GroundWork Expands Product Line

San Francisco, CA—February 13, 2006—GroundWork Open Source, Inc., the leader in open source IT Operations Management solutions, today announced GroundWork Monitor Open Source, a fully-integrated IT infrastructure monitoring solution—available free for download at www.groundworkopensource.com/downloads, and GroundWork Monitor Professional, a major upgrade to the company’s commercial offering, with advanced new capabilities including performance monitoring, enhanced real time status views, and an integrated monitoring console.

“There are a vast number of companies who for years have had no viable means of managing their infrastructure because traditional solutions were too expensive and too complex,” said Ranga Rangachari, CEO of GroundWork. “With GroundWork Monitor Open Source, we’re making a basic IT infrastructure monitoring solution available to everyone. And with GroundWork Monitor Professional, we’re offering a comprehensive, fully-supported solution to companies with complex IT operations needs and limited IT resources for configuration and tuning.”

GroundWork Monitor Open Source: Fast, Flexible Monitoring

GroundWork Monitor Open Source is a free, easy-to-use monitoring solution aimed at mid-sized businesses with basic, but critical, monitoring requirements. With real time status views, historic trend reporting and a sophisticated alerting system, GroundWork Monitor Open Source allows system administrators to proactively manage and control their IT infrastructure so they can significantly improve uptime, and quickly identify issues and causes before they affect performance.

Integrating popular open source applications such as MySQL, PHP, and now Nagios 2.0, GroundWork Monitor Open Source offers a simple and rapid installation process. It also provides comprehensive support for a wide range of servers, operating systems, routers, and other devices, giving systems administrators complete visibility into their entire network infrastructure. GroundWork Monitor Open Source users have access to GroundWork-sponsored support forums. Paid telephone support options are also available.

GroundWork Monitor Professional: Comprehensive, Fully-Supported IT Infrastructure Monitoring Solution

For enterprises that require a more comprehensive solution, GroundWork Monitor Professional leverages all of the functionality of the open source edition and adds a library of pre-configured GroundWork Profiles for application and device monitoring, network performance monitoring, and an integrated console. GroundWork Monitor Professional employs a wide array of monitoring techniques to match customer requirements for efficiency, speed, overhead and maintenance: Active and Passive monitoring; agent or agent-less methods; and a combination of synthetic polling, log file monitoring and SNMP traps. This functionality is integrated into a single solution that can be configured quickly to provide comprehensive coverage and visibility.

Starting at $16,000 for an annual subscription, GroundWork Monitor Professional includes unlimited telephone and email support as well as product updates and upgrades. A wide range of professional services are available  to complement the Professional edition, including training classes, advanced installation assistance, and turnkey deployment services which include onsite configuration, training, and IT management best practices planning. Additional deployment options include SNMP trap monitoring, network traffic analysis, web log analysis, log exceptions analysis, and comprehensive database monitoring.

“We previewed both GroundWork Monitor Open Source and Professional and are impressed with the company’s innovative use of open source technology as well as its comprehensive support offering,” said David Hauser, Chief Technology Officer of GotVMail, a provider of outsourced phone service for small businesses. “The GroundWork staff is deeply knowledgeable on open source as well as IT monitoring.”

A detailed comparison of the two products is available on the GroundWork web site at www.groundworkopensource.com/products.

“Many companies want to leverage the cost advantages and flexibility of open source, but they aren’t in a position to pick the right tools, integrate and configure them, fill the functionality gaps, and then maintain and support them,” said Rangachari. “GroundWork Monitor Professional delivers all of these things in one enterprise-ready solution that is still priced at a fraction of the cost of proprietary alternatives.”  

Licensing and Availability
A beta version of GroundWork Monitor Open Source is currently available under an open source software license at GroundWork’s web site (www.groundworkopensource.com/downloads). GroundWork Monitor Professional will be available through GroundWork’s sales team and authorized partners.

About GroundWork

San Francisco-based GroundWork Open Source, Inc. (www.groundworkopensource.com) develops and integrates leading open source applications into complete solutions so businesses can easily 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 proprietary software. GroundWork has enabled over 100 customers to quickly and easily gain precise insight into every element of their IT infrastructure so they can immediately detect and address issues. GroundWork investors include Mayfield and Canaan Partners.