Nimsoft has announced that Global Data Systems (GDS), a provider of network solutions, plans to deploy the Nimsoft Network Monitoring Solution (NMS) to replace multiple tools in its network operations center (NOC (News - Alert)).

NMS enables unified monitoring of client infrastructures, eliminating the need to manage and integrate multiple disparate monitoring tools. Additionally, it also adds significant value with an intuitive client-facing portal and automated alerting features.

Company officials said that NMS supports GDS's strategic migration to more virtualized, cloud-based infrastructure. Currently, GDS runs 11 different tools in its NOC, providing clients with complete monitoring, trend analysis, historical analysis and trouble-ticketing. 

With deployment of NMS, GDS expects to eliminate seven of those systems; thereby significantly reducing its technology integration and ownership costs. Additionally, NMS is also expected to reduce GDS's scripting and management workloads without compromising functionality.

“Our value proposition centers around freeing up resources for our clients, so they can focus on their core competencies and not worry about IT,” said Chris Wickman, managed services manager at GDS.

Wickman said that by integration their monitoring services with NMS, the clients will be able to easily access the real-time information they need about the health and performance of their applications -- and GDS will be better able to offer competitively differentiated cloud offerings.

GDS clients are expected to benefit from the added visibility and insight that NMS will give them into their infrastructures, as well as from the reduced costs resulting from GDS's own cost savings, said Nimsoft officials.

"NMS helps service providers like GDS deliver significant value to their clients by enhancing capabilities while reducing costs," said Gary Read, senior vice president and general manager at Nimsoft, adding that as GDS continues to evolve its cloud offerings, Nimsoft will continue to develop solutions that keep pace with their innovation.

Nimsoft, a CA (News - Alert) Technologies company, provides Unified Monitoring solutions for virtualized data centers, hosted and managed services, cloud platforms, and software as a service (SaaS (News - Alert)) resources.