CA Technologies disrupts IT management market with launch of CA Nimsoft Monitor Snap

Free, easy-to-implement download enables customers to quickly achieve enterprise-class management of critical resources.

In a move that disrupts the rapidly growing worldwide IT management market for emerging enterprises and departmental/line-of-business customers, CA Southern Africa has announced the availability of CA Nimsoft Monitor Snap - a free, feature-rich version of CA Technologies' acclaimed CA Nimsoft Monitor solution.

CA Nimsoft Monitor Snap enables resource-constrained customers to quickly achieve enterprise-class visibility into the health of the diverse IT resources that support delivery of their business-critical IT services. Unlike existing freeware, freemiums, time-limited trials, open source tools or mid-market commercial products, CA Nimsoft Monitor Snap:

* Can be up and running in as little as an hour, rather than requiring extensive set-up and configuration
* Provides robust performance and availability monitoring capabilities for network resources, physical and virtual servers, storage, databases and more in a single, fully-integrated solution - in marked contrast to other vendor offerings that require multiple products with varying levels of integration
* Is free for up to 30 monitored devices each with unlimited monitors - not a limited time-trial

"Until today, under-resourced customers faced an unacceptable choice between non-integrated 'point' monitoring tools, technically challenging open-source code, and conventional enterprise-class technology that cost too much and took too long to implement," says Andrea Lodolo, CTO CA Southern Africa. "With CA Nimsoft Monitor Snap, these customers finally have a solution that genuinely meets their specific needs."

CA Nimsoft Monitor Snap addresses the needs of emerging enterprises - which lack the resources of their large corporate counterparts, but are no less dependent on the health of their IT environments. It also gives large enterprise IT organisations and departmental IT service teams the unique opportunity to adopt next-generation management technology without cost or unnecessary risk - allowing them to more aggressively drive down operational costs and better safeguard service delivery as their IT environments become increasingly dynamic.

CA Nimsoft Monitor Snap provides:

* Dashboards, alarms and guided workflows to help users quickly pinpoint and resolve issues
* Built-in "tips and tricks" and best practices that flatten users' learning curves and speed time-to-value

"Historically, there has been a fairly significant disconnect between the low appetite of emerging enterprises for management overhead and the high cost/complexity of the tools they required to adequately safeguard their critical IT services," said Jim Frey, Vice-President, Research, EMA. "CA Technologies is clearly attempting to address this market disconnect with both CA Nimsoft Monitor and its new introductory 'Snap' version."

Reaction from beta testers of CA Nimsoft Monitor Snap has been positive.

"We evaluated SolarWinds and Spiceworks, but found CA Nimsoft Monitor Snap to be the fastest and easiest to download, install and configure," said Deke Rhinehart, IT Director/Director Digital Media at The Zone Corporation. "That zero-headache implementation is of major value to a time-strapped IT department like ours."

"CA Nimsoft Monitor Snap offers the perfect combination of rich functionality and extreme ease of deployment," said Dawn Banks, IT Support Lead at College America. "It's perfect for someone like me who has front-line responsibility for safeguarding IT service levels in a branch location."

"CA Nimsoft Monitor Snap was quick to set up and even easier to use," said Miles Freedman, Director of IT at Lattice Engines. "Its significant usability and manageability advantages can help to improve our overall operational efficiency."

The initial release of CA Nimsoft Monitor Snap supports English, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese. It is built on the same code base as CA Nimsoft Monitor release 7. CA Technologies plans to synchronise future releases of both products, which will continue to retain the same code base.

CA Technologies has created a community support site, CA Snap Central, that is open to everyone, including CA Nimsoft Monitor Snap customers. The site includes a community discussion board, free documentation, a knowledge base, instructional videos and a forum for sharing ideas for future releases.

A free download of CA Nimsoft Monitor Snap is available here. The product is also available from CA Technologies partners.

CA Southern Africa

CA Southern Africa is the leading provider of IT management solutions in sub-Saharan Africa.

We are IT management experts. We provide solutions and services that cover the entire IT management life cycle, encompassing all areas of IT and security, from mainframe through to distributed, cloud and mobile.

Through the use of technology, we assist our customers to transform the economics of IT by: controlling complexity; assuring the quality of IT services; reducing costs and risk, and providing information to make the right strategic decisions.

CA Southern Africa is the sole representative of CA Technologies in sub-Saharan Africa and is a member of the JSE-listed EOH group of companies.

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Editorial contacts

Deirdre Blain
Blain Communications
(+27) 11 462 4974
blain@iafrica.com
Joanne Cawrse
CA Southern Africa
(+27) 11 417 8645
joanne.cawrse@caafrica.co.za