computer science

Nimsoft

Nimsoft is a computer science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Nimsoft rather than just read about it. In short: Nimsoft was an independent company software vendor that offered information technology (IT) monitoring, service desk products, and services. It was acquired by CA Inc. in 2010, and since October 2012 its products were integrated into that business.

Key takeaways

Nimsoft belongs to computer science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Nimsoft to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Nimsoft from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Nimsoft was an independent company software vendor that offered information technology (IT) monitoring, service desk products, and services. It was acquired by CA Inc. in 2010, and since October 2012 its products were integrated into that business. The Nimsoft brand is still used by CA. Nimsoft products allow users to monitor and manage business services and specific systems within the IT infrastructure, including network components, servers, databases, applications, virtualized environments and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology. Nimsoft software also allows customers to monitor systems hosted in internal data centers, as well as in externally hosted environments, including software as a service (SaaS) and cloud computing environments.

History Nimbus Software was founded in Oslo, Norway, in 1998 (not to be confused with Nimbus Data). Converse Software, the exclusive US distributor of Nimbus Software, was founded in Silicon Valley in 2002. Nimbus Software and Converse Software merged in 2004 to form Nimsoft. Gary Read, the founder of the US distributor, was appointed CEO and the new company's headquarters were established in Silicon Valley. In 2007 a 10.3 million Series A round of funding from JMI Equity and Northzone Ventures closed. Nimsoft acquired Indicative Software in April 2008 to offer business service management and established a new research and development base in Fort Collins, Colorado. Nimsoft received the San Francisco Business Times 2008 "Best Place to Work Award". Nimsoft closed a $12 million funding round led by Goldman Sachs in October 2008. In May 2009 Nimsoft acquired the intellectual property assets of Cittio. It allowed users access to product capabilities including network discovery, topology mapping, and root cause analysis (RCA) utilizing graph theory. That October Nimsoft announced its unified monitoring architecture to monitor externally hosted systems and services, including SaaS and cloud computing-based IT infrastructures. In March 2010, CA Inc. announced it would acquire Nimsoft for $350 million. In September 2010, Nimsoft extended its software to allow support of Vblock products from the VCE Company. In April 2011, Nimsoft announced its Unified Manager, software combining IT monitoring and service management. Enhanced management support for NetApp storage was announced in June. CA acquired Netherlands-based WatchMouse in July, and its software was integrated into Nimsoft. Nimsoft ceased to exist as an independent operating unit within CA in 2012, although the same products are still offered under that brand name. Since CA Inc. was acquired by Broadcom in 2018, the product has been re-branded as DX Unified Infrastructure Management.

References

External links Nimsoft Unified Monitoring Site

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Nimsoft

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Nimsoft claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In computer science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Nimsoft before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Nimsoft ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Nimsoft

In research: Nimsoft appears in computer science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Nimsoft in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Nimsoft is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Computer Associates, Defunct software companies of the United States, Information technology companies of the United States, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Nimsoft outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Nimsoft in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Nimsoft means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Nimsoft out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Nimsoft in simple terms?

Why does Nimsoft matter?

Because it connects several computer science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Nimsoft?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Nimsoft.