| Type | public company (part of CA Technologies) |
|---|---|
| Industry | IT Management |
| Founded | 1998 |
| Headquarters | Campbell, California, United States of America |
| Key people |
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| Website | http://www.nimsoft.com |
Nimsoft is a software vendor that offers information technology (IT) monitoring and service desk solutions. Since 2010 it has been an independent division within CA Inc.
The company’s products are used to monitor and manage business services and specific systems within the IT infrastructure, including network components, servers, databases, applications, and virtualized environments.
With Nimsoft products, customers can monitor systems hosted in internal datacenters, as well as in externally hosted environments, including Software as a Service (SaaS) and cloud computing environments.[1]
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Nimbus Software was founded in Oslo, Norway in 1998.
In 2004, Nimbus Software merged with its US distributor and changed its name to Nimsoft. Gary Read, the founder of the US distributor, was appointed CEO and the new company’s headquarters were established in Silicon Valley.[2]
In January 2007, the company closed a 10.3 million Series A round of funding from JMI Equity and Northzone Ventures.[3]
In April 2008, Nimsoft acquired Indicative Software to extend its solutions into business service management and established a new research and development base in Fort Collins, CO to augment the existing R&D capabilities in Oslo, Norway.[4]
In May 2008, Nimsoft wins "Best Place to Work Award" sponsored by San Francisco Business Times[5]
In October 2008, the company closed a $12 million funding round led by Goldman Sachs.[6]
In May 2009, Nimsoft acquired the intellectual property assets of Cittio to extend its product capabilities in the areas of layer 2/3 network discovery, topology mapping, and root cause analysis (RCA) utilizing graph theory methods.[7]
In October 2009, Nimsoft announced its Unified Monitoring architecture, which extends the Nimsoft solution set to monitor externally hosted systems and services, including SaaS and cloud computing based IT infrastructures.[8]
In March 2010, Nimsoft was acquired by CA Inc. for $350 million.[9]
In May 2010, Nimsoft was recognized as one of the "Hottest Silicon Valley Companies" by Lead411.[10]
In September 2010, Nimsoft extended its monitoring coverage with a comprehensive solution for Vblock.[11]
In April 2011, Nimsoft launches Nimsoft Unified Manager, a single solution combining IT monitoring and service management.[12]
Nimsoft offers the following solutions:
Nimsoft Unified Manager, a solution that features monitoring and service desk capabilities.
Nimsoft Monitor, which offers monitoring coverage of the following areas:
Nimsoft Service Desk, which offers the following capabilities: