A look at the dashboard for Nimsoft NMS Unified Monitoring.

CA today continued its cloud computing buying spree, announcing that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire monitoring provider Nimsoft, Inc. for $350 million in cash. The deal follows CA's recent acquisitions of Cassatt, NetQoS and Oblicore and the planned acquisition of 3Tera.

Nimsoft offers "unified monitoring" that can monitor and benchmark data center environments as well as Google Apps, Rackspace Cloud, Amazon Web Services and EC2, Salesforce.com and other cloud environments services. A complete API is available to both customers and third party developers to enable extensions to NMS.

CA said buying Nimsoft will boost its offerings for enterprises and MSPs. "With our planned acquisition of Nimsoft, CA will be equipped to capture several important growth sale segments--including emerging enterprises, emerging national economies, and the MSPs who are providing these customers with IT management services via the cloud," said Chris O'Malley, CA's executive vice leader, Cloud Products and Solutions earning Line. "Penetration of these sales will further expand our global leadership in IT management and complement our existing strength with large enterprise customers."