Nagios And GroundWork

ST. PAUL, Minn. And SAN FRANCISCO—November 15, 2007—Nagios Enterprises (www.nagios.com), the commercial arm of Nagios, the world’s most popular open source host, service and network monitoring program, and GroundWork Open Source, Inc. (www.groundworkopensource.com), the leader in open source IT management software, today announced a joint partnership focused on joint market development and shared delivery of services around open source IT monitoring and management.

“Nagios Enterprises is pleased to collaborate with GroundWork Open Source,” said Nagios creator and lead developer Ethan Galstad. “Over the past 18 months, GroundWork has done some great things with Nagios in developing a comprehensive IT management solution, and Nagios Enterprises can now extend the joint value further with the new formalized working relationship.”

Under the terms of the joint partnership, Nagios Enterprises will soon offer tier three support for Nagios-related aspects of Groundwork Open Source. In addition, GroundWork Open Source and Nagios Enterprises will engage in various market development activities including cross-promotion via advertising, joint marketing efforts, and business referral opportunities.

“We’ve found that some customer deployments are focused primarily on monitoring, while others are focused on broader system management,” said Ranga Rangachari, CEO of GroundWork Open Source. “Partnering like this allows each party to focus on their core competencies for the best time to value, namely, monitoring and broad system management and integration.”

Nagios is the world’s most popular open source monitoring solution currently monitoring more than three million services and 500,000 hosts globally. GroundWork Open Source is the revenue leader in bringing open source alternatives to proprietary systems and network work management products including HP OpenView and IBM Tivoli.

Earlier this year, Ethan Galstad became a member of GroundWork's Open Source Council, which includes the creators and overseers of some of today's most popular open source monitoring and management technologies, including Tobi Oetiker (RRDtool, MRTG, SmokePing), Remo Rickli (NeDi), Ian Berry (Cacti), Matt Massie (Ganglia), Alex Russell (Dojo) and Kees Cook (Sendpage).

About Nagios Enterprises

Nagios Enterprises (http://www.nagios.com) was founded by Nagios creator and lead developer Ethan Galstad. Our purpose is to strengthen the Nagios community, product, and brand by offering professional, value-added products and services to organizations in need of monitoring solutions.

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 Red Hat, 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.

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