GroundWork Open Source Inc. helps companies manage their IT infrastructure and applications by monitoring the availability and performance of servers, networks, and storage.  Data is collected with and without agents and processed to create alerts, reports, active status maps, mash-up dashboards, business service models, and SLA reports. GroundWork competes with SolarWinds, Zenoss, Hewlett Packard, and Computer Associates in the monitoring category with a globally available market of $7 to $8 billion dollars annually.