User:Vishsuri/WhatsUpGold

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Ipswitch, Inc.
Company typePrivately held company
IndustryNetwork Management, Application Management and Storage Management
Founded1991
Headquarters,
Key people
  • Roger Green, Chief Executive Officer
  • Azmi Jafarey, Chief Information Officer
  • Ennio Carboni, President, Network Management Division
Number of employees
200+
Websitehttp://www.whatsupgold.com

WhatsUpGold (WUG) is a network management and monitoring software produced by Ipswitch, Inc.

Editions and Plug-Ins[edit]

WhatsUpGold is sold in three different editions:

  • WhatsUpGold Premium
  • WhatsUpGold Standard
  • WhatsUpGold Distributed

Along with the core products Premium, Standard and Distributed, system administrators also use the following plug-ins to monitor and manage their networks[1]:

  • WhatsConfigured for automated network device and configuration file backup, restoration and storage and automated change management processes.
  • WhatsConnected, a layer 2/3 network discovery tool that provides the ability to depict, visualize and document device connectivity within the network down to the individual port.
  • WhatsVirtual provides management of physical and virtual environments from a single console.
  • Flow Monitor provides insight into network bandwidth and capacity utilizations.
  • Flow Publisher extends the capabilities of Flow Monitor to offer insight and visibility into the network traffic for every device.
  • VoIP Monitor delivers the capability to monitor and report on a network’s capacity to support and maintain acceptable call quality for Voice over IP (VoIP).

WhatsUpGold recently launched free Engineer's Toolkit, which is a collection of tools for daily network diagnostic, troubleshooting, and monitoring tasks.

Awards[edit]

  • WhatsUpGold was named Network Management Product of 2010 by Network Computing Magazine.[2]
  • WhatsUp Gold v12 Premium Edition received Excellent rating from ZDNet [3]
  • ITPro gave WhatsUp Gold V12 5 out of 6 Stars! [4]
  • WhatsUp Gold won "Works Right out of the Box" 2008 Editor's Choice Award [5]

Technology Partners[edit]

The Ipswitch Network Management Division also has partnerships with with the following companies[6].

  • Cisco
  • Autotask
  • Tigerpaw
  • AlarmTILT
  • Orsenna

References[edit]

  1. ^ http://www.whatsupgold.com/products/index.aspx
  2. ^ "2010 Product Innovations - Network Products Guide".
  3. ^ "WhatsUp Gold v12 Premium Edition Review - ZNet".
  4. ^ http://www.itpro.co.uk/604752/ipswitch-whatsupgold-v12-premium-edition
  5. ^ http://redmondmag.com/articles/2008/01/01/the-2008-editors-choice-awards.aspx#box
  6. ^ http://www.whatsupgold.com/partners/product-technology-partners.aspx

--Vishsuri (talk) 14:13, 11 August 2010 (UTC)