Nimsoft On Demand Delivers Unified Monitoring via Full-Featured SaaS Solution

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., April 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- 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:

• Scale IT monitoring to keep pace with internal and external IT resource expansion
• Quickly gain benefits via a rapidly deployable SaaS model
• Help reduce costs associated with IT monitoring
• Help enable the performance and availability of mission-critical business services and applications

"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." 

— Dennis Callaghan, senior enterprise software analyst at The 451 Group

"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."

— Jeffrey M. Kaplan, managing director of THINKstrategies and founder of the SaaS Showplace

"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."

— Bojan Simic, principal analyst, TRAC Research

"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."

— Jason Beal, director of services sales for Ingram Micro North America

About Nimsoft

Nimsoft 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. Nimsoft is a business unit within the CA Cloud Products & Solutions Business Line.

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