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Ipswitch to create 60 jobs in Galway

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15 March 2016

US company Ipswitch, which develops IT monitoring and security software, is to establish a Europe, Middle East and Africa support and operations centre in Galway, creating about 60 jobs over five years. The development is supported by the Department of Jobs, Enterprise & Innovation through IDA Ireland.

As well as customer service, the company is will also locate R&D and product development teams to provide capability specific to the EMEA region. The move will enable Ipswitch to greatly increase its support for its channel partners and customers across Europe in local languages and time zones.

Ipswitch’s software has been installed on more than 150,000 networks in 168 countries, with customers including Hamleys, NHS Wales, Cambridgeshire County Council and Community Integrated Care. Ipswitch already has R&D centres in Germany, in Atlanta and Augusta, Georgia and Madison, Wisconsin.

Ipswitch IT Management software provides secure control over business transactions, applications and infrastructure. The vendor’s unified infrastructure and applications monitoring software provides end-to-end insight, and is staggeringly flexible and simple to deploy. Its information security and managed file transfer solutions enable secure, automated and compliant business transactions and file transfers for millions of users

“We are very excited to take this next step in our company’s growth by creating a full-service Ipswitch office in Europe. From this headquarters and with all the crucial necessary functions including Sales, R&D and post-sales services, we will increase the competitive advantage for both our partners and Ipswitch, and most importantly we will develop a better understanding and higher degree of support for our most valuable asset: our customers,” said Diane Albano, Ipswitch chief revenue officer and executive vice president for worldwide sales.

Ipswitch was founded in 1991 and currently employs 300 staff. Its head office is in Lexington, Massachussetts.

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