Ipswitch's Network Management Division Experiences Record Booth Attendance and Tremendous Demand for Engineer's Toolkit During Cisco Live Las Vegas

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(1888PressRelease) July 20, 2010 - Lexington, MA - With a standout booth and free copies of its new WhatsUp Gold Engineer's Toolkit, Ipswitch, Inc.'s Network Management Division, the developer of the WhatsUp Gold suite of innovative IT management software, drew a record number of visitors to their booth at the Cisco Live Las Vegas show last week. Cisco Live is Cisco's annual IT and Communications Conference, the industry's largest gathering of customers, IT experts, partners and enthusiasts. During the show, Ipswitch offered free copies of its WhatsUp Gold Engineer's Toolkit offering one installation, one application, one interface designed to simplify and reduce the time spent on common network engineering tasks. Close to 5,000 users have downloaded the new Engineer's Toolkit to date.

The Engineer's Toolkit helps monitor, diagnose and troubleshoot a vast majority of common network engineering tasks including: design and planning; discovery; diagnostics; DNS verification; remote control; and configuration and credentials management. The Engineer's Toolkit is available for free for a limited period at http://www.whatsupgold.com/PR/Toolkit.

Continuing its two-decade long tradition of charitable giving, Ipswitch is donating a tree-planting to Trees for Life International for every download of the Engineer's Toolkit. Trees for Life is an international movement that helps people in developing countries grow and care for their own fruit and forest trees.

In addition to the impressive booth attendance and exciting number of software downloads, Ipswitch also experienced standing-room only attendance in the Cisco Solutions Theater for an appearance by Director of Product Management Brian Gollaher, whose presentation, "Complete IT Management Doesn't Need to Drain Your Budget," delivered a wide-ranging overview of implementing cost-effective IT management solutions.

Pricing and Availability
The Engineer's Toolkit, valued at $995 MSRP, is being offered for free for a limited time. Please visit http://www.whatsupgold.com/PR/Toolkit for a free download.

About Trees for Life International
Trees for Life helps people in developing countries grow and care for their own fruit and forest trees. These trees provide a self-renewing source of food for hungry people and help protect our environment. Each person who learns to grow and care for trees pledges to share seeds with two others and help them to grow their own trees. In this way, helping one person grow a life-giving tree can lead to trees giving life, nourishment, and a better environment to an entire community.

About the Network Management Division of Ipswitch, Inc.
The Network Management Division of Ipswitch, Inc. is the developer of the WhatsUp Gold suite of innovative IT management software. WhatsUp Gold delivers comprehensive network, system, application and event log monitoring and management solutions for small and medium businesses and enterprises. Built on a modular, yet integrated architecture, the affordable and easy-to-use solutions scale with the size and complexity of any physical or virtual IT infrastructure. From a single console, WhatsUp Gold supports standard IT management tasks including automated discovery, mapping, real-time monitoring, alerting, troubleshooting and reporting. More than 100,000 networks worldwide use WhatsUp Gold solutions to assure the availability, health and security of their critical business infrastructure today.

Ipswitch, Inc.'s Network Management Division recently added to its product line complete, easy-to-use solutions for Windows Security Event Management (SEM) and Log Management for small businesses and enterprise-level organizations suite with the acquisition of Dorian Software Creations, Inc. WhatsUp Gold was named Network Management Product of 2010 by Network Computing Magazine and earned the Network Products Guide 2010 Product Innovation Award in Network Management. To learn more about WhatsUp Gold - the best value in IT Management software, download a free trial or to make a purchase, please visit: http://www.whatsupgold.com/products/download/.

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