05/07/2008

Ipswitch, Inc.’s Network Management division, the leading developer of network management software, announced today the immediate availability of WhatsUp Gold Version 12 Standard, Premium, Distributed and MSP Editions.

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WhatsUp Gold product family enhancements include a number of new features that enable true real-time monitoring of network devices and add configurable reports to allow up-to-the-second intelligence about and visibility into monitored systems or devices. Additional updates give WhatsUp Gold far more scalability, functionality and capabilities than point products aimed at small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs), with pricing that is often many times lower than competitors’ enterprise-class network management solutions.

Warner Music Italy, a division of Warner Music Group, which handles globally recognized record labels in the music industry including Atlantic, Warner Bros and Rhino, has been successfully trialing WhatsUp Gold Version 12 across its operations.

"As a leading music publisher, it is important for us to be on song when it comes to understanding our complex network," explains Warner Music Italy IT Manager, Claudio Rivabene. "We found Ipswitch's WhatsUp Gold version 12 to be the number one solution to help us manage and monitor our whole infrastructure spanning between Milan, Rome and Athens."

The enhancements to the WhatsUp Gold product family build on Ipswitch’s award winning, scalable architecture and the capabilities that managers of over 70,000 networks and over three million networked devices have come to count on. WhatsUp Gold v12’s unique modular framework provides users with predictive network management and monitoring of critical IT infrastructures. The WhatsUp Gold product family is built on a scalable, common architecture to support organizations of all sizes and grow with its customers’ businesses, providing consistent, easy-to-use management and monitoring interfaces, transparent upgrade paths and the lowest acquisition cost and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) available.

“IT networks are a crucial component of business strategy and represent the fundamental path to growth for many organizations,” said Warren Neuburger, President of the Ipswitch Network Management division. “WhatsUp Gold v12 enables network engineers to take a proactive and predictive approach to network management so their networks stay healthy and continue facilitating business growth. Moreover, WhatsUp Gold can scale with an organization as it grows so there is no need to implement new systems or retrain personnel, and historical data is never lost.”