
Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold unified infrastructure and application monitoring software won Gold in the Network Management category in Network Products Guide’s (NPG) 11th Annual IT World Awards.
Network Products Guide is a technology and research advisory guide and its IT World Awards honor achievements and recognitions in every facet of the IT industry.
WhatsUp Gold reimagines how IT teams discover, visualize, troubleshoot and monitor networks, servers, virtual machines and applications, all with a single, cost-effective TotalView license that delivers the best value and most flexibility in the industry. With WhatsUp Gold, IT teams are able to discover, visualize and interact with their IT environment via advanced visualization technology; troubleshoot faster with intuitive maps, workflows and dashboards; and monitor their entire environment with one flexible Ipswitch software license.
“Winning Gold in NPG’s IT World Awards is a testament to our dedication to empowering IT teams with the tools that simply help them get the job done,” said Austin O’Malley, CPO at Ipswitch. “WhatsUp Gold is helping thousands of companies across several vertical industries – including government, finance and healthcare – to keep up with the ever-changing needs of today’s businesses – changes that put enormous pressure on IT teams.”
Ipswitch IT and network management software provides secure control over applications, infrastructure and business transactions. The company is known for fair prices, honest business practices and software that works out of the box – the kind of simply powerful software needed to manage today’s cloud, virtual and networked environments, enabling IT teams everywhere to perform like never before.
The annual NPG IT World Awards recognition program encompasses the world’s best in organizational performance, products and services, hot technologies, executives and management teams, successful deployments, product management and engineering, customer satisfaction and public relations in every area of information technology.
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