Meet the Partner
"GroundWork and Novell understand customers' demonstrated need for powerful but cost-effective tools for managing IT infrastructure. Working together, we are delivering practical and affordable open source solutions that change the economics of IT operations management."
Ranga Rangachari
CEO
Groundwork
GroundWork and Novell are providing customers with enterprise-class open source IT management solutions. The first offering, GroundWork Monitor, provides monitoring and management of all components in a customer's IT infrastructure—including servers, network devices, databases, and applications. GroundWork Monitor provides the functionality of expensive IT management software solutions for a fraction of the cost and without the burden of vendor lock-in or closed proprietary architectures. GroundWork Monitor runs on SUSE Linux, and integrates and enhances best-of-breed open source components. The product is delivered as a comprehensive and supported solution that is easy to install, operate and manage.
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Groundwork Monitor
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From OpenView to Open Source
IT teams have long recognized that an enterprise-class IT management system is absolutely essential, especially given the mission-critical nature of most corporate IT networks. Yet for many years, IT executives resigned themselves to a frustrating reality: To fulfill their need for robust IT monitoring and management functionality, they had no alternative but to use a proprietary solution—even though these commercial platforms (such as HP OpenView and IBM Tivoli) have been widely criticized as expensive, overly complex, and difficult to deploy and manage.
Today that picture is changing. While the need for enterprise-class IT management solutions is more acute than ever, today's IT teams now have a dramatically expanded set of options to meet this critical need. The change has come in the form of open source solutions, which have rapidly matured to a level of robust functionality and enterprise-class reliability.
Download "From OpenView to Open Source" to learn why leading companies are deploying open source IT management systems, which open source tools can do the job, and how to get started. +
Success Story
"GroundWork delivered on its promise of comprehensive functionality at a low cost. And unlike commercial tools, the solution was designed, delivered, implemented, calibrated and documented within days." +
