Ipswitch, Inc.’s Innovative Network Management Solution Nominated for Four 2010 Network Computing Awards

Published 4th February 2010

Voting closes February 22 at www.networkcomputingawards.co.uk

Ipswitch, Inc.’s network management division, the developer of the WhatsUp Gold suite of innovative network management solutions, today announced it has been nominated in four categories for the 2010 Network Computing Awards: Editor’s Choice; Network Management Product of the Year; Software Product of the Year; and Testing and Monitoring Product of the Year.

The Network Computing Awards were launched in 2007 to recognise the companies, the products and the services that have most impressed the readers of the UK’s longest established computer networking publication. In 2008 and 2009, WhatsUp Gold was runner up in the Network Management Product of the Year. Readers can cast their votes at www.networkcomputing.co.uk through February 22nd. Awards will be presented on March 4th at a black tie event at Guoman Tower Hotel in London.

“We are ecstatic to be recognised by Network Computing in four categories for the 2010 Network Computing Awards,” said Kevin Gillis, Vice President of Product Management for Ipswitch’s Network Management division. “The past year was a record-setting year for the company, not just in sales and profitability, but also for new product introductions and the entrance into core IT operations sectors like change and configuration management and performance and traffic management. Our constant contact with network managers worldwide and product growth through organic efforts and acquisitions made 2009 a banner year for Ipswitch’s network management division and these nominations for the Network Computing Awards validate our product strategy.”

About WhatsUp Gold - Know Your Network
Ipswitch™, Inc.’s network management division, the developer of the WhatsUp Gold suite of innovative network management solutions, manages thousands of networks worldwide. Built on a scalable architecture offering automated network discovery and network mapping, real-time network monitoring (including SNMP monitoring and WMI monitoring), and versatile alerting, notification, and reporting functionality, WhatsUp Gold provides intelligent and easy to use, extensive network management that goes beyond simple device availability and delivers comprehensive troubleshooting. Recently, Ipswitch, Inc. acquired Dorian Software Creations, Inc., the leader in providing complete, easy-to-use solutions for Windows Security Event Management (SEM) and Log Management for small businesses and enterprise-level organisations.

WhatsUp Gold scales from the small business to the large enterprise, and its functionality can be easily extended with additional plug-in modules: WhatsUp Gold WhatsConnected™ for Layer 2/Layer 3 discovery, mapping and visualization; WhatsUp Gold Flow Monitor and WhatsUp Gold Flow Publisher for network bandwidth utilisation monitoring; WhatsUp Gold WhatsConfigured for automated Network Configuration and Change Management; and WhatsUp Gold VoIP Monitor for precise measurement of a converged network’s ability to provide the quality of service (QoS) necessary for VoIP. To learn more about WhatsUp Gold, download a free trial or to make a purchase visit: http://www.whatsupgold.com/products/download/.

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