Like Lindsay Lohan and Carly Rae Jepson, the data center without virtualization is slowly fading into the realm of memory alone. Unlike that pair, there are ways to monitor and control their behavior in the modern world. But in all seriousness, virtualization monitoring is ... Read More →

A further reminder to any of our customers who are facing the after effects of Hurricane Sandy. Please continue to reach out to us for assistance. We've been in touch with customers in Brooklyn and other areas affected who have been using GroundWork Monitor for rapid service restoration ... Read More →

It seems like just yesterday (actually it was 14 months ago) that we moved from our offices near AT&T Park to Howard and Hawthorne. However, it was time for a change, and yet again, we have relocated a few blocks away to 201 Spear Street. Our new ... Read More →

Today, GroundWork released GroundWork Monitor Core, a FREE, feature-identical version of GroundWork Monitor Enterprise. Providing all the same product features as our flagship GroundWork Monitor Enterprise, a license to monitor up to 50 devices and community-based support. We have prepared answers to some of the questions that you may have ... Read More →

GroundWork has called Townsend Street in San Francisco home for over 4 years, and it has been a great area of the city to work. Yet, with the need for a larger office space, we have relocated to the heart of the SOMA district. Although we are sad ... Read More →

GroundWork has joined 64 other companies, as part of the Open Virtualization Alliance, which aims to foster the adoption of open virtualization technologies by providing education, best practices and technical advice to businesses. We are excited about the potential of this alliance and how it plays into our open platform ... Read More →

GroundWork is looking for a Support Engineer to join the team! Qualifications Include: [checklist] Familiarity with at least one of the following Open Source Tools: Cacti, Nagios(R), Nagios(R) plugins, RRDTool, SNMPTT, Syslog-NG, MySQL Must be proficient in at least one scripting language. Familiarity with java, perl, c, and php are a plus. Familiarity with JBOSS ... Read More →

We recently had a question on our forums asking if GroundWork Monitor CE 6.0 is "dead". Since the forums are mostly focused on technical issues, and this is a company policy question, we've decided to respond on our company blog.  We've also edited into a Q&A format to make the ... Read More →

We’re happy to announce that the latest version of Groundwork Monitor Enterprise (Release 6.3) is now available under our Enterprise Quickstart (EQS) program. For those unfamiliar with EQS, it includes: A copy of GroundWork Monitor Release 6.3 software Monitoring for up to 50 devices Access to on-demand training 60 days of email-based support Priced ... Read More →

Today we are releasing the latest version (6.3) of our flagship GroundWork Monitor Enterprise, with a host of features our customers have asked for. The two big themes are visualization tools and the return of an old favorite—the trouble-view dashboard. We also add support for accessing GroundWork Monitor on the ... Read More →

Congratulations to the employees and stockholders of ArcSight on the pending sale of a great company to Hewlett-Packard. While HP and ArcSight begin the arduous task of knitting together products, channels, organizations, roadmaps, I thought you might want to know how easily products like ArcSight Logger™ and other log ... Read More →

Green IT has been a hot topic of late, and GroundWork Open Source is looking for ways to help users make their IT greener while saving money on electricity. Our partner Modius® Software is the leading provider of performance management software the power and cooling systems that run data centers. For ... Read More →

Almost a year ago, we introduced the GroundWork Monitor Enterprise Quickstart. The goal was to offer an cost-effective and efficient way for companies to deploy GWOS Monitor in their environment. We wanted to go beyond the usual “access to the software” and include support and training to really help evaluators and ... Read More →

We're planning out some great new capabilities for GroundWork Monitor and a wanted to share a taste of things to come. We're simultaneously working in a couple of core areas: Visualization of monitoring information through different lenses - physical topology, business process and logical flow. Our partners have been very ... Read More →

We regularly receive feedback from customers and other GroundWork Monitor users about product features and integrations that would make GroundWork Monitor more useful to them. Lately, we’ve been getting more questions about integrating GroundWork Monitor with trouble ticketing and help desk systems. You can help guide GWOS in our product roadmap ... Read More →

It’s nice to be noticed. GWOS has had multiple tweets on our recent Wall Street Journal ad. Tireless Matt Assay "mjasay" has checked in, as did Erica Brescia, CEO of our partner Bitrock, and industry analyst Eric Goodness. Humbly, let me say that GroundWork Open Source ... Read More →

If you are an Ubuntu shop, we are happy to deliver a pre-configured GroundWork Monitor Enterprise appliance built upon Canonical's Ubuntu 9.10. Last month, we announced support for Enterprise Server (excluding NMS add-ons) running on Ubuntu, and this month we package it up so that you have a stable, ready-to-go package ... Read More →

I'm happy to announce we just released GroundWork Monitor Enterprise 6.1.1. As a minor release it doesn't have much in the way of new features but it does include some really popular customer requests: Status viewer page load times greatly improved. Our testing team claims navigating around the status viewer ... Read More →

2009 was a fantastic year for GWOS, the investments we made in the Release 6 platform, Flex pricing and Enterprise Quickstart paying off in a massive increase in the GWOS install base.  Those new users brought a lot of new use-cases and ideas and suggestions for improvements we’ve ... Read More →