Nimsoft
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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.
, 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
.
In January 2007, the company closed a 10.3 million Series A round of funding from JMI Equity
and Northzone Ventures.
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.
In May 2008, Nimsoft wins "Best Place to Work Award" sponsored by San Francisco Business Times
In October 2008, the company closed a $12 million funding round led by Goldman Sachs
.
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.
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.
In March 2010, Nimsoft was acquired by CA Inc.
for $350 million.
In May 2010, Nimsoft was recognized as one of the "Hottest Silicon Valley Companies" by Lead411.
In September 2010, Nimsoft extended its monitoring coverage with a comprehensive solution for Vblock.
In April 2011, Nimsoft launches Nimsoft Unified Manager, a single solution combining IT monitoring and service management.
Nimsoft Unified Manager, a solution that features monitoring and service desk capabilities.
Nimsoft Monitor, which offers monitoring coverage of the following areas:
Nimsoft Service Desk, which offers the following capabilities:
Information technology
Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...
(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
Software as a Service
Software as a service , sometimes referred to as "on-demand software," is a software delivery model in which software and its associated data are hosted centrally and are typically accessed by users using a thin client, normally using a web browser over the Internet.SaaS has become a common...
(SaaS) and cloud computing
Cloud computing
Cloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices as a utility over a network ....
environments.
History
Nimbus Software was founded in OsloOslo
Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...
, Norway
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
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
Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley is a term which refers to the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California in the United States. The region is home to many of the world's largest technology corporations...
.
In January 2007, the company closed a 10.3 million Series A round of funding from JMI Equity
JMI Equity
JMI Equity is a growth equity firm focused on investing in leading software, internet, business services and healthcare IT companies. JMI provides capital for growth, recapitalizations, acquisitions and buyouts. Founded in 1992, JMI has invested in more than 100 companies throughout North...
and Northzone Ventures.
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.
In May 2008, Nimsoft wins "Best Place to Work Award" sponsored by San Francisco Business Times
Business Times
The Business Times, also known as the BT, is the name of two financial newspapers published in South-east Asia:*Business Times *Business Times...
In October 2008, the company closed a $12 million funding round led by Goldman Sachs
Goldman Sachs
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is an American multinational bulge bracket investment banking and securities firm that engages in global investment banking, securities, investment management, and other financial services primarily with institutional clients...
.
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
Root cause analysis
Root cause analysis is a class of problem solving methods aimed at identifying the root causes of problems or events.Root Cause Analysis is any structured approach to identifying the factors that resulted in the nature, the magnitude, the location, and the timing of the harmful outcomes of one...
(RCA) utilizing graph theory
Graph theory
In mathematics and computer science, graph theory is the study of graphs, mathematical structures used to model pairwise relations between objects from a certain collection. A "graph" in this context refers to a collection of vertices or 'nodes' and a collection of edges that connect pairs of...
methods.
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.
In March 2010, Nimsoft was acquired by CA Inc.
CA Inc.
CA Technologies , formerly CA, Inc. and Computer Associates, Inc., is a Fortune 500 company and one of the largest independent software corporations in the world...
for $350 million.
In May 2010, Nimsoft was recognized as one of the "Hottest Silicon Valley Companies" by Lead411.
In September 2010, Nimsoft extended its monitoring coverage with a comprehensive solution for Vblock.
In April 2011, Nimsoft launches Nimsoft Unified Manager, a single solution combining IT monitoring and service management.
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 ExchangeMicrosoft Exchange ServerMicrosoft Exchange Server is the server side of a client–server, collaborative application product developed by Microsoft. It is part of the Microsoft Servers line of server products and is used by enterprises using Microsoft infrastructure products...
, Active Directory, Sharepoint, and IIS; IBM Lotus Notes; VoIP; Citrix; IBM WebSphereIBM WebSphereIBM WebSphere refers to a brand of computer software products in the genre of enterprise software known as "application and integration middleware". These software products are used by end-users to create applications and integrate applications with other applications...
; Apache TomcatApache TomcatApache Tomcat is an open source web server and servlet container developed by the Apache Software Foundation...
; and many others. - Cloud: Private clouds and public clouds, including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a ServicePlatform as a servicePlatform as a service is a category of cloud computing services that provide a computing platform and a solution stack as a service...
(PaaS), and Software as a ServiceSoftware as a ServiceSoftware as a service , sometimes referred to as "on-demand software," is a software delivery model in which software and its associated data are hosted centrally and are typically accessed by users using a thin client, normally using a web browser over the Internet.SaaS has become a common...
(SaaS). - Databases: OracleOracle DatabaseThe Oracle Database is an object-relational database management system produced and marketed by Oracle Corporation....
, Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase, MySQLMySQLMySQL officially, but also commonly "My Sequel") is a relational database management system that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. It is named after developer Michael Widenius' daughter, My...
, DB2IBM DB2The IBM DB2 Enterprise Server Edition is a relational model database server developed by IBM. It primarily runs on Unix , Linux, IBM i , z/OS and Windows servers. DB2 also powers the different IBM InfoSphere Warehouse editions...
, Informix, and more. - Networks: CiscoCiscoCisco may refer to:Companies:*Cisco Systems, a computer networking company* Certis CISCO, corporatised entity of the former Commercial and Industrial Security Corporation in Singapore...
IP SLA and NBAR; DNSDomain name systemThe Domain Name System is a hierarchical distributed naming system for computers, services, or any resource connected to the Internet or a private network. It associates various information with domain names assigned to each of the participating entities...
, DHCP, and LDAP; SNMP; routers and switches; and traffic. - Server Operating Systems: IBM iSeries AS400, Novell NetwareNovell NetWareNetWare is a network operating system developed by Novell, Inc. It initially used cooperative multitasking to run various services on a personal computer, with network protocols based on the archetypal Xerox Network Systems stack....
, LinuxLinuxLinux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...
, Microsoft WindowsMicrosoft WindowsMicrosoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
, and UNIXUnixUnix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna...
(Solaris, HPUX, AIX) - Storage: NetApp as well as EMC Celerra, CLARiiON, and Symmetrix VMAX.
- VirtualizationHardware virtualizationComputer hardware virtualization is the virtualization of computers or operating systems. It hides the physical characteristics of a computing platform from users, instead showing another abstract computing platform...
platforms: VMwareVMwareVMware, Inc. is a company providing virtualization software founded in 1998 and based in Palo Alto, California, USA. The company was acquired by EMC Corporation in 2004, and operates as a separate software subsidiary ....
, 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