Vineyard Networks Featured in Network World

Network management start-up Vineyard Networks wants to make monitoring and reporting on performance from network devices, WAN connections and voice applications simpler for IT departments not equipped to take on a large management software suite.

Based outside of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Vineyard Network was founded in May 2008 by Jason Richards, who now serves as president, and others. The founders wanted to create what many before them have also attempted: easy, inexpensive network monitoring and management technology for IT managers that couldn’t devote money, time and energy to complex software that promised to help them better run their networks. Named after an aspect of the local landscape, Vineyard Networks proposes with its NetCore on Demand technology to make network management “Fisher-Price style.”

“Our product includes a small unmanaged probe, a SaaS service and a network exploring interface on the customer site. We kept it very Fisher-Price style. If customers want to know more details about something, they simply click on it and the data is there,” Richards explains.

Having launched in the early stages of the economic recession, Richards says he realized the company had to be able to show customers results fast with its technology. Richards and his team chose to deliver NetCore as a cloud-based service that was priced with a subscription model, taking advantage of the current interest in cloud and the ease with which customers can implement SaaS. Also taking into account the lack of budget dollars, Richards wanted customers to be able to buy NetCore, see results and sign up for the services on a monthly basis. That’s why contracts can be signed on a month-to-month basis.

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