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Ipswitch, Inc. Extends Power of WhatsUp® Gold Platform to Multi-site, Geographically Distributed Enterprises

WhatsUp Gold Distributed Edition is built for network administrators in multi-site WAN environments challenged by geographic distance, limited staff and dynamic network technologies

Lexington, Massachusetts - November 13, 2007 – Ipswitch, Inc., a leading developer of network monitoring, messaging and secure managed file transfer solutions, announced today the immediate availability of WhatsUp® Gold Distributed Edition. The new software offers businesses an easy-to-use, easy-to-deploy, centralized network monitoring solution for organizations of up to 1,000 employees that are challenged by geographically dispersed operations and limited IT staff.

Growing need to report on networking conditions to both IT and business
Ipswitch’s latest addition to the marketplace comes at a time when IT professionals at companies of all sizes are concerned about maintaining critical network and application service across multiple business locations.  These businesses need to maintain Network Operations Centers (“NOCs”) and balance the amount of data being pushed back to the NOC from the remote locations with the need for quick and easy problem identification and resolution, and must do all of this within static or shrinking budgets. 

With Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold Distributed, organizations of every size can benefit from the productivity of a central dashboard or NOC. WhatsUp Gold’s screen manager utility allows companies of any size to afford to build an intelligent dashboard that centralizes site views and device status summaries per site on a single screen or group of screens at the NOC. WUG Distributed is an efficient solution that displays only the information that is needed. All reports and actions trigger locally at the remote site but can be configured from the central site with or without a VPN connection.

WhatsUp Gold Distributed allows for a non-VPN connection to communicate the status of all devices back to the central site. A quarterly availability report has been designed to act as an SLA report that permits a manager to report on the job performance per remote site.

Benefits of WhatsUp Gold Distributed

  • Lightweight, Actionable and Data-Centric
    • WhatsUp Gold Distributed reports to the central site on the status of all devices per site only. Unlike other solutions which require large amounts of data transferred to the central install, WUG Distributed has been designed with the efficient network in mind, eliminating the potential of bottlenecks in the network due to data overload.
  • NOC-Ready
    • alert them of any change deemed important based on the rules set forth by the administrator.
  • Proven WhatsUp Architecture
    • WhatsUp Distributed is a new offering built upon a proven, award-winning, scalable platform that leads the market in breath of functionality and usability. It represents all the positive features of the WhatsUp platform extended to distributed environments.
  • Extensibility
    • WhatsUp Gold Distributed allows for easy exchange of its proprietary server (modeled after Microsoft IIS) to IIS and the exchange of its MSDE database to a fully functioning SQL exchange. WUG Distributed can extend to environments running Linux and UNIX with SNMP-capable agents providing monitoring of availability, memory and CPU utilization. WUG Distributed also has a built-in scripting module that enables administrators to extend their WhatsUp collaboration with help desk solutions like Remedy and other application monitoring systems.

“Ipswitch Distributed is a versatile product that streamlines network management in geographically dispersed environments,” said Ennio Carboni, VP of Network Management solutions, Ipswitch. “The Distributed edition puts even more power into the hands of network administrators to further drive usage, reporting across sites and desired business outcomes.”

Pricing and Availability
Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold Distributed Edition is available from Ipswitch and its worldwide network of distributors and resellers, and is priced starting at $3,095 for the central installation and $2,206 for each remote installation with up to 100 devices each.  Central and remote installs area also available for 300, 500 and unlimited device counts.  Users of Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold Premium v11 with active service agreements can upgrade their software to a central install of the Distributed edition for $500. 

About Ipswitch, Inc.
Ipswitch develops and markets innovative IT software that is easy to learn and use. More than 100 million people worldwide use Ipswitch software to monitor their networks with Ipswitch WhatsUp®, transfer files over the Internet using the market leading Ipswitch WS_FTP® Professional client and Ipswitch WS_FTP Server and communicate via Ipswitch IMail Server. To view the Daily Network Monitor blog, visit http://www.dailynetworkmonitor.com/. For product and sales information, visit http://www.ipswitch.com. Ipswitch values community involvement; visit http://icare.ipswitch.com to find out how to become involved.

Press Contact:
David Karp
Director of Marketing
Ipswitch, Inc.
(781) 676-5789