Groundwork Open Source Solutions White Paper Sample

GroundWork Monitor 5.2: Open Source-based Monitoring Moves into the Enterprise
"As a potential disrupter of the existing management market, Ptak, Noel and Associates (PNA) has been watching the emerging integrated open source management suite market. A year ago, the solutions were too new to project open source and subscription adoption trends. Since then, GroundWork Open Source reports growth in their enterprise subscription customer base, with about a third of their install base upgrading to enterprise-class subscriptions, other customers expanding deployment of their GroundWork monitoring solutions, and a majority of their revenue coming from enterprise-class deployments. It appears that GroundWork's monitoring solutions are beginning to gain traction in the enterprise. Despite GroundWork's original focus on mid-sized enterprises, they are also reporting activity from some large enterprise customers, with one customer monitoring over 9,700 servers. In response to this increased enterprise customer activity, GroundWork created a new subscription offering for enterprise customers"...

"GroundWork Open Source announced the availability of its latest GroundWork Monitor 5.2 release and a new enterprise subscription offering. GroundWork Monitor Enterprise expands GroundWork's subscription-based offerings with a subscription focused on IT infrastructure monitoring needs of middle and larger sized enterprises. This enterprise subscription incorporates many of the enhanced components and functionality that GroundWork's existing enterprise customers added on and requested. GroundWork cites the significant cost savings for enterprise customers, when compared with non-open source enterprise monitoring solutions. GroundWork Monitor Enterprise 5.2 includes enhancements such as increased scalability, console enhancements, improved deployment, enterprise performance reports, capacity options, and network management options"...