(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — International managed service provider Virtual Ark (www.virtualark.com) has deployed Nimsoft On Demand as an integrated component of the Virtual Ark Platform, giving clients rich insight into its Software-as-a-Service offerings.
According to its Tuesday announcement, the “Unified Monitoring” solutions division of CA Technologies (www.ca.com), Nimsoft (www.nimsoft.com), enables Virtual Ark to deliver greater business value to companies using its highly scalable managed services platform, as well as its independent software vendor partners wanting to monitor their applications.
“With Nimsoft On Demand, Virtual Ark can cost-effectively give end-users full visibility into their applications and assure our ISV partners that their service levels will meet or exceed market requirements,” Virtual Ark chief executive officer and president Marty Gauvin said in a statement. “Nimsoft continues to be an innovator in monitoring services. With Nimsoft On Demand we can focus on what we do best: bringing applications and services of proven business value to companies looking for a smarter way to do IT.”
Virtual Ark enables ISVs to rapidly and cost-effectively enter the SaaS market by converting and managing traditional applications to work in public or private clouds, without significant re-engineering or the need for multi-tenant application redevelopment.
With Nimsoft On Demand as a core component of its platform, Virtual Ark can provide clients with real-time SaaS monitoring via user-friendly dashboards that offer at-a-glance information about the availability and performance of critical applications and services. Additionally, comprehensive reporting tools also give IT staff deep insight into applications and services hosted in the cloud.
Nimsoft also streamlines Virtual Ark’s operations. By significantly reducing the need for Virtual Ark to procure, implement and manage monitoring technology every time it adds more infrastructure or a new application, Nimsoft On Demand helps lower Virtual Ark’s costs, while enhancing its business agility. The solution’s “pay as you go” pricing also lets Virtual Ark cost-efficiently grow its business and immediately respond to changing client needs.
In addition, Virtual Ark expects to gain significant long-term ROI by using Nimsoft to focus on core competencies rather than on managing complex monitoring systems.
Prior to selecting Nimsoft, Virtual Ark reviewed other monitoring solutions, which it found to not scalable enough, while others were too complex and time-consuming to implement. Nimsoft On Demand was chosen for its unified monitoring capabilities, its ability to integrate with multiple cloud infrastructures, and its proven on-demand delivery model.
Earlier this year, Nimsoft came out with enhancements to its Nimsoft Unified Monitoring architecture to help customers monitor and manage critical business applications across all types of infrastructure from the data center to the cloud.
First launched in November 2009, Nimsoft Unified Monitoring stemmed from the increasing heterogeneity of enterprise IT environments as it became more feasible and attractive to rely on outsourced services in some way or another, either based on cost or the quality of service. But these companies lacked a single window pane from which they could monitor all their diverse operations.
In May, in an effort to provide its customers with enhanced infrastructure and application solutions, Web hosting and cloud computing solutions provider SoftLayer (www.softlayer.com) chose the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution as the standard monitoring platform for its managed hosting customers.
Nimsoft said NMS would enable SoftLayer customers to benefit from tiered levels of monitoring, according to business needs. Initially, SoftLayer planned to deploy more than 25,000 systems, with the goal of increasing the performance and availability of hosted business applications. Under the terms of the deal, SoftLayer customers would receive standard monitoring including automated alerts and reports on critical health indicators.
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