Rackspace Red Label Customers Gain Enterprise-Class Availability with Nimsoft Performance Monitoring Technology; NimBUS a Key Building Block for Rackspace Enterprise-Linux Managed Hosting

Business Wire, August 11, 2005

SAN MATEO, Calif. -- Nimsoft today announced that its NimBUS service level management solution has been selected by Rackspace Managed Hosting for performance and availability monitoring in its new enterprise-Linux managed hosting offering, Rackspace Red Label(TM). The fastest growing managed hosting provider has embraced the Nimsoft technology to deliver the highest levels of business availability and performance that are demanded by enterprise-Linux based customers.

"Many of our customers were demanding a highly available, highly managed, hosted-Linux environment for their critical business applications," said Paul Froutan, VP of Product Engineering, Rackspace Managed Hosting. "By featuring NimBUS' advanced monitoring capabilities, Red Label offers a comprehensive management service for Linux hosted environments that require round-the-clock business uptime."

Backed by hundreds of customer adoptions across all industries and around the world, NimBUS is an IT management platform completely developed in-house which provides scalable, resilient and reliable monitoring capabilities for organizations that wish to proactively manage critical IT resources against service level requirements. These resources include, but are not limited to, servers, hosts, applications, databases, networking services and network devices.

"Outstanding businesses like Rackspace recognize the power of efficient service-level management for continuous service quality demanded in larger enterprise environments," said Gary Read, President of Nimsoft. "We're thrilled to provide a sophisticated building block for advanced monitoring of enterprise-level Linux systems through our NimBUS solution."

About Nimsoft

Nimsoft is a premier provider of cost-effective service level management solutions for maximum business uptime and compliance. The future-ready NimBUS solution is already empowering hundreds of IT enterprises across industries and around the world to successfully manage against their SLA targets within a matter of hours. Nimsoft stands ready 24x7 to help its customers manage complex network systems with an advanced performance and service-level management solution built on a flexible architecture, and offering a cost of ownership that brings Service Level Management ... within reach. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com.

With US headquarters in San Mateo, California, European headquarters in Oslo, Norway, and regional offices in Spain, Sweden and the UK, Nimsoft is an Independent Software Vendor fully owned by its founders and employees and self-finances its growth with the proceeds from its operations.