Nimsoft, a Unified Monitoring solutions company, made a press announcement. 1&1 web hosting services (1and1), the world’s largest web hosting company, has chosen Nimsoft to monitor the entire 1&1 server infrastructure. That is a tremendous workload of nearly 65,000 servers. Which positively means this is a very large business deal. 1&1 hosting had evaluated deals from IBM, Hyperic and Nimsoft. 1&1 finally chose “Nimsoft Monitoring Solutions” (NMS) because of scalability, ease of deployment, security issues, cost, and a variety of factors.

Henning Kettler, Chief Technical Officer of 1&1 web hosting, stated:

“In the end, we found that Nimsoft was the only solution that met our requirements for scalability, ease, and off-the-shelf capabilities, while at the same time delivering the flexibility we’d need to adapt to our evolving requirements. As a result, we’re able to deploy quickly and get immediate benefits and have confidence that the solution will deliver value in the long term.”

1&1 mentioned Nimsoft offered the “ideal solution” with their distributed architecture and security model. 1&1 webhosting was referring to the “Nimsoft Unified Monitoring Architecture” which offers complete visibility for the performance and availability of business applications for both internal IT infrastructures as well as external IT infrastructures. Nimsoft is equipped to handle any potential customer’s needs: whether SaaS (Software as a Service), IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) or even PaaS (Platform as a Service).

GaryRead, Nimsoft President and CEO, says:

“1&1’s selection of Nimsoft is a tremendous testament to the scalability of our solution. With NMS, 1&1 gains the ability to efficiently monitor its vast infrastructure, and so reduce administrative time and expense, while at the same time boosting the availability and performance of its services.”

1&1 web hosting was especially concerned about scalability and security. As the world’s largest webhost, 1&1 has a need to aggregate massive amounts of monitoring data that is unparalleled.