Monolith Software
Monolith Software is a technology company offering monitoring and management software solutions to service providers and large enterprises. While most large-scale technology infrastructures are monitored by a patchwork of independently developed monitoring tools, Monolith uses the concept of Normalization to ensure that data gathered from different technology domains, protocols or Element Management Systems (EMSs) ends up in a single database. This centralized storage of monitoring data can facilitate greater flexibility in re-purposing and displaying technology monitoring data.
Monolith is based in St. Charles, Illinois.
Products
Monolith offers a wide range of monitoring and management functionality, including Network Monitoring, System Monitoring, Application Performance Management, Optical Performance Monitoring, Service Level Management/Business Service Management, (SLM/BSM), and Dashboards. The focus of their product line is to make all technology monitoring KPIs and data accessible for real-time reporting, correlation, enrichment and display.
Monolith Monitors technology and service KPIs using a variety of standard industry tools like Event Management, Performance Management, Netflow, (including all analogues like CFlow, SFlow, JFlow, etc.), Topology Management, Configuration Management, and Probable Root Cause Analysis (PRCA).
Monolith Software solutions are available in the US as well as in EMEA and APAC. Monolith also has a growing list of domestic and international channel partners.
History
The company was founded in 2005 by enterprise monitoring software consultants, after consistent input from customers regarding the shortcomings of traditional IT monitoring strategies. Monolith is privately funded and entirely debt-free. The company derives its name from the mysterious obelisk that appears in the 1968 Stanley Kubrick film 2001: A Space Odyssey. According to Monolith CTO Shawn Ennis, a uniform monitoring architecture has the ability to provide added insight and awareness into the status and performance of key technologies and services, similar to the insight gained by primitive man in the film after the arrival of a large monolith.