- Nimsoft
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Nimsoft Type public company (part of CA Technologies) Industry IT Management Founded 1998 Headquarters Campbell, California, United States of America Key people - Christopher O’Malley, CEO
- Gordon Daugherty, COO
- Jamie Dudley, VP WW Sales
- Mark Frost, General Manager
- Lokesh Jindal, Sr. VP Strategy and Business Development
- Mark Rivington, VP Technology
Website http://www.nimsoft.com Nimsoft is a software vendor that offers information technology (IT) monitoring and service desk solutions.
The company’s products are used to monitor and manage business services and specific systems within the IT infrastructure, including network components, servers, databases, applications, and virtualized environments.
With Nimsoft products, customers can monitor systems hosted in internal datacenters, as well as in externally hosted environments, including Software as a Service (SaaS) and cloud computing environments.[1]
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History
Nimbus Software was founded in Oslo, Norway in 1998.
In 2004, Nimbus Software merged with its US distributor and changed its name to Nimsoft. Gary Read, the founder of the US distributor, was appointed CEO and the new company’s headquarters were established in Silicon Valley.[2]
In January 2007, the company closed a 10.3 million Series A round of funding from JMI Equity and Northzone Ventures.[3]
In April 2008, Nimsoft acquired Indicative Software to extend its solutions into business service management and established a new research and development base in Fort Collins, CO to augment the existing R&D capabilities in Oslo, Norway.[4]
In May 2008, Nimsoft wins "Best Place to Work Award" sponsored by San Francisco Business Times[5]
In October 2008, the company closed a $12 million funding round led by Goldman Sachs.[6]
In May 2009, Nimsoft acquired the intellectual property assets of Cittio to extend its product capabilities in the areas of layer 2/3 network discovery, topology mapping, and root cause analysis (RCA) utilizing graph theory methods.[7]
In October 2009, Nimsoft announced its Unified Monitoring architecture, which extends the Nimsoft solution set to monitor externally hosted systems and services, including SaaS and cloud computing based IT infrastructures.[8]
In March 2010, Nimsoft was acquired by CA Inc. for $350 million.[9]
In May 2010, Nimsoft was recognized as one of the "Hottest Silicon Valley Companies" by Lead411.[10]
In September 2010, Nimsoft extended its monitoring coverage with a comprehensive solution for Vblock.[11]
In April 2011, Nimsoft launches Nimsoft Unified Manager, a single solution combining IT monitoring and service management.[12]
Items & Services
Nimsoft offers the following solutions:
Nimsoft Unified Manager, a solution that features monitoring and service desk capabilities.
- Unified Management Portal
- Unified Reporter
Nimsoft Monitor, which offers monitoring coverage of the following areas:
- Applications: Microsoft Exchange, Active Directory, Sharepoint, and IIS; IBM Lotus Notes; VoIP; Citrix; IBM WebSphere; Apache Tomcat; and many others.
- Cloud: Private clouds and public clouds, including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS).
- Databases: Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase, MySQL, DB2, Informix, and more.
- Networks: Cisco IP SLA and NBAR; DNS, DHCP, and LDAP; SNMP; routers and switches; and traffic.
- Server Operating Systems: IBM iSeries AS400, Novell Netware, Linux, Microsoft Windows, and UNIX (Solaris, HPUX, AIX)
- Storage: NetApp as well as EMC Celerra, CLARiiON, and Symmetrix VMAX.
- Virtualization platforms: VMware, Microsoft, Citrix, IBM, and Sun Microsystems.
Nimsoft Service Desk, which offers the following capabilities:
- Service Desk
- Service Catalog & Request
- Incident Management
- Problem Management
- Service Level Management
- Change Management
- Configuration Management
- Knowledge Management
References
- ^ Denise Dubie , Network World. “Managing IT assets where they live: Nimsoft extends monitoring capabilities beyond data center to cloud computing environments, SaaS provided apps.” October 21, 2009.
- ^ Tony C. Yang, San Francisco Business Times. "Keeping an eye on IT." May 30, 2008.
- ^ Denise Dubie, Network World. "Goldman Sachs leads $12 million investment in Nimsoft." October 7, 2008.
- ^ Denise Dubie, Network World. "Nimsoft, Indicative join forces to take on the Big Four". April 9, 2008.
- ^ Nimsoft Wins "Best Place to Work Award", Sponsored by San Francisco Business Times
- ^ Denise Dubie, Network World. "Goldman Sachs leads $12 million investment in Nimsoft." October 7, 2008.
- ^ Ellen Messmer, Network World. "Nimsoft acquires the assets of Cittio". May 19, 2009.
- ^ Denise Dubie, Network World. “Managing IT assets where they live: Nimsoft extends monitoring capabilities beyond data center to cloud computing environments, SaaS provided apps.” October 21, 2009.
- ^ Charles Babcock, InformationWeek, "CA to buy Nimsoft for USD 350 million", March 11, 2010.
- ^ Lead411 launches "Hottest Silicon Valley Companies" awards
- ^ Beth Schultz, Network World, "Nimsoft delivers integrated monitoring for Vblock units", September 28, 2010.
- ^ John Rath, Data Center Knowledge, "Nimsoft Broadens Offerings With Unified Manager", April 6th, 2011.
External links
Categories:- Network management
- Network analyzers
- System administration
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