Linux Administration Product Of The Year

SAN FRANCISCO—January 16, 2008—GroundWork Open Source today announced that its GroundWork Monitor Professional 5.1 was judged as the best Linux administration product released in 2008, in TechTarget’s SearchEnterpriseLinux.com 2007 “Products of the Year” awards.

GroundWork Monitor Professional 5.1 was chosen from a number of new products submitted for consideration to SearchEnterpriseLinux.com in four categories. The awards were judged by the editors of TechTarget’s SearchEnterpriseLinux.com, in conjunction with a team of users, industry experts, analysts and consultants. Judges selected the Products of the Year among enterprise Linux products introduced, upgraded and shipped between October 31, 2006 and November 1, 2007.

"All in all, I found it as good as products from IBM, HP, CA, etc.," wrote one judge, complete with "excellent documentation, a clean installation process, and the autodiscovery process works flawlessly."

Providing enterprise-grade management and monitoring for a fraction of the cost of proprietary competitors, GroundWork Monitor Professional 5.1 can be quickly deployed while offering greater flexibility and customization than legacy, “Big 4” management frameworks. Linux, Unix and Windows servers, applications, databases and network equipment are all managed and monitored by a single integrated product that can be configured to match system needs. Tools such as executive-level dashboards, performance graphs, and SLA business reports, as well as GroundWork’s around the clock customer support, reduce adoption barriers and promote ease of use.

“We are very pleased to be named the winner of the Product of the Year in the Linux Administration category,” said David Dennis, Senior Director of Product Marketing at GroundWork Open Source. “The judge’s selection of GroundWork Monitor Professional 5.1 reinforces the message sent by our customers as they search for cost-effective, open, and enterprise-ready system management alternatives to the costly status quo of the last decade or more.”

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About GroundWork

San Francisco-based GroundWork Open Source, Inc. (http://www.groundworkopensource.com) is the fastest growing provider of open source network and systems management software, delivering enterprise-class IT management solutions that offer unprecedented network, system and application availability at a fraction of the cost of proprietary solutions. An integral part of GroundWork’s “Just Right IT management” philosophy is to ensure that its software and services seamlessly integrate with a customer’s management solutions – thus preserving their existing investment while simultaneously providing value. GroundWork’s solutions are in use at organizations like AOL, SAIC, Seton Hall University, Siemens, and World Bank. GroundWork’s solutions are available from GroundWork, its partners including Redhat, Unisys, Fujitsu, and a worldwide network of channel partners. The company is privately held, with investments from Canaan Partners, Mayfield Fund, JAFCO Ventures and SAP Ventures.