Higher Education – Lower Cost Network Management

As More Than 18 Million Students Return to College This Fall – Ipswitch Announces Special Pricing Program for College and University Network Administrators Purchasing WhatsUp Gold

LEXINGTON, MA–(EMWNews – July 25, 2008) – Ipswitch, Inc.’s Network Management division,

the leading developer of network management software, today

announced a special pricing program for its WhatsUp® network management

software only for educational institutions. Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold offers

comprehensive and cost-effective management and monitoring software which

has become a staple at institutions of all kinds and sizes. In

anticipation of the new annual budget cycles and the return of millions

students in the fall (bringing along more computers and peripherals than

ever), Ipswitch is offering a ten percent discount to qualifying

educational institutions on the purchase of WhatsUp Gold. Network managers

are faced with an influx of new people, new devices and ever-changing

technologies interacting with their networks, and WhatsUp Gold is a

tried-and-true solution to the challenges they face.

WhatsUp Gold can be up and running quickly; examining critical network

services, devices and applications. Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold functionality

enables network administrators to:

--  Discover and map network connected assets in minutes

--  Begin monitoring any device, system or service instantly using SNMP

    and WMI

--  Get notified of network problems through proactive and pre-emptive

    alerts, alarms and notifications

--  See it all in real-time, from intuitive Windows and Web-enabled

    workspace views and dashboards

    

“WhatsUp Gold is a comprehensive yet affordable network monitoring tool for

schools of all sizes,” said Ennio Carboni, VP of Sales for Ipswitch Network

Management Division. “It’s great for networking professionals at

educational institutions that need to add new network management

capabilities, but it’s also often used to replace big, complicated

enterprise management platforms, sometimes for less than the cost renewing

their service agreements.”

Special Offer

Through this back-to-school special offer, educational institutions can

save 10% on the purchase of WhatsUp Gold v12.* This limited-time offer

expires August 31, 2008. For details visit

http://www.whatsupgold.com/education

A 30-day free trial of WhatsUp Gold is available for download at

http://www.whatsupgold.com/download

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* Offer good towards the purchase of WhatsUp Gold v12 by Educational

Institutions

* Limited time offer, expires August 31, 2008

About Ipswitch Network Management

Ipswitch™ WhatsUp® Gold is the world’s leading network management solution with over

70,000 networks reliably managed worldwide. Built on a scalable and

extensible architecture offering automated device discovery and network mapping, real-time network monitoring

(including SNMP monitoring and WMI monitoring), and

versatile alerting, notification, and reporting functionality, WhatsUp Gold

delivers 360 degree visibility, actionable intelligence and complete

control. WhatsUp Gold is available in four distinct product editions:

WhatsUp Gold Premium Edition, WhatsUp Gold Distributed Edition, WhatsUp

Gold Standard Edition and WhatsUp Gold MSP Edition. Visit

http://www.whatsupgold.com for more information.

About Ipswitch, Inc.

Ipswitch develops and markets innovative IT software that is easy to learn

and use. More than 100 million people worldwide use Ipswitch software to

monitor their networks with Ipswitch WhatsUp®, transfer files over the

Internet using the market leading WS_FTP® and MOVEit® brands of secure

and managed file transfer clients and servers and communicate via Ipswitch

IMail™ Server. Ipswitch values community involvement; visit

http://icare.ipswitch.com to find out how to become involved. Visit

www.ipswitch.com for more information on the company.

Ipswitch, WS_FTP, WhatsUp and MOVEit are registered trademarks of Ipswitch,

Inc. IMail Server, MOVEit Central and MOVEit DMZ are trademarks of

Ipswitch, Inc. All other product names are the property of their respective

owners.

MEDIA CONTACTS: Anjali Gupta Ipswitch, Inc. 781-676-5785 http://www.ipswitch.com Jim Baptiste Davies Murphy Group, Inc. 781-418-2438 http://www.daviesmurphy.com