REDWOOD CITY, Calif. and
SAN ANTONIO, April 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Nimsoft, a
business unit of CA, Inc. (Nasdaq: CA), today announced Rackspace®
Hosting (NYSE: RAX), the world's leader in the hosting and cloud
computing industry, is standardizing on Nimsoft to offer enhanced
infrastructure and application solutions to its managed hosting
customers and to monitor its internal IT and cloud infrastructures.
The relationship will allow Rackspace to extend its Managed Hosting
offerings to include more in-depth operating system and application
monitoring. With the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution, Rackspace can
provide a more robust monitoring service to its managed hosting
customers around the performance and availability of business
applications hosted with Rackspace.
"We are dedicated to delivering Fanatical Support® every day to
our customers. Standardizing on the Nimsoft solution is
another example of our deep commitment in this area," said
Steve Mills, chief information
officer, Rackspace. "We chose Nimsoft because they develop their
product suite with service providers in mind. In addition, the
Nimsoft solution is able to support the scale and highly dynamic
nature of our business and our infrastructure."
The Rackspace Deployment
Rackspace is one of more than 300 service providers utilizing
the industry-leading Nimsoft Monitoring Solution. This relationship
allows Rackspace managed hosting customers to benefit from tiered
levels of monitoring according to their business needs. The Nimsoft
Monitoring Solution will be deployed across more than 60,000
Microsoft® Windows® and Linux® systems. All Rackspace managed
hosting customers will be provided with a standard level of
monitoring which alerts and reports on critical system health
indicators. These customers will be able to easily upgrade to more
comprehensive levels of monitoring that will include databases and
applications as well as other infrastructure services.
"We are delighted Rackspace recognized our unique ability to
address the special challenges inherent when delivering unified IT
management solutions," said Gary
Read, senior vice president and general manager of the
Nimsoft Business Unit at CA. "Their choice of Nimsoft as a
technology partner once again underscores our position as a leader
in unified monitoring. We look forward to helping Rackspace
continue to deliver and enhance their commitment to Fanatical
Support."
About Nimsoft
Nimsoft provides Unified Monitoring™ solutions for virtualized
datacenters, hosted and managed services, cloud platforms, and SaaS
resources. The Nimsoft Unified Monitoring architecture eliminates
the need to deploy a new monitoring solution for outsourced
services, public or private clouds, or SaaS implementations. About
800 customers use Nimsoft Unified Monitoring solutions, including
emerging enterprises such as Casual Male, European Medicines Agency
(EMEA), Ladbrokes, TriNet, and hundreds of leading hosting, cloud
and managed service providers such as 1&1, BlueLock, CDW,
Hitachi, and Rackspace. For more information, visit
www.nimsoft.com or to see Nimsoft Unified Monitoring in action,
visit the Nimsoft public portal at www.unifiedmonitoring.com.
Nimsoft is a business unit within the CA Cloud Products &
Solutions Business Line.
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About CA
CA (NASDAQ: CA), the world's leading independent IT management
software company, helps customers optimize IT for better business
results. CA's Enterprise IT Management solutions for mainframe and
distributed computing enable Lean IT -- empowering organizations to
more effectively govern, manage and secure their IT operations. For
more information, visit www.ca.com.
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