SLM vendor guns for big guys

Service level management (SLM) vendor Nimsoft has unveiled its latest, autumn release of its monitoring and management platform, NimBUS version 3.5.

The vendor, which has traditionally targeted smaller to midsized enterprises is gunning for the "big four" vendor SLM platforms in this space -HP OpenView, CA Unicentre, BMC Remedy and IBM Tivoli - as an alternative for IT performance and availability monitoring functions that can improve scalability and support for real time measurement of high-volume, high-transaction internet and web application infrastructures.

Mark Rivington, Nimsoft's vice president of technology told IT PRO that as businesses build application infrastructures for e-commerce and other web business services they need predictive information to prevent outages, slow performance and other service issues.

The new version of NimBUS delivers support for open source, web and application server technologies. In addition, Nimsoft has increased the platform's enterprise-scale ability to support 10,000 monitoring activities every five minutes, which includes support for a single NimBUS solution.

It has increased the platform's monitoring capability by adding to the scalability of its data capturing technologies to ensure that enterprises with large number of devices have access to real time performance data. This new level of scalability includes the ability to manage 100,000 servers in a single NimBUS environment and an increase in database processing to 3,000 inserts per second.

Rivington said the new NimBUS release 3.5 was also aimed at businesses that are drawn to the higher stability, security and adaptability of the high powered, open source platforms.

The platform now supports the entire "LAMP" stack, which comprises of the Linux operating system, Apache, MySQL database and PHP. Also with this new product release, NimBUS supports the leading web and Java J2EE application servers: JBoss, IBM WebSphere Application Server, Sybase EAServer and BEA Weblogic.

The new version is designed to help organisations manage a changing business landscape in which flexibility and adaptability in its IT infrastructure helps build a competitive edge, according to Rivington.

"We've made these enhancements in response to the needs of the larger customers we are winning," he said. "We've been increasingly winning business from the 'big four' - 41 customers so far this year - and have encountered large enterprises replacing their existing SLM installations out of sheer frustration because they are over-engineered and overly complex to administer and maintain."

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