Nimsoft was an independent company
software
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vendor that offered
information technology
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(IT) monitoring and service desk products and services. It was acquired by
CA Inc. in 2010, and since October 2012 its products were integrated into that business. The Nimsoft brand is still used by CA.
Nimsoft products monitor and manage business services and specific systems within the
IT infrastructure
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, including network components, servers, databases, applications, and virtualized environments.
With Nimsoft products, customers can monitor systems hosted in internal
data centers
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, as well as in externally hosted environments, including
software as a service
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SaaS is co ...
(SaaS) and
cloud computing
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environments.
[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.
History
Nimbus Software was founded in
Oslo
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, Norway, in 1998 (not to be confused with
Nimbus Data).
Converse Software, the exclusive US distributor of Nimbus Software, was founded in
Silicon Valley
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in 2002.
Nimbus Software and Converse Software merged in 2004 to form Nimsoft.
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, the founder of the US distributor, was appointed CEO and the new company's headquarters were established in Silicon Valley.
In 2007 a 10.3 million Series A round of funding from JMI Equity and Northzone Ventures closed.
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Nimsoft acquired Indicative Software in April 2008 to offer business service management and established a new research and development base in Fort Collins, Colorado
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Nimsoft received the ''San Francisco Business Times'' 2008 "Best Place to Work Award".
Nimsoft closed a $12 million funding round led by Goldman Sachs in October 2008.root cause analysis
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(RCA) utilizing graph theory
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.
That October Nimsoft announced its unified monitoring architecture to monitor externally hosted systems and services, including SaaS and cloud computing-based IT infrastructures.NetApp
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storage was announced in June.
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-based WatchMouse in July, and its software was integrated into Nimsoft.
References
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External links
Nimsoft Unified Monitoring Site
Network management
Network analyzers
System administration
Information technology companies of the United States
CA Technologies
Website monitoring software