Virtual Ark Integrates Nimsoft On Demand To Give Clients Rich Insight Into Its Next-Generation SaaS Offerings

Automation and Cost Savings Enable Growing MSP to Deliver Greater Business Value to Large Enterprise Customers CAMPBELL, Calif.– August 10, 2010 – Nimsoft, a CA Technologies company, today announced that international managed service provider (MSP) Virtual Ark has deployed Nimsoft On Demand as an integrated component of the Virtual Ark Platform. Nimsoft On Demand enables Virtual Ark to deliver highly scalable application managed services to large enterprise customers as part of its next-generation Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offerings, which give clients on-demand access to their traditional on-premise core business applications in the cloud. Companies are increasingly looking to SaaS for pay-per-use pricing, high availability, reduced capital and operating expense, and other benefits. Virtual Ark enables ISVs to rapidly enter this SaaS market by converting and managing traditional applications to work in public or private clouds, without significant re-engineering or the need for multi-tenant application redevelopment, and without the upfront investment and financial commitments typically faced by ISVs. With Nimsoft On Demand as a core component of its platform, Virtual Ark can provide clients with competitively differentiated real-time monitoring of SaaS resources. User-friendly dashboards offer at-a-glance information about the availability and performance of critical applications and services. Its comprehensive reporting tools also provide IT staff with deep insight into applications and services hosted in the cloud. Nimsoft On Demand significantly reduces the need for Virtual Ark to procure, implement and manage monitoring technology every time it adds more infrastructure or a new application. This helps lower Virtual Ark’s costs while enhancing its business agility. The solution’s “pay as you go” pricing also allows Virtual Ark to cost-efficiently grow its business and immediately respond to changing client needs. In addition, Virtual Ark expects to gain significant long-term ROI by using Nimsoft to focus on core competencies rather than on managing complex monitoring systems. “With Nimsoft On Demand, Virtual Ark can cost-effectively give end-users full visibility into their applications and assure our ISV partners that their service levels will meet or exceed market requirements,” said Marty Gauvin, CEO and president of Virtual Ark. “Nimsoft continues to be an innovator in monitoring services. With Nimsoft On Demand we can focus on what we do best: bringing applications and services of proven business value to companies looking for a smarter way to do IT.” Prior to selecting Nimsoft, Virtual Ark reviewed numerous monitoring solutions. Some were not scalable enough, while others were too complex and time-consuming to implement. Nimsoft On Demand was chosen for its unified monitoring capabilities, its ability to integrate with multiple cloud infrastructures, and its proven on-demand delivery model. Nimsoft On Demand is compatible with a wide range of public cloud environments, such as Amazon Web Services™, Rackspace Cloud™, Microsoft Windows Azure™, and Google App™ Engine. “On demand monitoring is a key enabler of SaaS and powerfully enhances its core value proposition,” said Gary Read, CEO of Nimsoft. “Virtual Ark’s choice of Nimsoft as its strategic monitoring solution, confirms that our approach to SaaS enablement is superior to the competition and that it offers differentiated value to today’s top MSPs.” Virtual Ark is an international application managed services company that uses next-generation Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) enabled by the cloud, to provide large enterprise organizations with on-demand global access to their core business applications on existing public and private cloud services. This next-generation SaaS model provided by Virtual Ark offers substantial competitive advantages to enterprises through a "pay-as-you-use" system that reduces fixed costs for IT and increases flexibility for rapidly responding to market demands. For more information, visit Nimsoft, a CA Technologies company, provides Unified Monitoring solutions for virtualized data centers, hosted and managed services, cloud platforms, and SaaS resources. The Nimsoft Unified Monitoring architecture eliminates the need to deploy a new monitoring solution for outsourced services, public or private clouds, or SaaS implementations. About 800 customers use Nimsoft Unified Monitoring solutions, including hundreds of leading hosting, cloud and managed service providers such as 1&1, BlueLock, CDW, Hitachi, QTS, Rackspace, SoftLayer and Troubadour. For more information, visit or to see Nimsoft Unified Monitoring in action, visit the Nimsoft public portal at .