CA Acquires Cloud Monitoring Company Nimsoft For $350 Million

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Mar 10, 2010

IT software giant CA has acquired cloud monitoring startup Nimsoft for $350 million according to a release issued today. Nimsoft offers performance monitoring software to businesses.

CA is making a big move towards the cloud. The company just bought up 3Tera, Cassatt, NetQoS and Oblicore.

Nimsoft’s solutions gives companies visibility into the performance and availability of their customers’ business applications across both internal and external IT infrastructures. Nimsoft has developed monitoring and reporting solutions for public cloud and on-demand offerings like Google Apps for Business, The Rackspace Cloud, Amazon Web Services and EC2, Salesforce.com, as well as internal applications, databases, and physical and virtual server environments. CA says that Nimsoft will help the company capitalize on the growth of cloud computing. Nimsoft has approximately 800 customers.

Founded in 2002, Nimsoft raised a total of $22.3 million in funding and acquired Indicative Software in 2008.

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eCurmudgeon

Computer Associates: Where acquired companies go to die.
Saleem

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disgusted w/CA

CA buys what they can’t create which is most of their portfolio. Then they go about ruining what they bought and kludging it onto their bloated frameworks.
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http://datacenterdialog.blogspot.com Jay Fry

Gary Read, the Nimsoft CEO posted a comment on his blog, responding to some pokes by Nimsoft customers who didn’t sound pleased about the CA deal (sounding a lot like eCurmedgeon who commented above). From Gary: “You know what, if this were many years ago I would agree with you…But, it’s 2010 and CA is a different company.”

And even if folks don’t believe that (I was certainly skeptical when I joined back in June from Cassatt), he asked for the chance to “let us prove you wrong and be open minded enough to admit it when we do.”

Gary’s blog comment is here: http://www.nimsoft.com/blogs/?p=641&cpage=1#comment-503
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what I find hilarious is that Gary Read was taking shots at vendors like CA and BMC as recently as Q4 2009 and now he snuggles up to them. Just goes to show who is really running that ship (i.e. VC’s). Nimsoft had only raised about $20M in VC money so this is a huge score for the VC’s that backed Nimsoft.
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[...] is hot right now and enterprise companies are waking up to this. For example, CA just acquired cloud monitoring startup Nimsoft Nimsoft for $350 million, along with a number of other purchases of cloud-related monitoring companies. [...]
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