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From the News Desk
Tuesday, 25. March 2008
GroundWork Addresses Enterprise Demand with New IT Systems and Network Management Products
GroundWork Open Source, a player in commercial open source systems and network management software, has announced the launch of GroundWork Monitor Enterprise, a new addition to the GroundWork product family, and the general availability of GroundWork Monitor version 5.2, the latest major release to the entire family.
According to the company, GroundWork Monitor Enterprise’s modular design is specifically built for distributed, high capacity, highly available environments. With the release of GroundWork Monitor 5.2, distributed monitoring throughput has improved by a factor of 2x, resulting in increased system capacity, said the company in a statement.
As top tier analyst firms predict a slowdown in 2008 IT spending, open source solutions like GroundWork Monitor Enterprise are seeing faster adoption as the alternative to expensive proprietary system management offerings from the Big 4 (HP OpenView, IBM Tivoli, CA Unicenter, BMC Patrol). “With economic uncertainty building on IT organizations, we are seeing enterprises tightening their belts when it comes to IT budgets and initiatives,” said Stephen Elliot, Research Director for IDC’s Enterprise Systems Management Software Service. “As open source management solutions continue to mature and increase in functionality, they will see more opportunities on the enterprise scale.”
GroundWork’s expanded product family coincides with release 5.2 of GroundWork Monitor. This release, says the company, includes new features such as auto-discovery/auto-configuration; a high speed, low latency event console; new enterprise performance reports, and updates to the dashboard functionality. The product family now includes three distinct offerings: GroundWork Monitor Enterprise, GroundWork Monitor Professional and GroundWork Monitor Community Edition.
According to the company, GroundWork Monitor Enterprise’s modular design is specifically built for distributed, high capacity, highly available environments. With the release of GroundWork Monitor 5.2, distributed monitoring throughput has improved by a factor of 2x, resulting in increased system capacity, said the company in a statement.
As top tier analyst firms predict a slowdown in 2008 IT spending, open source solutions like GroundWork Monitor Enterprise are seeing faster adoption as the alternative to expensive proprietary system management offerings from the Big 4 (HP OpenView, IBM Tivoli, CA Unicenter, BMC Patrol). “With economic uncertainty building on IT organizations, we are seeing enterprises tightening their belts when it comes to IT budgets and initiatives,” said Stephen Elliot, Research Director for IDC’s Enterprise Systems Management Software Service. “As open source management solutions continue to mature and increase in functionality, they will see more opportunities on the enterprise scale.”
GroundWork’s expanded product family coincides with release 5.2 of GroundWork Monitor. This release, says the company, includes new features such as auto-discovery/auto-configuration; a high speed, low latency event console; new enterprise performance reports, and updates to the dashboard functionality. The product family now includes three distinct offerings: GroundWork Monitor Enterprise, GroundWork Monitor Professional and GroundWork Monitor Community Edition.
