SunGard Availability Services Selects Nimsoft Monitoring Solution

CAMPBELL, Calif., Dec. 10, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- 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 Services

SunGard 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 SunGard

SunGard 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

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About Nimsoft

Nimsoft 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.

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