We recently had a question on our forums asking if GroundWork Monitor CE 6.0 is "dead". Since the forums are mostly focused on technical issues, and this is a company policy question, we've decided to respond on our company blog. We've also edited into a Q&A format to make the responses a little easier to digest. Q. Is GroundWork Monitor Community ... Read More →

We’re happy to announce that the latest version of Groundwork Monitor Enterprise (Release 6.3) is now available under our Enterprise Quickstart (EQS) program. For those unfamiliar with EQS, it includes: A copy of GroundWork Monitor Release 6.3 software Monitoring for up to 50 devices Access to on-demand training 60 days of email-based support Priced at $49/$59 per year depending on packaging selected Release ... Read More →

Today we are releasing the latest version (6.3) of our flagship GroundWork Monitor Enterprise, with a host of features our customers have asked for. The two big themes are visualization tools and the return of an old favorite—the trouble-view dashboard. We also add support for accessing GroundWork Monitor on the iPad, furthering our thrust into Mobile IT. These new features will ... Read More →

Congratulations to the employees and stockholders of ArcSight on the pending sale of a great company to Hewlett-Packard. While HP and ArcSight begin the arduous task of knitting together products, channels, organizations, roadmaps, I thought you might want to know how easily products like ArcSight Logger™ and other log file security monitoring solutions can be integrated with GroundWork Monitor, ... Read More →

Green IT has been a hot topic of late, and GroundWork Open Source is looking for ways to help users make their IT greener while saving money on electricity. Our partner Modius® Software is the leading provider of performance management software the power and cooling systems that run data centers. For years, IT and Facilities have been separate domains, rare to ... Read More →

This week we launched a microsite (msp.gwos.com) designed for Web hosters, managed service providers (MSPs), outsourcers and other service providers that monitor large distributed systems and networks. Many MSPs and service providers already monitor with open source Nagios® software, the core of GroundWork Monitor Enterprise, and we want them to see what affordable GWME adds to Nagios. Most MSPs already offer ... Read More →

Almost a year ago, we introduced the GroundWork Monitor Enterprise Quickstart. The goal was to offer an cost-effective and efficient way for companies to deploy GWOS Monitor in their environment. We wanted to go beyond the usual “access to the software” and include support and training to really help evaluators and users be successful with our solution. We’ve learned a lot in ... Read More →

We're planning out some great new capabilities for GroundWork Monitor and a wanted to share a taste of things to come. We're simultaneously working in a couple of core areas: Visualization of monitoring information through different lenses - physical topology, business process and logical flow. Our partners have been very active building solutions in this area and we're working to ... Read More →

We regularly receive feedback from customers and other GroundWork Monitor users about product features and integrations that would make GroundWork Monitor more useful to them. Lately, we’ve been getting more questions about integrating GroundWork Monitor with trouble ticketing and help desk systems. You can help guide GWOS in our product roadmap and partnering strategy by completing a one-page, 9-question survey. We ... Read More →

It’s nice to be noticed. GWOS has had multiple tweets on our recent Wall Street Journal ad. Tireless Matt Assay "mjasay" has checked in, as did Erica Brescia, CEO of our partner Bitrock, and industry analyst Eric Goodness. Humbly, let me say that GroundWork Open Source is doing lots worth noticing lately. I can't say for sure ... Read More →

If you are an Ubuntu shop, we are happy to deliver a pre-configured GroundWork Monitor Enterprise appliance built upon Canonical's Ubuntu 9.10. Last month, we announced support for Enterprise Server (excluding NMS add-ons) running on Ubuntu, and this month we package it up so that you have a stable, ready-to-go package that can get Enterprise Edition 6.1.1 up and running in ... Read More →

I'm happy to announce we just released GroundWork Monitor Enterprise 6.1.1. As a minor release it doesn't have much in the way of new features but it does include some really popular customer requests: Status viewer page load times greatly improved. Our testing team claims navigating around the status viewer is 25-30% faster than 6.1 - feels a lot quicker ... Read More →

2009 was a fantastic year for GWOS, the investments we made in the Release 6 platform, Flex pricing and Enterprise Quickstart paying off in a massive increase in the GWOS install base. Those new users brought a lot of new use-cases and ideas and suggestions for improvements we’ve chopped, diced, sautéed and baked into our first release of ... Read More →