GroundWork Open Source Releases GroundWork Monitor Enterprise 6.2

SAN FRANCISCO, CA—June 23, 2010—GroundWork Open Source, Inc. (GWOS http://www.gwos.com), the leader in commercial open source systems and network management software, today announced general availability of GroundWork Monitor Enterprise 6.2. The latest release of GWOS' flagship product GroundWork Monitor provides new capabilities for customers operating complex monitoring solutions including user controls for service providers, improved monitoring for VMware ESX and vCenter, a new Java monitoring agent.

In addition, Release 6.2 includes integration with Neustar's Webmetrics external performance monitoring solution, enabling users to compare their end-users' experience with internal performance measures.

"This release delivers tremendous value for service providers of all sizes, enabling them to build a wide-range of value-add monitoring services without a large up-front capital investment," said Simon Bennett, Sr. Director of Product Management for GWOS. "In addition, our current Flex subscription customers gain additional capabilities at no additional cost."

Features included in GroundWork Monitor Enterprise 6.2 include:

• Role-based infrastructure views. Enables administrators to restrict the items a user can see based on their organization, expertise, location or job function. Role-based views can provide end-users with the monitoring and performance data they need but doesn't require them to receive notifications or perform complex administration.
• New dashboard customization options including hide drill-down links and improved sort options make GWOS more powerful when used as a NOC heads-up display.
• Extended descriptions and notes can now be associated with monitored objects. The notes are displayed alongside the monitoring information, providing context for end-users and application specialists.
• The GWOS Seurat View. for visualizing large environments on a single display, has been updated to make it easy to locate unacknowledged problems in the monitored environment. This change enables teams to more effectively triage problems and avoid multiple operators working the same incident.
• Integration with the Webmetrics External Performance Monitoring compliments deep server and application monitoring with the end-user perspective on service performance.

Webcast:

GWOS will be hosting a Webcast demonstrating the new features of GroundWork Monitor 6.2 on July 8, 2010 at 9am PT/ Noon ET. To register for this Webcast please visit: http://www.groundworkopensource.com/resources/webcasts/6.2.html

To learn more about what's new in GroundWork Monitor Enterprise 6.2 please visit: http://www.groundworkopensource.com/products/whats-new-6.2.html

About GroundWork Open Source (GWOS)

San Francisco-based GWOS (http://www.gwos.com) is the market leader in commercial open source network and systems management software, delivering enterprise-class network, system and application management solutions at a fraction of the cost of proprietary solutions.

GWOS's best of breed approach gives customers the flexibility to use diverse open source and proprietary technologies together under a unified interface, allowing users to leverage the advantages of open source while simultaneously preserving existing investments in legacy management tools.

GroundWork Monitor Enterprise Edition powers organizations like Alexza Pharmaceuticals, Crocs, National Australia Bank, Siemens, Travel Click and World Bank. GroundWork Monitor Enterprise is available to monitor any environment up to 100 devices starting at $49 USD per year.