(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — The “Unified Monitoring” solutions division of CA Technologies (www.ca.com), Nimsoft (www.nimsoft.com), has introduced new “see as you go–pay as you go” capabilities to its industry-leading, unified monitoring solutions, enabling service providers to bring more elastic IT offerings to market.
According to its Wednesday announcement, the extended feature set includes real-time usage metering, “elastic portlets” and unified service dashboards. These enhancements are available as part of the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution and Nimsoft On Demand offerings. This lets service providers and IT staff automatically create and deliver monitoring data and alerts that expand and contract with cloud and virtualized service delivery — while tracking and archiving usage in real time for auditing and billing purposes.
Elastic IT services are highly appealing to customers because their fees are directly related to their actual utilization. With the introduction of these latest enhancements, Nimsoft is simplifying the real-time monitoring and management of infrastructures used by service providers to deliver elastic IT services. This enables them to automate the presentation of monitoring dashboards to clients and flexibly bill for their monitoring services.
“Our ISV partners are extending their on-premise enterprise application products to include on-demand SaaS ones,” said Marty Gauvin, chief executive officer and president of managed services company Virtual Ark (www.virtualark.com). “With these new features, Nimsoft On Demand allows us to adjust monitoring services depending on our clients’ dynamic needs. This enables us to align our costs closely to revenues from end users buying the SaaS solutions we provide through our ISV partners, thereby significantly reducing both the risk and cost of delivering an on-demand SaaS version of their traditional enterprise applications. The enhanced Nimsoft solution will help us continue to provide premiere service levels and improve both our top and bottom lines.”
NMS and Nimsoft On Demand now includes real-time usage metering, which provides automated, granular reporting and usage monitoring for accurately billing clients. Usage is updated at hourly intervals, and is viewable anytime by both service providers and clients on the Nimsoft unified monitoring portal, which can integrate seamlessly into any other portal.
Also new to NMS and Nimsoft On Demand are elastic portlets, which are pluggable user interface components that display key monitoring data, and automatically expand or contract with the monitored IT Infrastructure. These portlets are usable across service provider clients and IT organizations.
As well, new unified service dashboards provide customizable dashboards that are easily constructed by aggregating elastic portlets, usage metering data and other information. NMS and Nimsoft On Demand come pre-packaged with out-of-the-box dashboards for VMware health and performance, Amazon Web Services and overall data center performance. Dashboard views can be tightly coupled with the service provider’s service catalog, including cloud-based services.
“Virtualization and the implementation of public and private clouds are driving a major shift in the way IT services are delivered,” Nimsoft senior vice president and general manager Gary Read said in a statement. “Our ‘see as you goâpay as you go’ unified monitoring solutions enable IT staffs and service providers to better understand and manage these new delivery models — without requiring incremental investments, re-learning of technology or implementation of new infrastructure requirements.”
The new unified monitoring capabilities are now available for both NMS and Nimsoft On Demand as features of the solution, to new and existing customers alike, at no additional cost.
