its cloud computing infrastructure. Hitachi Software Engineering is a major subsidiary of the IT service division of Hitachi Limited. One of the company’s key service offerings is SecureOnline. First unveiled in early 2007, SecureOnline is a flexible platform that enables customers to pay on a monthly basis for the infrastructure they need, and easily expand or reduce the services available as business needs changed. Monitoring this dynamic, virtualized environment plays a vital role in ensuring the high levels of availability and performance that Hitachi’s customers demand. With its broad infrastructure coverage and tight integration with VMware, Nimsoft is able to provide insights into SecureOnline’s virtualized infrastructure, and all the components that underpin it. In addition, with its agentless deployment, NMS makes it practical for Hitachi to monitor clients’ applications and services running on their virtual machines. As a result, Hitachi is able to offer this new monitoring capability as a service to its clients. “Having one platform to monitor both our virtualized and non-virtualized systems is vital,” said Teruo Nakamura, General Manager of Security Service Division at Hitachi Software. “Nimsoft enables us to meet and even exceed the performance and service levels our customers demand. The flexible monitoring solution is easy to set up and manage and enables us to adapt to our customers’ changing needs.” The Nimsoft solution makes it fast and efficient to do monitoring configuration, ongoing administration, and reporting, so Hitachi enjoys greater staff productivity and reduced administrative costs. The company is also able to provide detailed, insightful reports on infrastructure performance; if a customer inquires about an outage or performance issue, staff can quickly and knowledgeably confirm the source of the issue. “As the cloud computing paradigm gains increased acceptance, IT teams are quickly learning that the dynamic, constantly evolving nature of these environments creates some critical challenges from a monitoring perspective,” explained Gary Read, president and CEO of Nimsoft. “The Nimsoft solution is uniquely suited to address these challenging environments, and we’re proud that Hitachi, one of the early adopters of cloud computing, relies on us to effectively monitor and manage their infrastructure.” About Hitachi Software Engineering, Ltd.Founded in 1970 as the first software development company in the Hitachi Group, Hitachi Software Engineering Co.Ltd., (Hitachi Software) is now among the leading IT service companies in the industry and employs over 7,000 people worldwide. With sales of over 16.5 billion in FY 2008, Hitachi Software provides mainly basic software for large-scale systems and networks for government agencies as well as the financial, insurance, and securities industries. The company is expanding into new fields including PaaS, GIS, Embedded Software, and Interactive Whiteboard “Starboard”. Amid ongoing globalization of its business, in the United States, Hitachi Software operates its value-add professional services, consulting and support through Hitachi Software Engineering America, Ltd, a subsidiary of Hitachi Software, and enjoys productive partnership relationships with dozens of the world’s most advanced technology firms. For more information, visit Hitachi's web site. About NimsoftNimsoft is the fastest growing provider of next-generation performance and availability monitoring solutions for the complete physical, virtual, and cloud-based IT infrastructure. Nimsoft solutions redefine the standards for ease of use and speed of deployment—providing outstanding return on investment and unparalleled customer satisfaction. Over 850 customers in 36 countries rely on Nimsoft solutions to monitor their IT-based business applications and services, including cloud environments. These customers include mid-market and global organizations, such as Barclays Capital, Amway Corporation, Bay Area Rapid Transit, Ladbrokes, MTU Aero Engines, TriNet, and TRW Automotive, and hundreds of leading managed service providers, such as CDW Hosting Services, ENKI, Thomas Duryea, Easynet, and Rackspace Managed Hosting. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com. Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2009 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Nimsoft Appoints Seasoned Managed Services Executive to Management TeamPhil LaForge Chartered with Building on Success in Managed Service Provider MarketRedwood City, Calif. – September 01, 2009 – Nimsoft, the alternative to Big 4 IT performance and availability monitoring solutions, today announced that it has appointed industry veteran Phil LaForge to the role of vice president and general manager of its managed services business. LaForge comes to Nimsoft after a long tenure with CDW Berbee, where he grew the business in excess of 300% in 3 years with high double digit margins. In his new role, LaForge will interact with all areas of Nimsoft—including development, marketing, sales, business development, support, and finance—to both set the company’s strategy in the managed service provider (MSP) market and to help ensure it is executed effectively. “After running a managed services business for years, I gained a keen understanding of what it takes to be a successful MSP,” explained Phil LaForge. “As a customer for many of those years, I also saw what fundamental, strategic benefits the Nimsoft solution can deliver to service providers. I’m tremendously excited to be joining Nimsoft and applying my experience to enhance the products and services we deliver to MSPs.” LaForge joins Nimsoft at a time when the company is enjoying increased market momentum in the MSP market. Most recently, the company announced that Ingram Micro will be featuring the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS) in its Seismic managed services offering. A move that tremendously expands the company’s reach in the industry. Because of the breadth of coverage; sophisticated; and immense scalability of the solution, Nimsoft is rapidly becoming the de-facto monitoring standard for mid-to-large service providers. MSPs, hosting vendors, and cloud computing providers continue to move to the Nimsoft platform because it enables them to scale their business in a profitable manner. “We’re delighted to have someone of Phil’s caliber joining our executive team,” said Gary Read, president and CEO of Nimsoft. “Not only does Phil have a long tenure as an MSP, he has an established track record of expanding the size and the profits of a managed services business. With this background, he’ll be a tremendous asset to Nimsoft, and to our MSP customers, by helping ensure our products and services deliver maximum business value.” About NimsoftNimsoft is the fastest growing provider of next-generation performance and availability monitoring solutions for the complete physical, virtual, and cloud-based IT infrastructure. Nimsoft solutions redefine the standards for ease of use and speed of deployment—providing outstanding return on investment and unparalleled customer satisfaction. Over 850 customers in 36 countries rely on Nimsoft solutions to monitor their IT-based business applications and services, including cloud environments. These customers include mid-market and global organizations, such as Barclays Capital, Amway Corporation, Bay Area Rapid Transit, Ladbrokes, MTU Aero Engines, TriNet, and TRW Automotive, and hundreds of leading managed service providers, such as CDW Hosting Services, ENKI, Thomas Duryea, Easynet, and Rackspace Managed Hosting. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com. Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2009 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Nimsoft Selected by Ingram Micro Seismic for Use in Larger, More Complex IT InfrastructuresNimsoft Monitoring Solution Chosen by World’s Largest IT Distributor to Support Managed Service Providers Selling to Mid and Large EnterprisesRedwood City, Calif. – August 31, 2009 – 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. Seismic is a comprehensive managed service portfolio that includes all the infrastructure and capabilities that VARs need to deliver proactive remote monitoring, managed security, business continuity services and the like to clients. With Seismic, VARs can introduce or expand managed services, quickly, conveniently, and cost effectively. Seismic provides a unique business advantage to channel partners, enabling them to earn higher margins, deliver enhanced value to clients, and build a collaborative and profitable managed services practice. “Ingram Micro’s Seismic offerings represent a promising opportunity for companies that are delivering managed services or looking to become managed service providers,” said Dennis Callaghan, enterprise software analyst at The 451 Group. “With Seismic, the barrier for entry into adding or enhancing the managed services model is reduced. The addition of Nimsoft to this program will provide new options for VARs and MSPs as they seek to scale their businesses.” Under the new alliance, Ingram Micro North America will bring NMS to market. The new offering, called Seismic Enterprise Monitoring powered by Nimsoft, is now available to Ingram Micro channel partners in the U.S. and Canada. With NMS, customers can proactively monitor applications, servers, databases, and networks. In addition, customers will be able to use Nimsoft’s Service Delivery Portal (SDP) as their key customer visualization platform. “Nimsoft solutions are rapidly emerging as the de facto standard for successful MSPs that are looking to speed their growth,” explained Gary Read, president and CEO of Nimsoft. “Many MSP customers have recently standardized on Nimsoft, which now has over 250 MSPs customers world wide, and this new alliance will further fuel expansion in this market." "We’re excited to be a part of the Seismic offering, and are already seeing tremendous interest from Ingram Micro’s existing VAR and MSP partners who are actively selling into the mid-market and enterprise.” Highly robust remote monitoring capabilities are a critical requirement, both for MSPs that have a large collection of smaller customers, and for MSPs looking to serve the larger, more complex environments of mid-market organizations and enterprises. These larger organizations typically have large, heterogeneous environments that are relied on for an array of business critical services and have adopted such emerging technologies as virtualization, unified messaging, and cloud computing. Ingram Micro selected the Nimsoft solution specifically for their strengths in serving these demanding environments. “Many of our Seismic partners are looking for a complementary availability monitoring and alerting solution that would allow them to scale their services and remotely monitor both physical and virtual network infrastructures with ease and efficiency,” explained Justin Crotty, vice president, services, Ingram Micro North America. “With the new Seismic Enterprise Monitoring powered by Nimsoft, our partners are able to extend their value and services to mid-size and large enterprise clients without compromising profitability and performance.” About Ingram Micro Inc.As a vital link in the technology value chain, Ingram Micro creates sales and profitability opportunities for vendors and resellers through unique marketing programs, outsourced logistics services, technical support, financial services, and product aggregation and distribution. The company serves 150 countries and is the only broad-based global IT distributor with operations in Asia. Visit www.ingrammicro.com. About NimsoftNimsoft is the fastest growing provider of next-generation performance and availability monitoring solutions for the complete physical, virtual, and cloud-based IT infrastructure. Nimsoft solutions redefine the standards for ease of use and speed of deployment—providing outstanding return on investment and unparalleled customer satisfaction. Over 850 customers in 36 countries rely on Nimsoft solutions to monitor their IT-based business applications and services, including cloud environments. These customers include mid-market and global organizations, such as Barclays Capital, Amway Corporation, Bay Area Rapid Transit, Ladbrokes, MTU Aero Engines, TriNet, and TRW Automotive, and hundreds of leading managed service providers, such as CDW Hosting Services, ENKI, Thomas Duryea, Easynet, and Rackspace Managed Hosting. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com. Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2009 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Nimsoft Offers Easy Migration for Former Silverback Customers as Dell Moves to Hosted-Only ModelCustomers Select NMS for Comprehensive Monitoring CapabilitiesRedwood City, Calif. – August 25, 2009 – Nimsoft, Inc., the “Big 4” alternative for IT performance and availability monitoring solutions, is noticing a shift in the marketplace as Dell limits support for the former Silverback monitoring appliance. Dell is effectively forcing many Managed Service Provider (MSP) partners to leave the Silverback platform as it is moved into Dell’s datacenter as part of its own managed service offering. As a result, former Silverback customers are evaluating the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS) as a replacement for Silverback. To support this market shift, Nimsoft is offering special migration terms to former Silverback customers to enable a smooth, cost-effective migration to Nimsoft. Silverback MSPs like Atrion and many others have already shifted to NMS and are realizing the benefits of working with a strategic partner rather than a technology vendor. According to Tim Hebert, CEO of Atrion, “Dell stopped all development on the former Silverback monitoring appliance over a year ago causing an inability to keep current with new and emerging technologies like virtualization and unified communications. The reliability of the Silverback monitored appliance offering has decreased drastically, and MSPs like us have suffered hundreds of hours of downtime. Recently Dell announced a 2010 end of life on the Silverback monitoring appliance while not offering a clear migration path for mature MSPs. Like many of Silverback’s MSP customers, we couldn’t migrate to the new Dell datacenter offering without reducing the level of service to our clients. We were forced to leave the Silverback platform.” “Monitoring capabilities are vital for any organization, but they can represent a significant competitive differentiator for an MSP,” revealed Gary Read, president and CEO of Nimsoft. “Our solutions deliver comprehensive, robust and easy-to-use monitoring capabilities that enable MSPs to expand their service offerings, boost service levels, and strengthen their competitive position.” “We are passionately focused on the business success of our clients,” said Atrion’s Hebert. “That entails taking time to understand what they’re looking to accomplish and then delivering truly customized service that meets those objectives. The Nimsoft solution and team uniquely supports us in these efforts. They help us to be more agile in adapting to technology advancements and evolving customer needs, ultimately enabling us to deliver higher levels of service to our clients.” Former Silverback customers interested in evaluating Nimsoft should contact Nimsoft for information on special pricing offers, or visit www.nimsoft.com. About NimsoftNimsoft is the fastest growing provider of next generation performance and availability monitoring solutions for the complete physical, virtual and cloud based 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 850 customers in 36 countries rely on Nimsoft solutions to monitor their IT based business applications and services including cloud environments. 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 Hosting Services, ENKI, Thomas Duryea, Easynet and Rackspace Managed Hosting. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2009 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Thomas Duryea Consulting Incorporates Nimsoft into Its Managed Services SuiteAward-winning MSP enhances monitoring capabilities in virtualized environmentsRedwood City, Calif. – August 24, 2009 – Nimsoft, Inc., the Big 4 alternative for IT performance and availability monitoring solutions, today announced that Thomas Duryea Consulting, a leading Australian IT infrastructure solutions and services company, has selected the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS) to monitor and manage its IT managed services portfolio. As an integrated component of Thomas Duryea’s Services Suite, Nimsoft dramatically improves scalability and support for the real-time management of high-volume, high-transaction IT infrastructures. Thomas Duryea, listed in the Australian BRW Fast 100, prides itself on the ability to recognize and rapidly capitalize on opportunities in leading edge technology while competitors continue to evaluate. Early adoption and growth in virtualization is testament to this and a key strength for Thomas Duryea, which was recently awarded the Australian VMware partner of the year. When the time came to enhance its monitoring capabilities, it was important to find a solution partner with the same focus on leading technology. With existing tools based on open source, the company also sought a commercially available solution that would allow its engineers to focus on customers rather than supporting open source products. Before selecting Nimsoft, Thomas Duryea evaluated multiple solutions, including IBM Tivoli and HP OpenView. Nimsoft was selected in part because it provides robust virtualization as well as comprehensive infrastructure monitoring, enabling Thomas Duryea to monitor the entire ecosystem and effectively understand and manage service levels in its clients’ virtualized environments. "Nimsoft is already on its fourth version of its VMware products and is also supporting most other virtualization technologies, where a number of other solutions don’t,” said Andrew Thomas, CEO of Thomas Duryea Consulting. “It’s about finding a partner, Nimsoft in this case, that is also at the forefront of leading edge technology so we don’t have to wait for tools to be developed. It’s important to work with a company at the same level.” The Nimsoft solution delivers granular monitoring capabilities and flexible support, enabling Thomas Duryea to proactively identify and address potential problems. Using the Nimsoft solution, Thomas Duryea can remotely monitor hundreds of unique customer IT environments through a single interface to ensure SLA compliance, while reducing the manual time and effort required to monitor those environments. The solution enables the company to grow its business efficiently while keeping pace with customer demand for 24x7 network surveillance. “As one of the fastest growing MSPs in the Australian and Asian Pacific regions, we needed a solution that would also help keep pace with our rapid growth while enhancing profitability,” said Thomas. “The Nimsoft solution delivers 24x7 monitoring in real time, enabling us to provide more proactive problem resolution and increased network stability. This ultimately boosts user productivity and customer satisfaction.” NMS Meets Unique Needs of MSPsThe Nimsoft solution features a lean, secure, and modular architecture; deployment flexibility; and broad monitoring coverage—characteristics that make the product ideally suited to Managed Service Providers’ infrastructures and business models. The Nimsoft Service Delivery Portal (SDP) enables Thomas Duryea to deliver comprehensive, intuitive, real-time views of service-level monitoring information to its clients. Clients interact with dashboards that provide complete and easy-to-analyze views into the real-time status of IT and critical business services. The dashboards are fully web based and have access control features to ensure sensitive network information is only viewable by authorized users. “Nimsoft has a deep understanding of the MSP market and has aligned its feature set to address unique business requirements and revenue models,” said Gary Read, president and CEO of Nimsoft. “As more organizations begin to downsize, they are increasingly looking to outsource the management of their infrastructures. Nimsoft provides a scalable, easy-to-use monitoring solution that minimizes the impact on internal resource, helping MSPs grow their business while increasing bottom line profitability.” About Thomas Duryea ConsultingThomas Duryea Consulting designs, plans, implements and manages innovative, world class IT infrastructure solutions. It inspires change, enables growth and delivers secure, agile and dependable IT solutions. Thomas Duryea helps its customers increase revenue, reduce costs, and reinvest in innovation. It simply positions its clients to better serve their customers and consistently outperform their competitors. Affectionately known as TD, Thomas Duryea Consulting is a privately owned and operated Australian company serving customers throughout Asia Pacific. For more information, visit www.thomasduryea.com.au About NimsoftNimsoft is the fastest growing provider of next generation performance and availability monitoring solutions for the complete physical, virtual and cloud based 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 850 customers in 36 countries rely on Nimsoft solutions to monitor their IT based business applications and services including cloud environments. 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, ENKI, Thomas Duryea, Easynet and Rackspace Managed Hosting. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2009 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 IT Authorities Enhances Services and Increases Deal Size with NimsoftMonitoring Sophistication Enables Managed Services Provider to Serve Larger Clients, Deliver More ValueRedwood City, Calif. – August 17, 2009 – Nimsoft, the alternative to Big 4 IT performance and availability monitoring solutions, today announced that IT Authorities has selected the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS) as their monitoring standard. With Nimsoft, IT Authorities is poised to serve larger, more complex accounts and offer unparalleled value to clients. IT Authorities is a national managed services provider (MSP) that offers comprehensive, end-to-end management of clients’ IT infrastructures, from an end user’s laptop to complex servers. In its effort to deliver increased value to clients and serve larger customers, IT Authorities looked to enhance the sophistication of its monitoring capabilities. The company evaluated a number of solutions, including HP OpenView and IBM Tivoli, and ultimately chose Nimsoft. “In our efforts to grow and win larger accounts, we faced two key challenges: delivering the level of sophistication larger customers require, and having the economies of scale to manage larger environments cost effectively,” said Jason Caras, CEO of IT Authorities. “Nimsoft was uniquely equipped to help us meet these challenges.” Since adopting NMS, IT Authorities has been able to commit to a higher level of service and value, both to existing clients and new prospects, which has yielded larger deals for the organization. In fact, since adopting Nimsoft, the MSP’s average deal size has already dramatically increased and the ROI has been incredible. IT Authorities is now able to offer affordable, yet highly advanced service level management (SLM) capabilities, which means many clients have these robust capabilities within reach for the first time. With Nimsoft SLM capabilities, IT Authorities can bridge the gap that has traditionally existed between business management and IT, enabling organizations to optimize their IT operations, infrastructure investments, and business needs. With these higher levels of service, IT authorities is now able to differentiate the firm’s offerings from other service providers, and deliver value that internal IT groups can’t match. Using NMS, IT Authorities is able to monitor and report on the actual end user’s experience. Additionally, NMS delivers comprehensive and accurate insights into the levels of performance end users actually receive from the IT infrastructure. “It’s by bridging the gap that traditionally existed between IT and the business side of the house that enables us to provide customers the valuable information they have never had in the past,” says Jason Pollner, COO of IT Authorities. “Using standard monitoring tools, we were still challenged to outperform internal IT departments cost effectively,” Caras explained. “By combining the unique processes and services packaged around our technology tools with the capabilities Nimsoft delivers, we’ve reached the point of sophistication even larger IT organizations can’t match. Now, we can enter new customers confident that we can quickly and cost effectively add a lot of value.” “IT Authorities is a great example of the type of MSP we strive to partner with: it has an unwavering focus on customers, improvement, and excellence,” explained Gary Read, president and CEO of Nimsoft. “We’re very proud of the fact that a seasoned MSP like IT Authorities, which has a solid track record of success, recognizes the value we deliver as they seek to grow their business.” About IT AuthoritiesIT Authorities is a national Managed Service Provider (MSP) specializing in designing, implementing and managing technology solutions for businesses throughout the United States. The company provides unlimited onsite and remote support for a fixed monthly fee, which provides its client’s with predictable IT expenditures while delivering peace of mind through a mutually beneficial relationship with common goals and objectives. In 2008 and 2009, IT Authorities was named one of the top 100 Managed Services Providers (MSP) in the World by MSPMentor and was also named the Best Place to Work in Tampa Bay by the Tampa Bay Business Journal in 2008 and 2009. Recently, the company was ranked the 5th Fastest Growing Company in Tampa Bay by the Tampa Bay Business Journal and voted #1 Best Companies to Work for in Florida by Florida Trend Magazine. To get more information on the services provided by IT Authorities, contact the company at (813) 246-5100. About NimsoftNimsoft is the fastest growing provider of next-generation performance and availability monitoring solutions for the complete physical, virtual, and cloud-based IT infrastructure. Nimsoft solutions redefine the standards for ease of use and speed of deployment—providing outstanding return on investment and unparalleled customer satisfaction. Over 850 customers in 36 countries rely on Nimsoft solutions to monitor their IT-based business applications and services, including cloud environments. These customers include mid-market and global organizations, such as Barclays Capital, Amway Corporation, Bay Area Rapid Transit, Ladbrokes, MTU Aero Engines, TriNet, and TRW Automotive, and hundreds of leading managed service providers, such as CDW Hosting Services, ENKI, Thomas Duryea, Easynet, and Rackspace Managed Hosting. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com. Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2009 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Global Medical Device Company Selects Nimsoft Monitoring Solution Over Microsoft SCOMRedwood City, Calif. – August 10, 2009 – Nimsoft, Inc., the “Big 4” alternative for IT performance and availability monitoring solutions, today announced that a global medical device company has deployed the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS) for real-time, end-to-end service monitoring of its mission critical applications and underlying IT infrastructure. NMS helps maintain 24 x 7 uptime of customer-facing Internet portals and back-end systems, which are responsible for executing the manufacturing process of its premiere product line. By deploying NMS to monitor its IT infrastructure, the company is able to reduce downtime and operational expenses, while improving customer satisfaction and maximizing revenue opportunities. With Nimsoft, the company has greater visibility into trouble areas, and can be proactive in addressing issues before they affect business operations. Until recently, the IT department was using a variety of open source and off-the-shelf point tools to monitor different parts of its infrastructure. However, these solutions did not provide a holistic picture of the infrastructure and they required skilled personnel to manage them. The lack of integration between tools put the team in a very reactive—not proactive—mode. The IT team did a head-to-head comparison of features and functionality between multiple vendor tools, including Microsoft SCOM monitoring tools. The Proof of Concept, conducted at the company’s location in California, convinced the IT team to choose Nimsoft. One big advantage of the Nimsoft solution is how easily it monitored and integrated with the company’s heterogeneous environment, consisting of multiple server platform operating systems, as well as different database platforms and applications. According to the company’s senior director for Global IT Operations, “Microsoft’s monitoring product was very Microsoft-centric. If you wanted to monitor non-Microsoft components, you had to buy and add in third-party plug-ins. With Nimsoft, you only need one product.” Complete solution with customizable dashboards enhances visibilityNimsoft delivers complete monitoring capabilities for the entire IT infrastructure, both physical and virtualized. Since implementing NMS, the company has streamlined its monitoring significantly while gaining greater visibility into real time and historical issues. This visibility enables the IT team to save money and resources by taking a more proactive approach to addressing network issues, before they wreak havoc on the network. End User Response Time monitoring helps the IT team deliver superior customer service by addressing user issues with customer-facing applications in real time. With less downtime and less time spent investigating issues, the IT staff can re-focus their efforts on revenue-generating activities. Additionally, the company has minimized the complexity of its monitoring approach by replacing multiple open-source and off-the-shelf point products with a single, integrated platform for end-to-end IT infrastructure monitoring. “Our customers are interested in minimizing costs without sacrificing availability and performance of their networks,” said Gary Read, Nimsoft President and CEO. “They want a single product to cover their entire environment, one that’s easy to use and consistent. Nimsoft provides a clean, integrated, full-function solution and optimal user experience, so that IT departments can focus on core competencies and not worry about managing complex monitoring tools.” The solution has been so successful in improving network reliability and increasing customer satisfaction, the company is now incorporating it into its QA and engineering divisions, and will soon be rolling out the solution into its major international offices. About Nimsoft Inc.Nimsoft is the fastest growing provider of next generation performance and availability monitoring solutions for the complete physical, virtual and cloud based 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 850 customers in 36 countries rely on Nimsoft solutions to monitor their IT based business applications and services including cloud environments. 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, ENKI, Thomas Duryea, Easynet and Rackspace Managed Hosting. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com. Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2009 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Nimsoft Positioned in the Challengers Quadrant of the 2009 IT Event Correlation and Analysis Magic QuadrantEvaluation Based on Company's Completeness of Vision and Ability to ExecuteRedwood City, Calif. – August 3, 2009 – Nimsoft, the alternative to Big 4 IT performance and availability monitoring solutions, today announced that it is positioned in the Challengers Quadrant of Gartner, Inc.’s recently released “Magic Quadrant for IT Event Correlation and Analysis” research report1. “It is highly gratifying to see our placement in the latest Magic Quadrant,” said Gary Read, president and CEO of Nimsoft. “By providing a solution that delivers so much more value than the legacy products, Nimsoft continues to gain market share and satisfy hundreds of customers around the globe. In our opinion, this recognition by Gartner is another proof point to attest to the success we’ve been enjoying over the past several years.” Nimsoft initially established itself by delivering monitoring solutions that offered a unique combination of ease of use and sophistication. The company has continued to build on its streamlined, robust architecture to offer a range of innovative solutions, offering support for monitoring virtualized infrastructures, unified communications, and end user response. “As the financial backbone to the global travel industry, ARC needed a monitoring solution that could scale to meet our needs while providing the proactive reporting functionality capable of identifying problems before they impact end users,” commented Michael Tarajos, Application Engineer of ARC. “Nimsoft’s historical trending analysis establishes benchmarks of what’s normal and what’s not—enabling us to identify issues earlier. As a result, we’ve been able to reduce the overall cost of monitoring, while improving customer satisfaction.” About NimsoftNimsoft is the fastest growing provider of next-generation performance and availability monitoring solutions for the complete physical, virtual, and cloud-based IT infrastructure. Nimsoft solutions redefine the standards for ease of use and speed of deployment—providing outstanding return on investment and unparalleled customer satisfaction. Over 850 customers in 36 countries rely on Nimsoft solutions to monitor their IT-based business applications and services, including cloud environments. These customers include mid-market and global organizations, such as Barclays Capital, Amway Corporation, Bay Area Rapid Transit, Ladbrokes, MTU Aero Engines, TriNet, and TRW Automotive, and hundreds of leading managed service providers, such as CDW Hosting Services, ENKI, Thomas Duryea, Easynet, and Rackspace Managed Hosting. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com. 1 Magic Quadrant DisclaimerThe Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2009 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Nimsoft Enjoys Continued Growth and Positive Cash FlowMonthly Recurring Revenue up 40% over Prior Year as Customers Continue to Recognize the Unique Value from the Nimsoft PlatformRedwood City, Calif. – July 27, 2009 – Nimsoft, the alternative to Big 4 IT performance and availability monitoring solutions, today announced another quarter of growth, profitability, and positive cash flow. For the quarter ending June 30, 2009, Nimsoft saw monthly recurring revenue grow by 40% from the prior year, and its order backlog was up nearly 60% demonstrating ongoing demand for its solutions remains strong. The quarter represented the second largest in terms of sales, which increased by more than 50% over the prior quarter. At the same time, careful fiscal management enabled Nimsoft to deliver solid profitability both for the quarter and for the year to date, and to realize another quarter of positive cash flow. Bolstered by continued product innovation and responsive, expert service and support, the company continues to see strong product adoption in mid-to-large enterprises. Nimsoft received a significant order from one of the world’s leading financial organizations, which opted to do a replacement of HP’s monitoring solutions. By deploying Nimsoft, enterprise clients see significant cost savings over legacy solutions—while improving performance of vital business services, streamlining IT administration, and more fully leveraging existing infrastructure investments. Managed Service Providers (MSPs), hosting providers, and cloud computing providers continue to move to the Nimsoft platform because it enables them to scale their business in a profitable manner. Nimsoft recently announced that the established MSP, Atrion Networking, replaced the Dell Remote Monitoring platform and several point solutions with the Nimsoft solution. Nimsoft is rapidly becoming the de-facto monitoring standard for mid-to-large MSPs due to the unparalleled breadth of coverage; the intuitive, sophisticated visualization enabled by its customer-facing portals; and the immense scalability of the solution. “In any economic climate organizations are well-served by gaining improved efficiency and cutting costs—but those objectives are especially vital today,” said Gary Read, president and CEO of Nimsoft. “Enterprises and MSPs continue to prove that our products help on both fronts and deliver real bottom-line benefits. As a result, we continue to gain market share and can be considered the only viable alternative to the large, legacy vendors.” Following are a few additional highlights from the company’s most recent quarter:
About NimsoftNimsoft is the fastest growing provider of next-generation performance and availability monitoring solutions for the complete physical, virtual, and cloud-based IT infrastructure. Nimsoft solutions redefine the standards for ease of use and speed of deployment—providing outstanding return on investment and unparalleled customer satisfaction. Over 850 customers in 36 countries rely on Nimsoft solutions to monitor their IT-based business applications and services, including cloud environments. These customers include mid-market and global organizations, such as Barclays Capital, Amway Corporation, Bay Area Rapid Transit, Ladbrokes, MTU Aero Engines, TriNet, and TRW Automotive, and hundreds of leading managed service providers, such as CDW Hosting Services, ENKI, Thomas Duryea, Easynet, and Rackspace Managed Hosting. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com. Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2009 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. “Who’s Hot in Business Service Management: An Overview of Vendors Offering BSM Solutions”, Forrester, June 2009 For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Atrion Enhances Managed Services, Profit Margins with NimsoftComprehensive Capabilities Enable Veteran Managed Service Provider to Replace Dell Remote Monitoring Platform and Several Point SolutionsRedwood City, Calif. – July 22, 2009 – Nimsoft, the alternative to Big 4 IT performance and availability monitoring solutions, today announced that Atrion Networking Corporation has selected the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS) to centrally monitor and manage its clients’ “always on” IT infrastructures. By leveraging NMS’ comprehensive monitoring capabilities, Atrion is able to expand service offerings and enhance service levels while driving operational efficiencies and profit margins. Established in 1987, Atrion has been providing managed services for more than 14 years. Atrion’s offerings span the full IT management lifecycle, including design, implementation, ongoing break-fix support, managed services, and optimization. Today, Atrion serves mid to large enterprises, supporting clients that have anywhere from a couple of hundred to 2500 employees. Monitoring capabilities play a critical role in Atrion’s ability to serve its clients effectively. Consequently, they decided to migrate away from their prior monitoring products—which included the Dell Remote Monitoring platform (formerly Silverback Technologies) and several point products—and adopt a new solution. Before making a move, the company’s managed services team undertook a rigorous, two-year evaluation of 12 alternatives. Following are a few of the key reasons that they selected Nimsoft:
“We are passionately focused on the business success of our clients,” said Tim Hebert, CEO, Atrion. “That entails taking time to understand what they’re looking to accomplish and then delivering truly customized service that meet those objectives. Nimsoft’s solutions and people uniquely support us in these efforts. They help us to be more agile in adapting to technology advancements and evolving customer needs, and they ultimately enable us to deliver higher levels of service to our clients.” By implementing NMS, Atrion expects to realize several significant benefits:
“Monitoring capabilities are vital for any organization, but they can represent a significant competitive differentiator for an MSP,” revealed Gary Read, president and CEO of Nimsoft. “Our solutions deliver comprehensive, robust, and easy to use monitoring capabilities, that enable MSPs to expand their service offerings, boost service levels, and strengthen their competitive position. We’re extremely pleased that experienced MSPs like Atrion continue to validate the value we provide.” About Atrion Networking CorporationEstablished in 1987, Atrion specializes in the fusion of business and technology. It accelerates business productivity and enhances client satisfaction through a dedicated focus on our clients and through customized technology design, implementation and support solutions such as consultation, project management, manufacturer-certified training, carrier services, telephony, equipment procurement, local and wide area network implementation and managed services. Atrion’s multimedia division, Shazamm, offers innovative and interactive multimedia designs to enhance solution functionality and visibility. Atrion’s 1nService affiliation allows it to service companies locally and internationally. It is a Cisco Gold Partner, Microsoft Gold Partner and placed 455 on the 2009 VAR 500 list. Learn more at www.atrion.net. About NimsoftNimsoft is the fastest growing provider of next generation performance and availability monitoring solutions for the complete physical, virtual and cloud based 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 800 customers in 36 countries rely on Nimsoft solutions to monitor their IT based business applications and services including cloud environments. 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 Hosting Services, ENKI, Thomas Duryea, Easynet and Rackspace Managed Hosting. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com. © 2009 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Nimsoft Achieves VMware Ready Optimized StatusRedwood City, Calif. – June 24, 2009 – Nimsoft, the Big 4 alternative for IT performance and availability monitoring solutions, today announced that Nimsoft has achieved VMware Ready Optimized status. This designation indicates that the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS) has passed a detailed evaluation and testing process managed by VMware and is now listed on the VMware Partner Product Catalog. Passing the extensive VMware Ready Optimized testing helps ensure that NMS is architected, tuned or integrated to best leverage VMware platform functionality and is ready for deployment in customer environments. “Combining the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution with VMware Infrastructure 3.5 offers enterprises and cloud service providers a comprehensive solution for monitoring all elements across the infrastructure—including the underlying applications and operating systems.” said Bernie Mills, senior director, alliance programs, VMware. “We are pleased that the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution qualifies for the VMware Ready Optimized logo, signifying to customers that NMS has passed specific VMware testing criteria and is ready to run their mission-critical business applications and operations.” “Nimsoft sees a continual demand for better visibility and service level management across both a virtualized and physical infrastructure,” said Gary Read, president and CEO of Nimsoft. “With the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution, enterprises and managed service providers have a central view of the entire IT environment, enabling organizations to focus on strategic business initiatives such as IT responsiveness, service quality and customer satisfaction.” The VMware Ready program is a VMware co-branding program for qualified partner products and is a benefit of the VMware TAP program. With more than 1,000 members worldwide, the VMware TAP program works with best-of-breed technology partners to provide them a comprehensive set of VMware technical and marketing services, support, tools and expertise to deliver enhanced value to joint customers. The NMS can be found within the online VMware Product Catalog listing athttp://wwwa.vmware.com/partnercatalog/catalog/. About NimsoftNimsoft is the fastest growing provider of next generation performance and availability monitoring solutions for the complete physical, virtual and cloud based 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 800 customers in 36 countries rely on Nimsoft solutions to monitor their IT based business applications and services including cloud environments. 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 Hosting Services, ENKI, Thomas Duryea, Easynet and Rackspace Managed Hosting. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2009 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Nimsoft – The Most Scalable Monitoring Solution on the PlanetResults of recent customer scalability tests suggest that the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution is both the lowest overhead and the highest scaling monitoring solution availableRedwood City, Calif. – June 15, 2009 – Nimsoft, the ”Big 4” alternative for IT performance and availability monitoring solutions, today announced the results of scalability tests run in conjunction with several very large customers that it believes makes it possibly the single most scalable monitoring solution available. This incredible scalability has been achieved through the advanced design and architecture of the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution, and also offers the customer additional benefits such as minimal resource impact on the monitored systems and a minimal hardware requirement for the monitoring solution itself. The Nimsoft Monitoring Solution architecture and scalability test results will be discussed in a webinar on these dates/times:
”Several customers came to us and wanted to know where the limits were in terms of scalability of the solution”, said Mark Rivington, VP Technology for Nimsoft. “So, rather than testing in our own labs, we decided to go directly to those customers and run the tests in their environment. What we saw was very pleasing to us because we met and exceeded the customer’s expectations and in fact we still haven’t found the true limit of the solution”. Some of the actual customer achievements are: A major US-based managed service provider is actively using Nimsoft to monitor the availability of 40,000 network devices from 4 POPs. Each Nimsoft probe is measuring 10,000 network devices every 2 ½ minutes. Another European customer is using Nimsoft to measure CPU, Disk and Memory on each of their servers and are taking measurements every 5 seconds, with an imperceptible overhead on the monitored server A major investment bank is now using Nimsoft on dealing room systems, whereas they have never before managed to get any other product certified because of the overhead and intrusiveness of other solutions A major hosting provider has tested a single Nimsoft “hub” to being able to have 10,000 servers concurrently attached and monitored. The Nimsoft Monitoring Solution can have dozens of hubs within a single instance of the solution. A customer compared Nimsoft with Microsoft SCOM for monitoring Linux servers and found that SCOM ran at 3% CPU utilization when idle and peaked to 40-50% utilization when actually collecting data. The Nimsoft CPU utilization was “hardly detectable” in the same tests Database tests have been run to show that Nimsoft can perform over 7,000 “inserts per second” “Scalability or resource overhead has become a limiter for many organizations using both traditional or open source monitoring solutions, particularly in the Web 2.0 world where infrastructures are being sized to levels that have never been seen before. We have seen many companies perform unnatural acts because of the limitations of their monitoring solutions.” said Gary Read, President and CEO of Nimsoft. “Over the years, whenever we’ve been close to the limits of the current version of the product, we’ve further enhanced our solution to continue to raise the bar. This is testament to the underlying architecture with the Nimsoft solution but also to the extreme talent of our engineering team that’s simply the best in the business”. About NimsoftNimsoft is the fastest growing provider of next generation performance and availability monitoring solutions for the complete physical, virtual and cloud based 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 800 customers in 36 countries rely on Nimsoft solutions to monitor their IT based business applications and services including cloud environments. 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, ENKI, Thomas Dureyea, Easynet and Rackspace Managed Hosting. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2009 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Dutch Hospital Monitors Application Performance with NimsoftNimsoft Solution Ensures Reliability of EZIS Patient Record System through Proactive Monitoring of Performance and Quality of ServiceRedwood City, Calif. – June 3, 2009 – Nimsoft, the ”Big 4” alternative for IT performance and availability monitoring solutions, today announced that Westfriesgasthuis Hospital in Hoorn, The Netherlands, has chosen the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution to proactively monitor the performance of its ChipSoft EZIS Electronic Patient Record System. The EZIS system runs on 1,200 servers and is used by about 2,500 medical professionals throughout the hospital to access patient-critical medical information. Because Westfiesgasthuis relies heavily on electronic records, it is vital that the hospital be immediately aware of any performance or service issues with the EZIS system. Westfriesgasthuis selected the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution after learning of a hospital in England that successfully used it to automatically monitor performance. “We were immediately convinced that Nimsoft could solve our problems, especially after we discovered it was so easy to use and implement when compared to alternative solutions,” said Emiel Agema, unit head, I & MT System Administration and Integration for Westfriesgasthius. “The Nimsoft Monitoring Solution enables us to ensure the performance of the electronic patient record system by measuring performance from an end user’s perspective. We’re pleased with Nimsoft’s performance, and in the future, we plan to extend the number of measurements we take with Nimsoft probes.” Previously, Westfriesgasthuis Hospital had periodically monitored the performance of its electronic patient record system manually, using a stopwatch and plotting and displaying the results on an Excel spreadsheet. This method was both time consuming and inaccurate. With Nimsoft, the operations team can monitor various points of a typical transaction to determine the total time it takes to complete a transaction as well as the network latency for specific transactions within the system. As a result, the operations team is able to determine the quality of service throughout the day to ensure that the electronic record system is operating at peak performance. Nimsoft made it easy for the IT group to view the information by displaying it on customized dashboards. This enables the hospital to deploy the resources that previously spent a great deal of time collecting data on more strategic projects. “Organizations make significant investments in crucial applications, and they want to make sure that that are getting the best performance from these expensive resources,” said Gary Read, president and CEO of Nimsoft. “For hospitals, these applications actually provide the information medical personnel need to make decisions in real-time about patient care and health. Nimsoft gives the hospital’s operations group the information they need to measure—and maximize—the performance of these patient-critical applications so that the system is always running at maximum performance.” The Nimsoft solution monitors the end-to-end performance and availability of IT infrastructure and services with more than 100 dedicated probes that support most major operating systems, servers, networks, applications, and databases. Nimsoft dashboards provide users with tailored views that show the real-time status of IT and critical business services to ensure always-on performance. About NimsoftNimsoft is the fastest growing provider of next generation performance and availability monitoring solutions for the complete physical, virtual and cloud based 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 800 customers in 36 countries rely on Nimsoft solutions to monitor their IT based business applications and services including cloud environments. 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, ENKI, Thomas Dureyea, Easynet and Rackspace Managed Hosting. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2009 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 ENKI Selects Nimsoft to Optimize Service Levels in Dynamic Cloud Computing EnvironmentThe Nimsoft Monitoring Solution Gives ENKI Visibility and Control over Virtualized Infrastructure, Enabling Long-Term Customer SuccessRedwood City, Calif. - June 1, 2009 - Nimsoft, Inc., the Big 4 alternative for IT performance and availability monitoring solutions, today announced that ENKI has deployed the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS) to centrally monitor and manage its dynamic cloud computing environment. ENKI, a managed service provider of cloud services for more than two-and-a-half years, chose Nimsoft because it was the only provider that could easily and cost-effectively monitor and mange the performance of both the physical and virtual components within its complex infrastructure. Because ENKI focuses on customer satisfaction, it was critical for the company to have the visibility and control required to deliver service-level commitments to its customers. "At ENKI, we deliver more than just cloud computing resources – we deliver fully managed cloud services," said Dave Durkee, CEO of ENKI. "As a result, we needed a sophisticated solution that could penetrate the cloud and deliver performance data at a very granular level. Nimsoft is a critical component of our high-value delivery systems that enables us to ensure we are delivering on our Service Level Agreements while overseeing a virtual infrastructure that is highly complex and extremely fluid." To monitor and manage ENKI's multifaceted environment, the NMS provides a range of critical features:
"At Nimsoft, we understand the Managed Service Provider model and what it takes to become a trusted partner for our customers," said Gary Read, president and CEO of Nimsoft. "From the initial engagement, we worked with ENKI to understand their priorities and customize a solution that addressed their specific business requirements. Through this collaboration, we provided ENKI with a service level management solution that helped the company gain complete visibility and control over their cloud infrastructure without the cost and complexity they would have been forced to contend with if they had chosen a larger, legacy vendor." Before selecting Nimsoft, ENKI had evaluated competing solutions but ultimately chose Nimsoft for several reasons, including the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution's unprecedented ease of use and flexible deployment and because Nimsoft understood ENKI's business model. More importantly, Nimsoft proved to be the only vendor equipped to monitor and manage a range of critical aspects within ENKI's complex infrastructure, including physical machines, virtual servers, applications, and end-to-end response. As a result, ENKI has access to the performance information it needs to confidently offer enterprises a fully managed virtualized service with service level guarantees. "We are now able to gather quality of service metrics and provide these directly to our customers," said Durkee. "Armed with this information, we can work with our customers to tune and adjust applications for optimal cost/performance tradeoffs and resolve issues more rapidly. Nimsoft has enabled us to increase customer satisfaction, which in today's competitive environment is the key to long-term success." About ENKIFounded in 2006 by the former CIO of NetSuite, ENKI offers enterprise-grade managed cloud computing to businesses seeking maximum value from their IT expenditures. ENKI delivers high performance scalable and reliable on-demand computing together with IT operations services enabling its customers to build and operate their businesses with minimal investment in computing equipment, staff, or IT core competencies. With self-healing datacenter technology, enterprise monitoring, IT process automation, and multiple datacenters, ENKI can provide customers with solutions that achieve 4- and 5-nines of uptime. ENKI's customers include corporate IT departments, telecommunications service providers, SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) providers, media content distributors, B2B services, gaming services, hosting providers, financial services companies, Web2.0 sites, and internet marketing services. About NimsoftNimsoft is the fastest growing provider of next generation performance and availability monitoring solutions for the complete physical, virtual and cloud-based 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 800 customers in 36 countries rely on Nimsoft solutions to monitor their IT based business applications and services including cloud environments. 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 Hosting and Managed Services, Thomas Dureyea, Easynet and Rackspace Managed Hosting. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com. Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft, Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2009 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Nimsoft Acquires Layer2/Layer3 Discovery, Topology Mapping and Root Cause Analysis Intellectual Property from Cittio Inc.Purchase will accelerate delivery of these capabilities into the Nimsoft Monitoring SolutionRedwood City, Calif. - May 18, 2009 - Nimsoft, Inc., the Big 4 alternative for IT performance and availability monitoring solutions, today announced that it had acquired the Intellectual Property assets of Cittio Inc., a former provider of automated network and systems monitoring software. Financial details were not disclosed. The purchase, which includes extended capabilities in the areas of layer 2/3 network discovery, topology mapping and root cause analysis, will enable Nimsoft to rapidly deliver these advanced capabilities within its core products, further strengthening its ability to monitor the performance and availability of an organization’s entire physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure. The technology, already deployed in multiple Cittio customers, will create and display an accurate topology of the customer’s IT infrastructure by using powerful discovery capabilities that will discover the infrastructure , including both the physical and virtual elements. This will extend to all network elements at Layer 2 and Layer 3 and, when combined with Nimsoft’s state of the art monitoring solution, will drive automated Root Cause Analysis. Nimsoft will be continuing the advancement of these technologies, hiring several former Cittio engineers at the same time. "Nimsoft’s approach has always been to bring Performance & Availability Monitoring solutions bring to our customers to drive greater operational efficiency, agility and ultimately, profitability," said Gary Read, president and CEO of Nimsoft. "With this acquisition, we will be accelerating the delivery of this enhanced normally associated with specialized or expensive network monitoring products. This was an item that was already on our roadmap, but this enables us to deliver a more complete solution, more rapidly." Dave Durkee, CEO of cloud-based infrastructures provider Enki said "I was very familiar with the Cittio technology at the time that we elected to move forward with Nimsoft. We were more comfortable with the breadth of Nimsoft’s solution as well as solid financial position of the company. Now it looks like I’ll be getting the advanced pieces of Cittio’s solution as part of my Nimsoft investment thus further validating my decision. Nimsoft is clearly a company on a mission and I’m not aware of anyone that comes close to their capabilities at this point". About NimsoftNimsoft is the fastest growing provider of next generation performance and availability monitoring solutions for the complete physical, virtual and cloud based 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 800 customers in 36 countries rely on Nimsoft solutions to monitor their IT based business applications and services including cloud environments. 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, ENKI, Thomas Dureyea, Easynet and Rackspace Managed Hosting. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft, Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2009 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Nimsoft Enables Interactive to Focus on Quality Managed ServicesNimsoft Monitoring Solution helps drive sustained growth in Australian marketSydney, Australia. – 27 April, 2009 – Nimsoft Inc., the “Big 4” alternative for IT performance and availability monitoring solutions, announced today that Interactive, an Australian managed services provider, has deployed Nimsoft’s Monitoring Solutions (NMS) across its data centres as part of a drive to deliver higher levels of IT service quality and availability. With the Australian Managed Services market predicted to grow to AU$800 million by 20131, Interactive has rolled out Nimsoft’s Service Delivery Portal (SDP) to provide customers with real-time, accurate information about the IT systems under management. The company is also using Nimsoft Monitoring Solution to proactively manage complex IT environments consisting of cross platform servers, applications, networks and other devices. Reflecting the growing demand and expectation from customers for regular information, Interactive took the step to deploy Nimsoft’s Service Delivery Portal as quickly as possible. SDP is a powerful online portal that incorporates Nimsoft’s next generation dashboards. This enables Interactive to create customized views for its clients and allows their customers to access real-time data about the performance and availability of the IT systems under management. “Interactive has worked hard to earn the trust and confidence of our customers and this has been a key factor in our continued growth. As the managed service market evolves, customers will expect MSPs to be more open and transparent in their dealings with them. Our decision to deploy Nimsoft’s Service Delivery Portal has enabled Interactive to enhance the level of customer service and interaction and strengthen the working relationship with our clients,” said Brad Wells, General Manager, Business Solutions Group, Interactive. “Moreover, our investment in Nimsoft’s monitoring solution has allowed us to take on additional business that we would otherwise be unable to service. The robust nature of Nimsoft’s technology platform has provided the opportunity to enhance our offerings, safe in the knowledge that we have a dependable and reliable monitoring solution in place,” he added. “Australia’s managed services market has seen a huge surge in business and this creates its own challenges and issues. For MSP’s today, exceeding customer expectations is the norm, not the exception. That requires a monitoring platform that can be quickly deployed, can rapidly scale yet retain the ease of use and flexibility to allow IT professionals to manage complex IT environments with ease. Interactive’s decision to invest in Nimsoft’s monitoring solution is testament to these traits,” said Dixon Fiske, VP Sales Nimsoft. 1 Frost & Sullivan Report About InteractiveEstablished in 1988 and fully Australian owned, Interactive is a premium provider of data centre hosting, IT hardware maintenance, disaster recovery, and outsourcing services. Interactive runs five data centres located in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane and maintenance services nationally, plus New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. Interactive supports more than 1,200 of Australia’s most successful businesses with 200 employees and has service revenues of $60 million per annum. Interactive will spend approximately $900k this year on Green power. www.interactive.com.au About NimsoftNimsoft 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 800 customers in 36 countries rely on Nimsoft solutions to monitor their IT based business applications and services including cloud environments. 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. Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2009 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Nimsoft Breaks Open the Business Service Management Market with BSM ExpressNimsoft Shatters Legacy Model by Demonstrating IT Value in Hours versus Months; Makes BSM Accessible At Pennies on the Dollar of Competing Alternative.Redwood City, CA. – April 21, 2009 – Nimsoft, Inc., the Big 4 alternative for IT performance and availability monitoring solutions, today announced BSM Express™, an easy-to-use addition 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 have on the organization. Unlike other BSM solutions that are both costly and complex to use and deploy, Nimsoft offers organizations tangible value within hours as opposed to weeks at a fraction of the cost of alternative solutions:
"We’ve been looking for a BSM solution for quite some time but found that legacy products required too much time, effort and money to be worthwhile for our organization," said Christopher Muro, director of managed services for CCSI. "With Nimsoft, we were able to find a very complete BSM solution that enabled us to be up and running quickly at a cost that is simply incomparable to the alternatives. Because Nimsoft offers easy-to-use, customizable dashboards, we are able to provide our customers with insights and views of the infrastructure that even the least technical person can comprehend." BSM Express Improves Corporate Bottom LineBSM is a natural extension of the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution, which provides network monitoring, server monitoring, database monitoring, application monitoring and service level management (SLM) from a single point of control. With the addition of BSM Express, IT departments can now correlate and aggregate the monitoring data gathered with the predefined metrics demanded by the various lines of business, enabling IT to measure and prioritize the impact that certain events have on the company’s bottom line. Nimsoft’s interactive and customizable dashboards provide proactive and prioritized notification of problems across the organization. The dashboards can deliver both technical and management views of monitoring and BSM information that can be gathered and shared across organizational silos. This enables collaboration across the organization resulting in faster problem resolution and ultimately, greater productivity. "In today's economic climate, IT is a key competitive differentiator, especially for mid-sized companies," said Rachel Chalmers, Research Director with The 451 Group. "Such companies may have few IT resources but still need to understand the health of their network as it relates to their bottom line. Nimsoft's BSM Express, which builds on the company's monitoring heritage, aims to helpbusinesses monitor and aggregate performance and availability metrics in order to correlate them with specific business objectives. The IT organization can view and measure the business impact of poor performance and downtime, make adjustments to the network and potentially improve the company's bottom line." "Organizations are starting to realize that they have spent too much time, money and people on BSM solutions that promise the world but rarely deliver," said Gary Read, president and CEO of Nimsoft. "At Nimsoft, we’ve eliminated the complexity that legacy providers have created by building the first feature-rich BSM solution that is affordable and easy to use, yet highly functional. We are taking a discipline that previously could only be afforded by organizations with lots of spare IT budget and we are making it available to the mass market." BSM Helps Managed Service Providers Expand Their Service PortfoliosBSM Express also provides Managed Service Providers (MSPs) with a valuable add-on service that will enable them to increase margins in an increasingly competitive marketplace. MSPs choose Nimsoft because of its broad, extensible and scalable solution that enables them to grow their service offering from simple monitoring to more advanced services such as application and end user response time monitoring. With Nimsoft, they are able to offer a more consistent, cohesive reporting across service lines, demonstrating Service Level compliance and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in real time. Nimsoft also enables MSPs to streamline administration and the time spent on training, deployment and ongoing maintenance. "With the unpredictable nature of the economy, IT organizations are being asked more frequently to justify costs and demonstrate value," said Vince Conroy, chief technology officer for FusionStorm. "With Nimsoft’s BSM Express, we are able to offer organizations a valuable service that provides the monitoring capabilities companies need to support a wide variety of assets in addition to a BSM solution that provides a quantifiable and justifiable account of all their IT services. Because the Nimsoft product suite is so easy to use, we are able to add new customers very quickly and begin immediately establishing our value proposition as a trusted partner." Pricing and AvailabilityBSM Express is available immediately and pricing begins at $10,000 for an annual subscription. For more details on acquiring this solution, please contact Nimsoft. Customers that have already installed Nimsoft’s performance monitoring solution are welcome to download and begin immediately using the BSM Express solution. For More Information:
About NimsoftNimsoft is the fastest growing provider of next generation performance and availability monitoring solutions for the complete physical, virtualized and cloud 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 800 customers in 36 countries rely on Nimsoft solutions to monitor their IT based business applications and services including cloud environments. 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. Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft, Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2009 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Nimsoft to Present at 5th Annual InfoSec and West Coast Emerging Growth Conference Presented by America’s Growth CapitalRedwood City, CA. – April 20, 2009 – Nimsoft, the Big 4 alternative for performance and availability monitoring, today announced that Gary Read, president and CEO, will present to the investment community at the America’s Growth Capital’s 5th Annual Information Security and West Coast Emerging Growth Conference. The invitation-only event takes place on April 20th and 21st in San Francisco. Both public and private equity investors as well as industry executives will attend the conference. Read’s presentation will discuss his perspective on the market and own success in deploying Nimsoft’s performance and availability monitoring solution in organizations around the globe. The conference will feature leading executives from public and private information security and emerging growth technology companies coming together for a two day-long program of panel discussions, management presentations and keynote addresses. The panels and Keynotes will focus on information security, clean tech, digital media/Internet, software and business services. More information on the conference can be found at www.americasgc.com. About NimsoftNimsoft 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 800 customers in 36 countries rely on Nimsoft solutions to monitor their IT based business applications and services including cloud enviroments. 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.Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2009 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Nimsoft Continues Forward MomentumIncrease in Total Bookings and GAAP Revenue are combined with positive cash flowRedwood City, CA. – April 6, 2009 – Nimsoft, the "Big 4" alternative for performance and availability monitoring, today announced that the company has continued its momentum with a solid performance for the quarter ending March 31, 2009 that saw the company increase revenues and deliver positive cash flow. Nimsoft's success was driven by strong growth in sales to Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and mid to large corporate enterprises. The company added 19 MSPs in the quarter increasing order backlog by 78 percent over the same period last year. At the same time, Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR) was up 54 percent year on year. "This past quarter, Nimsoft continued to see strong demand and interest for its solutions." said Gary Read, president and CEO of Nimsoft. "But, at the same time we have seen many customers delaying their final purchase decisions due to the broader uncertainty about the economy. We are pleased that we were cash flow positive in the quarter as well as gaining market share with 29 new logo customers. Companies are looking for ways of reducing their IT spend and doing more with less. Nimsoft is perfectly positioned to help companies achieve these goals as we have proven hundreds of times." Other highlights for Nimsoft during the quarter included the following:
About NimsoftNimsoft 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. Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2009 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Multiple Cisco Partners Delivering Managed Services using Nimsoft's World-class Monitoring SolutionNimsoft Enables Cisco Partners to drive increased margins through managed services including solutions for both Cisco and non-Cisco environmentsRedwood 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:
“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, Long View 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 NimsoftNimsoft 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. Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft, Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2009 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Nimsoft to Present at Montgomery Technology Conference 2009Redwood City, Calif. – March 9, 2009 – Nimsoft, the Big 4 alternative for performance and availability monitoring, today announced that Gary Read, president and CEO will present to the investment community at the Montgomery Technology Conference on Tuesday, March 10, at 12:00 pm Pacific Time. The conference will be held at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica, CA. The Montgomery Technology Conference brings together a highly select group of 850-plus venture, private equity, public institutional investors and senior technology executives from around the world, highlighting 90 high-quality, late stage private companies and 50 industry-leading public companies. The conference features industry keynotes and panels with live discussions including: Private Capital Outlook for 2009 and The Future of Cloud Computing. A live audio webcast will be available here. About NimsoftNimsoft 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. About Montgomery & CoMontgomery & Co has evolved into a leading investment bank for growth companies over a twenty-year period. Founded in 1986 by James Montgomery, the initial mission was to provide strategic counsel to high technology companies. Currently it is focused on the media, communications, information technology, and healthcare industries. The firm provides merger and acquisition advisory and private placements to leading private and public growth companies. Montgomery & Co also invests directly into growth companies through its own funds and other investment vehicles it has sponsored. For more information, visit www.monty.com. Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2009 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Jenny CoupeNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Nimsoft's Innovative Dashboard Technology Fuels Eurodata Systems SuccessEurodata Systems scoops Nimsoft dashboard design awardLondon, UK – 6th March, 2009 - Nimsoft, Inc., the “Big 4” alternative for IT performance and availability monitoring solutions, today announced that Eurodata Systems, a UK-based Managed Service Provider, has won the inaugural Nimsoft EMEA dashboard award. The award recognizes best-practice in dashboard design and innovation and follows hard on the heels of Eurodata’s success in being only one of six UK firms to feature in the prestigiousMSPmentor 100 survey. Eurodata’s dashboards were submitted at an open contest at Nimsoft’s recent EMEA user conference, n-fluence. The standard of submissions was incredibly high and reflected the extent to which Nimsoft’s dashboard technology enables companies to easily and rapidly tailor and expand on the basic design. Eurodata’s dashboard submissions stood out for their ability to present a wealth of information in a concise and eye-catching manner. “Eurodata’s success is in part due to their investment in technology solutions that enable them to deliver a consistently high level of customer service. Intuitive dashboards form a key part of an MSP’s toolkit and are instrumental in managing the performance and availability of complex IT infrastructures. Eurodata has drawn on Nimsoft’s dashboard platform to create customized designs that meet their customers’ requirements. It comes as no surprise that Eurodata has scooped the dashboard award and secured a place in the MSPmentor listings,” said Tim Bisley, VP EMEA. “This has been an exceptional past couple of months for us. Being awarded the Nimsoft dashboard award is a testament to Eurodata’s innovative forward-thinking approach and that we always have our customer’s business requirements in mind. Our confidence with Nimsoft dashboards has certainly helped in Eurodata’s growth in success and continued demand with our monthly managed services briefings,” said Des Lekerman, co-founder and managing director at Eurodata Systems. About Eurodata SystemsEurodata Systems delivers IT business solutions by optimising client’s IT infrastructure. Our innovative award winning services are implemented through our proven tailored methodology; ensuring customer business and IT needs are met. With over 18 years experience across multiple industry sectors, our clients have benefited from leading edge IT managed services. Our solutions have reduced client IT overheads, improved IT service quality and maximised business efficiencies. Areas of expertise include; unified communications, network and IT security, storage solutions and bespoke managed services. In addition to being a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, Eurodata is the first Mitel’s enterprise partner and one of HP’s top HP partners in the UK. For further information, visitwww.eurodatasystems.com About NimsoftNimsoft 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. Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft, Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2009 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Airlines Reporting Corporation Reduces Costs With NimsoftProactive Monitoring Drives SLA Compliance, Increased Customer Satisfaction and New RevenueREDWOOD CITY, Calif. – February 24, 2009 – Nimsoft, the Big 4 alternative for performance and availability monitoring, announced today that Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC), the premier provider of financial settlement solutions for the travel industry, has chosen Nimsoft for proactive, real-time monitoring of their IT infrastructure. ARC processes more than $8 billion of transactions per month and needed a robust, scalable monitoring solution to protect their critical applications and customers’ confidential data. Only Nimsoft offered an enterprise-class solution capable of providing detailed performance trending and SLA compliance reporting while lowering overall operating costs and improving customer satisfaction. Additionally, the web-based, historical reporting offered by Nimsoft enabled ARC to expand existing data analysis services and generate additional revenues. “As the financial backbone to the global travel industry, ARC needed a monitoring solution that could scale to meet our needs while providing the proactive reporting functionality capable of identifying problems before they impact end users,” commented Michael Tarajos, Application Engineer of ARC. “Nimsoft’s historical trending analysis establishes benchmarks of what’s normal and what’s not – enabling us to identify issues earlier, reducing the overall cost of monitoring while improving customer satisfaction.” Nimsoft monitors the end-to-end performance and availability of IT infrastructure and services with more than 100 dedicated probes supporting most major operating systems, servers, networks, applications and databases. Nimsoft dashboards provide users with tailored views that show the real-time status of IT and critical business services. From simple up/down testing of network devices and application servers to detailed performance trend analysis and SLA compliance reporting, Nimsoft provides the real-time data necessary to ensure always on performance. “The increased visibility Nimsoft provides has added the equivalent of one FTE by allowing our team to focus on the most important issues,” added Tarajos. “In addition to reducing our TCO (Total Cost of Ownership), Nimsoft’s web-based historical reporting has allowed us to generate additional revenues from our data warehouse by enabling us to expand existing data analysis services beyond simple fraud protection.” Nimsoft is the fastest growing systems management company in the world due largely to its ease of use, rapid implementation and compelling Return on Investment (ROI). Nimsoft reduces the cost of monitoring while improving visibility into IT performance and highlighting its contribution to the business. “In today’s challenging economic climate, businesses are looking for a highly scalable performance and availability monitoring solution that can be delivered and operated at fraction of the cost of traditional solutions,” commented Gary Read, president and CEO of Nimsoft. “Nimsoft is dedicated to delivering a highly effective solution that increases efficiencies and drastically reduces costs.” About ARCARC is the premier provider of financial settlement solutions and data and analytical services for the travel industry. Airlines, travel agencies, corporate travel departments, railroads, and other travel suppliers process more than $77 billion annually through ARC’s world-class settlement system, making it the financial backbone of travel distribution. ARC COMPASS®, the leading, trusted source for travel transaction information, powers data and analytical tools that help ARC customers make confident business decisions. ARC is an airline-owned company that builds on values of integrity, teamwork, innovation, cost-effectiveness, and excellence. For more information, please visit www.arccorp.com. About NimsoftNimsoft 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. Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2009 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Nimsoft to Present at Thomas Weisel Partners Technology and Telecom ConferenceREDWOOD CITY, Calif. – February 10, 2009 – Nimsoft, the Big 4 alternative for performance and availability monitoring, today announced that Gary Read, president and CEO will present to the investment community at the Thomas Weisel Partners Technology and Telecom Conference on Wednesday, February 11, 2009 at 2:40 pm Pacific Time. The conference will be held at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco, CA. A live audio webcast will be available at:http://www.veracast.com/webcasts/twp/tech09/38203626.cfm. About NimsoftNimsoft 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. Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2009 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Nimsoft Reports Record Breaking Quarter to Close 200850 New Customers in Q4 Drives 28% Increase in New Bookings for the Quarter and 47% for the YearRedwood City, Calif. – January 29, 2009 – Nimsoft, Inc., the “Big 4” alternative for IT performance and availability monitoring solutions, today announced its financial results for the three months ending December 31, 2008 and fiscal 2008. Overall, 2008 saw new bookings increase by 47 percent, driven by 162 new name customers for the year. Total bookings for 2008 were in the $40m to $50m range. Fourth quarter results set new company records for bookings, new customer count, backlog and recurring revenue. Bookings increased by 28 percent in the fourth quarter compared with Q407 as the company added over 50 brand new logo customers. Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR) increased by 46 percent from Q407 to a record high while combined deferred revenue and backlog smashed previous quarterly records - up 78 percent year-over-year. “2008 was a remarkable year for Nimsoft across the board as we generated record results in recurring revenues, order backlog and the growth of our customer base,” commented Gary Read, president and CEO of Nimsoft. “Our continued focus on quality, service and value has helped differentiate Nimsoft in a market looking for innovation and execution. Only Nimsoft offers a reliable, highly scalable performance and availability monitoring solution that can be delivered and operated for a fraction of the cost of traditional solutions.” Nimsoft added 162 brand name customers in 2008, many replacing pre-existing Big 4 solutions. While Big 4 providers continue to lose customers because of issues around price, performance and functionality, Nimsoft continues to win competitive bids by making effective Performance and Availability monitoring a reality by reducing the complexity and driving a rapid ROI. Customer growth came across a variety of key industries including Service Providers, Finance and Insurance, Education, Manufacturing, Energy, Consumer Goods and Healthcare. Highlights for the year include:
About NimsoftNimsoft 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. Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft, Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2009 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Nimsoft Helps IntelliNet Corporation Build for the FutureReal Time, Customizable Reporting Drives Rapid Growth of Leading Managed Service Provider
Redwood City, Calif. – January 29, 2009 – Nimsoft, the Big 4 alternative for performance and availability monitoring, announced today that the IntelliNet Corporation, a highly certified and nationally recognized IT strategy consulting services firm and managed service provider (MSP) based in Cleveland, Ohio has chosen Nimsoft to monitor its entire IT infrastructure of more than 9,000 devices, databases and applications. IntelliNet has grown revenue 20 percent annually for the last three years by providing solutions that ensure their continuity for their client’s critical business applications, and improve end-user services while lowering overall operating costs. Only Nimsoft was able to provide the robust, centralized monitoring solution capable of meeting IntelliNet’s rapidly growing managed services business. “To support our growth and expansion in a very competitive marketplace, IntelliNet needed a single monitoring solution that could support multiple operating platforms, new technologies and a wide range of applications and devices. Nimsoft had the broad platform support and scalability we were looking for – all at a cost significantly lower than the combination of tools we were using,” commented Vince Loparo, Vice President of Sales for IntelliNet. “The ability to provide new products and services is helping us drive growth rates of over 20 percent. Nimsoft has kept us up to speed with the latest technologies and highly competitive.” Previously, IntelliNet was relying on a combination of monitoring tools including Captrends and OptiCon Systems. Nimsoft offers a centralized solution that provides true end-to-end performance and availability monitoring of the entire IT infrastructure. With Nimsoft, managed service providers offer more consistent, cohesive reporting across service lines, streamline administration and significantly reduce the time spent on training, deployment and ongoing maintenance. Nimsoft products are based on a purpose-built, efficient architecture specifically designed for service oriented management. With more than 100 dedicated probes, Nimsoft supports nearly any type of IT technology including servers, networks, applications and databases. Nimsoft provides the real-time data necessary to adapt to performance availability, user experience and business process demands. Web-based historical reporting provides thousands of data metrics and Nimsoft Dashboards provide complete and easy-to-analyze views into the real-time status of IT and critical business services. Users are able to see practically any type of data in a single view including Help Desk call statistics, application performance metrics and IT resource utilization. “Our whole selling point is the efficient use of tools and Nimsoft has made it easier to meet our clients’ needs. We’ve used Nimsoft dashboards in our presentations to illustrate our real-time reporting capabilities,” added Loparo. “From VoIP to VMWare, only Nimsoft is delivering the tools we need to differentiate our existing services, expand our product offerings and increase our margins in an increasingly competitive marketplace.” “Demand for managed services continues to grow and MSPs are looking for a broad-based solution that will help them diversify into higher margin services while reducing overall costs and improving end-user satisfaction,” stated Gary Read, president and CEO of Nimsoft. “Nimsoft reduces the cost of monitoring while improving visibility into IT performance.” Nimsoft, an accredited vendor and charter member of the MSPAlliance, has long been a partner for managed service providers. Nimsoft has more than 200 MSP partners representing over 10,000 clients worldwide. The Nimsoft MSPZone hosts materials from a year-long best-practices program which helps MSPs build and maintain a leadership position in a rapidly changing marketplace. To download a free trial version of the Nimsoft solution, access a video series featuring best practices for MSPs or attend an on demand Webinar titled “12 Secrets for Long Term Managed Service Success,” please visit www.nimsoft.com/mspzone About The IntelliNet CorporationIntelliNet Corporation, established in 1997, is an IT Network Management and Professional Services firm. IntelliNet provides products and services that help our clients optimize the deployment of their technical staff and achieve their IT initiatives. IntelliNet is committed to project management best practices to deliver the results our clients expect. IntelliNet’s Professional Services Staff possesses a blend of certifications such as PMI, PMP, MCP, MCSE, MCSD, CCNP, Network+, Security+, Citrix, CNA, CNE, CISSP and CLP. IntelliNet owns and operates a multi-million dollar 24x7x365 Network Operations Center (NOC). IntelliNet’s Managed Services team provides proactive monitoring of availability & performance, security & control for their clients’ global networked infrastructure and systems. For more information visit us on the web at http://www.IntelliNetcorp.com/. About NimsoftNimsoft 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. http://www.ploufsf.comNimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2009 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved.
For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Nimsoft Establishes New Asia-Pacific Office to Meet Growing DemandNimsoft offers more value than Big 4 Vendors and supports burgeoning managed services marketRedwood City, Calif. – January 22nd, 2009 – Nimsoft Inc., the “Big 4” alternative for IT performance and availability monitoring solutions, announced its successful entry into the Asia-Pacific region with the establishment of a new office. Located in Sydney, Australia, the move is in response to continued demand in the region for a comprehensive yet affordable performance and availability monitoring solution. With new customers in Australia, such as Traffic Intelligence and others across Hong Kong, Malaysia and Taiwan, the office will deliver an enhanced level of support and serve as the focal point for Nimsoft’s on-going development in the region. The Asia-Pacific operation will be led bySam Quinlan, a veteran Nimsoft employee. The decision to open an office reflects Nimsoft’s strong value proposition and demand for an easy to use alternative to the Big 4’s systems management offerings. Nimsoft boasts enterprise level functionality at an affordable price-point because it is easier to use, faster to implement and offers a superior return on investment. This has been a key factor in the company’s growth and success and differentiates Nimsoft from traditional systems management vendors. Nimsoft’s entry into the Asia-Pacific market will provide local companies with a genuine alternative to the over-priced, overly-complex systems management offerings currently available. “We always intended to establish an operation in Asia-Pacific as part of our long-term strategic plan. Our appeal to enterprises and MSPs is based on offering easy to use, reasonably priced, and highly-scalable monitoring solutions. This has been the cornerstone of our success to date and we intend to apply the same approach in Australia and across the region as a whole,” said Tim Bisley, vice president EMEA, Nimsoft. “The initial response from prospects to our new operation has been extremely positive and we expect to further develop our presence over the course of 2009,” he added. Nimsoft’s expansion into Australia marks the first step in the company’s plan to create a permanent presence across the Asia-Pacific region to support both enterprises and Managed Service Providers. Australian companies face many of the same issues and challenges related to monitoring their IT infrastructure and have shown a growing interest in the Nimsoft solution over the past few years. The office is located at Level 57, MLC Centre, Martin Place, Sydney, NSW 2000. Sam Quinlan can be reached on 02 9236 7216 or by email: sam.quinlan@nimsoft.com About NimsoftNimsoft 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. Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2009 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved.
For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 2008 Press Releases Agresso Selects Nimsoft to Drive Aggressive IT Service Level StandardsNimsoft emerges head and shoulders above other monitoring solutions for value, performance and functionalityLondon, UK – December 15, 2008 – Nimsoft, the “Big 4” alternative for IT performance and availability monitoring solutions, announced today that Agresso had selected Nimsoft as part of its business strategy to drive new levels of efficiency and quality of service. Agresso, a UK-based Managed Service Provider (MSP) has deployed Nimsoft across numerous customer sites in the UK. The move lays the groundwork for Agresso to establish comprehensive service level agreements (SLAs) for IT service delivery performance over the course of 2009. Agresso deliver business information systems to the public sector and professional services organizations which range from finance and payroll applications to specialist procurement and HR solutions. Prior to selecting Nimsoft, all the key customer applications and underlying server infrastructure was monitored through a manual process. Not only was it a time-intensive exercise, it also prevented Agresso from actively identifying issues and managing them before they turned into quality of service problems. After a detailed evaluation process that considered a number of commercial packages, Agresso selected Nimsoft as the preferred Service Level Management software. Agresso will use Nimsoft to initially manage 95 mission-critical business applications such as SQL Server, Citrix, Active Directory and MS IIS running across 125 servers at 10 customer sites. “Nimsoft provides us with the platform to gather a wealth of key data and metrics regarding the servers and applications under our management. The ease with which we can deploy the Nimsoft solution coupled with its flexibility and range of features enables our Technical Services Department to quickly assess the status of any of the servers and applications under management and take the necessary corrective actions. "These factors were the primary reasons why Agresso selected Nimsoft; it ensures we continue to deliver and exceed our customers’ expectations,” said Angie Marlow, Customer Services, Technical Services & ICT Director, Agresso Ltd. “Delivering value is the number one priority and flexibility, performance and simplicity are key strengths that customers look for when selecting an MSP to manage their IT environment. These same traits are also important when MSPs select a performance and monitoring solution. Nimsoft is the preferred solution for a growing number of MSPs because it delivers rich functionality, is easy to use and delivers a high return on investment. In short, Nimsoft enables MSPs to enhance the quality and level of service they offer,” said Gary Read, president and CEO, Nimsoft. About AgressoAgresso (www.agresso.com) is an enterprise resource planning (ERP) subsidiary of Netherlands-based Unit 4 Agresso (Dutch Stock Exchange EURONEXT-U4AGR) and one of the top five providers of ERP solutions for professional services and public sector organisations. Agresso offers a uniquely integrated data/process/delivery architecture designed specifically for Businesses Living IN Change (BLINC)™. Agresso is known as "The ERP Market's Definition of Agility" as it allows an unlimited amount of ongoing, post-implementation changes without the typical external IT costs and intervention that nets billions of dollars in revenue to the market leaders. Over 2,600 companies and organisations in 100 countries deploy Agresso Business World for both operational support and strategic management. The company’s role-based, Web Services and Services-Oriented Architecture (SOA) enabled solutions include: Financial Management, Human Resources and Payroll, Procurement Management, Project Costing and Billing, Reporting and Analytics and Business Process Automation. Agresso has full-operating sales offices in the United Kingdom, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, The Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Canada and USA. About NimsoftNimsoft 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 700 customers in 30 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, visitwww.nimsoft.com. Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2008 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 New Regional Director Appointed For DACH RegionRalf Lommel to lead German office and drive continued growthLondon, UK – November 18, 2008 – Nimsoft Inc., the “Big 4” alternative for IT performance and availability monitoring solutions, today announced the appointment of Ralf Lommel as regional director, DACH. Lommel will drive the continued growth of the German office and steer Nimsoft’s development in the key central European markets of Germany, Austria and Switzerland. His appointment comes as Nimsoft expands its German operation to take advantage of the growing demand for easy to use, fast to deploy and lower cost monitoring solutions. Lommel will report to Tim Bisley, VP EMEA. “Following a period of steady investment, we are now poised to accelerate our activities across the DACH region. Ralf’s appointment is critical as he will lead these efforts. He is a seasoned sales executive, with over 20 years in the IT industry, who is intimately familiar with the DACH region,” said Tim Bisley, VP EMEA, Nimsoft. “The current economic climate has helped further highlight Nimsoft’s value proposition over that of the Big 4 vendors and we see very real opportunities to extend our customer base in Germany and across central Europe,” he added. Prior to joining Nimsoft, Lommel held senior management positions with Serena Software, Mercator, Brokat and Computer Associates. His extensive knowledge of the DACH region complements an in-depth understanding of working for fast-growing and highly profitable companies. This blend makes him ideally suited to lead Nimsoft’s rapidly growing German operation. “Nimsoft’s success in the DACH region can be attributed to 3 things – great solutions, a strong customer focus and an attitude to deliver beyond expectations. It is the way in which these three elements come together that has fueled our growth in Germany and created a compelling value proposition for our customers. The company has achieved a critical mass across the DACH region with many highly satisfied customers. I am relishing the opportunity to lead its future development,” said Ralf Lommel, Regional Director, DACH. About NimsoftNimsoft 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 700 customers in 30 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. Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2008 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Nimsoft Named to Deloitte's Technology Fast 50Fastest Growing Systems Management Company Posts 981 percent GrowthRedwood City, Calif. – November 14, 2008 – Nimsoft Inc., the “Big 4” alternative for IT performance and availability monitoring solutions, today announced it has been named to Deloitte’s 2008 Silicon Valley Technology Fast 50. With revenue growth of 981 percent over the last five years, Nimsoft is the fastest growing systems management company and 24th fastest growing company in Silicon Valley. The Silicon Valley Fast 50 is a ranking of the fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications and life sciences companies in Silicon Valley based on percentage fiscal year revenue growth over five years (2003-2007). "With more than 700 customers in 30 countries, Nimsoft has generated meteoric growth over the last five years and we are honored to be included in this prestigious list,” commented Gary Read, CEO and president of Nimsoft. "Our continued growth is a testament to the strength of our products and our ongoing commitment to customer satisfaction. While the Big 4 vendors get poor marks from their customers, over 95 percent of Nimsoft customers are very satisfied.” "Deloitte's Silicon Valley Technology Fast 50 companies have shown the strength, vision and tenacity to succeed in today's very competitive technology environment," said Mark Jensen, Managing Partner, National Venture Capital Services, Deloitte & Touche LLP, in Silicon Valley. "We applaud the successes of Nimsoft and acknowledge it as one of the very few to accomplish such a fast growth rate over the past five years." To qualify for the Technology Fast 50, companies must have had operating revenues of at least $50,000 in fiscal year 2003 and $5,000,000 in fiscal year 2007, be headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, and be a company that owns proprietary technology or proprietary intellectual property that contributes to a significant portion of the company's operating revenues; or devotes a significant proportion of revenues to the research and development of technology. For more information on Deloitte's Technology Fast 50 or Technology Fast 500 programs, visitwww.fast500.com. This year's Silicon Valley Technology Fast 50 program was co-presented by Deloitte, Silicon Valley Bank, Korn/Ferry International, Cooley Godward Kronish LLP, Cornish & Carey Client Solutions, and ABD Insurance and Financial Services -- A Wells Fargo Company. About DeloitteAs used in this document, "Deloitte" means Deloitte LLP. Please see http://www.deloitte.comabout for a detailed description of the legal structure of Deloitte LLP and its subsidiaries. About NimsoftNimsoft 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 700 customers in 30 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. Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2008 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Nimsoft Named to Software Magazine's 26th Annual Software 500Nimsoft Ranked as one of Top 10 Growth CompaniesRedwood City, Calif. – November 6, 2008 – Nimsoft today announced its inclusion on Software Magazine’s Software 500 ranking of the world’s largest software and services providers, now in its 26th year. Nimsoft was ranked number #7 in the Top Ten Growth companies in the $10 - $30 million revenue category and #334 overall in the 2008 ranking. “Nimsoft is honored to be recognized by Software Magazine as one of the largest and fastest growing software companies in the world,” commented Gary Read, CEO and president of Nimsoft. “Our inclusion in this prestigious list is further validation of our position as the fastest growing systems management company in the world.” “The 2008 Software 500 results show that revenue growth in the software and services industry was healthy, with total Software 500 revenue of $451.8 billion worldwide for 2007 representing 14.7% growth from the previous year,” says John P Desmond, editor of Software Magazine and Softwaremag.com “The Software 500 is a quick reference of vendor viability, helping CIOs, senior IT managers and IT staff research create the short list of business partners.” The Software 500 is a revenue-based ranking of the world’s largest software and services suppliers targeting medium to large enterprises, their IT professionals, software developers and business managers involved in software and services purchasing. The ranking is based on total worldwide software and services revenue for 2007. This includes revenues from software licenses, maintenance and support, training and software-related services and consulting. Suppliers are not ranked on their total corporate revenue, since many have other lines of business, such as hardware. The financial information was gathered by a survey prepared by King Content Co. and posted atwww.Softwaremag.com, as well as from public documents. About Digital Software Magazine, the Software Decision Journal, and Softwaremag.comDigital Software Magazine, the Software Decision Journal, has been a brand name in the high-tech industry for 30 years. Softwaremag.com, its Web counterpart, is the online catalog to enterprise software and the home of the Software 500 ranking of the world’s largest software and services companies, now in its 26th year. Software Magazine and Softwaremag.com are owned and operated by King Content Co. About NimsoftNimsoft 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 700 customers in 30 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. Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2008 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 HP Software Executive Dixon Fiske Joins Nimsoft as VP AmericasAppointment Re-Unites Two Senior Mercury Sales ExecutivesRedwood City, Calif. – November 4, 2008 –Nimsoft Inc., the “Big 4” alternative for IT performance and availability monitoring solutions, today announced the appointment of Dixon Fiske as vice president Americas. Fiske, a 20 year IT industry veteran, will lead the Americas sales operation. The appointment re-unites him with another top-performing former HP/Mercury executive, Tim Bisley, currently Nimsoft vice president EMEA. Both worked closely together for many years to develop and drive global sales models that fueled Mercury’s impressive growth to over $1 billion in revenues prior to being acquired by HP. “Dixon joins Nimsoft at a time of continued growth and development. His experience at Mercury and HP will prove invaluable in further accelerating an already strong business. Additionally, his proven partnership with Tim Bisley shaping and honing high performing sales teams is a clear advantage we can build on. The two complement each another well and will drive tremendous business opportunities across the Americas and Europe,” said Gary Read, president and CEO, Nimsoft. “Our claim to be the alternative to the Big 4 is no idle boast. We have demonstrated this repeatedly over the past year. The fact we can attract someone with the caliber, experience and knowledge Dixon possesses from HP is a further testament to our appeal and ability to deliver real value to customers in the performance and availability monitoring market.” Starting in 2002, Fiske’s success with Mercury Interactive’s Americas corporate sales division marked him out for a leadership position following HP’s acquisition of Mercury in 2006. He assumed the position of vice president of HP Software Direct Americas, an organization which drives nearly half of HP’s Americas software revenue. Leading that $660 million sales organization, Fiske consistently demonstrated the ability to successfully focus and motivate sales teams to over-deliver on revenue goals. “During my time at HP, we were increasingly aware of the impact Nimsoft was making in the performance and availability monitoring market. It was clear that prospects were becoming more and more focused on the value monitoring solutions could deliver and they didn’t want lengthy, complex and expensive implementation cycles. When we came up against Nimsoft in new business opportunities it became clear Nimsoft has an extremely compelling business and technology proposition that appeals to a broad spectrum of companies. Add the chance to work with Tim again and it was a no-brainer for me to join Nimsoft,” said Dixon Fiske, VP Americas. Fiske’s appointment follows Nimsoft’s $12 million second round investment led by Goldman Sachs. He is the fourth senior HP/Mercury executive to join Nimsoft, reflecting the company’s strong appeal and position in the performance and availability monitoring market. About NimsoftNimsoft 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 700 customers in 30 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. Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2008 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Nimsoft Continues Upward Momentum with Strong Q3 2008 ResultsSubscription Revenue Doubled Year on YearRedwood City, Calif. – October 31, 2008 – Nimsoft, Inc., the “Big 4” alternative for IT performance and availability monitoring solutions, today announced another strong set of financial results for the three months ending September 30, 2008. Subscription revenue more than doubled with recurring revenue at quarter end up nearly 150% and the maintenance base up over 160%. New order growth was up approximately 30% with order backlog up near 100% over the same quarter last year. The company added a record number of 40 new logo customers including 13 managed service providers during the three months, bringing the total customer count to more than 700 in 30 countries. The results reinforce the continued demand for Nimsoft solutions that are easier to use, faster to implement and offer superior ROI. “These results clearly demonstrate that Nimsoft has a strong, growing business that remains highly focused on its customers. In the new economic climate, Nimsoft is perfectly positioned to deliver precisely what our customers demand – a reliable, highly scalable performance and availability monitoring solution that can be delivered and operated for a fraction of the cost of the traditional solutions,” said Gary Read, president and CEO, Nimsoft. “It is no coincidence that Goldman Sachs chose to lead the second round investment in Nimsoft. Our ability to manage the business, win brand new name customers and drive unparalleled customer satisfaction sets a high benchmark for others.” The results close a successful quarter where:
About NimsoftNimsoft 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 700 customers in 30 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. Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft, Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2008 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Nimsoft Recognized as One of Top 100 Fastest Growing Private Companies in Silicon Valley by San Francisco Business TimesRedwood City, Calif. – October 28, 2008 – Nimsoft, the fastest growing systems management company, today announced that it was ranked number 40 on the San Francisco Business Times’ annual list of the Top 100 Fastest Growing Private Companies in the Bay Area based on 2007 revenues of $22.5 million. With over 70 percent revenue growth over the last year, Nimsoft was one of the highest ranked software companies honored by the San Francisco Business Times and co-host PriceWaterhouseCoopers. “We are honored to be recognized as one of San Francisco’s fastest growing private companies. Our continued growth is a testament to our ongoing commitment to customer satisfaction,” commented Gary Read, president and CEO of Nimsoft. “Our focus on the customer has generated greater than 95 percent customer satisfaction ratings as we continue to convert customers away from expensive, ineffective solutions from the large systems management vendors such as BMC Software, CA, HP and IBM.” To qualify for the San Francisco Business Times list of 100 Fastest Growing Private Companies, companies must be based in San Francisco County; have been in business at least three fiscal years through fiscal year 2007; and have revenues of more than $200,000 in fiscal year 2005. About NimsoftNimsoft 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 700 customers in 30 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. Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2008 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Nimsoft Receives 2008 Best of Redwood City AwardU.S. Local Business Association's Award Plaque Honors the AchievementRedwood City, Calif. – October 24, 2008 – Nimsoft, Inc. has been selected for the 2008 Best of Redwood City Award in the Computer Services category by the U.S. Local Business Association (USLBA). The USLBA "Best of Local Business" Award Program recognizes outstanding local businesses throughout the country. Each year, the USLBA identifies companies that they believe have achieved exceptional marketing success in their local community and business category. These are local companies that enhance the positive image of small business through service to their customers and community. Various sources of information were gathered and analyzed to choose the winners in each category. The 2008 USLBA Award Program focused on quality, not quantity. Winners are determined based on the information gathered both internally by the USLBA and data provided by third parties. About U.S. Local Business Association (USLBA)U.S. Local Business Association (USLBA) is a Washington D.C. based organization funded by local businesses operating in towns, large and small, across America. The purpose of USLBA is to promote local business through public relations, marketing and advertising. The USLBA was established to recognize the best of local businesses in their community. Our organization works exclusively with local business owners, trade groups, professional associations, chambers of commerce and other business advertising and marketing groups. Our mission is to be an advocate for small and medium size businesses and business entrepreneurs across America. About NimsoftNimsoft 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 700 customers in 30 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. Source: U.S. Local Business Association For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Total Administrative Services Corporation Upgrades to NimsoftBroad Platform Support and Real Time Monitoring Help Reduce Costs of Administering Employee Benefit ProgramsRedwood City, Calif. – October 22, 2008 – Nimsoft Inc., the “Big 4” alternative for IT performance and availability monitoring solutions and the fastest growing systems management vendor, today announced Total Administrative Services Corporation (TASC), a leading provider of tax-advantaged medical and other benefit account management services, has switched to Nimsoft for real-time service monitoring of its mission critical applications and overall IT infrastructure. TASC provides complete third-party administrative services for more than 50,000 businesses across the country and needed a single solution that could monitor both Linux and Windows-based systems and applications. With Nimsoft they adopted a single solution for their monitoring needs which included broad platform support, automated real-time Service Level Agreement (SLA) reporting and compliance reporting. “TASC offers enterprise-class services and Nimsoft provided the tools to prove we are delivering against our business SLAs. From monitoring a heterogeneous infrastructure to detailed performance trend analysis and compliance reporting, Nimsoft provided the end-to-end visibility and control we needed,” commented Itsik Aviad, systems administrator for TASC. “We had been using a combination of open source systems, but they offered limited functionality and needed more resources to manage them than we had. Nimsoft was extremely flexible, better at monitoring LINUX and mixed server environments and offered far more detailed views of our overall infrastructure health.” Nimsoft provides end-to-end performance and availability monitoring of heterogeneous IT infrastructures including virtual environments. Network, server, database and application metrics are collected and analyzed against business service commitments and SLAs. The solution provides a graphical interface for defining SLA parameters for any metric or combination of metrics including compliance period, operating period, excluded periods and target service level with alerting capabilities before a breach Nimsoft currently offers more than 100 dedicated probes supporting major operating systems and IT infrastructure from servers, networks and databases to applications and the end-users’ experience with those applications. Service levels can be set against availability, application queries and end user response times using synthetic transactions or real-user monitoring (RUM) statistics. “With Nimsoft, organizations can monitor their IT infrastructure for SLA compliance to ensure they are providing the right level of service to the business. Nimsoft provides visibility into operations and business service levels, measuring them against SLA metrics and automatically generating alerts when performance levels are about to breach existing SLAs,” stated Gary Read, president and CEO of Nimsoft. “Nimsoft helps organizations like TASC to cohesively understand and control their environments to deliver business results.” About TASCBased in Madison, Wisconsin, and marketed nationwide, TASC provides third party benefit administration services including AgriPlan and BizPlan (Section 105 medical reimbursement plans for the self-employed), RetirEez (retirement planning for individuals), LegacyGuard (estate protection services), FlexSystem (Section 125 Plan administration), RetireRite (401(k) administration), COBRAToday (COBRA administration), and DirectPay (health reimbursement arrangement administration). Through its services, TASC provides over 50,000 business owners innovative, tax advantaged employee benefit programs. About NimsoftNimsoft 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 640 customers in 30 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. Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2008 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Goldman Sachs Leads $12 Million Investment in NimsoftFastest Growing Systems Management Company Announces Second Round of FundingRedwood City, Calif. – October 7, 2008 – Nimsoft, the fastest growing systems management company, today announced that the company has completed a funding round of $12 million led by new investor Goldman Sachs with follow on investments from Series A investors JMI Equityand Northzone Ventures. The company will use the funds to continue its growth and help achieve its vision of becoming the world’s leading enterprise systems management software company. “Nimsoft has an innovative, well-run business model with a strong management team,” said David Campbell, Vice President, Principal Investment Area, Goldman Sachs. “To operate modern data centers, it is critical for IT customers to have robust systems management software that is easy to deploy and maintain to ensure they are providing the right level of service to their businesses. Nimsoft has a proven track record of delivering this functionality to both large and small enterprises and managed service providers (MSPs) around the world. We are pleased to invest in Nimsoft to enable further growth as a leading enterprise systems management provider.” “Despite the tough economic times, we were overwhelmed with interest from multiple prestigious investors,” said Gary Read, president and CEO of Nimsoft. “An investment from Goldman Sachs is further recognition of the strength of our business model, product performance and future business opportunity. With the global market experience and formidable resources of Goldman Sachs added to the existing knowledge of our initial investors JMI Equity and Northzone Ventures, we are confident we will continue to grow a highly successful business.” According to Gartner Dataquest, the worldwide revenue for IT operations management software was $12.9 billion in 2007, representing 13.5 percent annual growth.1 Nimsoft extended its position in the Gartner “Magic Quadrant for IT Event Correlation and Analysis, 2007” and has expanded to 700 customers in 30 countries. With revenue growth of 534 percent over the past four years, Nimsoft is the fastest growing systems management company in the world due largely to its easy-to-use performance and availability monitoring software that offers a fast and compelling Return on Investment. An InformationWeek product review ranked Nimsoft the “Best of the Best” among nine application performance management (APM) solutions. APM is a critical segment of systems management because it monitors the performance of the customer experience – in addition to core IT infrastructure performance. InformationWeek reviewers noted Nimsoft was “a real leader” in service level management for its “flexible and robust SLA reporting engine” and ability to “report SLA performance granularly … which many APM tools are unable to do.” Lead Goldman Sachs investor David Campbell will join the Nimsoft board of directors and provide strategic counsel for the company’s ongoing development and growth. Peter Arrowsmith of JMI Equity and Torleif Ahlsand of Northzone Ventures will continue to serve on the Nimsoft board of directors. About Goldman SachsThe Goldman Sachs Group is a bank holding company and a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm. Goldman Sachs provides a wide range of services worldwide to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and high net worth individuals. Founded in 1869, the firm is headquartered in New York and maintains offices in London, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Hong Kong and other major financial centers around the world. About JMI EquityJMI Equity is a private equity firm exclusively focused on investments in growing software and business services companies at all stages of their lifecycles. Founded in 1992, JMI has invested in more than 95 companies throughout North America and has approximately $1.3 billion of committed capital under management. JMI provides the first institutional capital to self-funded companies, partners with management teams to acquire or recapitalize market leading companies and selectively makes investments in early-stage companies. Representative investments include Blackbaud, DoubleClick, Kronos, Nimsoft and Unica. For more information on JMI, visit www.jmiequity.com. Northzone VenturesNorthzone is a leading European venture firm with a Nordic stronghold. Northzone focus on high-growth technology companies, and has invested in more than 70 companies since its inception in 1996. Northzone has $500 million of committed capital under management, and offices in Oslo, Stockholm and Copenhagen, Investments include Stepstone, Nextgentel, Mamut, Funcom, Revolt Technology, Trolltech and Pricerunner. For further information, visit www.northzone.com About NimsoftNimsoft provides 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. Approximately 700 customers in 30 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. Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft, Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2008 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. 1Gartner Dataquest, IT Operations Management Software Market Share Analysis, Worldwide, 2007, dated June 18, 2008, written by Rene Millman. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Trillion Increases IT Performance with NimsoftEarly Detection Reduces Customer Service Inquiries by 80 Percent, Leading to Increases in Customer Satisfaction for Nation's Largest MSP Focused Exclusively on K-12 School DistrictsRedwood City, Calif. – October 7, 2008 – Nimsoft Inc., the “Big 4” alternative for IT performance and availability monitoring solutions, today announced that Trillion, the nation’s largest Managed Service Provider (MSP) for K-12 school districts, has dramatically increased its IT efficiencies and customer satisfaction using Nimsoft. Designed for a service environment, the Nimsoft solution enabled Trillion to proactively identify and resolve potential problems before they impacted end user performance. In the past three and one-half years as a Nimsoft customer, Trillion has proactively identified and resolved potential IT performance solutions using Nimsoft, resulting in a reduced number of customer service inquiries by 80 percent. "Our customers rely on Trillion for ‘always-on’ performance. With Nimsoft, we are able to identify problems proactively before our clients are even aware of a performance issues,” stated Kevin Bethke, Chief Operating Officer for Trillion. “The single, end-to-end view and the proactive methodology has helped us reduce customer-originated help desk tickets by 80 percent.” With more than 1,000 schools coast-to-coast, Trillion offers school district customers around-the-clock monitoring of network and VoIP telephony solutions. Previously, Trillion had been using a combination of open source and point solutions Nagios, Solarwinds and WhatsUp Gold, which did not meet their needs as they continued to grow. In contrast, Nimsoft provided scalable, end-to-end performance and availability monitoring for the entire IT infrastructure. Nimsoft currently offers more than 100 dedicated probes supporting major operating systems and IT infrastructure from servers, networks and databases to applications and the end-users’ experience of those applications. Service levels can be set against availability, application queries and end user response times using synthetic transactions or real-user monitoring (RUM) statistics. Nimsoft reporting intelligently packages the relevant monitoring data into understandable information for any level of the client organization, from client CEO to IT manager. “Nimsoft offers managed service providers a proven solution with broad infrastructure support to enable services for complex environments, scalability for distributed environments and adaptability to the changing needs of the business,” commented Gary Read, president and CEO of Nimsoft. “With central and proactive views, managed service providers can identify the root of issues more quickly and thereby increase customer satisfaction. When we partner with managed service providers, we support them knowing that our solution is foundational to their business success.” About TrillionHeadquartered in Austin, Texas, Trillion Partners Inc. is the leading provider of Priority 1, E-Rate-oriented broadband WAN and VoIP services for the education market. Trillion’s WAN services include network design, installation and management using state-of-the-art licensed wireless and fiber technologies to ensure 24/7 availability and performance. Trillion's VoIP services, based on the ShoreTel platform, enable districts to take advantage of the advanced features of VoIP without the responsibility of day-to-day management. Serving more than 1,000 schools across the United States, Trillion is one of the largest national service providers for VoIP and broadband WAN services for K-20 education. For more information, visit www.trillion.net or phone (512) 334-4100. About NimsoftNimsoft 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 640 customers in 30 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. Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2008 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 New Advanced Services Lead MSPs to Golden Revenue Opportunities According to Nimsoft Global Survey
Redwood City, Calif. – Sept. 29, 2008 – Experienced managed service providers (MSPs) are growing rapidly by extending new lines of services that cater to complex IT environments, according to a global survey conducted by Nimsoft Inc., the "Big 4" alternative for IT performance and availability monitoring solutions and the fastest growing systems management provider. Nimsoft recently conducted a survey among seasoned MSPs with five to 20 years experience located in more than 20 countries to identify key issues and trends driving the managed service industry. The new managed service offerings for medium to large enterprises have resulted in quarterly revenue increases of 25 percent or greater in the past 18 months said approximately 40 percent of the respondents. As MSPs have grown more sophisticated, they are targeting enterprises with complex IT requirements, characterized by proprietary and custom applications and a broader number of technologies. Approximately 40 percent of respondents polled said that up to 30 percent of their client base reflected 1,000 or more employees and more than 65 percent of respondents managed enterprises with 500 to 999 employees. MSPs responded that adding new monitoring services that catered to complex IT environments played a central role in driving new revenues in the past 18 months:
“The past eighteen months have been a period of strong growth among our membership and MSPs worldwide,” said Charles Weaver, president of the MSPAlliance, the world’s largest professional association and accrediting body for the Managed Services Industry. “As MSPs mature in their processes and ability to respond to client requirements in real time, enterprise customers are turning to MSPs for the monitoring and management of their mission critical infrastructure and applications. The larger enterprises are a growth opportunity for managed service providers worldwide.” Nimsoft, an accredited vendor and charter member of the MSPAlliance, has long been a partner for managed service providers. In 2007, Nimsoft sponsored a year-long Best Practices Program, to help MSPs build and maintain a leadership position in a rapidly changing marketplace, materials which are now showcased as the Nimsoft MSPZone (http://www.nimsoft.com/mspzone). Nimsoft has more than 170 MSP partners with 10,000 clients worldwide, which are typically mid-to-large scale enterprises with $10 million to $2 billion in revenue. About NimsoftNimsoft provides 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 640 customers in 30 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. Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2008 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Survey Reveals Virtualization Generates New Source of Revenue for Managed Service ProvidersRedwood City, Calif. – Sept 16, 2008 – Managed service providers (MSPs) reported a 34 percent increase in new business over the past 18 months from services related to virtualization, according to a survey conducted by Nimsoft Inc., the "Big 4" Alternative for IT performance and availability monitoring solutions. The survey also indicated that approximately 57 percent of new business was driven by the adoption of new technologies such as virtualization, where clients lacked the internal skill set or resources to manage them in-house. Nimsoft recently conducted a worldwide survey of leading MSPs in more than 30 countries to identify key issues and trends driving the managed service industry. Genesis Hosting Solutions, LLC was one of the first hosting providers to virtualize its entire IT infrastructure and offer customer-leased virtualized servers on the VMware ESX. "Our service delivery model is built on a completely virtualized infrastructure, enabling us to offer highly available, managed services with guaranteed service levels at a highly competitive price point," said Eric Miller, CEO of Genesis Hosting Solutions. "As a business partner, Nimsoft has played a strategic role in enabling us to actively monitor and protect our virtualized infrastructure and client service level agreements. We even provide on-demand service level reporting to our customers so they can see in real-time the extraordinary service we are providing." When using Nimsoft for VMware, VMware administrators can bridge the virtual and physical with high visibility into the performance of their entire IT infrastructure. Nimsoft provides visibility into resource allocation and the performance of disk, memory, CPU, system data and virtual network I/O so administrators can quickly identify root causes of system disruptions. All information is analyzed against thresholds - established by business requirements - to deliver real time alarming and predictive performance of infrastructure and end user response times. Nimsoft monitors the entire VMware ecosystem with over 80 critical health checkpoints including the:
Nimsoft offers automation features that provide IT more control in monitoring VMware environments:
Nimsoft has more than 170 MSP partners with 10,000 clients worldwide, who are typically mid-to-large scale enterprises with $10 million to $2 billion in revenue. About NimsoftNimsoft provides 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 640 customers in 30 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. Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2008 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Gary Read, President and CEO of Nimsoft, Appointed to Board of Directors of Scalable SoftwareRedwood City, Calif. – August 28, 2008 – Nimsoft Inc., the “Big 4” alternative for IT performance and availability monitoring solutions, today announced that president and CEO, Gary Read has been named to the Board of Directors of Scalable Software, Ltd., a leader in IT asset lifecycle management solutions. Read’s appointment is an addition to the board and increases the number of members to five. “With more than 20 years of experience, Gary is widely recognized as an innovative and visionary executive and we are pleased that he has agreed to join our Board of Directors,” commented Mark Cresswell, president and CEO of Scalable Software, Ltd. “In just four years he has established Nimsoft as a viable alternative to larger, more-established competitors, many of which compete with Scalable, and his sales and marketing insights will be invaluable as we continue to grow and expand our core business.” Read founded Converse Software in 2002 and quickly built the company into a successful reseller organization delivering cost-effective service-level management solutions to customers around the globe. In 2004, Read merged Converse with Norway-based Nimsoft Software establishing Nimsoft. Over the last four years, Nimsoft has expanded its client base to more than 680 enterprise and managed service provider customers by delivering customized performance and availability solutions that drive top-line business results. Previously, Read served as VP Marketing at BMC Software and VP Sales & Marketing at RiverSoft, where he was instrumental in the successful IPO of RiverSoft and their eventual acquisition by Micromuse. “Efficient asset management is a key component to long-term growth and Scalable has helped improve margins and increase productivity for more than 10,000 companies since 1999,” commented Read. “This is an exciting time for Scalable Software and I look forward to working with their management team to drive future growth.” About Scalable SoftwareSince 1999, Scalable Software has been a proven innovator in delivering cost-effective IT asset lifecycle management solutions. Scalable’s solutions help organizations manage their asset estates from the moment they enter the organization until they are retired in a cost-effective manner. By focusing on the exact IT asset needs of an organization, Scalable’s solutions ensure capital is optimally deployed, overspending is reduced, profitability is improved and productivity greatly enhanced. Scalable’s software solutions are supported through a network of partners with customers throughout North America, Europe and Asia. For more information, visitwww.scalable.com. About NimsoftNimsoft provides 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 640 customers in 30 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.Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2008 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Nimsoft Ranks As The Fastest Growing Systems Management Software CompanyInc. Magazine Recognizes Nimsoft as the 36th Fastest Growing Software companyRedwood City, Calif. – Aug. 21, 2008 – Inc. magazine ranked Nimsoft, Inc., as the 36th Fastest Growing Software Company with a 534-percent revenue growth over a three-year period. The company’s growth demonstrates the worldwide market demand for a leading, next generation performance and availability monitoring solution that protects business services from downtime. Last year, Nimsoft was ranked as the 49th Fastest Growing Software Company. This list is part of the Inc. 5000, the magazine’s annual list of the fastest growing, privately held businesses. “Our ranking recognizes our high customer adoption and satisfaction,” said Gary Read, president and CEO of Nimsoft. “I see none of our competitors growing their customer base as rapidly or replacing as many Big 4 solutions as Nimsoft. The company’s momentum can only be attributed to our dedication to our customers’ needs as well as delivering a highly effective solution that drastically reduces costs and increases efficiencies.” Nimsoft provides enterprise-class software that proactively monitors and analyzes the performance of the IT infrastructure and business applications businesses. Nimsoft reduces the cost of monitoring while improving visibility into IT performance and highlighting its contribution to the business. The company’s rapid growth is not surprising given its support for both physical and virtual environments and the market’s dissatisfaction with systems management offerings from the four, longstanding market leaders. Since its founding in 1998, Nimsoft was profitable and grew organically, independent of external capital funding, until Q1 2007, when the company obtained its first round of $10.3 million venture capital funding. By the end of 2007, the company had a stunning performance with 140 new customers, a 77 percent increase in GAAP revenues and a 131 percent growth in subscription revenue. In early 2008, Nimsoft acquired Indicative Software for its business service management technologies. Today, Nimsoft customers number more than 680 in 30 countries and include some of the leading brand name companies in the world, managed service providers and a large number of medium enterprise organizations. Methodology and StatisticsThe 2008 Inc. 5000 list measures revenue growth from 2004 through 2007. To qualify, companies must be U.S.-based and privately held, for profit, independent – not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies – as of December 31, 2007, and have had at least $200,000 in revenue in 2004, and $2 million in 2007. The 5,000 companies that made the list reported aggregate revenue of $185 billion and median three-year growth of 147 percent. Complete results of the Inc. 5000 can be found at www.inc5000.com. About Inc.comInc.com, the Daily Resource for Entrepreneurs, delivers advice, tools, breaking news, and rich multi-media to help business owners and CEOs start, run, and grow their businesses more successfully. Information and advice covering virtually every business and management task, including marketing, sales, finding capital, managing people can be found at www.inc.com. About NimsoftNimsoft provides 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 680 customers in 30 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. Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft, Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2008 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Nimsoft Extends Monitoring to End User Experience For Web Services and Business Critical Web-based ApplicationsCost effective appliance offers alerting, analysis and reporting to manage the service quality for all users all the time in all locationsRedwood City, Calif. – July 28, 2008 – Nimsoft Inc., the “Big 4” alternative for IT performance and availability monitoring solutions, today announced that it has extended its flagship solution to offer real user response time in real time for Web services and Web-based applications. Nimsoft Real User Monitoring (RUM) is a cost-effective appliance that collects and analyzes actual application traffic, providing quantitative and service management reports with minimum effort. IT customers will no longer have to reactively respond to anecdotal end user complaints or spend hours of arduous manual analysis to increase the performance of revenue-driving business applications. “RUM provided quick gains for TriNet,” said John Marlett, senior systems administrator for TriNet, a leader in providing HR outsourcing and consulting services to small and medium-sized businesses throughout the United States and Canada. “Previously, TriNet had been calculating performance metrics with log files from the web servers combined with other solutions, with all data being captured after the fact and not always pointing to the root cause of performance issues. With RUM, TriNet has real time and historical information that can be measured and correlated into actionable information that is more accurate and more granular than what we could compile ourselves.” Nimsoft RUM passive monitoring strongly complements Nimsoft active transaction monitoring to provide a complete application performance management solution. Active monitoring collects data from repeatable, timed intervals to align service levels and assures the availability of the application at all times. Passive monitoring is measured from actual application traffic, data which is analyzed for troubleshooting performance issues and streamlining capacity planning. Together, the two solutions provide a strong synergy to validate the quality of experience for end users. Nimsoft RUM is the first integration of technologies acquired from Indicative Software in April. Nimsoft RUM collects data from more than 200 health checkpoints, such as Web service metrics, transaction response times, network rates, session and page metrics, in addition to size of requests, to establish baselines and thresholds of the true user experience. Nimsoft RUM analyzes the data and generates reports, which highlight heavy users, location-based bottlenecks and other useful performance level evaluations according to application, Web page and number of Web page hits. With all these diagnostics at their fingertips, IT customers have a complete end-to-end picture to proactively manage their end users’ experience before they occur. “The end user’s experience is the ultimate measure of service delivery. If the end user is having difficulty interacting with the business interface, then the business risks losing that end user as a customer. The Internet as a business delivery platform has put IT under enormous pressure to be mindful of the end user experience,” said Gary Read, president and CEO, Nimsoft. “As businesses begin to roll out their Web services architecture, they will need to monitor their Web applications and services in real time to avoid failure or an unacceptable customer experience. Nimsoft now offers IT customers a cost effective solution that gives them new analytical insight into the performance of end user experience and Web services with the added value of service level management.” Nimsoft RUM at a Glance
About NimsoftNimsoft provides 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 680 customers in 30 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. Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2008 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Nimsoft Builds On Momentum in Q2 2008130 Percent Increase in Recurring Revenue and 86 Percent in Overall Bookings Highlight Continued GrowthRedwood City, Calif. – July 23, 2008 – Nimsoft, Inc., the “Big 4” alternative for IT performance and availability monitoring solutions, today announced record financial results for the three months ending June 30, 2008. Reflecting the company’s continued expansion into the Managed Service Provider (MSP) market and driven by an increasing amount of subscription business, recurring revenues grew 130 percent year over year while order backlog increased more than 75 percent over the same quarter last year. At the same time, overall bookings grew more than 85 percent as the company announced a record 41 new enterprise and MSP customers, bringing total customer count to more than 680 in 30 countries. “Every quarter Nimsoft continues to break new ground in our mission of proving well architected monitoring solutions can be easily implemented and drive dramatic business value,” stated Gary Read, president and CEO of Nimsoft. “Our relentless focus on customer satisfaction continues to pay dividends as existing customers expand their use of the Nimsoft suite of products and recommend us to their strategic partners. In addition, we continue to attract leading companies from around the globe who are looking to transition from outdated, complex products to a more modern and elegant monitoring solution.” Other highlights for the quarter included:
About NimsoftNimsoft provides 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 600 customers in 30 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. Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2008 Nimsoft, Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Managed Service Provider Ex-Cel Solutions Replaces N-Able with Nimsoft200 Percent Business Growth Potential based on the Nimsoft Solution's Multiplatform Support and Unparalleled ScalabilityRedwood City, Calif. –July 14, 2008 – Nimsoft, Inc., the “Big 4” alternative for IT performance and availability monitoring solutions, announced today that Ex-Cel Solutions has replaced N-Able with the Nimsoft solution for all its managed service monitoring needs. The decision to move to Nimsoft was based on its heterogeneous architecture, which will enable Ex-Cel to offer additional services that could grow their business by up to 200 percent this year. Scalability was also cited in the decision as only the Nimsoft solution offers a proven enterprise-class solution that can efficiently address large, multiplatform infrastructures, hundreds or even thousands of servers and network devices and connections. “We had been working with N-Able for several years, but an existing business partner who specializes in application software for credit unions needed UNIX based monitoring tools. We quickly realized that Nimsoft was able to handle all of our needs and immediately made the decision to transition to Nimsoft across the board,” stated Larry Regier, vice president of IT Services, Ex-Cel Solutions. “Many segments of the managed service marketplace are experiencing commoditization, but Nimsoft will likely grow our customer base by 200 percent this year based upon the offering of Unix-based services.” Nimsoft offers a broad, extensible and scalable solution that provides MSPs the flexibility to grow their service offering from simple monitoring to more advanced services such as application performance management driving increased margins in an increasingly competitive marketplace. “We are proud that the most successful MSPs and hosting providers around the world continue to turn to Nimsoft for the most powerful, scalable and affordable IT monitoring solutions available,” commented Gary Read, president and CEO, Nimsoft. “The Nimsoft solution strikes a unique balance between ease-of-use, advanced functionality and support for heterogeneous environments giving MSPs the tools they need to meet the needs of a wide range of customers.” Nimsoft has a proven MSP platform with more than 172 MSP partners serving more than 10,000 customers worldwide. MSP partners have open access to the Nimsoft solution’s extensive monitoring solutions that:
“Since managed services are a primary focus of our business, ease of management and functionality are key to our profitability. The scalability of the Nimsoft platform also supports our expected future growth,” added Stenger. “We provide services to a lot of credit unions through our business partner and Nimsoft will ensure that we can support the growth of our partners and their customers.” About Ex-Cel SolutionsEx-Cel Solutions, Inc. is a premier technology business partner providing clients with a wide range of mission critical IT solutions and services. Ex-Cel offers its clients Network and Infrastructure Solutions as well as a hardware services and small business products. Our focus is to offer IT solutions and services that encompass our core competencies and strengths in which we have many years of proven experience. Our managed services offering provides our clients with a predictable, business focused IT service that optimizes operations, aids in risk management and delivers measurable value to our clients. About NimsoftNimsoft provides 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 600 customers in 30 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, Easynet and Rackspace Managed Hosting. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com. Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft, Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2008 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Diversified Media Group Selects Nimsoft for Real Time, End-to-End Service MonitoringNimsoft Solution Enables True Service Level Management Across Entire IT InfrastructureRedwood City, Calif. – July 9, 2008 – Nimsoft Inc., the “Big 4” alternative for IT performance and availability monitoring solutions, today announced Diversified Media Group, a pre-eminent managed solutions provider, has selected Nimsoft for end-to-end service monitoring of its mission critical applications and underlying IT infrastructure. DMG provides full-service design, engineering and managing capabilities for digital signage, IPTV to desktop, 2-way satellite and disaster recovery services. “As a managed network solutions provider with many prestigious clients, we felt we needed a much more sophisticated and responsive format for real time monitoring of our customers’ networks,” said Brian Lees, vice president of operations, Diversified Media Group. “Nimsoft provides faster, more effective deployment, as well as true, end-to-end service level management of the entire IT infrastructure.” “Leading service providers around the world continue to be attracted to the Nimsoft solution’s ability to provide business value and a rapid return on investment in complex and demanding IT environments,” said Gary Read, president and CEO, Nimsoft. “Nimsoft solutions are specifically architected to provide true end-to-end performance of services across heterogeneous and dynamic infrastructures.” Nimsoft solutions offer proactive IT infrastructure monitoring and alerting, application performance management, performance analysis, historical reporting, advanced service level management and comprehensive service modeling with business service management functionality. Key IT Service Management (ITSM) and Business Service Management (BSM) capabilities offered include:
“The Nimsoft service module allows our IT staff to define levels of service provided to each customer---and then automatically monitors and reports on performance against those criteria,” added Lees. “Other established offerings are not as well equipped as Nimsoft to enable true service level management across the IT infrastructure.” About Diversified Media GroupDiversified Media Group provides complete consultation, design, installation, training, content development and technical support for business television and digital signage networks worldwide; especially for retail sites, mixed-use developments, educational institutions, and sports/concert venues. Based in Kenilworth, New Jersey, DMG operates its own private teleport and data center for its customers, offering maximum confidentiality and security. Visithttp://www.divmedia.net for more information. About NimsoftNimsoft provides 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 640 customers in 30 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. Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2008 Nimsoft Inc. All rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 CRN Magazine Names Nimsoft Emerging Tech Dynamo for Second Consecutive YearBig 4 Alternative for IT Performance and Availability Monitoring Solutions Recognized for Momentum in ChannelRedwood City, Calif. – July 3, 2008 – Nimsoft Inc., the “Big 4” alternative for IT performance and availability monitoring solutions, announced today that Computer Reseller News (CRN) has named the company an Emerging Tech Dynamo for 2008. Offering an unparalleled level of advanced functionality, broad infrastructure support and unprecedented ease of deployment and use, Nimsoft products provide customers with the tools they need to improve services, expand offerings and boost margins in an increasingly competitive marketplace. CRN’s Emerging Tech Dynamos identifies industry leading technology providers who are delivering high margins for their channel partners through innovative, cutting-edge technology unavailable from industry giants. “Nimsoft’s proven MSP platform delivers high margins with innovative and easy-to-use technology,” stated Gary Read, president and CEO of Nimsoft. “Nimsoft can efficiently address large, multiplatform infrastructures, hundreds or even thousands of servers and network devices and connections while simultaneously lowering implementation and operating costs.” The Nimsoft suite provides proactive IT infrastructure monitoring and alerting, application performance management, performance analysis, historical reporting, advanced service level management and business service management functionality with comprehensive service modeling. With broad platform coverage and unparalleled ease of deployment and use, only Nimsoft provides next-generation solutions for true end-to-end performance and availability monitoring of the entire IT infrastructure, both physical and virtualized. Nimsoft customers can adopt one tool for all their monitoring needs and offer more consistent, cohesive service across service lines, streamline administration and reduce implementation and training time. Based on a purpose-built, efficient architecture specifically designed for service oriented management, only Nimsoft’s extensive monitoring solutions:
About NimsoftNimsoft provides 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 640 customers in 30 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. Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2008 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Norwegian State Railways Moves Forward with NimsoftMicrosoft and Big 4 unable to support stringent new service levels, new ITIL initiativeLondon, UK – 20th June, 2008 – Nimsoft, the “Big 4” alternative for IT performance and availability monitoring solutions, announced today that Arrive, the technology arm of Norwegian State Railways (NSB), has concluded its rollout of Nimsoft. It follows a systematic and controlled deployment that has embedded Nimsoft at the heart of the IT operation. Arrive monitors and manages more than 500 servers across Norway that host business critical applications essential to the smooth running of the railways across the country. The deployment allows Arrive to instantly assess the health of the servers and key systems and proactively manage any issues that may arise. Arrive selected Nimsoft following an intense evaluation period of rival offerings from the Big 4 and Microsoft. NSB carries more than 50 million passengers and freight a year across Norway. The railway infrastructure is a vital artery that connects the major cities and metropolitan areas with more rural parts of the country. Technology plays a key role in the smooth running of the rail network, ranging from ticketing services to the management of the rolling stock and the tracking of freight and cargo consignments. Arrive must ensure that all the key systems and applications are available and working within agreed parameters. This promoted an in-depth review of monitoring solutions that could deliver a comprehensive view of service levels. Nimsoft emerged as a clear front runner for its in-depth data collection capabilities and comprehensive reporting features. “To say that people depend on our ability to manage the IT infrastructure is a massive understatement. The systems that we monitor are responsible for ensuring the safe transport of over 140,000 commuters a day across the Norwegian rail network. Understandably, there is an expectation amongst the railway operators that we should deliver accurate service levels reports that detail our management of the key systems." "From our perspective, we recognized the need to be able to act quickly in the event of a systems failure or other problem. We had very specific requirements for the IT monitoring solution and Nimsoft was the only vendor that demonstrated a true understanding of what we needed today and how we might adapt the solution to future requirements,” said Bjørn Bale, CTO, Arrive AS. “Compared with offerings from the Big 4 vendors, Nimsoft was not as costly, complex and did not require an army of consultants to deploy. We found that the platform was extremely flexible, better at monitoring LINUX and mixed server environments and offered a far more detailed view of the health of our IT infrastructure. The result is that our decisions are based on detailed information and knowledge that was previously unavailable to us. The Nimsoft deployment has set the stage for a successful implementation of ITIL,” he added. “Norway has one of the world's strongest economies and good transport links are essential. Given the key role that technology plays in the management of the rail network, Arrive very quickly recognized the importance of an IT monitoring solution that could demonstrate the value that IT delivers. We engineered Nimsoft so it would be easy to deploy, scalable and, importantly, offer a range of features at an affordable price. This combination clearly resonated with Arrive, who have embraced Nimsoft and are now set to enhance the service they offer Norwegian State Railways and their paying customers,” said Gary Read, president and CEO, Nimsoft. About NimsoftNimsoft provides 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 600 customers in 30 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, Archstone Smith Communities, 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. Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2008 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Featured Speaker From Leading Analyst Firm To Keynote Nimsoft User Conference in "The Big Easy"n·fluence Conference in New Orleans to highlight how 'Easy' Nimsoft products deliver valueRedwood City, California – 29th May, 2008 –Nimsoft, Inc., the “Big 4” alternative provider of IT performance and availability monitoring, announced today that Gartner analyst Ray Paquet will serve as the keynote speaker at the Nimsoft customer conference in the United States, this year located in New Orleans. The n·fluence annual user conferences showcase how Nimsoft offerings help dramatically cut costs, sharply increase IT operational efficiencies and are ‘Easy’ compared to alternatives. The U.S. conference will take place Oct. 6 – Oct. 10 in New Orleans and the EMEA conference is scheduled for Oct. 20 – Oct. 24 in Amsterdam. The keynote speaker at the n·fluence customer conference in New Orleans is Ray Paquet, managing vice president of Gartner Research. He is responsible for IT Operations and Enterprise Management research, which includes asset management, change management, configuration management and problem management, as well as desktop, server, application, network and database management. The keynote will offer attendees insight on ways to maximize IT operations to reduce costs, increase efficiencies and achieve bottom-line business value. New Orleans and its reputation as “The Big Easy” is the perfect place to showcase just how easy Nimsoft is for customers to deploy and realize value from. Requiring few professional services, offering a short time to deploy and install, and a rapid ROI Nimsoft is actively replacing and winning against all of the “Big 4” monitoring providers, including BMC Software, CA, HP and IBM. In 2007, Nimsoft gained 139 new brand name customers and continues to build its momentum in the marketplace. “As Nimsoft continues to win against and replace the ‘Big 4’ solutions, it is becoming more and more evident that Nimsoft offerings are ‘The Big Easy’ when compared to the ‘Big 4’,” said Gary Read, president and CEO, Nimsoft. “We have designed our annual conferences to serve as forums where customers can share best practices, access hands-on training to more effectively show value and learn what new capabilities are coming. Our customers continue to reinforce that while the ‘Big 4’ promise, Nimsoft delivers.” It’s a tradition in New Orleans to present visitors with lagniappe, which means “a little something extra.” Nimsoft will follow suit by offering multiple modular training tracks that enable attendees to focus on what is important to them and their companies. The Two Day Training Track will provide attendees advanced course work intended to extend and elevate existing implementations and showcase the value delivered to the business. The Three Day Training Track is intended for new users to gain a broad overview of implementation best practices for rapid ROI and specific topics for quick adoption and configuration. Both tracks will offer modules on hot new topics including how to effectively monitor virtual machine environments, unified communications and advanced dashboard design. Early bird registration is available at http://www.nimsoft.com/nfluence/. Attendees can save $300 or €200 by registering before August 15. Volume discounts also available. About NimsoftNimsoft provides 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 640 customers in 30 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. Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft, Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2008 Nimsoft Inc. All rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Nimsoft Named to JMP Securities' "Hot 100" Privately Held Software CompaniesRedwood City, Calif. – May 29, 2008 – Nimsoft Inc., the “Big 4” alternative for IT performance and announced today that it has been named in the JMP Securities' 2008 report, "Hot 100: The Best Privately Held Software Companies." The report profiles 100 of the leading private companies in the software industry, as identified by JMP Securities' software research team. After exceeding expectations in 2007, Nimsoft has continued to set a record pace in 2008 with strong momentum in new bookings, recurring revenue and customer growth. “It is an honor to be recognized by JMP Securities as one of the Top 100 privately held technology companies” said Gary Read, President and CEO of Nimsoft. “We remain focused on providing our customers with solutions they need to grow their business while maintaining a strong financial position ourselves.” Nimsoft recently announced record results for the first quarter of 2008. New bookings rose 71 percent year over year, and recurring revenue, driven by an increasing amount of subscription business, jumped 83 percent when compared to the same quarter last year. Furthermore, Nimsoft added 27 brand new name customers, bringing the total customer count to 643 in 30 countries. Earlier in the year, Nimsoft acquired Indicative Software in a move to increase business service management (BSM) and end-user response time monitoring capabilities to its widely accepted solutions for network monitoring, server monitoring, database monitoring, application monitoring and service level management (SLM). With the acquisition, Nimsoft is able to deliver the future of IT performance and availability monitoring, with solutions that provide a rapid return on investment, are easy to implement and use, and deliver complete customer satisfaction. About NimsoftNimsoft provides 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 640 customers in 30 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.Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2008 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Dutch MSP Invests in Nimsoft as it Expands Innovative New ServiceNimsoft chosen for its flexibility, robustness and affordabilityLondon, UK – 20th May, 2008 – Nimsoft, the “Big 4” alternative for IT performance and availability monitoring solutions, announced today that Insign IT, a Dutch-based managed service provider (MSP), has expanded its investment in Nimsoft following a surge in business. The company has added the Nimsoft End-to-End (E2E) solution to its existing application monitoring package to enable Insign IT to measure the total application response time right down to the end user. The move is based on the success of its Intakt Monitoring Services, a branded offering that is based on a system of credits. Insign IT deployed the Nimsoft E2E solution in the first quarter of 2008. The ability to innovate and deliver new services is an essential requirement for any MSP that is developing its business. Insign IT identified a demand for managed services that was not based purely on expensive license fees. Rather, customers purchase credits that can be used over the course of a year on a range of services, from basic application monitoring to in-depth consultancy. This approach required an IT monitoring solution that was robust, flexible and above all, affordable. Nimsoft proved to be the right solution to underpin the new service as it was simple to use, easy to deploy and provided Insign IT with the ability to scale the service in line with customer demand. “Insign IT is a small MSP but that hasn’t stopped us from pursuing new opportunities. The Intakt Monitoring Services initiative was a bold move on our part but we were confident of its success so long as the key components came together. One such component was the application monitoring solution that underpinned the offering. If we were to deliver a first class service, we had to know that the have the right solution to not only alert us to possible problems but allow us to take a more proactive stance with our customers. Nimsoft was that solution,” said Leon Wijnhoven, Managing Director, Insign IT. “Since launching Intakt, we have attracted a new set of customers that would previously not have considered managed services to be within their budget. Importantly, Nimsoft has allowed us to get closer to our customers and better understand their requirements by virtue of the open and transparent exchange we have with them. This has opened up a series of new opportunities and is the reason why we now plan to deploy the Nimsoft E2E solution” he added. “Innovation is a key characteristic of the MSP market. However innovation counts for nothing if you are unable to execute. Insign IT’s investment in Nimsoft is a perfect illustration of how we have engineered Nimsoft to support the unique needs and requirements of the MSP community. Our application monitoring solution proved to be the cornerstone upon which Insign IT successfully launched their Intakt Monitoring Services initiative. Functionality, flexibility and fool-proof are some of the attributes best associated with Nimsoft and these certainly came to the fore when Insign IT was contemplating which IT monitoring solution to select,” said Gary Read, president and CEO, Nimsoft. “Their decision to expand their investment in Nimsoft, with the addition of our E2E solution, is a further reflection of the trust they have in Nimsoft to deliver a solution that will allow them to continue to grow their business,” he added. About Insign ITInsign IT is a privately owned company. Based in Venlo, Holland, the company employs 10 staff and supports over 40 customers across The Netherlands. Insign IT partners with Citrix, Microsoft and VMware to deliver high-end solutions to their customers. With years of experience in Citrix, Microsoft and Vmware environments, Insign.it delivers consultancy, pilots, implementation and support within server-based & consolidated environments, to end-users and resellers. About NimsoftNimsoft provides 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 600 customers in 30 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. Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2008 Nimsoft, Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Nimsoft Announces Successful Completion Of Nimsoft Announces Successful Completion Of MSPAlliance Vendor Accreditation ProgramNimsoft Joins Vendor-Neutral Program For Benchmarking Service-Enabling Technology Vendors WorldwideRedwood City, Calif. – May 19, 2008 – Nimsoft, Inc., the “Big 4” alternative for IT performance and availability monitoring solutions, today announced that it has received accreditation under the MSPAlliance’s (MSPA) Vendor Accreditation Program (VAP). VAP is the first program of its kind, specifically designed by managed service providers (MSPs) as a benchmark for vendors who sell to the MSP community. Vendors who bear the VAP seal have shown they abide by the highest principles of quality in areas such as financial stability, positive channel practices, product research and development, and MSP customer satisfaction. "The Vendor Accreditation Program is important to MSPs, since companies that receive accreditation have demonstrated their ongoing commitment to the channel,” said Charles Weaver, president of the MSPAlliance. “We are very proud to have Nimsoft, one of our charter members, certified as part of this prestigious body of vendors.” VAP was created using a wide base of criteria considered as critical by MSPs when selecting a vendor. Criteria examined during the accreditation process include:
“Nimsoft is honored to receive accreditation from MSPA’s Vendor Accreditation Program, clearly the gold standard in the MSP industry,” stated Nimsoft CEO Gary Read. “Nimsoft continues to be committed to MSPs as exemplified by our Best Practices Program which includes white papers, videos and in-person and online seminars.” (For more information, go to nimsoft.com/msp-seminar/) Nimsoft’s Nimsoft solution enables MSPs to grow their service offering from simple monitoring to more advanced services such as application performance management which can drive increased margins. Nimsoft is a proven MSP platform with more than 140 MSP customers located around the globe. MSP partners have open access to Nimsoft’s extensive monitoring solutions that:
The MSPAlliance, with more than 6,000 corporate members worldwide, is committed to increasing reliability and dependability in the industry surrounding the value and benefit of using managed service providers to provide a wide range of mission-critical services. In addition, the MSPAlliance collects data on the practice of managed services on behalf of its members, to help them increase the value delivery of IT to the organizations they serve. About NimsoftNimsoft provides 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 600 customers in 30 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. About MSPAllianceThe MSPAlliance is an association of professional Managed Service Providers and technology enablers, who work in a collaborative effort to define, promote and educate the Managed Services Industry and the end-user consumer on the adoption and successful use of technology through Managed Services. Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2008 Nimsoft Inc. All rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Nimsoft Launches Into 2008 with Record Q1 ResultsNew bookings soar 71 percent over prior year, driven by 83 percent increase in recurring revenue and 27 brand new name customersRedwood City, Calif. – May 14, 2008 – Nimsoft, Inc., the “Big 4” alternative for IT performance and availability monitoring solutions, today announced that the company has launched into 2008 with record Q1 results. Nimsoft smashed its business expectations for 2007 and led the first quarter of 2008 with similar rapid growth that underscores the company’s ever increasing momentum. New bookings for the quarter rose 71 percent year over year, and recurring revenue, driven by an increasing amount of subscription business, jumped 83 percent when compared to the same quarter last year. The company added 27 brand new name customers during Q1, bringing the total customer count to 643 in 30 countries. “The momentum we have is just astounding,” said Gary Read, president and CEO, Nimsoft. “Whether it’s a new customer replacing their overly complex and overly expensive existing products or an existing customer continuing to add to their Nimsoft investment, all are gaining unparalleled satisfaction and return on investment. One major financial services customer estimated that we will save them over $2 million in the first year when compared to the prior product they were using. Another global consumer products company reported they were reassigning six team members because Nimsoft didn’t require the hands-on management of their previous solution. Nimsoft has the right solution for enterprise customers who want scalability and advanced features without complexity.” Other highlights for the quarter included:
About NimsoftNimsoft provides 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 600 customers in 30 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. Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2008 Nimsoft, Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 New Senior Executives Bring More Firepower to NimsoftEnterprise Software Veterans Will Help Continue Company's GrowthRedwood City, Calif. – May 7, 2008 – Nimsoft, Inc., the “Big 4” alternative for IT performance and availability monitoring solutions, today announced the appointment of two senior executives to increase the talent behind the company’s aggressive drive for market share. John Smith, vice president of strategy, and Brian James, vice president of worldwide marketing, have been appointed to their positions to further the company’s explosive growth and influence around the world. Both executives will report to Nimsoft President and CEO Gary Read. “Brian James and John Smith bring exceptional skill sets and market experience to the Nimsoft executive team,” said Read. “As we integrate the new technologies and staff we recently acquired, we are expanding our leadership team to drive the company’s next phase of growth. John Smith’s track record growing Indicative from its early roots within HP will be instrumental in leveraging our new assets and ensuring we deliver for new and existing customers. Brian James’ successful track record in growing enterprise software companies and his familiarity with the performance and availability marketplace will accelerate our growth and recognition as the viable alternative to the Big 4. We welcome both to the Nimsoft team.” Vice President of Strategy John Smith said, “I am excited to join the Nimsoft team after its acquisition of Indicative. Nimsoft’s focus on customer satisfaction, ease of use and scalability complement what we were doing at Indicative. Our vision and strategy is unmatched by the Big 4 or anyone else in the marketplace. I welcome the opportunity to work with our customers, partners and future partners to deliver what customers have always longed for: a performance and availability solution that lowers their total cost of ownership and significantly decreases the business risk of IT failure.” Smith is responsible for corporate and product strategy. He brings more than 20 years of experience in the areas of service management, network and systems management and operational support systems (OSS). In 2003, Smith founded Indicative Software, which was recognized as a leader in business service management. Before Indicative, Smith was co-founder and joint general manager of the Firehunter service management business at Agilent Technologies, which generated more than $50 million in revenue. At HP, he was a member of the management team that established the OpenView business, where he was instrumental in streamlining the product delivery lifecycle, negotiating multimillion-dollar OEM relationships and bringing new products to market. “Nimsoft completed a record shattering year in 2007 and is well positioned for further explosive growth in 2008 and beyond,” said Brian James, vice president of worldwide marketing. “This is a company with a solid product offering, world-class development team and extraordinary customer base. I look forward to helping customers free up money from their IT budget and get better control over their IT infrastructure by replacing their Big 4 monitoring software with Nimsoft.” James has more than 19 years of experience in enterprise software from marketing to business development and product management. James has strategically positioned several companies through years of high revenue growth and will be responsible for driving all marketing and brand strategy, corporate communications, demand generation and product marketing. In his most recent position as vice president of marketing at Cittio, a niche player in Nimsoft’s space, he grew the company through new product and service offerings, a strong customer focus and innovative lead generation campaigns. Previously, James led global campaigns at Mercury Interactive (now HP) which he joined through its acquisition of Kintana. At Kintana, James repositioned the products and the company around IT governance, driving the company’s growth to more $100 million and creating a central pillar for Mercury’s Business Technology Optimization strategy. He has held senior management positions at Telelogic, Stratify, Oracle, and Andersen Consulting. James earned a MBA from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, an MEM from the McCormick School of Engineering, and a BSE in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. About NimsoftNimsoft provides 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 600 customers in 30 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. Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft, Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2008 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Nimsoft Wins "Best Place to Work Award", Sponsored by San Francisco Business TimesEmployees rank Nimsoft highly on employee policies, culture and compensation, scoring a 93.79 out of a possible 100 pointsRedwood City, Calif. – May 1, 2008 – Nimsoft Inc., the “Big 4” alternative for IT performance and availability monitoring solutions, today announced that the San Francisco Business Times has awarded Nimsoft as a Best Place to Work in the Bay Area. Out of thousands of applications across all industries, Nimsoft ranked No. 12 in its category, scoring a 93.79 out of possible 100 points. The Best Place to Work award recognizes Nimsoft for its outstanding culture, employee recognition and benefits. Nimsoft has 40 employees in the Bay Area, but 165 employees worldwide. “This award is indeed an honor. There are many great companies in the Bay Area, but this award speaks volumes about the caliber of our employees who thrive on the value of teamwork,” said Gary Read, president and CEO of Nimsoft. “We work hard, play hard and have a passion for what is important to our customers. Without great people working together as a single team, we could not achieve one of the highest levels of customer satisfaction in our industry. Our customers are our focus, but we also want to make sure that it’s a pleasure to come into work every day.” The Best Places to Work in the Bay Area is an annual awards program that pinpoints the top 100 companies in the area. The ranking was based entirely on the anonymous responses of company employees, who must have completed an online, multiple choice questionnaire that tabulated their level of satisfaction with their jobs, their confidence in the future prospects of the company, trust in co-workers, manager effectiveness, work engagement, compensation and whether they felt valued in the company. Nimsoft has received other industry recognition in the past year. In 2007, Inc. magazine named Nimsoft as a Top 50 Fastest Growing Software Company. InformationWeek evaluated Nimsoft’s solution as “excellent” and the “best of the best” for its “performance, scalability, and stellar affordability” as an application performance management solution. In addition, in a quarterly online survey, Nimsoft customers consistently rate the company and its products as good or excellent more than 90 percent of the time. About NimsoftNimsoft provides 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 600 customers in 30 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. Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2008 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Amway Turns to Nimsoft to support pan-European e-business portal deploymentNimsoft will be deployed across a distributed environment in 27 European countriesLondon, UK - April 22, 2008 – Nimsoft, the “Big 4” alternative for IT performance and availability monitoring solutions, announced today that Amway has successfully deployed its Nimsoft platform to support the next phase of a new pan-European e-business portal. Designed to support over 500,000 direct sales consultants, the portal, known as www.amway.de, will streamline the way customer orders and queries are processed. Amway’s decision to select Nimsoft follows extensive trials to identify a monitoring platform that was scalable and able to support a more service-orientated approach. The infrastructure supporting the portal will eventually consist of over 300 servers, networks and other components located in 70 sites across 27 European countries. With over five different IT monitoring tools in use, Amway undertook a consolidation exercise in late 2006 to standardise on a single monitoring platform. The review set tough targets, with the emphasis on IT service visibility and the ability to capture and analyse a wide range of data across remote locations. Nimsoft was the only monitoring platform that proved capable of comfortably scaling to support hundreds of servers and offered the flexibility and robustness needed to deliver against a growing number of service level agreements. “www.amway.de is a key initiative designed to support our business initiatives across Europe. The portal will allow our consultants to access a wealth of information quickly and easily and place orders securely. The key to the portal’s success lies in its accessibility and availability at all times. This places a huge demand on the backend databases, middleware and servers that underpin the portal. It is not enough to know whether an IT system is up or down. We have to be able to act on information before it becomes a major problem. Nimsoft provides us with the ability to proactively manage our environment, take a holistic view across our entire IT infrastructure and critically adopt a more service-orientated approach in the way the department interacts with the rest of Amway in Europe. The ease with which we have been able to deploy Nimsoft has helped our efforts in rolling out the www.amway.de portal,” said Michael Schmidt, Supervisor ServiceDesk-Europe, Amway GmbH. “Amway’s business success is based on its ability to respond rapidly to the needs of its business consultants and customers. The Amway Online initiative reflects the importance that the company attaches to technology and its contribution to its business growth. It should come as no surprise then that the company consolidated its IT monitoring platform on Nimsoft, which has helped it to reap the true value of its technology investment,” said Gary Read, president and CEO, Nimsoft. About AmwayAmway is a global leader in direct selling operating in over 50 countries around the world. Amway products are being sold exclusively by over three million Amway Business Owners (ABOs) worldwide. The Amway Corporation was found in 1959 in Ada, Michigan, USA and has enabled people to have a business of their own ever since. Originally known for selling household cleaning products, such as SA8 Laundry Detergent and L.O.C. Liquid Organic Concentrate, the Amway business opportunity is now based on an excellent portfolio of hundreds of high-quality products and brands that can only be purchased through Amway ABOs. About NimsoftNimsoft provides 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 600 customers in 30 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, Archstone Smith Communities, 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.Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft, Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2008 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Nimsoft Acquires Indicative SoftwareAddition of best in class Business Service Management, End User Response Time monitoring reinforce Nimsoft as the only viable alternative to high cost, complex incumbent solutionsRedwood City, Calif. - April 8, 2008 – Nimsoft, Inc., the “Big 4” alternative for IT performance and availability monitoring solutions, today announced that it has acquired Indicative Software to add business service management (BSM) and end-user response time monitoring capabilities to its widely accepted solutions for network monitoring, server monitoring, database monitoring, application monitoring and service level management (SLM). With this acquisition, Nimsoft is delivering the future of IT performance and availability monitoring, where solutions provide a rapid return on investment, are easy to implement and use, and deliver complete customer satisfaction. Nimsoft CEO Gary Read will continue to lead the company under the Nimsoft brand. The current performance and availability monitoring market is dominated by four large vendors, HP, IBM, BMC Software and CA (The Big 4), but customers continually report and complain about painful complexity resulting in large amounts of professional services and a high cost of ownership from products that are dated and over-engineered for today’s requirements. Nimsoft has built its business by providing more than 550 customers with unparalleled satisfaction and a return on investment that is often astonishing. In many cases, Nimsoft has relieved customers of the burden of trying to maintain complicated and expensive solutions by directly replacing them. With the acquisition of Indicative Software, Nimsoft will continue to deliver against customer expectations with a single solution for organizations both small and large, whether the customer’s need is simple device level monitoring or more sophisticated business service management for the entire IT infrastructure. “The merger brings together two complementary technologies and offers us the opportunity to draw on a broader IT service delivery portfolio to meet our future requirements. We believe that the combined resources of Nimsoft and Indicative will continue to deliver value to organizations such as ours and other enterprises,” said David Doherty, IS director of Easynet, an international networks and hosting company. “We see the Nimsoft and Indicative merger offering true power for Enterprise Customers that are reliant on IT for real-time transactions and services", said Tammy Board, vice president of infrastructure, Brown-Forman, a diversified producer and marketer of fine quality consumer products, which include brand names such as Jack Daniels, Finlandia Vodka and Korbel California Champagne. "Moving forward, we will have the ability to augment our IT systems with more service-centric monitoring features of the Nimsoft and Indicative products. The scalability and advanced features that this integration provides will only enhance our ability to maintain a focus on customer services and satisfaction.” A key strength of the Nimsoft solution is its scalability and support for heterogeneous environments, which enables customers to centrally manage both virtual and physical IT infrastructure. Already recognized by multiple industry analysts and customers for offering market leading solutions that manage the virtualized infrastructure in conjunction with the physical one, Nimsoft will continue to lead the way in delivering innovative and customer-centric solutions. Indicative Software offers complementary strengths in its service-modeling, real user response time monitoring and application analysis capabilities for J2EE and .NET based applications. Both products have been hailed by customers, product reviewers and industry analysts for their ability to drastically reduce the costs of managing data centers. "With this acquisition, the performance and availability monitoring space will never be the same. Nimsoft has built its business by delivering against customer needs and our customers wanted us to expand into BSM so they could completely replace their incumbents,” said Gary Read, president and CEO, Nimsoft. “This acquisition adds strategic technology, development resources, partners and customers to Nimsoft, enabling us to accelerate our rebellion against what we consider to be broken promises by the incumbents. They promise…..Nimsoft delivers.” Key Facts
About NimsoftNimsoft provides 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 600 customers in 30 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, Archstone Smith Communities, 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. Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2008 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Healthcare MSP Chooses Nimsoft for its End-to-End Monitoring, Service Level ManagementPTSO of Washington found few solutions measure in-depth end user experienceREDWOOD CITY, Calif. – March 31, 2008 – Nimsoft, Inc., the “Big 4” alternative for IT performance and availability monitoring solutions, today announced PTSO of Washington selected Nimsoft to ensure that its doctor and care provider clients could access their medical record and other health related applications with optimum availability and response time. PTSO of Washington, an organization that hosts, develops and delivers complex technology services to their community health center clients, chose Nimsoft because it measured total application response time right down to the end user. The ability to monitor in real time and deliver reports according to service level agreements offered PTSO a competitive advantage. “Most monitoring solutions only infer what the end user is encountering. Nimsoft was different. It was affordable and it enabled us to measure and actively monitor what our end users are experiencing,” said Roy La Croix, executive director, PTSO of Washington. “Our Community Health Center clients are the medical home for 250,000 patients. Our clients rely on us to deliver top quality IT services, their foundation for quality patient services. We chose Nimsoft, because providing the highest level of service means everything to our business.” Previously, PTSO was manually measuring the performance of the applications they hosted for their clients, but realized that a real time solution was needed to continue to meet their customers’ expectations. Using Nimsoft, PTSO plans to centrally manage multiple client locations from their application hosting facility. “The ability to measure and control your users’ experience is critical,” said Gary Read, president and CEO, Nimsoft. “Now businesses large or small have the ability to actively manage the performance of their applications according to the business requirements. Nimsoft provides a rapid return on investment and yet offers the advanced features and functionality that businesses need to be successful.” About NimsoftNimsoft is the premier provider of business-focused IT infrastructure monitoring solutions that customers can easily deploy and use. The company’s monitoring solution, Nimsoft, is used by hundreds of companies across diverse industries to manage complex networked systems to meet service level agreement targets. Nimsoft solutions combine performance and availability monitoring, advanced service level management functionality and broad platform coverage for unprecedented ease of implementation, deployment and use. Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2008 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Damovo UK Selects Nimsoft to support New Business InitiativeNimsoft chosen as best of breed solution over offerings from Big 4 vendorsLondon, UK - March 10, 2008 – Nimsoft, the “Big 4” alternative for IT performance and availability monitoring solutions, announced today that Damovo UK has selected its Nimsoft solution to underpin a new business service. Damovo UK, a leading ICT managed service provider, will shortly unveil Damovo 360, its new services portfolio, aimed at mid-market companies and will use Nimsoft’s IT monitoring solution to enable them to deliver a sophisticated IT provisioning and management service with confidence. Damovo UK were drawn by Nimsoft’s approach to supporting the managed services market and the simplicity of the Nimsoft solution. Unlike products from other vendors, Nimsoft offers a tightly integrated and scalable solution to meet the needs of the business. The modular architecture of the Nimsoft solution means that Damovo has the flexibility to provide a simple monitoring service or support a more diverse and complex IT environment with ease. The functionality and affordability of the Nimsoft solution makes it an ideal solution for MSPs to create and deliver effective remote IT management services. Approximately 135 MSPs globally rely on Nimsoft as their strategic IT monitoring solution. “The managed services market is often characterised by cost and delivery. As we unveil our new mid-market service, it is essential that we also demonstrate the added value that we offer. Our decision to implement Nimsoft will allow us to do just that. Once deployed, we expect to proactively manage both the requirements and expectations of our customers. Critically, we anticipate that this will allow us to engage a more senior audience level as executives take a closer interest in IT service delivery and its impact on their business goals,” said Glyn Owen, business development manager, Damovo UK. About Damovo UKPart of Damovo Group Ltd, Damovo UK is a leading provider of technology and service solutions in the enterprise Information Communication Technology (ICT) arena. Damovo has 30 years’ experience in delivering and supporting complex communication networks and integrated business applications. Damovo has over 600 clients and long-standing relationships with leading technology vendors in the market, such as Ericsson, Cisco Systems, Microsoft and Mitel. This heritage enables Damovo to provide organisations with the best communications solution for their requirements, through formal needs assessment, design, implementation, support and training. About NimsoftNimsoft is the premier provider of business-focused IT infrastructure monitoring solutions that customers can easily deploy and use. The company’s monitoring solution, Nimsoft, is used by hundreds of companies across diverse industries to manage complex networked systems to meet service level agreement targets. Nimsoft solutions combine performance and availability monitoring, advanced service level management functionality and broad platform coverage for unprecedented ease of implementation, deployment and use. Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2008 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Nimsoft Offers to Help Microsoft off the Hot Seat in Hotmail OutageNimsoft customers report 60 percent increase in IT problem resolution, which increases business service level reliability and customer satisfactionRedwood City, California - February 27, 2008 – Nimsoft, Inc., the leader of service level management and an independent provider of IT performance and availability monitoring solutions, today publicly extended help to Microsoft to monitor its popular Windows Live, MSN Hotmail email and other online services to prevent future service outages. Microsoft, which offers monitoring solution Systems Center Operations Manager as part of its portfolio, yesterday was unable to provide services for several hours to subscribers around the world. The media reported that users were unable to log in to various Web services due to a problem with a user authentication application. Nimsoft provides a real time monitoring solution that offers data analysis and alerting according to business service delivery. Nimsoft advanced monitoring, graphical dashboards and easy-to-use interface help customers pinpoint IT issues quickly. Nimsoft customers have reported a 60 percent increase in IT problem resolution. Newspapers reported that the service failure impacted Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Honduras, Japan, the Netherlands, and the UK, in addition to most parts of the U.S., including Microsoft's home turf in the Seattle area. Broad or global distribution is a common characteristic for many of Nimsoft’s 540 customers, who rely on the Nimsoft solution’s scalability to centrally manage across data centers. Microsoft may have capitalized on the Nimsoft solution’s end-to-end and database monitoring to alert them of application issues before it escalated to complete system failure. “When customers want to access a service and it is not available, it may have a detrimental effect on customer satisfaction,” said Gary Read, president and CEO, Nimsoft. “Nimsoft’s mission is to help ensure that our customer can deliver IT services optimally. Our product vision of zero administration continually presses us to increase automation, which helps reduce costs associated with hands-on management. We would be pleased if Microsoft accepted our help to increase service reliability for their Hotmail and other Web services.” About NimsoftNimsoft is the premier provider of business-focused IT infrastructure monitoring solutions that customers can easily deploy and use. The company’s monitoring solution, Nimsoft, is used by hundreds of companies across diverse industries to manage complex networked systems to meet service level agreement targets. Nimsoft solutions combine performance and availability monitoring, advanced service level management functionality and broad platform coverage for unprecedented ease of implementation, deployment and use. Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2008 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Nimsoft Provides New Automation for Monitoring of VMwareNimsoft Continues to Lead in Central Monitoring of Physical and Virtual InfrastructureRedwood City, California - February 26, 2008 – Nimsoft, Inc., the “Big 4” alternative for IT performance and availability monitoring solutions, today announced that Nimsoft continues to lead the industry in the real time monitoring of virtualized and physical environments. NowNimsoft for VMware delivers several new automation features that provide customers ultimate control over the performance of their VMware environments. When using Nimsoft for VMware, customers will realize significant savings from centrally managing virtual and physical IT infrastructure to actively protect the quality of business services and customer satisfaction. “The dynamic nature of virtualization brings a world of new challenges to orchestrate the entire IT infrastructure as one,” said Gary Read, president and CEO, Nimsoft. “Management of virtual infrastructure must have automated features to balance the flexibility of virtual machines. Nimsoft is dedicated to maintaining real time IT performance for business. We will continue to lead the industry in providing customers real solutions that simplify the lives of IT managers while increasing the quality of IT service delivery.” Nimsoft for VMware now triggers the VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler to migrate virtual machines based upon performance issues that impact service level agreements and other business-centric policies. Without real time visibility, IT managers were unable to evaluate the impact of the virtual machine migrations according to the end user or application experience. The IT manager may choose to be alerted via email, text message or paged when Nimsoft initiates the migration. Nimsoft for VMware’s new automation increases the IT customer’s control over virtual environments and how they impact the end user. New Automated Alerting and Reporting of VMware Event LogsEvent logs, which serve as a historical archive for processes and functions of the IT infrastructure, are often the first source of information to troubleshoot unidentifiable failures and persistent performance issues. The Nimsoft event log monitoring solution now offers automated searches according to key criteria within the VMware environment. IT managers may now quickly distill relevant information to effectively pinpoint issues related to the VMware ESX hosts, Virtual Machines and Virtual Center in addition to physical resources. This new feature for VMware will eliminate hours of non-strategic work in the day-to-day management of physical and virtual environments, which furthers the business value of VMware. Auto Discovery and Configuration of VMware EnvironmentsNimsoft for VMware now provides auto discovery of all ESX hosts, virtual machines, clusters and resource pools, part of Nimsoft’s signature zero administration feature set. Auto discovery significantly reduces time for deployment, bringing a quicker ROI for new virtualization initiatives. Nimsoft offers out-of-the box template dashboards, in addition to a design tool set that allows customers to customize the look, feel and the representation of the infrastructure to reflect their business and services. Nimsoft and Nimsoft for VMwareNimsoft for VMware strongly complements VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler, which automatically migrates virtual machines between ESX hosts according to CPU, disk and memory. Nimsoft for VMware offers central management of multiple VMware Virtual Centers and 360 degree monitoring for all levels of the VMware stack. Nimsoft as a platform analyzes collected data of more than 100 technologies against thresholds, established by business requirements, for real time alarming, predictive analysis of end user response times, performance trending reports, service level agreement compliance and business service dashboards. About NimsoftNimsoft is the premier provider of business-focused IT infrastructure monitoring solutions that customers can easily deploy and use. The company’s monitoring solution, Nimsoft, is used by hundreds of companies across diverse industries to manage complex networked systems to meet service level agreement targets. Nimsoft solutions combine performance and availability monitoring, advanced service level management functionality and broad platform coverage for unprecedented ease of implementation, deployment and use. Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2008 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Best of the Best - Nimsoft Gets Top Honors from Leading PublicationRedwood City, California - February 20, 2008 – Nimsoft, Inc., the “Big 4” alternative for IT performance and availability monitoring solutions, today announced that Network Computing, a CMP Media publication, has declared Nimsoft the “Best of the Best” among nine application performance management (APM) solutions. They noted Nimsoft was “a real leader” in service level management for its “flexible and robust SLA reporting engine” and ability to “report SLA performance granularly … which many APM tools are unable to do.” Overall, Network Computing gave Nimsoft an excellent rating for “performance, scalability, and stellar affordability” as an application performance management solution. Well known in the industry for their technical expertise in laboratory settings, CMP Media sought a group of products that located and predicted performance problems across all application components and support all facets of the application infrastructure, including system and network performance. Service modeling was another key area. They wanted to model critical application services and report on SLA compliance. They advised that solutions with agents provide the best visibility into issues at the application level. Other products reviewed were: BMC Software, Compuware, Indicative, NetIQ, NetQoS, Network General, Quest Software and Symantec. CA, IBM and HP declined to participate or could not get their software in place to meet the publication’s schedule. The article is available here (31KB PDF). About NimsoftNimsoft is the premier provider of business-focused IT infrastructure monitoring solutions that customers can easily deploy and use. The company’s monitoring solution, Nimsoft, is used by hundreds of companies across diverse industries to manage complex networked systems to meet service level agreement targets. Nimsoft solutions combine performance and availability monitoring, advanced service level management functionality and broad platform coverage for unprecedented ease of implementation, deployment and use. Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft, Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2008 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Nimsoft Exhibits Carnival Spirit at VMworld EuropeSignificant New Nimsoft for VMware Features Extend Leadership Position
London UK - February 18, 2008 – Nimsoft, the “Big 4” alternative for IT performance and availability monitoring solutions, announced today its participation at the inaugural VMworld Europe event in Cannes, France from Feb. 26 to Feb. 28. Nimsoft will showcase the new enhancements to its VMware solution and demonstrate how customers can control and centrally manage their virtualized, real-time environments more effectively in combination with their physical infrastructure. At VMworld Europe, Nimsoft will hold a reception in the spirit of the 124th annual Nice carnival, a two-week winter festival that attracts 1 million visitors and coincides with VMworld Europe. “Virtualization has taken the business world by storm as companies look to consolidate their hardware investments and lower the overall operating costs. Whether the IT infrastructure is virtualized or not, IT departments are still expected to deliver against stringent service level agreements and growing expectations. This requires the effective monitoring and management of both physical and virtualized environments. Our participation at the inaugural VMworld Europe event reflects the strong demand for a solution that can bridge the gulf between virtual and physical infrastructure and enable companies to focus on service delivery,” said Gary Read, president and CEO, Nimsoft. “VMWorld coincides with the annual Nice carnival, a host of flower parades, floats, costumes and fireworks. We’re delighted to be holding a reception to help delegates to get into the carnival spirit,” he added. About NimsoftNimsoft is the premier provider of business-focused service level management solutions that customers can easily deploy and use. The company’s Service Level Management solutions – Nimsoft – are used by hundreds of companies across diverse industries to manage complex networked systems and meet service level agreement targets. Nimsoft solutions combine advanced SLM functionality and broad platform coverage with unprecedented ease of implementation, deployment and use. Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2008 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Nimsoft President and CEO Gary Read to Join MSPAlliance Vendor Advisory BoardRedwood City, California - February 11, 2008 – Nimsoft Inc., the “Big 4” alternative for IT performance and availability monitoring solutions, today announced the MSPAlliance appointed the company’s president and CEO Gary Read to its Vendor Advisory Board. The MSPA Vendor Advisory Board will help increase the visibility of managed services worldwide and serve as an advocate for best practices. Executive board members will address and resolve vendor-specific issues related to creating technical standards, supporting the global MSP profession, and improving relationships between vendors and MSPs. Gary Read has more than 20 years experience in the high tech business. In 2002, Gary Read founded Converse Software and rapidly built a global reseller organization successfully delivering cost-effective, performance and availability monitoring solutions. In 2004, Converse Software merged with Nimsoft Software, which became Nimsoft. Previously, Read served as vice president of marketing at BMC Software and also as vice president of sales and marketing at RiverSoft. He was instrumental in RiverSoft’s successful IPO and the eventual acquisition by Micromuse. "We value the unique perspective technology vendors provide to our managed service members,” said Charles Weaver, MSPAlliance president. “As a charter member of the MSPA and a MSP platform provider, Nimsoft has demonstrated its commitment and understanding of the business needs of our community. I’m confident that Gary’s business experience and track record will provide a valuable complement to our board.” “There’s significant market growth ahead, which always spells opportunity,” said Gary Read, president and CEO, Nimsoft. “The MSPAlliance plays an important role in guiding and mentoring business service leaders who must walk the line of using ever-evolving technology solutions and providing solid service for their customers. It’s quite a challenge and I’m pleased to help the MSPAlliance with their mission.” About MSPAlliance The MSPAlliance is a global organization made up of service providers and technology enablers, who work in a collaborative effort to define, promote and educate the Managed Services Industry and the end-user consumer on the adoption and successful use of technology through Managed Services. For more information about the MSPAlliance and the Managed Services Accreditation Program please visit www.mspalliance.com. About NimsoftNimsoft is the premier provider of business-focused IT infrastructure monitoring solutions that customers can easily deploy and use. The company’s monitoring solution, Nimsoft, is used by hundreds of companies across diverse industries to manage complex networked systems to meet service level agreement targets. Nimsoft solutions combine performance and availability monitoring, advanced service level management functionality and broad platform coverage for unprecedented ease of implementation, deployment and use. Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2008 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Global Health Care Company Selects Nimsoft to Support Critical Customer Service Initiative Across EuropeNimsoft selected over HP and CALondon, UK - January 28, 2008 – Nimsoft, the “Big 4” alternative for IT performance and availability monitoring solutions, announced today that the European Supply Chain Division of a global healthcare company has adopted Nimsoft as its monitoring solution of choice for a critical customer service initiative across Europe. The customer program is linked to a Siebel customer relationship management system used by several hundred users that relies on a complex and distributed environment of servers, databases and networks that stretches from Spain to Germany. By deploying Nimsoft, the IT department is able to proactively monitor and manage any faults in real time before they turn into a financially damaging service outage. The health care company designed the project to establish a comprehensive customer care service that would centralise customer care for its entire European operations. Customer calls are routed automatically to the first-available agent, who has instant access to the customer information. In order to maintain the highest standards of service, it is essential that the IT infrastructure that underpins the customer care initiative is available and performing. The Nimsoft end-to-end monitoring solution has been successfully deployed in Spain and is part of a phased rollout across Europe to be completed in 2008. “Although our IT operations are centralised, our responsibilities stretch across all our European operations. This places unique demands on the team and our ability to respond and deal with incidents remotely. We were pleasantly surprised how easy Nimsoft was to deploy and its breadth of features and functions. Importantly, the dashboards alert us to potential and current problems no matter where they may occur. Given the emphasis we place on quality of service and end user experience, these features set Nimsoft apart from other solutions,” said a spokesperson in the IT project team. “I presented the Nimsoft E2E monitoring capabilities to the German supply team. They were so impressed that two months later they purchased Nimsoft to monitor the customer care project environment,” he added. The work undertaken by the global healthcare company’s professionals places unique and challenging demands on the IT infrastructure. Availability, performance and end user experience are paramount if vital research projects and other company operations are to continue uninterrupted, which led the global IT team members to review their application monitoring requirements over the course of 2006. HP and CA were discounted due to their complexity and cost. Nimsoft emerged as a clear front runner following further reviews and was selected as the preferred monitoring solution. “This healthcare company is a world class organization that works to exacting standards. Technology plays a critical role in the business and the availability and reliability of the IT infrastructure is paramount. For IT professionals, what they value more than anything else is simplicity amongst the complexity. Nimsoft delivers a sophisticated monitoring solution that brings all the key information together in an intuitive dashboard that they can act on in a timely manner. Combined with the range of features and low cost ownership, Nimsoft is the alternative performance management solution for today’s global organizations,” said Gary Read, president and CEO, Nimsoft. About NimsoftNimsoft is the premier provider of business-focused service level management solutions that customers can easily deploy and use. The company’s Service Level Management solutions – Nimsoft – are used by hundreds of companies across diverse industries to manage complex networked systems and meet service level agreement targets. Nimsoft solutions combine advanced SLM functionality and broad platform coverage with unprecedented ease of implementation, deployment and use. Nimsoft, Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2007 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Nimsoft Revenues Continue Meteoric Rise in Q4 and FY 2007139 brand new name customers, $29.4m in bookings, 77 percent increase in GAAP revenues and a 131 percent growth in subscription revenue highlight stunning 2007 performanceRedwood City, California - January 23, 2008 –Nimsoft, Inc., the "Big 4" alternative for IT performance and availability monitoring solutions, today announced that the companysmashed its business expectations for 2007. Total bookings for the year reached a record $29.4 million and Q4 2007 achieved a new company record at nearly $11 million. Overall, GAAP revenue grew by 77 percent for the year and deferred revenue stood at more than $16 million at the end of 2007. The company added 139 brand new name customers during 2007, bringing the total customer count to 533 in 26 countries. Customers include some of the leading companies in the world, such as Amway Corporation, Barclays Capital, Ladbrokes PLC and T-Systems, together with leading managed service providers, such as CDW Berbee, FusionStorm, Novell, Rackspace Managed Hosting and Ramesys, and a large number of medium enterprise organizations such as DeKalb Medical, Foley & Lardner and Liberty Savings Bank. Nimsoft President and CEO Gary Read said, "These results clearly demonstrate the amount of pent-up demand in the market for an enterprise management solution that delivers immediate and lasting value. Our customer satisfaction ratings are without parallel, and, every month more and more customers are turning to Nimsoft to replace incumbent and complex products from the large vendors such as BMC Software, CA, HP and IBM." "We will continue to deliver solutions that are easy to implement and easy to administer, and yet are sophisticated enough and scalable enough to meet the technical and business requirements of some of the largest companies in the world. Nimsoft is particularly proud of its record of customer satisfaction as evidenced by the maintenance renewal rate of nearly 100 percent and surveys of its entire customer base showing greater than 99 percent of customers are satisfied with the solution and the company." Other highlights for the year included:
About NimsoftNimsoft is the premier provider of business-focused IT infrastructure monitoring solutions that customers can easily deploy and use. The company’s monitoring solution, Nimsoft, is used by hundreds of companies across diverse industries to manage complex networked systems to meet service level agreement targets. Nimsoft solutions combine performance and availability monitoring, advanced SLM functionality and broad platform coverage for unprecedented ease of implementation, deployment and use. Nimsoft, Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2007 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 2007 Press Releases Nimsoft Unveils New Online Portal to drive IT Service ManagementNimsoft Enterprise Console '2.0' delivers next generation dashboard technologyRedwood City, California - December 19, 2007 – Nimsoft, Inc., the “Big 4” alternative for IT performance and availability monitoring solutions, today unveiled the Nimsoft 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. The updated dashboard designer boasts new functions, such as a drag and drop capability to create extremely complex views with ease or the ability to fully customize backgrounds by adding different color schemes quickly. As companies continue to invest in IT infrastructure initiatives, particularly in the area of virtualization, the need to regularly and clearly monitor the underlying technology becomes even more demanding. The console will dramatically underscore the value that IT delivers across the business by empowering users to easily access real time IT service delivery information from any location. Dashboards are a central element of the Nimsoft Enterprise Console 2.0 and Nimsoft is the first IT Performance and Availability Monitoring Company to develop the entire dashboards using the advanced capabilities of Macromedia Flex. The result is a stark contrast to the flat, two-dimensional dashboards commonly used. The sheer volume of information and data that needs to be monitored has begun to place a strain on static dashboards to accurately display and convey all the necessary information. By comparison, the use of graphical images in the new Nimsoft dashboard to reflect an alarm state allows users to instantly assess the changing status of the IT infrastructure. The result is a dashboard that displays a wealth of new data in a simplified and insightful fashion. The Nimsoft Enterprise Console has been designed to meet the needs and requirements of both IT professionals as well as business users. The inclusion of an extensive designer toolkit allows IT professionals to tailor the way information is organized and presented to the wider business. For busy executives, the Nimsoft Enterprise Console offers a quick and easy way to view key IT service data in a manner that resonates with them. Key information can be rapidly accessed through the Enterprise Console using any browser that supports Macromedia Flash, which has become the de-facto standard. The Enterprise Console is the first step in Nimsoft’s vision to create a truly interactive online experience that will see the addition of mash up components. “Our dashboards have always set Nimsoft apart from the competition. The inclusion of new web 2.0 dashboards simply widens this gulf. The new dashboard technology will allow users to gain an even more comprehensive insight into their IT infrastructure. There are also a range of additional features that will appeal to large enterprises and mid-market companies alike. Importantly, the dynamic views will create greater trust and transparency between the IT department and the wider business as users can easily equate system availability with end user satisfaction. The adoption of rich internet application technologies moves our dashboard offering into a new league and ensures that our customers are equipped with a workspace that provides more than just a window into their IT environment,” said Gary Read, president and CEO, Nimsoft. “Enhanced infrastructure management comes about through the subtle combination of a robust monitoring engine and an intuitive graphical display. With the latest version of Nimsoft and the investment that we have made in our new dashboards, we have delivered the necessary components to allow businesses to upgrade their infrastructure monitoring capabilities. It is another example of why more and more customers are turning their backs on the Big 4 and opting for a simple yet sophisticated monitoring solution from Nimsoft,” he added. About NimsoftNimsoft is the premier provider of business-focused service level management solutions that customers can easily deploy and use. The company’s service level management solutions – Nimsoft – are used by hundreds of companies across diverse industries to manage enterprise-class systems and meet service level agreement targets. Nimsoft solutions combine advanced SLM functionality and broad platform coverage with unprecedented ease of implementation, deployment and use. Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2007 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more informationMegan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Nimsoft Announces Winners of its Global Awards for Managed Service ProvidersGlobal Leaders were Selected by Forrester, EMA, MSP Alliance and Ziff DavisRedwood City, California - November 14, 2007 – Nimsoft, Inc., the "Big 4" alternative for IT performance and availability monitoring solutions, today announced that Alvaka Networks and Getronics were named as the platinum award recipients of the Best Practices for Managed Services awards sponsored by Nimsoft. The gold award recipients were Berbee - a CDW Company, Eurodata Systems, and SL Powers. The Best Practices Program is a global awards initiative designed to acknowledge innovation and excellence amongst managed service providers. Applicants were evaluated by an independent panel of industry experts in the areas of innovative business strategies, values and ethics, and customer satisfaction in addition to cost-effectiveness in service delivery. Platinum award winner Getronics, a subsidiary of KPN and headquartered in Amsterdam, is a leading international provider of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) services and solutions. "Getronics' mission is to enable organizations to raise their performance and increase the productivity of their people, by facilitating information sharing and working together," said Dick Boynton, vice president, Global Remote Infrastructure Services, Getronics. "Receiving this industry award re-confirms our commitment to delivering solid service and focusing on the needs of our clients’ IT environments." The judges also selected Alvaka Networks, located in Huntington Beach, California, as a platinum award recipient for its seasoned experience in managed services and success in high customer satisfaction. "We are honored to receive this award. The fact that many outstanding companies were considered for this award makes it more meaningful that we were recognized for our hard work and dedication to excellence in delivering the highest quality services to our customers," said Oli Thordarson, president and CEO of Alvaka Networks. The entries were judged independently by IT industry analyst Peter O’Neill of Forrester Research, Lisa Ericsson-Harris, research director of Enterprise Management Associates, Charles Weaver, president of the MSP Alliance and Mike Vizard, senior vice president and editorial director of Ziff Davis Media’s Enterprise Technology Group. "It is our pleasure to sponsor an industry program that recognizes the value of customer service," said Gary Read, president and CEO of Nimsoft. "The leadership that these managed service providers have demonstrated will set standards for others and for customers who want external expertise to manage their environments. We congratulate all the award recipients and thank the judges for their contributions." About the Gold Award RecipientsEurodata, established in 1990, is a privately owned independent company employing around 120 people across four locations in London and Wales. Their area of excellence focuses on the desktop, server and network space covering storage and archiving, network and end point security. SLPowers is a leading provider of computer networking services for small and medium-sized businesses in South Florida, Atlanta, and beyond. They provide comprehensive, flat-fee network management solutions designed to improve network performance and reduce operating costs. Berbee, a CDW company, is a proven partner for IT solutions, including unified communications, security, remote managed services, information worker solutions, and virtualization and optimization. Berbee's data centers deliver hosted applications, co-location, and managed services to clients nationwide. Berbee is a leading provider of technology for business and is among a handful of companies worldwide to achieve the highest level of partnership with Cisco, IBM, and Microsoft. About NimsoftNimsoft is the premier provider of business-focused service level management solutions that customers can easily deploy and use. The company’s Service Level Management solutions – Nimsoft – are used by hundreds of companies across diverse industries to manage complex networked systems and meet service level agreement targets. Nimsoft solutions combine advanced SLM functionality and broad platform coverage with unprecedented ease of implementation, deployment and use. Nimsoft, Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft, Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2007 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Nimsoft Delivers Stellar Performance According To Information WeekOn Cloud Nine, Nimsoft Soars into the Scalability Stratosphere for Large EnterprisesRedwood City, California -November 12, 2007 – Nimsoft, Inc the "Big 4" alternative for IT performance and availability monitoring solutions, announced today that the product reviewers of Information Week, a weekly print magazine that reaches 440,000 business technology professionals, has an excellent rating of Nimsoft for its "performance, scalability, and stellar affordability" as a application performance management solution. In addition, the article is available online at Network Computing, also published by CMP Media. Well known in the industry for their technical expertise in laboratory settings, CMP Media reviewed Nimsoft as part of its rolling review of application performance management solutions. Among the solutions in the rolling review are the "Big 4" (BMC Software, CA, HP, IBM) and multiple other smaller vendors. The reviewers tested the breadth of support for existing applications; how well the product detected and reported on performance problems; how well the architecture supports distributed application performance monitoring; and whether the software supported a tiered architecture with native high availability and failover capabilities. They also tested how well the solution detected true performance issues and seamless integration with the surrounding environment. The reviewers Michael Biddick and Chris Hurt acknowledged that businesses are typically forced to choose between costly enterprise-class software from big vendors or work with smaller vendors that have limited scalability as their environment grows. Nimsoft was the first APM product that they have reviewed that offered customers the enterprise class scalability and sophistication to manage the performance of applications at a cost and ease of use normally associated with point solutions. They noted that Nimsoft was far less expensive in terms of initial purchase, implementation costs and ongoing administration. In addition, they confirmed the product was easy to set up and configure. Nimsoft was the only product reviewed to date that automatically builds Web-based dashboards and reports to display collected performance data. "The Nimsoft architecture was always designed with the largest enterprises in mind, but with the simplicity that is required from mid-size businesses due to staffing limitations," said Gary Read, president and CEO, Nimsoft. "Now that our solution is approaching its fourth generation, we continue to add more sophisticated features while raising the bar on the rest of the industry for ease of use. Nimsoft is unique in its ability to deliver value irrespective of the size of the business and we are pleased that CMP Media has confirmed what our customers are telling us." The article is available online at: http://www.networkcomputing.com/channels/ [...] About NimsoftNimsoft is the premier provider of business-focused service level management solutions that customers can easily deploy and use. The company’s Service Level Management solutions – Nimsoft – are used by hundreds of companies across diverse industries to manage complex networked systems and meet service level agreement targets. Nimsoft solutions combine advanced SLM functionality and broad platform coverage with unprecedented ease of implementation, deployment and use. Service Level Management…within reach Nimsoft, Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2007 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Nimsoft Dramatically Improves Scalability for Larger EnterprisesFormer BMC, CA, HP and IBM Customers are Actively Migrating to NimsoftRedwood City, California - November 6, 2007 – Nimsoft, Inc., the "Big 4" alternative for IT performance and availability monitoring solutions, announced today that the latest release of its flagship solution, Nimsoft, now dramatically improves scalability and support for the real time measurement of high volume, high transaction IT infrastructures. As businesses build IT infrastructures for e-commerce and other Web business services, they need almost unlimited scalability of their monitoring solutions to be able to react to issues in Internet speed. Nimsoft's new product capabilities fulfill the company’s commitment to embed advanced functionality with unprecedented ease of implementation, deployment and use to a broader market. Nimsoft continues to support new technologies with features and functionality that increase the cost effectiveness of monitoring and managing the IT infrastructure. To support the requirements for high volume, high transactions for the delivery of e-commerce and other applications, Nimsoft has increased its enterprise-class solution to support up to 100,000 servers within a single Nimsoft domain and orders of magnitude more through the use of multiple domains. These new levels of performance will help ensure that the Nimsoft solution can provide critical performance monitoring information in real time for enterprises with a very large number of devices. In addition, for businesses that are drawn to the flexibility of open source platforms for their Web sites or Web-delivered services, Nimsoft now provides monitoring and management support for the infrastructure within the entire "LAMP" stack, which is comprised of the Linux operating system, Apache, MySQL database and PHP. With this new product release, Nimsoft offers customers the ability to centrally manage and monitor the world's most popular Web and J2EE application servers: JBoss, IBM WebSphere Application Server, Sybase EAServer and BEA Weblogic. The Nimsoft solution's array of business reporting offers customers predictive, historical and real time information to actively manage their Rich Internet Applications for Web services. "This latest release has been through extensive testing and verification in some of the largest and most rapidly growing environments in the world," said Gary Read, president and CEO, Nimsoft. "These organizations are among the many that are increasingly frustrated with the monitoring solutions from incumbent providers that deliver little to no ROI in many cases. With increasing frequency, Nimsoft is serving customers’ needs where other solutions could not." About NimsoftNimsoft is the premier provider of business-focused service level management solutions that customers can easily deploy and use. The company’s service level management solutions – Nimsoft – are used by hundreds of companies across diverse industries to manage enterprise-class systems and meet service level agreement targets. Nimsoft solutions combine advanced SLM functionality and broad platform coverage with unprecedented ease of implementation, deployment and use. Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2007 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Nimsoft Sets All Time Highs For Q3 RevenueA 130 percent year-over-year growth, EBITDA profitability and exceptional customer satisfaction reflect unparalleled momentumRedwood City, California - November 1, 2007 – Nimsoft, Inc., the "Big 4" alternative provider of IT performance and availability monitoring solutions, set all time highs for its Q3 financial results with sales orders reaching 130 percent year-over-year growth. The company has been consistently winning in competitions against HP, IBM, BMC and CA or replacing their expensive and complex monitoring solutions among enterprise and managed service provider customers. This quarter the company also achieved EBITDA profitability. In addition, Nimsoft gained 37 brand new customers to bring the total customer base to 496. Year to date, the company has increased its revenue growth by more than 80-percent over the same period for 2006 while growing its subscription business by 93 percent. “We are winning business on multiple fronts, concurrently,” said Gary Read, president and CEO, Nimsoft. “With the number of replacements and wins against the Big 4 incumbents growing almost daily, we are being recognized by analysts and customers as the alternative solution for performance and availability monitoring. Nimsoft is the only provider that offers ease of use and ease of administration within a scalable, reliable, lightweight solution that supports the entire IT infrastructure. Whatever the customer type, our value proposition is compelling.” Other developments in the third quarter include:
Propelled by its strong financial results and rising customer base, the company is investing heavily in accomplished professionals in research and development, product marketing, customer support and sales. Currently at 120 employees, the company is actively hiring worldwide. For more information about careers at Nimsoft, go to: http://www.nimsoft.com/company/jobs.php About NimsoftNimsoft is the premier provider of business-focused service level management solutions that customers can easily deploy and use. The company’s Service Level Management solutions – Nimsoft – are used by hundreds of companies across diverse industries to manage complex networked systems and meet service level agreement targets. Nimsoft solutions combine advanced SLM functionality and broad platform coverage with unprecedented ease of implementation, deployment and use. Service Level Management…within reach Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2007 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Global Leader in Managed Services Selects Nimsoft to Displace BMC Software® SolutionNimsoft to manage service level agreements across multiple data centers for Fortune 100 customersRedwood City, California - October 23, 2007 – Nimsoft, Inc., an emerging leader of Service Level Management (SLM) solutions, today announced that a $4 billion, global leader in integrated software and processing solutions is currently deploying and plans to standardize three of its data centers on Nimsoft’s service level management solution. This global provider selected Nimsoft for its ability to provide proactive monitoring, trend reporting and automated service level agreements. The company expects Nimsoft will immediately save hundreds of man hours and significantly lower costs in the management of business services for its Fortune 100 customers. "Sheer power and ease of use really sold me on Nimsoft’s solution. Nimsoft measures the performance of our business services according to our service level agreements across three data centers in real time,” said the chief of IT for this global service provider. “Nimsoft reporting system is so effortless that I can create a dashboard report in five minutes. With the BMC products we were using, it literally took hours. The benefits of Nimsoft meant that we could reduce our overall costs, despite having another 1 ½ years on our contract with BMC Software.” In addition to BMC Software (NYSE: BMC), this global provider was using five other software solutions to monitor and manage hundreds of various brand name servers, and several mission-critical applications, databases and operating systems. This global provider found using multiple solutions was time consuming and expensive. The IT department was unable to proactively protect the integrity of several SLAs with manual calculation using Excel spreadsheets. “Global companies are attracted to Nimsoft’s ability to provide business value and a rapid return on investment in complex and demanding IT environments,” said Gary Read, president and CEO of Nimsoft. “Nimsoft’s single architecture delivers a highly adaptable, flexible and scaleable solution that provides a “cruise control” button for the management of IT systems.” Nimsoft offers this global provider a complete solution that enables them to monitor and manage their entire IT system in real time. Nimsoft extensive data collection provides technical intelligence and ultimate control of business service delivery. Nimsoft analyzes all collected data against thresholds, established by business requirements, for real time alarming, predictive analysis of end user response times, performance trending, service level agreement compliance and business service dashboards. About NimsoftNimsoft is the premier provider of business-focused service level management solutions that customers can easily deploy and use. The company’s Service Level Management solutions – Nimsoft – are used by hundreds of companies across diverse industries to manage complex networked systems and meet service level agreement targets. Nimsoft solutions combine advanced SLM functionality and broad platform coverage with unprecedented ease of implementation, deployment and use. Nimsoft, Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2007 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Former HP Executive Tim Bisley Joins Nimsoft as Vice President of EMEABisley Drove Mercury Interactive EMEA Mid-Market Sales from $5M to $100M in Six YearsRedwood City, California - October 15, 2007 – Nimsoft, Inc., an emerging leader in Service Level Management, today announced the appointment of Tim Bisley as vice president of EMEA. Previously, Bisley was vice president EMEA of the Corporate Sales Division at HP Software, where he was responsible for developing the mid-market and support services sales organizations, a $120 million business. Bisley joined HP when the company acquired Mercury Interactive, where he successfully drove sales in the EMEA division from $5 million to $100 million in just six years. Bisley will now lead Nimsoft's EMEA sales operation with offices in the UK, Norway, Germany and Spain. He joins Nimsoft at a time when the company is experiencing explosive growth in all areas. Bisley will report to President and CEO Gary Read. "The parallels between Nimsoft and Mercury Interactive are significant. Nimsoft has already made significant impact in EMEA with an impressive number of household-name customers replacing Big 4 solutions," said Tim Bisley. "Nimsoft is taking off and clearly knows how to deliver a winning formula, as demonstrated by their powerful product offering, year-over-year revenue growth, and unparalleled customer satisfaction rates. They are fiercely committed to delivering to customers the best solution for achieving business performance." "Tim has an exceptional profile for Nimsoft. He shares our focus on the customer's business and also believes that outstanding customer satisfaction is critical to long term success," said Read. "His prior experience will be extremely valuable as we continue to expand our operations in EMEA and throughout the world." During his seven years at Mercury Interactive, Bisley designed and implemented an EMEA sales model that covered 18 countries and delivered sustained growth. He was a critical leader in building the overall business in EMEA and then the successful integration of Mercury Interactive following the acquisition by HP. This followed five-year tenure as a senior director and divisional general manager at Data General EMEA, where Bisley took on a loss making organization and turned it into the company’s most profitable business unit. He also held a number of sales and marketing positions with Zenith Data Systems, DEC and other IT companies. About NimsoftNimsoft is the premier provider of business-focused service level management solutions that customers can easily deploy and use. The company's Service Level Management solutions – Nimsoft – are used by hundreds of companies across diverse industries to manage complex networked systems and meet service level agreement targets. Nimsoft solutions combine advanced SLM functionality and broad platform coverage with unprecedented ease of implementation, deployment and use. Nimsoft, Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2007 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Nimsoft Ranks In Top 50 Fastest Growing Software CompaniesInc. Magazine Recognizes Nimsoft for Impressive 500 Percent Growth in Three YearsRedwood City, California - September 4, 2007 – Inc. magazine ranked Nimsoft, Inc., No. 49 in its list of the Top 100 Software Companies and No. 658 in its first-ever Inc. 5,000 list of the fastest-growing private companies in the country. Nimsoft’s rapid, 500-percent revenue growth in a three-year period demonstrates the worldwide market demand for a solution that helps businesses control the performance of its IT systems to protect its business services from downtime. The Inc. 5,000 is an extension of Inc. magazine’s annual Inc. 500 list. Taken as a whole, these companies represent the backbone of the U.S. economy. “The Inc. 5,000 provides the most comprehensive look ever at the most important part of the economy – the entrepreneurial part,” said Inc. 5,000 Project Manager Jim Melloan. “The expansion of the list has allowed us to tell the stories of larger, privately held companies.” Nimsoft’s enterprise-class product suite is a proactive monitoring and management solution that helps analyze and manage business applications and the entire underlying IT infrastructure to help meet business productivity, revenue goals and business requirements. Nimsoft is capitalizing on a market characterized as highly dissatisfied and reliant on the solutions of four dominant market leaders and multiple point solution providers. Since its founding in 1998, Nimsoft has been profitable and grew organically, independent of external capital funding. In Q4 of 2006, the revenues grew 110 percent from the prior year and the company added more than 120 new customers for the year. In Q1 of 2007, the company obtained its first round of $10.3 million venture capital funding. The company continues on a track of high speed, accelerated growth for 2007. The Nimsoft customer base now surpasses 450 globally. MethodologyComplete information on this year’s Inc. 5,000, can be found at www.inc.com/inc5000. The 2007 Inc. 5000 list measures revenue growth from 2003 through 2006. To qualify, companies had to be U.S.-based and privately held, independent – not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies – as of December 31, 2006, and have had at least $200,000 in revenue in 2003, and $2 million in 2006. About Inc.comInc.com, the Daily Resource for Entrepreneurs, delivers advice, tools, breaking news, and rich multi-media to help business owners and CEOs start, run, and grow their businesses more successfully. Information and advice covering virtually every business and management task, including marketing, sales, finding capital, managing people can be found at www.inc.com About NimsoftNimsoft is the premier provider of business-focused service level management solutions that customers can easily deploy and use. The company’s Service Level Management solutions – Nimsoft – are used by hundreds of companies across diverse industries to manage complex networked systems and meet service level agreement targets. Nimsoft solutions combine advanced SLM functionality and broad platform coverage with unprecedented ease of implementation, deployment and use.About Nimsoft Nimsoft, Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2007 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Application Deadline Draws Near for Nimsoft Best Practices in Managed Services AwardManaged Service Providers Worldwide Invited to Apply by August 31 DeadlineRedwood City, California - August 14, 2007 – Nimsoft Inc., an emerging leader of Service Level Management (SLM) solutions, today announced that managed service providers are invited to submit their applications for Nimsoft’s Best Practices in Managed Services Award. The Best Practices Program is a global awards initiative designed to acknowledge innovation and excellence amongst managed service providers. The entries will be judged by an independent panel of industry analysts and industry experts in the IT industry. Applicants will be evaluated in the areas of innovative business strategies, values and ethics, and customer satisfaction in addition to cost-effectiveness in service delivery. The deadline for the award submissions is August 31. The award is open to any managed service provider worldwide. An analyst from an independent IT industry analyst firm, Forrester Research, has joined Nimsoft’s judging panel. Forrester Principal Analyst Peter O’Neill will join fellow judges Lisa Ericsson-Harris, research director of Enterprise Management Associates, Charles Weaver, president of the MSP Alliance and Mike Vizard, editorial director of Ziff Davis Media’s Enterprise Technology Group. Forrester Principal Analyst Peter O’Neill has broad knowledge of the IT marketplace and a deep understanding of IT infrastructure management technologies and processes. As a judge for Nimsoft’s Best Practices Awards, he will evaluate how MSPs are balancing the high demand for remote management of IT infrastructure with the new challenges posed by customer demands for business continuity measured by stringent service level agreements. Award winners will receive gold, silver and bronze recognition at ceremonies held at Nimsoft’s N-fluence customer conferences in November. Applications and more information about Best Practices in Managed Services Awards are available now on Nimsoft’s company web site atwww.nimsoft.com/awards. About NimsoftNimsoft is the premier provider of business-focused service level management solutions that customers can easily deploy and use. The company’s Service Level Management solutions – Nimsoft – are used by hundreds of companies across diverse industries to manage complex networked systems and meet service level agreement targets. Nimsoft solutions combine advanced SLM functionality and broad platform coverage with unprecedented ease of implementation, deployment and use. Nimsoft, Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2007 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Nimsoft Continues Rapid And Unabated Revenue GrowthMultiple Customer Wins Combined with Increases in Recurring Revenue Drive Continued Dramatic GrowthRedwood City, California - August 8, 2007 – Nimsoft, Inc., an emerging leader in service level management (SLM) solutions, announced quarterly results that continue to soar. Today Nimsoft delivers incredible financial results for a product that meets the needs of a fast growing global marketplace. For Q2 2007, Nimsoft reports a 64 percent year-over-year increase and a near 100 percent increase in its recurring revenue base. Adding 33 new customers to its roster, the Nimsoft customer base now surpasses 450 globally. New customers include Central Texas College (USA), Damovo (UK), ICO (Spain), Innovative Vision Technologies (USA), Norsk Sykepleierforbund (Norway), Soka-Bau (Germany), and Swarco (Sweden). “As an experienced team in this market, we’ve seen years of customer dissatisfaction with products that failed to deliver as promised. Whether our customer is a medium business, a large enterprise or a managed service provider, our product is delivering the value they need in a flexible, lightweight and easy-to-deploy monitoring system for their entire IT infrastructure,” said Gary Read, president and CEO, Nimsoft. “Key to our growth is delivering an effective solution combined with incredible levels of support and customer satisfaction.” Nimsoft continues to grow on all fronts. The company now totals 115 employees worldwide and opened a new sales and support office in Chicago, which augments the New York City office opened last quarter. In addition, there are plans to expand its London, Silicon Valley and Oslo offices. Nimsoft also delivered ground breaking product developments in the second quarter. These products address the need of customers for all types of enterprises in maximizing existing capital resources with virtualization and developing highly available environments that cannot be compromised by failure.
About NimsoftNimsoft is the premier provider of business-focused service level management solutions that customers can easily deploy and use. The company’s Service Level Management solutions – Nimsoft – are used by hundreds of companies across diverse industries to manage complex networked systems and meet service level agreement targets. Nimsoft solutions combine advanced SLM functionality and broad platform coverage with unprecedented ease of implementation, deployment and use. Service Level Management…within reach Nimsoft, Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2007 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Nimsoft Offers Sanctuary For New Endangered Species, The Silverback MSPZero Conversion Offer Includes Donation to the World Wildlife FundLondon, UK -July 20, 2007 –In response to Dell’s announcement to acquire SilverBack Technologies, Nimsoft Inc., an emerging leader of Service Level Management (SLM) solutions, announced today a promotional offer, “Save the SilverBack MSP,” for any SilverBack Technologies partner. Effective through the end of the year, the promotion offers managed service providers a Nimsoft-equivalent solution at zero cost of conversion. It includes free training for the Nimsoft solution and, if necessary, other associated migration services. In addition, Nimsoft will donate the first month of the MSP subscription service to the World Wildlife Fund, a worldwide conservation agency that protects natural areas, plants and animals, including endangered species. “SilverBack Technologies looks like a great fit for Dell, which reaches a broad marketplace through a mainly direct sales model. I’m sure by leveraging their economies of scale, they will be able to keep prices low for the provision of commodity MSP services,” said Gary Read, CEO of Nimsoft. “However, we feel that the real business opportunity for managed service providers that don’t have the scale of Dell is moving up the food chain and offering higher value services. Customers need their MSP to manage the application according to business service levels as opposed to simple up/down server monitoring. With our transition offer, Nimsoft is allowing MSPs to get on board at no additional cost and leverage our platform for higher value and higher margin incremental services.” Nimsoft is an extensible solution that enables simple monitoring to advanced services, such as application performance and response time management. A single architecture provides MSPs a low-cost strategy to centrally manage distributed IT environments across multiple platforms. Remote and rapid deployment shortens the go-to-market time for MSPs, a sharp contrast to traditional solutions and other MSP-platforms. Nimsoft proactive monitoring and management has become a strategic solution for MSPs to pre-empt customer downtime thereby increasing customer satisfaction. Nimsoft has more than 100 MSP partners and approximately 350 enterprise customers. About NimsoftNimsoft is the premier provider of business-focused service level management solutions that customers can easily deploy and use. The company’s Service Level Management solutions – Nimsoft – are used by hundreds of companies across diverse industries to manage complex networked systems and meet service level agreement targets. Nimsoft solutions combine advanced SLM functionality and broad platform coverage with unprecedented ease of implementation, deployment and use. Nimsoft, Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2007 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 UK Maritime & Coastguard Agency Standardises on NimsoftNimsoft SLM Technology Plays Key Role in MSC Napoli Rescue Efforts in January 2007London, UK - July 12, 2007 – Nimsoft, an emerging leader in service level management, today announced that the UK Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) has adopted Nimsoft as its corporate standard for monitoring IT infrastructure and key applications across the entire organisation. The Nimsoft solution is being deployed across the agency over the course of 2007 to monitor vital communication and search and rescue systems. The move comes as the MCA prepares to complete its implementation of an EU directive that extends the UK’s vessel traffic monitoring covering over 10,500 miles of coastline, covering some of the busiest international seaways in the World such as the Dover Strait, which can see over 400 large vessel movements at any point in time. The MCA currently monitors over 1,000 Class A (vessel over 300 tonnes) vessels at any one time and manages approximately 16,000 Search and Rescue (SAR) incidents a year. The rescue, beaching and subsequent salvage of a container ship off the South West coast of England in January 2007 is a recent, high-profile incident. Sophisticated systems lie at the heart of the MCA’s ability to co-ordinate search and rescue as well as counter pollution operations, as well as enforce maritime safety policies. The MCA operates 19 Maritime Rescue CoOrdination Centres (MRCC) along the UK coastline, which house critical systems, such as the Automatic Identification System (AIS), a Navigation Warning System and an Integrated Coastguard Communication System (ICCS). The Agency’s Incident Management System (IMS) provides the mechanism to coordinate and record search and rescue events. These systems run across over 130 Windows servers at locations around the UK and are managed remotely using Nimsoft Successful search and rescue operations are anchored on the ability to bring together a huge volume of information and data, quickly and efficiently. “The management of the MSC Napoli incident, a 68,000 tonne container ship that battled 40-foot waves and 75-mph winds, illustrates that having these systems available and operational saves lives and protects the environment. Case in point, our AIS system located the position of the vessel in distress., which was central to coordinating the rescue of the 26-member crew and then, the protection of the environment by the beaching of the vessel. Nimsoft provides us with the capability to manage these systems proactively, by monitoring their availability and anticipating potential issues before they become major problems,” said Wayne Quinn, Corporate Systems (SAR) technical manager. “As we prepare to complete the implementation of this new maritime directive, AIS will soon be monitoring over 3,000 vessels within 30 miles of the UK coastline at any one point in time. Not only does Nimsoft provide the necessary tools to manage this new workload, it enables us to prioritize IT events according to their impact on our IT systems that are vital to security and our search and rescue efforts,” he added. “Nimsoft has proven that it effectively manages distributed and demanding environments with a minimum amount of effort. We deliberately designed our solution to enable customers to view system-wide health at a glance and resolve problems systematically and methodically,” said Gary Read, president and CEO, Nimsoft. “The fact that it has been adopted as a corporate standard speaks volumes about the way we have engineered a SLM solution that binds together technology, simplicity and functionality.” About the Maritime and Coastguard AgencyThe MCA implements the UK Government’s maritime safety policy, which includes co-coordinating search and rescue at sea through Her Majesty’s Coastguard, and checking that ships meet UK and international safety rules. They are responsible for preventing the loss of lives at the coast and at sea, to ensure that ships are safe, and to prevent coastal pollution. About NimsoftNimsoft is the premier provider of business-focused service level management solutions that customers can easily deploy and use. The company’s service level management solutions – Nimsoft – are used by hundreds of companies across diverse industries to manage complex networked systems and meet service level agreement targets. Nimsoft solutions combine advanced SLM functionality and broad platform coverage with unprecedented ease of implementation, deployment and use. Nimsoft, Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2007 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Nimsoft Leads Industry with Service Level Monitoring and Reporting For VMware EnvironmentsNimsoft Brings Intelligent 360 Degree Monitoring and Central Management of Multiple Virtual Centers to Maximize Business Value of VMwareRedwood City, Calif. -June 26, 2007 –Nimsoft Inc., an emerging leader of Service Level Management (SLM) solutions, today announced that Nimsoft is leading the industry by providing end- to-end, service level monitoring and reporting for VMware environments. Nimsoft’s signature in-depth and real-time reporting brings enterprise customers and managed service providers central management of multiple VMware Virtual Centers and 360 degree monitoring for all levels of the VMware stack, including hosted business applications. Nimsoft comprehensive data collection and intelligent reporting delivers clearer visibility for ongoing management and helps protect service level agreements in dynamic VMware environments. Nimsoft for VMware is available today. “While the increasing virtualization of the IT infrastructure changes many of the dynamics of IT operations, one thing remains the same,” said Cameron Haight, Research Vice President, Gartner, Inc. “The key focus for IT remains not on the independent management of physical and now these virtual infrastructure elements, but on how they contribute to the delivery of mission critical business services.” Ultimate Control with 360 Degree MonitoringNimsoft 360 degree monitoring results from deep integration with VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 and VMware VirtualCenter 2. Using Nimsoft for VMware, VMware administrators can refocus their efforts away from virtual silo management and base their management decisions on end user productivity and business services. Nimsoft analyzes all collected data against thresholds, established by business requirements, for real time alarming, predictive analysis of end user response times, performance trending reports, service level agreement compliance and business service dashboards. The plethora of data provided by Nimsoft, in excess of 80 critical health checkpoints for ESX hosts and virtual machines, helps provide administrators intelligent control of business delivery and quickly identify root causes of system disruptions. The depth of Nimsoft monitoring helps address the current visibility issues customers are experiencing with resource allocation and performance of disk, memory, CPU, system data and virtual network I/O. Nimsoft for VMware provides complete inside-out and outside-in perspectives for ultimate monitoring control in managing a real-time environment. Nimsoft effectively monitors the entire VMware ecosystem:
Central Management with Service Delivery PerspectivesManaged service providers, who often lead the virtualization trend due to the demands of serving multiple customers from a single IT system, and large enterprise businesses often establish multiple resource pools using VMware Virtual Center, a central management and resource optimization solution. Nimsoft enables administrators to centrally manage multiple VMware VirtualCenters in a single view from the Nimsoft console, maximizing the scalability and continuing to optimize VMware environments. Managed service provider Genesis Multimedia Solutions is one of the first organizations to virtualize their entire IT infrastructure. “We wanted to deliver service level reporting to demonstrate to our customers that their IT was being managed according to the needs of their business,” said Eric Miller, president, Genesis Multimedia Solutions. “Nimsoft is the only solution I could find that could centrally manage our 50 virtual machines in seven resource pools according to service level agreements. Nimsoft dashboards also provide granular perspectives such as graphing the power state of our virtual machines, free space measurements, and illustrate our active, shared, and swapped memory usage on each host. Another benefit is Nimsoft enables our customers to securely and privately access their virtual resources on a VMware ESX Server cluster.” About NimsoftNimsoft is the premier provider of business-focused service level management solutions that customers can easily deploy and use. The company’s Service Level Management solutions – Nimsoft – are used by hundreds of companies across diverse industries to manage complex networked systems and meet service level agreement targets. Nimsoft solutions combine advanced SLM functionality and broad platform coverage with unprecedented ease of implementation, deployment and use. Nimsoft, Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2007 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Nimsoft Delivers Enterprise-Class Cluster Monitoring to Microsoft Exchange EnvironmentsState Government Healthcare Agency Hails Nimsoft for Saving the Organization Tens of Thousands of Dollars and Providing New Levels of ControlRedwood City, Calif. - June 14, 2007 – Nimsoft Inc., an emerging leader of service level management (SLM) solutions, today announced the availability of a monitoring and management solution that enables customers to proactively manage multi-node cluster environments for Microsoft Exchange. Nimsoft for Microsoft Exchange Cluster extends the Nimsoft for Microsoft Exchange software suite, which now delivers four levels of in-depth intelligence and dynamic visibility for complete, proactive monitoring and management of mission-critical Microsoft environments. Nimsoft for Microsoft Exchange Cluster eases the management of service level agreements in high availability environments, delivering flexibility of ongoing management, increasing application performance for end users and lowering the costs associated with enterprise-class clustering. Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System Network Administrator Eric Royce noted that Nimsoft for Microsoft Exchange Cluster enabled him to save tens of thousands of dollars by increasing the utilization of several Dell servers that were nearing end-of-life. Nimsoft advanced monitoring features provided Royce, a Compaq and Microsoft Certified cluster administrator, the ability to simplify and automate the management of his five-node cluster environment. “Monitoring clusters can be challenging since each server may be assigned to perform either singular or multiple services, which requires your solution to transfer multiple service variables seamlessly during a failover,” said Royce. “Nimsoft for Microsoft Exchange Cluster delivers a notice for each stage of the fail over, assurance that it occurred as planned. Now, I am sure that my quality of service data is consistent across the entire cluster. The advanced features bring new levels of control and automation I never had in managing clusters with other monitoring solutions.” Nimsoft for Microsoft Exchange Cluster provides customers the ability to proactively control key system checkpoints in active/active, active/passive and N+1 clusters. Nimsoft for Microsoft Exchange Cluster establishes a system awareness of the cluster and manages the assigned services during a failover. Customers can now manage critical email functions and processes in real time and systematically evaluate the status of service level agreements in multi-node, high availability environments. “High availability environments introduce increased complexity in the management of critical business applications; however, that does not have to require a complex management solution,” said Mark Rivington, vice president of product management, Nimsoft. “Our vision is to continue to simplify our exceptional interface and offer modular functionality to help empower all businesses with service level management.” Four Levels of Complete, Proactive MonitoringIn addition to the monitoring of multi-node clusters, Nimsoft for Microsoft Exchange software suite offers three additional levels of proactive monitoring and management. All data is collected, analyzed and generated through Web-based real time alerting, performance trend reporting and service level agreement reporting.
About NimsoftNimsoft is the premier provider of business-focused service level management solutions that customers can easily deploy and use. The company’s Service Level Management solutions – Nimsoft – are used by hundreds of companies across diverse industries to manage complex networked systems and meet service level agreement targets. Nimsoft solutions combine advanced SLM functionality and broad platform coverage with unprecedented ease of implementation, deployment and use. Nimsoft, Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2007 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 CRN Recognizes Nimsoft as an Emerging Tech DynamoNimsoft Selected for its Quick TCO, Real-Time Management to Help Managed Service Providers Build Businesses in Remote Monitoring and ManagementRedwood City, Calif. - June 11, 2007 – Nimsoft Inc., an emerging leader of Service Level Management (SLM) solutions, today announced it has been selected by CRN, part of CMP’s family of Channel Solutions, as a CRN Emerging Tech vendor for its success in helping managed service providers build businesses in remote IT monitoring and management. CRN's Emerging Tech list captures companies that are delivering high margins for solution providers with innovative and easy-to-use technology that undercuts industry giants. With more than 100 managed service providers as partners, Nimsoft is rapidly becoming a vendor of choice among managed service providers (MSPs). The Nimsoft solution enables MSPs to grow their service offering from simple monitoring to advanced services, such as application performance management, which is known for larger profit margins. A single architecture provides MSPs a low-cost strategy to centrally manage distributed IT environments across multiple platforms. Remote deployment, often within hours, shortens the go-to-market time for MSPs, a sharp contrast to traditional solutions and other MSP-platforms. Nimsoft proactive monitoring and management has become a strategic solution for MSPs to pre-empt customer downtime thereby increasing customer satisfaction. Managed service providers are attracted to Nimsoft’s flexible, subscription-based pricing plan, which requires no up-front capital outlay and lowers costs associated with the transition to a new solution. In addition, MSP partners have open access to Nimsoft’s extensive, 100-strong, monitoring solutions, which support nearly any type of IT system, including VoIP and virtualization. “Successful solution providers are always looking for new and innovative partners, and the CRN Emerging Tech list provides a way for them to discover a large number of potential new partners who offer a wide range of emerging technologies,”said Heather Clancy, vice president and editor of CRN. Vendors who make the CRN Emerging Tech list must have an established solution provider program and formal guidelines for recruiting channel partners. They must demonstrate that its direct sales mix is trending down as evidenced by the company’s revenue history, a channel positive or channel neutral strategy for internal sales compensation, and not be a dominant market share player. Final selection to the Emerging Technology list was made at the discretion of the CRN editorial team after a review of the submitted information and conversations with current or targeted partners. About NimsoftNimsoft is the premier provider of business-focused service level management solutions that customers can easily deploy and use. The company’s Service Level Management solutions – Nimsoft – are used by hundreds of companies across diverse industries to manage complex networked systems and meet service level agreement targets. Nimsoft solutions combine advanced SLM functionality and broad platform coverage with unprecedented ease of implementation, deployment and use. About CRNCRN provides solution providers and technology integrators with the crucial information and analysis they need to drive their company’s sales. As an advocate for and voice of the IT channel, solution providers turn to CRN first for immediate information. Celebrating its 25th year, CRN is the most trusted source for channel professionals. CRN can be found on the web atwww.channelweb.com. Nimsoft, Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2007 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 For CRN:Dan NeelCRN / CMP Channel Group Phone: +1 516 562 7236 Nimsoft Calls for Entries for Best Practices in Managed Services AwardsEnterprise Management Associates, the MSP Alliance and Ziff Davis to serve as JudgesRedwood City, Calif. - May 31, 2007 - Nimsoft Inc., an emerging leader of Service Level Management (SLM) solutions, today announced the company is accepting entries for its excellence awards, which is a component of its year-long Best Practices Program for Managed Service Providers. The Best Practices in Managed Services Awards will recognize the achievements of managed service providers who have built a solid business providing exceptional customer service. A comprehensive review of the entries will be performed by an impartial, multidisciplinary panel of third-party jurors comprised of Lisa Ericsson-Harris, research director of Enterprise Management Associates, Mike Vizard, editorial director of Ziff Davis Media's Enterprise Technology Group, and Charles Weaver, president of the MSP Alliance. Any managed service provider who wants to test and measure their business practices against others in the industry may participate. The awards process was designed to help the program judges assess the applicant's business and also provide an opportunity for the managed service provider to scrutinize their strategy and articulate subsequent business results. "Some managed service providers have been practicing for over a decade. On the other hand, many VARs and resellers are just entering the market to help the surge of customers who need relief managing new levels of IT complexity," said Michael Vizard, editorial director of Ziff Davis Media's Enterprise Technology Group. "Nimsoft's award program will provide industry role models for those building managed services businesses." "According to our market research, the service level management marketplace is estimated to grow at a rate of 17 percent over the next five years," said Lisa Ericsson-Harris, research director, Enterprise Management Associates. "Managed service providers who have meaningful service level agreements and customer-facing reporting capabilities and dashboards will achieve more credibility through transparency needed to help increase customer's satisfaction in the marketplace. Nimsoft's knowledge of the managed service provider marketplace places them in a position of strength to sponsor an award of excellence for managed service providers." The winning entries will be judged in the areas of innovative business strategies, values and ethics, and customer satisfaction in addition to cost-effectiveness in service delivery. Winners will be recognized in ceremonies during Nimsoft's Nfluence customer conferences, which will be held throughout November in the United States, Spain, Benelux, Norway and the United Kingdom. Entries will be accepted beginning today and will close Aug. 31. Applications and more information about the Best Practices in Managed Services Awards are available now on Nimsoft's company web site at http://www.nimsoft.com/awards/. About NimsoftNimsoft is the premier provider of business-focused service level management solutions that customers can easily deploy and use. The company's Service Level Management solutions – Nimsoft – are used by hundreds of companies across diverse industries to manage complex networked systems and meet service level agreement targets. Nimsoft solutions combine advanced SLM functionality and broad platform coverage with unprecedented ease of implementation, deployment and use. Nimsoft, Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2007 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Global Printing Press Manufacturer Selects Nimsoft to Provide Advanced Service Level Management of Critical ApplicationsKoenig & Bauer deploys Nimsoft to support development of next generation printing pressesMunich – May 16, 2007 –Nimsoft Inc., an emerging leader in service level management (SLM) solutions, announced that Koenig & Bauer, a global printing press manufacturer, is implementing its Nimsoft SLM solution. The company, headquartered in Wuerzburg, Germany, will use Nimsoft to monitor the demands placed on the server infrastructure as well as manage the response time of critical line of business applications. These applications are central to the company’s ability to design and develop a new generation of printing press machines. The deployment will ensure that Koenig & Bauer can proactively manage and monitor the availability of this key line-of-business application across all four of its German factories. "We chose Nimsoft over other products because Nimsoft is a feature-rich, easy to deploy and low cost of ownership solution", says Juergen Tuffentsammer, Bereichsleiter IT (CIO) of Koenig & Bauer. "Before implementing the Nimsoft solution, we had to collect performance data manually from different sources in order to deliver the results in a graphical format for reporting purposes. This required a huge amount of effort for what should be a relatively straight forward task," says Tuffentsammer "What had formerly been a time consuming and error prone activity is now done automatically at the push of a button." End user satisfaction is an important metric for Koenig & Bauer’s IT department. The teams of production planners and engineers, based at the factories in Wuerzburg, Frankenthal, Radebeul and Trennfeld, expect all line of business applications – such as the internal ERP system or the electronic archive for construction drawings to be readily accessible. The Nimsoft solution will transform what has been a largely manual measurement process to a more automated one. Nimsoft automatically generates an alert when the thresholds of the application or system performance may be breached. Now Koenig & Bauer’s IT department will be able to compare the application and system performance data against predefined criteria and thresholds and automatically generate results into graphical reports. This will make it far easier to take a holistic view across the application and supporting infrastructure. The applications used by Koenig & Bauer are all very time and resource-intensive. Using Nimsoft, it will be possible to measure how long it takes for example to conduct an archive research for CAD construction drawings. Equally, Nimsoft will allow the company to monitor the time that it takes to initiate and complete a print job request and capture all the necessary data needed to create accurate threshold metrics. In addition, the company plans to use Nimsoft to monitor Internet and Intranet availability. "Manufacturers such as Koenig & Bauer are typical of today’s businesses that rely on business applications to collaborate among staff members across the country," said Norbert Pongratz, Country Manager Central Europe Nimsoft. "Our end-to-end response solution for SLM provides reliability and stability in demanding, distributed environments. The automated features in Nimsoft enable IT executives to reduce ongoing management costs and at the same time increase the business value of their IT infrastructure." About Koenig & Bauer Group:The Koenig & Bauer Group is one of the largest press manufacturers worldwide and has the broadest press range within the industry. The parent company is Koenig & Bauer AG (KBA) with facilities in Wuerzburg, Radebeul, Frankenthal and Trennfeld. The other core members of the Group are Maschinenfabrik KBA-Mödling AG in Mödling, near Vienna (Austria), KBA-Grafitec s.r.o. in Dobruška (Czech Republic), KBA-Metronic AG in Veitshöchheim, near Würzburg (Germany), Bauer + Kunzi GmbH in Ditzingen, near Stuttgart (also Germany), KBA-GIORI S.A. in Lausanne (Switzerland) and KBA North America Inc., Web Press Division in York, Pennsylvania (USA). KBA North America Inc., Sheetfed Division in Williston, Vermont, is our sheetfed sales and service subsidiary for the US and Canada. In addition we have sales and service outlets in the UK, France, Italy, Switzerland, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Brazil, Russia, Australia, China, Malaysia and Singapore, plus a global network of dealers. The core companies in the Group employ some 8,300 people. About NimsoftNimsoft is the premier provider of business-focused service level management solutions that customers can easily deploy and use. The company's Service Level Management solutions – Nimsoft – are used by hundreds of companies across diverse industries to manage complex networked systems and meet service level agreement targets. Nimsoft solutions combine advanced SLM functionality and broad platform coverage with unprecedented ease of implementation, deployment and use. Nimsoft, Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2007 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:United StatesMegan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 GermanyDr. Haffa & Partner Public RelationsFriederike Floth / Melanie Wallner Phone: +49 (0)89 993191-0 Email: nimsoft@haffapartner.de Nimsoft Unveils Details of UK Managed Services ProgrammeSeminars Reflect Growing Interest in Managed Services as Analyst Report Highlights European MSP Sector Could Reach €6.2billion by 2011London – May 9, 2007 – Nimsoft, an emerging leader in service level management, today unveiled details of its UK seminar program aimed at managed service providers (MSPs). Entitled 'Best Practices in Managed Services', the free seminars will be held on May 22 in London and May 24 in Birmingham. Nimsoft is hosting these events on behalf of the MSP Alliance, a worldwide association for the managed service provider industry, against a backdrop of analyst research that forecasts the European managed services market will reach €6.2 billion by 20111. Leading United Kingdom managed service providers Netstore and Ramesys will speak at the events, underscoring the importance of this evolving market. "As the managed service market continues to gather momentum across Europe, MSPs are focusing on best practices and turning to more sophisticated technology solutions to ensure that they can continue to deliver a first-class service to their clients. In an industry where success or failure is often measured by the availability of key applications and IT services, many MSPs are investing in Nimsoft's service level management solutions to provide them with a competitive edge," said Gary Read, president and CEO, Nimsoft. The UK seminars will follow the same format as the successful events that were held across the United States in April. These attracted a range of businesses eager to learn how established MSPs have built successful businesses. Charles Weaver, president of the MSP Alliance and keynote speaker, will outline key practices and trends that are driving the tremendous growth in the MSP market across Europe. Phil Naughton, head of customer services, Ramesys, and Alan Edwards, marketing director, Netstore, will detail how their businesses have evolved and the lessons they learned while building their practices. The London seminar will be held aboard HMS Belfast on May 22. The Birmingham seminar will be held at Edgbaston, home of Warwickshire Cricket Club, on May 24. These free half-day events offer delegates an opportunity to network with their peers as well as learn about practices and approaches that could help their own businesses. About NimsoftNimsoft is the premier provider of business-focused service level management solutions that customers can easily deploy and use. The company’s Service Level Management solutions – Nimsoft – are used by hundreds of companies across diverse industries to manage complex networked systems and meet service level agreement targets. Nimsoft solutions combine advanced SLM functionality and broad platform coverage with unprecedented ease of implementation, deployment and use. Nimsoft, Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2007 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. 1 Managed Services Europe’ The Broad Group, March 2006. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Nimsoft Financial Results Climb To New Record HighsSales Driven by Customers Who Want Alternatives to Expensive, Complex FrameworksRedwood City, Calif. – May 8, 2007 - Nimsoft Inc., an emerging leader in service level management (SLM) solutions, today announced another quarter of solid financial results reconfirming the continued need of business-focused service level management solutions that customers can easily afford, deploy and use effectively. In Q1 2007, new sales orders for Nimsoft increased 83 percent year over year. Recurring revenue from Nimsoft’s customer base grew 91 percent, with much of this growth attributed to existing customers and managed service providers. More than 30 new brand-name customers were added this quarter. New customers for the company included consumer cosmetics Shiseido International Corporation and managed service providers NetExpert and Insign IT. "Real-time management of your IT infrastructure should not be relegated to Fortune 500 companies with large staff and budgets," said Gary Read, president and CEO, Nimsoft. "We believe that Nimsoft's consistent, double-digit growth underscores the market-wide dissatisfaction with expensive solutions that fail to deliver on their promised value. We've designed Nimsoft to empower nearly any business with the ability to increase the efficiency of the delivery of their business services." In Q1 2007, JMI Equity and Northzone Ventures provided $10.3 million in the company's first round of venture capital funding to help the already profitable company scale to the demands of a high growth marketplace. The company also reached its 100th employee milestone and opened a sales and support office in New York City. The first quarter also brought significant product developments:
About NimsoftNimsoft is the premier provider of business-focused service level management solutions that customers can easily deploy and use. The company’s Service Level Management solutions – Nimsoft – are used by hundreds of companies across diverse industries to manage complex networked systems and meet service level agreement targets. Nimsoft solutions combine advanced SLM functionality and broad platform coverage with unprecedented ease of implementation, deployment and use. Service Level Management…within reach Nimsoft, Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2007 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Betfred picks Nimsoft for its Winning Hand in Service Level ManagementNimsoft Selected Over HP, CA and Others to Support Betfred's Growth Strategy Across UKRedwood City, California – April 9, 2007 – Nimsoft, an emerging leader in Service Level Management, today announced that Betfred, the world's largest independent bookmakers, is ahead of schedule in the roll out of its Nimsoft server monitoring and management solution across its 680 UK shops. The Nimsoft deployment will allow Betfred to proactively manage its critical line-of-business applications as part of its ongoing business strategy to provide real-time betting to its customers. Nimsoft will help ensure that the underlying IT infrastructure is available and operating at peak performance according to the requirements of its business. The deployment is expected to be completed by the end of 2007. The decision to implement Nimsoft comes as Betfred migrates to a new real-time betting transaction and risk management software. It was clear to the business that its extensive IT infrastructure had to be better monitored and managed to support the demands of a real time business. Nimsoft was selected over traditional solutions offered by HP, CA and others because it was feature-rich, easy to deploy, affordable and supported Betfred’s long-term growth plans. In addition, Nimsoft's broad infrastructure support and the responsiveness of Nimsoft’s service and support teams were key factors in Betfred's decision. "IT is the lynchpin upon which the business delivers exceptional service and value. If you consider that we deal with approximately 83,000 bets just on a Saturday, this is not an idle statement. When a bet is placed in a shop or online, the customer expects the resulting transaction to be prompt and accurate. This places huge demands on our servers and infrastructure and we need to know that it is performing within acceptable parameters," said Andy Burgess, Network Manager, Betfred. Nimsoft removes the guesswork at a stroke. We now have the capability to monitor individual servers, components and availability at a glance through the dashboard tool. Nimsoft alerts us to potential and actual problems based on parameters that we have established. The result is that we are in a far stronger position to deliver the service levels that the business expects and ensure the resources are available to support Betfred’s growth strategy," he added. "Service level management has moved up the agenda of IT departments as businesses demand more from the technology investments they have made. As IT is increasingly seen as a service by senior managers so it must be seen to deliver. Consequently, IT professionals are turning away from expensive, legacy management products and point offerings and instead focusing on solutions that help them understand and improve the end-to-end, horizontal performance of business applications and processes. Betfred’s decision to deploy Nimsoft reflects this trend and illustrates how we have made Service Level Management technology accessible, scalable and truly within reach of a wider number of organisations," said Gary Read, president and CEO of Nimsoft. Betfred's server environment currently comprises ninety per cent HP Windows servers and ten per cent Sun Solaris servers. Each Betfred shop has its own server that is linked back to the central IT department in Warrington, Cheshire. The department is responsible for managing the availability of all these servers. Nimsoft provides a dashboard tool that allows the IT administrators to review the status of these servers at a glance and create alerts based on criteria relevant to the business. The result is that the on-call IT engineer is alerted to only business-critical issues that require his immediate attention, which saves time and focuses resources. About BetfredBetfred, led by Chairman and founder Fred Done, are the world's largest independent bookmakers and the UK's biggest independent high street retailer with over 600 shops, 5,000 employees and a turnover in excess of £1.5 billion. Betfred are also the official bookmakers and gaming partner for Wembley Stadium and Manchester United. About NimsoftNimsoft is the premier provider of business-focused service level management solutions that customers can easily deploy and use. The company’s Service Level Management solutions – Nimsoft – are used by hundreds of companies across diverse industries to manage complex networked systems and meet service level agreement targets. Nimsoft solutions combine advanced SLM functionality and broad platform coverage with unprecedented ease of implementation, deployment and use. Nimsoft, Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2007 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Global Retailer and Manufacturer Selects Nimsoft to Automate the Management of Critical IT InfrastructureNimsoft Service Level Management Solution Helps Calumet Photographic Reduce the Management Costs of its Worldwide OperationsRedwood City, California – April 3, 2007 – Nimsoft, Inc. the emerging leader of service level management, announced today that Calumet Photographic, Inc., a major retailer and manufacturer of photographic solutions in Europe and the United States, has selected Nimsoft to automate the monitoring and management of their mission critical systems. Nimsoft provides Calumet an ability to proactively manage and comply with service level agreements in addition to lowering the costs of ongoing management of their worldwide IT infrastructure. According to Doug Fischer, Calumet IT manager, "Calumet strives to employ the latest technology as we continue to build our global presence. To meet our many needs, automated monitoring of our vast systems is of paramount importance. We found the best fit with Nimsoft's easy-to-implement service level management solution. Nimsoft's flexible interface has reduced the complexity and lowered the costs associated with ongoing operations." "Managing IT infrastructure according to business services has created a significant shift in customer requirements," said Gary Read, president and CEO of Nimsoft. "Large enterprises such as Calumet have discovered that Nimsoft is a scaleable solution with a single architecture that genuinely helps simplify and streamline the monitoring and management of heterogeneous enterprises. Nimsoft is truly a next-generation alternative that is replacing large and expensive traditional solutions that have long dominated global IT environments." Nimsoft enables Calumet to manage its IT infrastructure and servers in real time in a multi-vendor and platform environment. Fischer elaborated, "We operate under many platforms, including Windows, HP-UX and a variety of Linux flavors. The Nimsoft product suite allows us to manage, monitor and report on all these areas from one simple-to-use interface. On the rare occasion when services fail, we especially enjoy that the failed services are automatically restarted during off-hours. To summarize, the value that this product provides is a single-user interface we can manage, analyze and report on both our network and server infrastructures." About Calumet Photographic, Inc.Calumet Photographic is the world's leading specialty retailer for digital and analog photography equipment for professional and other serious photographers. Calumet celebrates both digital and analyst photography and is committed to supporting its customers by providing the right equipment, expert advise and unmatched customer service. The company is an authorized dealer of top brands such as Canon, Nikon, Fujifilm, Kodal, Epson, Polaroid, Ilford, Phase One, Leafe and more. Established 70 years ago, the company has 30 retail locations worldwide in the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. About NimsoftNimsoft is the premier provider of business-focused service level management solutions that customers can easily deploy and use. The company's Service Level Management solutions – Nimsoft – are used by hundreds of companies across diverse industries to manage complex networked systems and meet service level agreement targets. Nimsoft solutions combine advanced SLM functionality and broad platform coverage with unprecedented ease of implementation, deployment and use. Nimsoft, Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2007 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Nimsoft Hosts Best Practices Program for Managed Service ProvidersStrategies for Attaining a Leadership Position in a Fast Paced Market will be Featured in Executive Workshops Series, Kicking Off the Year-Long ProgramRedwood City, California – March 15, 2007 – Nimsoft Inc., an emerging leader of Service Level Management (SLM) solutions, today announced they are hosting a year-long best practices program for managed service providers to help them build and maintain a leadership position in a rapidly changing marketplace. The program will establish a forum for managed service providers to exchange practical tips and strategies in addition to developing a catalogue of reference material for the industry's use. With more than 100 customers as managed service providers, Nimsoft's solution has become a reliable and proven solution to build a business to manage critical IT infrastructure remotely according to service level agreements. Beginning in April, a series of executive workshops will kick off the year-long Best Practices Program. President of the MSP Alliance Charles Weaver and many successful managed service providers will be featured in a series of executive workshops, which will be held in nine cities across the United States and the United Kingdom. The workshops will appeal to both enterprise customers, who are considering purchasing managed services, and to service providers, who will learn how they can improve customer satisfaction and increase their profit margins. Featured MSP speakers are Alvaka Networks; Berbee; Fusion Storm; Novell; The Revere Group; Ramesys, among others. Registrations for the executive workshops are now accepted athttp://www.nimsoft.com/roadshow/ "My discussions with many Nimsoft's managed service provider customers have confirmed that Nimsoft offers a quick deployment and short ROI. Nimsoft has become a serious contender as the solution for managed service providers," said Charles Weaver, president of the MSP Alliance. "I'm pleased to contribute to a Best Practices Program designed to educate the industry on the market opportunity, relevant business issues, technical processes and achieving high customer satisfaction." In an era where today's enterprises rely on their IT infrastructures for nearly every aspect of their operations, business processes are driven by applications, and application performance is fueled by infrastructure performance. Services that provide remote and proactive monitoring are becoming essential to improve operating efficiency for thousands of customers who do not have internal expertise or want to direct their staff resources toward development or other ongoing management requirements. "The managed service market is no longer an emerging market but full of opportunity and change for those in a position to invest in customer service," said Gary Read, president and CEO of Nimsoft. "We developed the Best Practice Program so we could share the wealth of knowledge we have acquired from working directly with many leaders in managed service. Others can learn from these companies, which have set benchmarks in terms of quality of service and adapting to a fast changing market." About NimsoftNimsoft is the premier provider of business-focused service level management solutions that customers can easily deploy and use. The company's Service Level Management solutions – Nimsoft – are used by hundreds of companies across diverse industries to manage complex networked systems and meet service level agreement targets. Nimsoft solutions combine advanced SLM functionality and broad platform coverage with unprecedented ease of implementation, deployment and use. Nimsoft, Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2007 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Nimsoft Opens New Office in New York CityCompany Plans to Duplicate Success in Nation's Top Commercial HubRedwood City, California – February 28, 2007 – Nimsoft, the emerging leader of service level management, announced today its plans to build a stronger East Coast presence with the establishment of new offices in Manhattan. On the heels of a year-over-year 110% sales growth in Q4 2006 and the acquisition of 120 new customers in 2006, Nimsoft is continuing to plot its growth trajectory with the addition of a sales and support team in the Eastern region of the United States. Nimsoft will provide proactive IT infrastructure monitoring and management solutions to financial services, law firms, managed service providers and other businesses that are largely dependent on IT to deliver their business services. "Nimsoft is well known among our customers for our culture of meeting the needs of our customers. Establishing an office in New York City will enable better service for businesses located there and major areas, from Boston to Washington D.C.," said Gary Read, president and CEO, Nimsoft. "Our solution is rapidly gaining a reputation for its simple but highly effective design that provides customers an automated monitoring solution that aligns the management of IT with the requirements of business services. We believe that the East Coast will yield the same customer needs for a sophisticated solution that does not require specialized staff." The new offices are located near Grand Central Station at 780 Third Ave., 23rd Floor, New York, New York, 10017. Throughout the year in 2006, the company expanded its operational infrastructure. The company grew its worldwide headcount by 50 percent, moved to larger headquarters in the United States and expanded its offices in the United Kingdom and Norway. It also established Nimsoft GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary in Germany. Nimsoft also has an office location in Spain. About NimsoftNimsoft is the premier provider of business-focused service level management solutions that customers can easily deploy and use. The company’s Service Level Management solutions – Nimsoft – are used by hundreds of companies across diverse industries to manage complex networked systems and meet service level agreement targets. Nimsoft solutions combine advanced SLM functionality and broad platform coverage with unprecedented ease of implementation, deployment and use. Nimsoft, Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2007 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Nimsoft Announces Immediate Availability of Winter '07 ReleaseNew capabilities continue to deliver ease of use with advanced functionalityRedwood City, California – February 12, 2007 – Nimsoft Inc., an emerging leader in service level management (SLM) solutions, today announced a significant new release of Nimsoft, an end-to-end monitoring and management solution that manages critical IT infrastructure in real time. No Touch Nimsoft and Multi-Tenant Nimsoft are part of a package of new enhancements that are being released as the Nimsoft Winter '07 version. Both areas are designed to help customers gain immediate value in providing business and technical reporting to align their IT infrastructures to business services. These new product capabilities fulfill the company's commitment to delivering true service-level management solutions to a broader market, by embedding advanced functionality with unprecedented ease of implementation, deployment and use. "IT service delivery has moved into the spotlight because the business world is now entirely dependent on technology," writes Jean Pierre Garbani, analyst, Forrester Research in the October 2006 report entitled, IT Operations And Systems Management: The Next Five Years. "Because operability and manageability of infrastructure components have made little progress in the past 15 years, we see IT operations now moving quickly in the direction of improved processes and purchasing advanced technologies that automate infrastructure management and analyze overall service behavior." No Touch Nimsoft delivers on the next stage of the Nimsoft vision of having a completely zero administration SLM solution. Now, Nimsoft will automatically discover IT infrastructure components, deploy pre-configured monitoring and automatically populate a series of real-time dashboard views and historical reports. "Our product has already established a reputation for its simple but effective approach to proactive management," said Mark Rivington, vice president of technology, Nimsoft. "These new capabilities continue to bring new levels of value by providing easier entry to the business of managing IT infrastructure. Once the customer has deployed No Touch Nimsoft, they have the option of adding Nimsoft' advanced functionalities and leveraging our graphic-rich dashboard gallery to customize their views according to their environment and business needs." Managed service providers and large enterprises with branch offices or business units will benefit from Multi-Tenant Nimsoft, which enables data center staff members to generate on demand customer or business specific information from the Nimsoft Enterprise Console. In conjunction with the Nimsoft Enterprise Console, which manages multiple environments from a central location, Multi-Tenant Nimsoft provides IT staff the ability to view and generate two types of reports: Service level reports that indicate the health of business service delivery and customer-facing reports that provide historical, trending and forecasting information at either the business level or technical levels. Multi-Tenant Nimsoft generates greater value from their investment as it effectively segments the proactive servicing of multiple environments from a single solution. About NimsoftNimsoft is the premier provider of business-focused service level management solutions that customers can easily deploy and use. The company's Service Level Management solutions – Nimsoft – are used by hundreds of companies across diverse industries to manage complex networked systems and meet service level agreement targets. Nimsoft solutions combine advanced SLM functionality and broad platform coverage with unprecedented ease of implementation, deployment and use. Nimsoft, Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2007 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Nimsoft New Orders SkyrocketCompany Surpasses $15 Million in Annual Revenues; License Sales for Nimsoft’s Proactive Service Level Monitoring Solution Climbed 110 Percent in Q4 2006Redwood City, California – February 6, 2007 –Nimsoft Inc., an emerging leader in service level management (SLM) solutions, today announced that the company experienced dramatic sales growth of 110 percent in Q4 2006 when compared to Q4 2005. Total license orders for the financial year 2006 exceeded $15 million and, overall, the company added more than 120 new customers for the year. The addition of existing maintenance renewals contributed to a year-end revenue backlog of more than $7 million, an increase of 130 percent year over year. In 2006, the company began building out its infrastructure to prepare for high growth. The company hired sales executives to manage EMEA and the Americas in addition to a chief financial officer to supervise the financial aspects of a controlled expansion. On an operations level, the company expanded its worldwide headcount by 50 percent, moved to larger headquarters in the United States and expanded its offices in the United Kingdom and Norway. It also commenced successful operations in Germany through the establishment of the Nimsoft GmbH wholly owned subsidiary. Last month, the financial community underscored its confidence in Nimsoft's business model when JMI Equity and Northzone Ventures provided $10.3 million in its first round of venture capital funding. "Our impressive growth is directly in line with the needs of customers who are faced with conflicting pressures to lower costs while managing IT environments that are increasingly more complex," said Gary Read, president and CEO, Nimsoft. "Our solution is appealing both to enterprise customers from all industries and to managed service providers many of whom are building businesses based upon our product. Our strength lies in offering a comprehensive, easily usable and quickly installable, end-to-end solution that brings service level monitoring within reach." About NimsoftNimsoft is the premier provider of business-focused service level management solutions that customers can easily deploy and use. The company’s Service Level Management solutions – Nimsoft – are used by hundreds of companies across diverse industries to manage complex networked systems and meet service level agreement targets. Nimsoft solutions combine advanced SLM functionality and broad platform coverage with unprecedented ease of implementation, deployment and use. Service Level Management…within reach. Nimsoft, Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2007 Nimsoft Inc. All rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Nimsoft Brings Real-Time Service Level Management to Microsoft EnvironmentsBroadened Nimsoft Suite Offers In-Depth Intelligence, New Control to Microsoft Windows, Exchange, Active Directory, IIS and SQL Server ApplicationsRedwood City, California – January 29, 2007 –Nimsoft Inc., a leading provider of service level management solutions, announced today that it has broadened its software suite to provide new levels of in-depth intelligence and dynamic visibility into the end-to-end monitoring and management of mission-critical Microsoft applications. Nimsoft for Microsoft Applications brings customers proactive monitoring and reporting to help them comply with service level agreements for business services. Nimsoft for Microsoft Applications is available today. Nimsoft for Microsoft Applications is the most complete and comprehensive approach to managing and monitoring strategic Microsoft applications in real time. The Nimsoft suite brings significant new management capabilities that enable more granular control of strategic Microsoft applications, from distributed directory services and database software to messaging and collaboration software. Far beyond the industry standard of simple log monitoring, the Nimsoft suite is capable of performance measurements of critical application functions to help customers identify specific trouble spots in addition to broader views of application availability and standards of service. "We have completely deployed Nimsoft's new service level management solutions across our Microsoft environment," said Patrick Richert, network engineer for Foley & Lardner LLP, which was ranked among the top 200 of InformationWeek's Top 500 most innovative information technology organizations. "We have been frankly astounded by how much information we have been gathering using the Nimsoft solution, which is giving us greater control over customer-facing systems and Microsoft applications." "The new Nimsoft suite will help any enterprise customer who needs to centrally manage their entire Microsoft infrastructure and improve application performance," said Gary Read, Nimsoft President and CEO. "Nimsoft continues to deliver a robust feature-set that is far more pragmatic, scaleable and effective for end-to-end service level management." Nimsoft for Microsoft Applications provides customers a complete, 360-degree view of business services for the entire IT infrastructure. All Nimsoft information is correlated to business service dashboards and measured against pre-defined service level agreements to warn customers against conditions that threaten service level agreements. Nimsoft for Windows ServerNimsoft monitors, collects and analyzes performance of core Windows server components and delivers them in real-time dashboards, performance trend reports and service level agreement compliance reports. Nimsoft for Microsoft Active DirectoryNimsoft offers in-depth management of critical software functions such as read/write performance, replication reliability and replication performance in distributed environments. The ability to monitor and manage the replication of updates ensures the latest information is available to business users. Nimsoft for Microsoft ExchangeNimsoft provides dynamic visibility into the number and size of emails being sent by an organization as well as resource consequences, such as bandwidth and disk space utilization. Nimsoft can improve backup and restore times for Exchange, reducing significant legal, privacy and security exposures. Nimsoft for Microsoft Internet Information ServicesNimsoft scales from a single server instance to multiple servers distributed across geographies. In addition to monitoring Web response times and pinpointing hanging scripts and resources, Nimsoft monitors a full range of statistics to ensure the health and performance of all server subsystems and processes. Nimsoft for Microsoft SQL ServerNimsoft monitors the internal performance and space allocation throughout the SQL Server database to ensure peak performance and availability, even in distributed environments. About NimsoftNimsoft is the premier provider of business-focused service level management solutions that customers can easily deploy and use. The company's Service Level Management solutions – Nimsoft – are used by hundreds of companies across diverse industries to manage complex networked systems and meet service level agreement targets. Nimsoft solutions combine advanced SLM functionality and broad platform coverage with unprecedented ease of implementation, deployment and use. Nimsoft, Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2007 Nimsoft Inc. All rights reserved. For more information:Megan BucksNimsoft, Inc Phone: +1 415 601 3632 Nimsoft Announces $10.3 Million in Venture Capital FundingProfitable company joins with lead investors JMI Equity and Northzone Ventures to maintain momentum in high growth, service level management marketRedwood City, California – January 10, 2007 – Nimsoft, a leading provider of service level management solutions, today announced that the company has secured $10.3 million in funding from JMI Equity and Northzone Ventures. Nimsoft, established in 1998 and profitable since its founding, has never received any external investment capital and has grown organically to more than 400 customers. The capital investment will fund an expansion of the company's worldwide sales and marketing outreach and will further develop its product offerings, which help customers manage critical IT resources and application performance. For the past three years, Nimsoft has consistently grown revenues in the high double digits, evidence of market acceptance of Nimsoft's low cost, easy-to-deploy solutions. Lead investors Peter Arrowsmith of JMI Equity and Torleif Ahlsand of Northzone Ventures will join Nimsoft's board of directors. Both venture capital firms have helped lead growing infrastructure software companies into successful, industry-leading businesses. "Under the strong leadership of Gary Read and his team, Nimsoft's solutions are the most comprehensive in its class," said Peter Arrowsmith, general partner of JMI Equity. "Nimsoft is bringing the power of enterprise-class, service level management to both medium and large-sized enterprises in addition to building a rapidly expanding business with managed service providers. Overall, our due diligence revealed a customer base that was ecstatic about Nimsoft’s customer service and hailed them as the leader in a new wave of vendors in this market." Torleif Ahlsand of Northzone Ventures added, "Nimsoft has built successful operations in both the United States and Europe, which is impressive for this early stage of a growth company. We look forward to working with Nimsoft and helping them further expand into their core markets and building operations in new markets." "Our commitment to our customers and our solid end-to-end monitoring and application performance solutions put us in a position of strength for the future," said Gary Read, president and CEO of Nimsoft. "Joining with JMI Equity and Northzone Ventures reinforces our vision that aligning IT infrastructures to business objectives is tangible and measurable. Customers have confirmed that Nimsoft’s in-depth analysis of the performance of IT infrastructure is a compelling asset for both business and technical evaluations." Nimsoft's product, Nimsoft, offers a line of real-time, service level management solutions that provide the breadth of large enterprise management solutions without the associated expense and complexity. Its scalable and reliable monitoring capabilities proactively manage critical IT resources, such as servers, applications, databases and network services and devices, in the most demanding of IT environments. Unlike traditional solutions, Nimsoft can be deployed within a matter of days and it costs a fraction of traditional solutions. About JMI EquityJMI Equity, based in Baltimore and San Diego, is a private equity firm exclusively focused on providing growth capital to software and service companies. Founded in 1992, JMI has invested in more than 75 companies throughout North America and has approximately $700 million of capital under management. In addition to providing the first institutional capital to self-funded companies, JMI also invests in selected recapitalization and management buyout financings. Representative investments include Blackbaud, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLKB), DoubleClick, Inc., Jackson Hewitt, Inc. (NYSE: JTX), Mission Critical Software, Inc. (acquired by NetIQ, Inc. (Nasdaq: NTIQ)), NEON Systems, Inc. (acquired by Progress Software Corporation (Nasdaq: PRGS)), Transaction Systems Architects, Inc. (Nasdaq: TSAI) and Unica Corporation (Nasdaq: UNCA). For more information on JMI Equity, visit www.jmiequity.com. About Northzone VenturesNorthzone Ventures has backed early stage Nordic technology winners since its inception in 1994. Northzone has nine General Partners based in Stockholm, Oslo and Copenhagen, and has over four funds invested in close to 50 companies. Northzone V was raised in April 2006 with €175 million from top-tier European institutional investors. Present and past portfolio companies include Funcom (OSE: FUNCOM), Lastminute (acquired by Travelocity, Inc.), Mamut (OSE: MAMUT), Nextgentel (acquired by TeliaSonera), Pricerunner (acquired by Valueclick, Inc.), Stepstone (OSE: STP) and Trolltech (OSE: TROLL). For more information please visit www.northzone.com. About NimsoftNimsoft is the premier provider of business-focused service level management solutions that customers can easily deploy and use. The company’s Service Level Management solutions – Nimsoft – are used by hundreds of companies across diverse industries to manage complex networked systems and meet service level agreement targets. Nimsoft solutions combine advanced SLM functionality and broad platform coverage with unprecedented ease of implementation, deployment and use. Nimsoft, Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
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