Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold Offers Powerful Network Monitoring for Free; WUG Starter Kit Delivers Comprehensive Network Monitoring Free for Twelve Months

Lexington, MA, August 19, 2009 --(PR.com)-- Ipswitch’s network management division, a developer of innovative network monitoring and management solutions, announces the immediate availability of the WUG Starter Kit. The WUG Starter Kit offers users a free twelve month license of WhatsUp Gold v14 Standard Edition with the ability to monitor up to three devices.

Network managers have an important job to do in keeping the company’s IT infrastructure up and performing at its peak. Without a properly functioning network, business comes to a standstill. With so much riding on this one task, it makes sense to bring in help in the form of a powerful, comprehensive and extensive network monitoring solution. With the WUG Starter Kit, users have the ability to experience the innovative functionality of WhatsUp Gold, for a full year and find out firsthand how it will make their lives easier.

The WUG Starter Kit delivers:
· High performance predictive and pre-emptive monitoring of networks and systems infrastructure and core IP services 24/7
· Highly flexible, automated, and comprehensive network discovery and mapping
· A powerful alert management platform, featuring easy to use alarms, alerts and notification capabilities for real-time operations support
· Quick navigation with intuitive Web and Windows consoles
· Air-tight security and configurable role-based management
· A platform installed in just minutes and designed to be simple and intuitive to use right out of the box

Get a more in-depth overview of the new WUG Starter Kit and find out how it gives network managers a much more intimate view of, and complete control over, their network by visiting http://www.whatsupgold.com/products/download/free.aspx.

WhatsUp Gold - Know Your Network

Ipswitch™ WhatsUp® Gold is a network management software solution with over 100,000 networks reliably managed worldwide. Built on a scalable architecture offering automated network discovery and network mapping, real-time network monitoring (including SNMP monitoring and WMI monitoring), and versatile alerting, notification, and reporting functionality, WhatsUp Gold provides intelligent and easy to use, extensive network management that goes beyond simple device availability and delivers comprehensive troubleshooting.

WhatsUp Gold scales from the small business to the large enterprise, and its functionality can be easily extended with additional plug-in modules: WhatsUp Gold WhatsConnected™ for Layer 2/Layer 3 discovery, mapping and visualization; WhatsUp Gold Flow Monitor for network performance and utilization monitoring; and WhatsUp Gold VoIP Monitor for precise measurement of a converged network’s ability to provide the quality of service (QoS) necessary for VoIP. To learn more about WhatsUp Gold, download a free trial or to make a purchase visit: http://www.whatsupgold.com/products/download.

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