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New Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold Release Reduces Complexity for IT Teams and Extends Network and Systems Management Value Leadership
Ipswitch
today released WhatsUp
Gold 16.3 with innovations that significantly improve the power and
user experience of their industry-leading network and system monitoring
software for IT teams. The release includes the industry's first and
only native support for Cisco NetFlow-Lite, expanded Microsoft (News - Alert)
application performance monitoring and top customer requests for
increasing productivity and monitoring flexibility.
"It's amazing to see other customers provide feedback and then see those
same ideas and features incorporated into WhatsUp Gold releases like
this one," said Matt Cline, Senior Systems Administrator at Optim
Health. "I like the new WhatsUp Gold interface because it's clean and
modern, and the expanded pre-defined profiles for Microsoft applications
are really useful for finding problems like slow database performance on
production servers."
New features in Ipswitch (News - Alert) WhatsUp Gold 16.3
include:
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Improved User Experience: A new user interface greatly enhances
the user experience and offers simplified navigation
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Faster and Easier Software Installation and Network Discovery:
A new software installer and network discovery wizard reduces
installation and deployment steps by fifty percent
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Simple,
Customer-Friendly Licensing: New unrestricted licensing
option expands the award-winning Ipswitch device-based
licensing model that provides IT Teams total network visibility
without cmpromise. Users have the freedom to monitor full devices
without vendor-imposed restrictions by elements, interfaces or
monitors that create costly surprises at renewal time.
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First
and Only Native Support for Cisco® NetFlow-Lite: Fine-grained
support for Cisco (News - Alert) Netflow-Lite gives IT teams better traffic flow
visibility, improved network planning and simplified troubleshooting,
and eliminates the need for a third party aggregator to understand and
analyze network traffic flow.
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Powerful
Monitoring for Microsoft Applications: The latest
version of WhatsUp Gold provides expanded application performance
monitoring (APM (News - Alert)) support for Microsoft® Exchange, SharePoint®,
Dynamics, Lync®, SQL Server®, Internet Information Services (IIS),
Windows®, Active Directory® and Hyper-V®. With version 16.3, IT teams
can leverage Microsoft expert knowledge via pre-defined profiles to
monitor application performance and dependencies. They can easily get
alerts, isolate the root cause of performance problems and fix
problems quickly.
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Increased Productivity: WhatsUp Gold 16.3 provides IT teams
with one-click device maintenance mode and granular control of
blackout schedules and alerts. The latest version also provides smart
action policies when devices are down. To further increase
productivity and shorten time-to-value, an updated discovery wizard
ensures faster and more streamlined set up and discovery.
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Enhanced Monitoring Flexibility: Version 16.3 gives operators
expanded customization options and encryption support for Secure Shell
(SSH) monitoring. Operators also have detailed control of Windows
mount points.
"Ipswitch continues to deliver products that reflect a full and active
understanding of what is important for monitoring and managing today's
network infrastructures," said Jim Frey, Vice President of Research at
Enterprise Management Associates. "On top of that, the WhatsUp Gold
device-based pricing model is one of the least complex licensing models
we've encountered."
"Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold 16.3 provides an improved user experience,
simplifies key tasks and expands our industry-leading device-based
licensing model," said Austin O'Malley, Chief Products Officer at
Ipswitch. "The new upgrade also delivers greater visibility into network
and application performance and quickly identifies issues to reduce
troubleshooting time, allowing IT teams to efficiently monitor and
manage network and system performance to meet the demands of a more
mobile and connected workforce."
About Ipswitch Ipswitch helps solve complex IT problems with
simple solutions. The company's software has been installed on more than
150,000 networks spanning 168 countries to monitor networks,
applications and servers, and securely transfer files between systems,
business partners and customers. Ipswitch was founded in 1991 and is
based in Lexington, Massachusetts with offices throughout the U.S.,
Europe, Asia and Latin America. For more information, visit www.ipswitch.com.
Ipswitch and WhatsUp Gold are registered trademarks of Ipswitch, Inc. in
the U.S. and other countries. Microsoft®, SharePoint®, Lync®, SQL
Server®, Windows®, Active Directory® and Hyper-V® are registered
trademarks of Microsoft Inc. Cisco is a registered trademark of Cisco
Inc. All other trademarks included in this document are the property of
their respective owners.
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