Open Source It Operations Management
The Verdict:
GroundWork Wins Under the Radar Judges' Choice Award
San Francisco, CA — October 26, 2006 — GroundWork Open Source, Inc. (www.groundworkopensource.com), the leader in open source-based IT operations management, today announced that it has been named the "Judges' Choice" winner at IBD Network's recent Open Source Management Services Under The Radar Conference.
GroundWork competed against other open source management services vendors including Black Duck Software, Open Country, and SpikeSource.
"GroundWork makes it possible for enterprise-level organizations to save money and energy by utilizing open source for their ever-changing IT infrastructure monitoring and management needs," said Ranga Rangachari, CEO of GroundWork Open Source. "By melding several best-of-breed open source projects including RRDtool, syslog-ng, and MySQL along with homegrown open source projects, GroundWork offers a customizable, flexible and centralized monitoring solution for the entire IT infrastructure at a fraction of the cost of the proprietary 'Big 4' solutions — HP OpenView, IBM Tivoli, CA Unicenter and BMC Patrol."
The recent Under The Radar conference, which was geared towards companies that bring open source to the enterprise market, was moderated by the 451 Group's Raven Zachary. The panel of judges included Deborah Magid of IBM, Martin Buckley of Novell, and Thomas Odenwald of SAP. The judges considered product demonstrations and looked at the contestants' target markets, disruptive innovations, marketing and sales approaches, business models, and channel strategies to make their decision.
About GroundWork
San Francisco-based GroundWork Open Source, Inc. (www.groundworkopensource.com) is the leader in the fast-growth market for open source IT operations management software. The company integrates, enhances and develops leading open source software to deliver comprehensive IT operations management solutions. With GroundWork solutions, enterprises leverage the flexibility and low cost of open source tools to achieve enterprise-level availability, performance and operational efficiency at a fraction of the cost of commercial software. GroundWork customers represent a variety of industries, including manufacturing, government, financial services, education, and high technology. GroundWork investors are Mayfield and Canaan Partners.
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