San Jose, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 06/12/2012 -- Monitis Inc., the enterprise-grade web and cloud systems monitoring company, today announced the release of its free offering, Monitor.Us, in both German and Brazilian Portuguese language versions. Monitor.Us customers can now monitor their web and cloud systems from the same cloud-based dashboard in their native language; enhancing their user experience of the free product.

Identical to the English version of Monitor.Us in every way, the German and Brazilian Portuguese versions of the monitoring platform provides the ideal way for native users to stay in total control of their web and cloud systems and share their results with internal users or customers in their native language.

Hovhannes Avoyan, Founder and General Manager of Monitis Inc. said, "We are seeing an increasing interest in Monitor.Us and Monitis from the German-speaking and Brazilian Portuguese-speaking world. Providing them with our powerful monitoring tool in their native language is yet one more way that Monitor.Us is seeking to liberate our users from the confines of 'monitoring-as-usual'."

To get started, the language variations are easily activated by changing the language settings from within the Monitor.Us dashboard.

To learn more about Monitor.Us and to begin using this free service in English, German, or Brazilian Portuguese, please visit: http://www.monitor.us.

About Monitis Inc.
Monitis Inc. is a specialist provider of web and cloud monitoring services that include website monitoring, site load testing, transaction monitoring, application and database monitoring, cloud resource monitoring, and server and internal network monitoring within one easy-to-use dashboard. Over 100,000 users worldwide have chosen Monitis as their provider of choice to increase uptime and user experience of their services and products. What makes Monitis' solutions different is that they are fast to deploy, feature-rich in technology and provide a comprehensive single-pane view of on-premise and off-premise infrastructure and applications.

Monitis offers its services in two versions: premium and free. The free version, Monitor.Us, is the pioneering free web and cloud systems monitoring service. Sponsored by Monitis, Monitor.Us gives home and small business users access to leading-edge availability and performance monitoring within one easy-to-use dashboard. Other than a handful of purely enterprise-grade features, the core differences between the Monitis and Monitor.Us products are the ability to save monitoring history, the number of monitoring locations, and the frequency of checks. For more information please visit http://www.monitis.com

Monitis was acquired by GFI Software in October 2011.

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San Jose, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 04/16/2012 -- Monitis(TM), the award-winning provider of the leading all-in-one, Cloud-based, IT systems monitoring platform, today announced the launch of the FREE Brandable Reporting Tool, which gives Monitis users the ability to brand their shared Monitis reports and host shared reports under their own domain name.

Available from within Monitis' dashboard, this simple and easy-to-use tool enables Monitis users to:

- Easily host their shared pages under their company's domain.
- Easily brand their shared pages with their own corporate identity.
- Quickly impress their clients with a branded page to emphasize their high standards.
- Rapidly raise their SEO ranking with dynamic pages under their own domain, while making sure their visitors always return to them for real-time fresh content
- Efficiently allow their shared pages be presented as though they are an integral part of their website, not compromising on A-level monitoring data.

Hovhannes Avoyan, General Manager at Monitis said, "Our new Brandable Reporting Tool gives our users extra power to control the look, feel, and provenance of their reports. It's just another in a myriad of ways that Monitis is freeing up serious IT professionals to transform the way they do monitoring."

About Monitis
The leading provider of easy-to-use, pay-as-you-go, enterprise-class network and systems monitoring software as a service (SaaS) for IT support specialists. With more than 80,000 users worldwide have chosen Monitis to increase uptime and user experience of their services and products. Their core product offerings include website monitoring, site load testing, transaction monitoring, application and database monitoring, cloud resource monitoring, and server and internal network monitoring.

What makes Monitis' software different is how fast it is to deploy, its flexible pricing, and it's feature-rich technology that provides a comprehensive single-pane view of on-premise and off-premise infrastructure and applications.

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The addition of Monitis strongly positions GFI Software to solve the unprecedented IT management challenges arising from the rapid adoption of cloud computing

Clearwater, FL -- (SBWIRE) -- 02/17/2012 -- GFI Software today announced that it has acquired Monitis, the pioneer of cloud-based network and systems monitoring solutions. This acquisition further strengthens GFI's ability to provide affordable end-to-end systems monitoring for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and to be a one-stop shop for managing heterogeneous IT infrastructures, be they on-premise, hosted or in the cloud.

"Today's acquisition shows our commitment to expanding our solutions, helping our customers succeed in the rapid uptake of cloud-based services," said Walter Scott, CEO of GFI Software. "As more and more SMBs adopt cloud computing, GFI is diversifying its own product portfolio to ensure we continue delivering the technology that ensures our customers remain leaders in their fields. While cloud computing enables companies to cut costs and streamline operations, it adds an unprecedented layer of management challenges for which Monitis offers a great fit."

Monitis specializes in cloud-based software and infrastructure monitoring. Its solutions provide time-pressed IT administrators and IT support companies with a complete infrastructure view. With Monitis, users can monitor, test and manage the performance of on-premise and off-premise infrastructure and applications.

More than 80,000 users worldwide rely on Monitis. More than 200,000 websites and cloud-based applications are monitored and maintained by Monitis services, with more than 40 million checks and records created each day.

"Joining GFI Software gives us the capital, expertise and business resources that will enable us to make our products stronger and invest in features and functions that will help our customers' businesses grow," said Hovhannes Avoyan, CEO of Monitis. "GFI is a leader in the network monitoring and management market in the SMB space, and our solutions strongly complement one another now and will be increasingly interconnected as cloud computing continues to grow."

Following the acquisition, the business will continue operations under the Monitis brand and the solutions will continue to be available as free and paid services to customers worldwide. The senior leadership and management team that built Monitis will remain in place to continue driving new innovations in the company's services.

The Monitis technology also will be integrated into the GFI MAX RemoteManagement™ platform for managed services providers (MSPs). This will enable MSPs and IT support companies to expand their managed services capabilities beyond traditional on-premise infrastructure to remotely monitor and manage their customers' cloud-based solutions as well.

To learn more, visit http://www.gfi.com or portal.monitis.com, or send email to gfimax@gfi.com.

About Monitis
A leading provider of easy-to-use, pay-as-you-go, enterprise-class network and systems monitoring software as a service (SaaS) for IT support specialists. More than 80,000 users worldwide have chosen Monitis to increase uptime and user experience of their services and products.

Their core product offerings include website monitoring, site load testing, transaction monitoring, application and database monitoring, cloud resource monitoring, and server and internal network monitoring. What makes Monitis' software different is how fast it is to deploy, its flexible pricing and feature-rich technology that provides a comprehensive single-pane view of on-premise and off-premise infrastructure and applications.

About GFI Software
GFI Software provides web and mail security, archiving, backup and fax, networking and security software and hosted IT solutions for small and medium-sized businesses (SMB) via an extensive global partner community. GFI products are available either as on-premise solutions, in the cloud or as a hybrid of both delivery models. With award-winning technology, a competitive pricing strategy, and a strong focus on the unique requirements of SMEs, GFI satisfies the IT needs of organizations on a global scale. The company has offices in the United States, UK, Austria, Australia, Malta, Hong Kong, Philippines and Romania, which together support hundreds of thousands of installations worldwide. GFI is a channel-focused company with thousands of partners throughout the world and is also a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner.

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Monitis, the award-winning provider of the world’s first all-in-one cloud-based service that combines web site (uptime), server and application monitoring, today announced the deployment of a new monitoring node in Brazil.

San Jose, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 07/28/2011 -- This will provide companies whose business relies on the Web, a complete and accurate performance picture from the perspective of both Brazilian and international web site visitors.

The addition of this node brings the total number of Monitis monitoring nodes operating around the world to 16. Monitis' nodes across the US, Canada, Europe, Asia, Australia and South America monitor clients' key IT processes every 60 seconds – offering fast and frequent checks, as well as alert notifications into the health of servers, networks, applications, events, cloud storage facilities, cloud platforms, websites, transactions and other processes.

"We have been using Monitis service for more than one year now," said Oliver Kuchendorf from Internet-Arts. "It is very economical, easy to set up and start using. Most importantly, it provides us a proactive way of detecting performance issues with the web sites we monitor, so we can provide high quality and uninterrupted service to our customers. We are very excited about Monitis adding a new node in Brazil. It shows commitment to businesses in our country, enabling us to detect and fix web site performance issues that our Brazilian customers may be experiencing even more accurately and quickly."

"The addition of a new monitoring node in Brazil will enable us to expand our level of service to businesses with customers in Brazil," said Monitis Founder and CEO Hovhannes Avoyan. "What really sets us apart from the competition is the frequency of monitoring. If a typical service offers monitoring "once a minute from 100 nodes", in reality it means each node is activated every 100 minutes. In the current business environment, companies can't afford such delays before discovering slowdowns or disruptions at a particular destination. With Monitis service, customers may choose one-minute monitoring intervals from all our monitoring locations simultaneously."

In addition to offering clients a global network of monitoring stations, Monitis also enables IT managers to create their own customized monitoring locations using a small footprint agent.

"As more companies come to rely on proactive monitoring and instant notifications of IT problems, Monitis is committed to continuously expanding the network of monitoring nodes and raising the service bar higher," added Avoyan.

The new monitoring location is provided by Ananke.

You can try Monitis service for free by signing up at https://www.monitis.com/free_signup.jsp

About Monitis
Monitis believes that the Cloud is the biggest thing to happen in IT management since IT management. Having seen this vision early, Monitis is now the global leader in developing this market. It is the first affordable network and systems monitoring solution that is based 100% in the Cloud. Besides Monitis' enthusiastic and loyal user base of 60,000 customers from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies to government agencies and educational institutions, Monitis has won rave reviews from the technology analyst community, such as "Most Innovative Start-Up? from The 451 Group and a listing in OnDemand 100, a ranking by Morgan Stanley, KPMG, and AlwaysOn, of 100 top private companies globally.

Monitis was founded in 2005 by a team of seasoned IT developers fed-up and tired of the limits of software-based tools, while inspired by the promise of the Cloud. Headquartered in San Jose, CA, Monitis's team of IT professionals has extensive experience running enterprise-grade IT businesses, as well as starting and selling several IT start-ups. Monitis employs a global workforce and enjoys a robust average month-on-month revenue growth of over 10%.

For additional information please send us an e-mail to info@monitis.com or call 800-657-7949

For press inquiries, please contact press@monitis.com

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Any system administrator worth his or her salt knows that data is the oxygen of the modern age.

San Jose, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 07/02/2011 -- To keep the oxygen flowing Monitis Inc., the award-winning provider of the world's first all-in-one systems monitoring platform, announces that users can now monitor their MySQL-operated database servers on Monitis's free monitoring service -- Monitor.Us. The new hosted MySQL monitoring service is available immediately.

"Our new MySQL monitoring service ensures high availability of database servers and performs a host of tasks to ensure MySQL is running smoothly," said Monitis Founder and CEO Hovhannes Avoyan. "And because MySQL is the most popular database in use today, perhaps never before can so many system administrators get so much for free."

The service works with a tiny Linux software agent that can monitor inside an organization's firewall and distributed systems. The Monitor.Us agent connects to a local or remote database, collects a variety of health and performance metrics and submits the information to the Monitor.Us platform. Users can view the information in real-time graphics on a web-based dashboard. Users can also set up notifications (should their database go down or pass a certain level of access volume) based on client-defined thresholds and rules.

Some metrics tracked and reported on by Monitor.Us's free MySQL service -- which can be set up in minutes -- include:

- Database size
- Resource utilization
- Analysis of responsiveness/latency
- Analysis of throughput
- Database usage
- Scalability

These metrics can also be studied alongside other server health monitoring information that Monitor.Us offers, for example, CPU and RAM.

"The metrics for any database revolve around responsiveness of the system, throughput and scalability," said Avoyan. "Our MySQL database monitoring service offers these and many more kinds of metrics, and thus assists with all kinds of user goals.

"For example, for multiple users, the measuring of throughput metrics is key, while monitoring response time and latency is just what system administrators need for heavy job execution," continued Avoyan. "For resource planning, the scalability metrics -- such as database size, load, concurrent connections, threads and locks -- would be top-of-the list."

With Monitor.Us's free MySQL service, administrators can monitor both raw and calculated MySQL performance data.

"No matter which metric you're looking at, the bottom line is that our hosted MySQL health and peformance monitoring is a tremendously convenient new tool to help system administrators not only quickly react to issues arising, but also to prevent them in the first place," said Avoyan.

Sign-up free at http://monitor.us/free_signup.jsp

About Monitor.Us
Monitor.Us is the world's first free all-in-one Cloud-based server monitoring service, providing both external (measuring application uptime and end-user experience) and internal server resources monitoring (tracking used disk space, RAM, CPU, traffic). Monitor.Us is faster and cheaper than even free monitoring software, as there is no need to setup and maintain a monitoring server. Monitor.Us is a part of the Monitis family of monitoring applications.

About Monitis
Monitis believes that the Cloud is the biggest thing to happen in IT management since IT management. Having seen this vision early, Monitis is now the global leader in developing this market. It is the first affordable network and systems monitoring solution based 100% in the Cloud. Besides Monitis' enthusiastic and loyal user base of 70,000 customers from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies to government agencies and educational institutions, Monitis has won rave reviews from the technology analyst community, such as "Most Innovative Start-Up? from The 451 Group, a listing in OnDemand 100, a ranking by Morgan Stanley, KPMG, and AlwaysOn, of 100 top private companies globally.

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Web System Administrators Can Instantly Check Their Networks, Implement Quick Fixes

San Jose, CA -- (SBWIRE) --06/06/2011 -- Monitis, the award-winning provider of the world's first all-in-one systems monitoring cloudware, has launched a new free tool, Monitis Global Traceroute, which will enable system administrators and webmasters to instantly trace the Internet routes, or Traceroute, their networks' server simultaneously from multiple locations.

"We're driven to keep taking the pressure off busy Web System Administrators so that they can save time from typical IT maintenance chores and, instead, focus on more strategic issues," said Monitis Founder and CEO Hovhannes Avoyan. "Monitis Global Traceroute puts another valuable, free tool for instant network checking in sysadmins' hands."

Monitis Global Traceroute, which will be available to all visitors of the Monitis website (http://traceroute.monitis.com), is a network diagnostic tool that is used to determine the "path" and transit times that packets take from one IP address to another, simultaneously from multiple global locations up to user servers.

Traceroute tools are often used for network troubleshooting. Monitis Global Traceroute can help identify routing issues or misconfigured firewalls that may be blocking ICMP/ping signals to a site. Monitis Global Traceroute can also be used by penetration testers to research network infrastructure and IP ranges around a given host. In case of multiple mirroring servers, system administrators can trace each mirror to determine which is faster for each location.

With Monitis Global Traceroute, no registration is required. System administrators need only enter the IP address or domain name of the server that they want to trace. Importantly, Monitis can perform Traceroute from its multiple testing locations across the U.S., Europe and Asia, giving systems management specialists a comprehensive picture of server and network availability from the end-user perspective. The information can be viewed in a graph or table but also via Google map.

"It's a simple, instant server connectivity check," noted Avoyan. "And with the provided information, system administrators and webmasters can easily track down and fix possible network issues."

Monitis already provides no-cost services such as instant remote ping, instant full-page check and instant http check to users – with no obligation or commitment required to sign up for Monitis's premium services.

About Monitis
Monitis believes that the Cloud is the biggest thing to happen in IT management since IT management. Having seen this vision early, Monitis is now the global leader in developing this market. It is the first affordable network and systems monitoring solution that is based 100% in the Cloud. Besides Monitis's enthusiastic and loyal user base of 70,000 customers from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies to government agencies and educational institutions, Monitis has won rave reviews from the technology analyst community, such as "Most Innovative Start-Up? from The 451 Group and a listing in OnDemand 100, a ranking by Morgan Stanley, KPMG, and AlwaysOn, of 100 top private companies globally.

Monitis was founded in 2005 by a team of seasoned IT developers fed-up and tired of the limits of software-based tools, while inspired by the promise of the Cloud. Headquartered in San Jose, CA, Monitis's team of IT professionals has extensive experience running enterprise-grade IT businesses, as well as starting and selling several IT start-ups. Monitis employs a global workforce and enjoys a robust average month-on-month revenue growth of over 10%.

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First Free All-in-One System Monitoring from the Cloud

San Jose, CA -- (SBWIRE) --06/06/2011 -- Mon.itor.Us today announced that it has become the only cloud-based systems monitoring solution to offer monitoring of organizations' internal servers at no cost. The company, which is the free monitoring arm of Monitis, Inc., has launched no-cost internal server and network monitoring as a service.

Since 2005 Mon.itor.Us has offered users – ranging from entrepreneurs, small and mid-sized businesses, large enterprises, government agencies, schools and non-profits – free external website monitoring.

"The growing popularity of Mon.itor.us proves there is a high level of demand among the world's companies for free cloud-based website monitoring to easily and accurately check their web servers' uptime and end-user experience, as well as to ensure that all runs smoothly," said Monitis Founder and CEO Hovhannes Avoyan, who noted that Mon.itor.Us users now number 70,000-plus. "Our outstanding growth in transactions and users shows that today's enterprises (small or large) want it all – reliable on-demand monitoring tools that are hassle-free to set up and use and are thus more cost-efficient than even free monitoring software."

Mon.itor.Us, celebrating its fifth anniversary, extends its free monitoring as a service offering to include systems and network performance monitoring. Mon.itor.Us has significantly enhanced its monitoring services by offering free 24/7 monitoring of internal servers' CPUs, memory, system processes, hard disk space, as well as corporate Intranet applications via on-demand, hosted monitoring – freeing system administrators from worries about poor performance of their IT infrastructure, or worse, failures.

The best monitoring practice is to place monitoring server outside of a customer's mission-critical production data center, to ensure robust notification regardless of the client's infrastructure – even if all networks are down. But to implement that architecture, sysadmins need to do massive amount of work to adjust firewalls and manage distributed environments.

"Now consider hosted server monitoring," Avoyan said. "Having a single small-footprint agent within the firewall and using HTTP(s) protocol for communication eliminates the need for system administrators to alter their firewall just so monitoring software can work properly. We enforce the best monitoring architecture at no dollar and time cost, and the whole setup may take just minutes with hosted monitoring solutions.

The main benefit of hosted monitoring is that is that it frees sysadmins from lengthy set up, configuration and continual maintenance of software-based monitoring systems. The benefits are hard to ignore especially in case of distributed infrastructure and when robust notification of outages and failures is pivotal.

"We are the first and only cloud-based monitoring solution to offer free all-in-one server monitoring," added Avoyan.

About Mon.itor.Us
Mon.itor.us is the world's first free all-in-one Cloud-based server monitoring service, providing both external (measuring application uptime and end-user experience) and internal server resources monitoring (tracking used disk space, RAM, CPU, traffic). Mon.itor.us is faster and cheaper than even open-source monitoring software, as there is no need to setup and maintain a monitoring server. Mon.itor.us is a part of the Monitis family of monitoring applications, providing professional, premium all-in-one monitoring services – integrating application performance with backend infrastructure with cloud monitoring. As of April 2011, Monitis performed 45 million monitoring checks per day.

About Monitis
Monitis believes that the Cloud is the biggest thing to happen in IT management since IT management. Having seen this vision early, Monitis is now the global leader in developing this market. It is the first affordable network and systems monitoring solution based 100% in the Cloud. Besides Monitis' enthusiastic and loyal user base of 70,000 customers from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies to government agencies and educational institutions, Monitis has won rave reviews from the technology analyst community, such as "Most Innovative Start-Up? from The 451 Group, a listing in OnDemand 100, a ranking by Morgan Stanley, KPMG, and AlwaysOn, of 100 top private companies globally.

Monitis was founded in 2005 by a team of seasoned IT developers fed-up and tired of the limits of software-based tools, while inspired by the promise of the Cloud. Headquartered in San Jose, CA, Monitis's team of IT professionals has extensive experience running enterprise-grade IT businesses, as well as starting and selling several IT start-ups. Monitis employs a global workforce and enjoys a robust average month-on-month revenue growth of over 10%.

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San Jose, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 03/19/2010 -- Monitis, the leading provider of 100% Cloud-based network and systems monitoring solutions, today announced a major overhaul and upgrade of its user interface designed to make the world's most innovative suite of monitoring tools even more user-friendly.

First-generation and second-generation internal and external monitoring systems have been notoriously complex and difficult to use. When it launched, Monitis' third generation suite of monitoring tools fundamentally changed this dynamic. With its latest UI upgrade, the user experience has been made even simpler. The new changes include:

• A new internal monitoring wizard. The new wizard helps users get set-up faster with no complexity or hassle. The steps in the new wizard are now easier to follow and now enable simultaneous setup of multiple agents (bulk add) and of multiple test types (CPU, process, etc).
• New options in the toolbar. The toolbar now enables users to change the number of columns, enable/disable flash charts, and collapse/expand modules directly from dashboard's toolbar. The Help section has also been revised.
• Improved visibility and access in the tab bar. The size of the tab bar has been increased, allowing users to see more tabs without scrolling. The tab carousel has also been improved, making it more convenient to scroll and switch between tabs.
• Significant performance enhancements for IE users.

Hovhannes Avoyan, Monitis' Founder and CEO, commented, "We already had the easiest-to-use all-in-one monitoring suite on the market. With our most recent UI overhaul and upgrade, we've gone from strength to strength. As per usual, we've been relentless in our pursuit of ways to help IT managers and system administrators save time."

About Monitis All-in-One Monitoring Platform
Monitis is a 100% Cloud-based, comprehensive, yet flexible, IT monitoring solution that consolidates backend, application, and cloud monitoring in an all-in-one, central monitoring service. The platform is easily customizable and may be used for managing of all kinds of IT assets such as websites, servers, routers, switches, VoIP devices, DNS, databases, processes and any other IP devices. Monitis provides users with a comprehensive view of their system's health and performance.

About Monitis
Monitis believes that the Cloud is the biggest thing to happen in IT management since IT management. Having seen this vision early, Monitis is now the global leader in developing this market. It is the first affordable network and systems monitoring solution based 100% in the Cloud. More than 50,000 customers from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies to government agencies and educational institutions have chosen Monitis to reduce system downtime, improve the productivity of their IT staff, and reduce operational expenditures.

Monitis was founded in 2005 by a team of seasoned entrepreneurs and fed-up and worn-out developers who were tired of complaining about the limits of software-based tools, while inspired by the promise of the Cloud. Headquartered in San Jose, CA, Monitis is lead by a team of IT professionals with deep experience running enterprise-grade IT businesses, as well as starting and selling several IT start-ups. Using a global workforce, particularly its R&D team based in Yerevan, Armenia, Monitis is poised to move from strength to strength. At present, it has a loyal and enthusiastic user community of 50,000, and an average month-on-month revenue growth of over 10%.

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