Blog Archives

Thousand Eyes Launches Internet-Wide Performance Management Product

June 19, 2013

Business

AppDynamics, evernote, ExtraHop, Lew Cirne, network, NewRelic, Performance management, ServiceNow, Software as a Service, twitter, zendesk

We all now the drill. The rise of cloud application has meant that performance monitoring, formerly all about delivering metrics from one stack, has been blown apart and needs to become much more modular and distributed in nature. Companies…

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Boundary Delivers Consolidated IT Ops

May 7, 2013

Business

AppDynamics, Application Lifecycle Management, Boundary, Business transaction management, Nagios, NewRelic, Puppet Labs, Splunk

Boundary is an interesting company and one of a handful of vendors that are reinventing what application monitoring means in a world where application stacks are more complex, more modular, more disconnected and more flexible. Boundary is selling itself…

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Blitz.io Takes testing Across the Application Lifecycle

April 18, 2012

Business

blitz.io, Engine Yard, Load testing, Mu Dynamics, NewRelic

A regular theme I talk about with vendors is the move for what could formerly be though of as purely point solutions into a more holistic view of the world. The big opportunities in the cloud revolve around finding…

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PaaS Ecosystems–AppFog Unveils an Add-On Program. How Much on a PaaS Should be Core Functionality?

December 7, 2011

Business

AppFog, Heroku, Lucas Carlson, NewRelic, PHP, PHP Fog

A growing theme amongst PaaS players is to develop an add-on program to give users of their platforms the ability to acquire and provision third party services that are already integrated with the core development environment. It’s a trend…

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Stackato gets Management and Monitoring for Private PaaS

November 8, 2011

Business

ActiveState, cloudcomputing, Cloudfoundry, Java, NewRelic, OpenStack, PHP, Python

I’ve been really positive about Cloud Foundry, seeing it as doing the sort of things for PaaS that OpenStack does for IaaS. If Cloud Foundry succeeds in its aim, Organizations will have a PaaS solution that they can use…

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Blog Archives

Thousand Eyes Launches Internet-Wide Performance Management Product

Boundary Delivers Consolidated IT Ops

Blitz.io Takes testing Across the Application Lifecycle

PaaS Ecosystems–AppFog Unveils an Add-On Program. How Much on a PaaS Should be Core Functionality?

Stackato gets Management and Monitoring for Private PaaS