Nov, 2009 : Nimsoft Launches Unified Monitoring Alliance

📅 November 11, 2009 - The company introduces alliance program to support industry's first Unified Monitoring solution.

Nimsoft, the first provider of Unified Monitoring solutions, yesterday announced the launch of the Nimsoft Unified Monitoring Alliance as well as its charter members. The company states that the alliance is composed of leading managed and hosted service providers, cloud and SaaS providers, and ISV development partners that support the Nimsoft Unified Monitoring initiative announced last month. It further states that Nimsoft Unified Monitoring is redefining the IT monitoring solutions market by providing today's enterprise with a total, unified view of both internal and external IT resources. The company avers that alliance members contribute to the Unified Monitoring technology ecosystem - now estimated to be over $500 million globally - by enhancing its solution through product and service enhancements and extensions.

It avers that Nimsoft Unified Monitoring Alliance partners fall into three categories: service providers, solution partners, and technology development partners:

• Service Provider Partners - Members of this group deliver managed, hosted, cloud-based, and other related services that are monitored using the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS)

• Solution Partners - These ISVs and SaaS providers extend the Nimsoft solution by providing complementary IT service management solutions and capabilities such as net-flow traffic capture, service desk, and IT infrastructure library configuration management databases

• Technology Development Partners - These partners are building data collection probes to extend the myriad of types of objects NMS monitors, from non-standard databases to ERP applications to geo-location-based devices

"We are excited to announce the launch of the Nimsoft Unified Monitoring Alliance as a part of our vision to define a new class of IT monitoring solutions. Tomorrow's business applications will reside on infrastructure from the internal datacenter to the cloud. Managing this requires cooperation among partners to deliver enterprises complete solutions across their internal and external assets," said Nimsoft President and CEO Gary Read.

"The alliance not only expands opportunities for growth and collaborative innovation for our partners, but also effectively increases the breadth and depth of the systems monitoring and management solutions that Nimsoft offers to its customers. We expect the ability to co-market complementary third-party solutions and promote service providers that are powered by Nimsoft will accelerate the growth of our global ecosystem to multi-billions of dollars over the next two to three years."

"InTeliNet is pleased to join the Nimsoft Unified Monitoring Alliance," stated Lars Soraas, Chief Technology Officer, InTeliNet. "We look forward to working with Nimsoft to create tightly integrated and complementary solutions to address customers' communications and network management needs."

"Many enterprises need the ability to seamlessly monitor their cloud servers alongside their dedicated servers," said Emil Sayegh, General Manager, Rackspace Cloud. "The Nimsoft Monitoring Solution, now listed on Rackspace Cloud Tools, enables this and allows customers to understand the performance and availability of business applications that live in datacenters, the Rackspace Cloud and hybrids of the two."