AppFirst Extends Patent-Pending “Miss Nothing” Functionality

Posted on April 28, 2011 by Steve Pessah

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Pamela Roussos

AppFirst Extends Patent-Pending “Miss Nothing” Functionality

Integration of Additional Data Sources Speeds Find/Fix Cycles

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – April 28, 2011 – AppFirst, the only provider of complete data collection and proactive problem resolution solutions for the mid-market, today unveiled significant extensions to its “Miss Nothing” functionality by integrating and correlating other available data sources. Through its ability to access additional data such as open source plug-ins and windows performance counters, AppFirst dramatically shortens the find/fix cycle and delivers a powerful way to troubleshoot issues related to resource utilization, performance and configuration problems. AppFirst will be demonstrating their unique functionality at the Under the Radar Conference being held today in Mountain View, CA.

“Being able to see the context within databases, web servers or app servers, correlated with other data sources in one place is immensely powerful,” said Andrus Adamchik, CEO of ObjectStyle. “Without this capability, I am forced to use multiple tools to get the complete picture I need to resolve application and performance issues.”

AppFirst Delivers Correlated Data from Multiple Sources

For companies in the mid-market, systems and applications running smoothly can mean the difference between life and death. By correlating data from AppFirst Collectors along with data from other sources, IT staff has the context needed to identify and quickly solve application or performance issues. AppFirst’s patent-pending “miss nothing” functionality integrated with other data sources delivers a complete picture for problem resolution on a real-time basis.

“In today’s complex computing environment, often it is forces outside the application itself that cause performance degradation,” said David Roth, founder and CEO of AppFirst. “Whether it’s as simple as a configuration change, or a complex, multi-faceted issue, AppFirst gives you visibility across your entire application stack with the context you need to get directly to the heart of the problem.”

AppFirst is the only independent company today that delivers better problem resolution capabilities by capturing all the data sources needed to reduce find/fix cycles. The company’s Deterministic Root Cause feature identifies the exact server where an issue is occurring, the process on the server causing the issue and what specifically the process is doing to disturb the response time of the application, essentially eliminating the tedious guesswork approach of the look, guess, fix and repeat approach. Coupled with the new ability to add information from outside sources, AppFirst automates the formerly manual process of searching every tier of an application and every layer of the IT infrastructure to identify the source. Hours, days and even weeks of time resolving performance issues are eliminated. With AppFirst technology, users have a true solution — application infrastructure monitoring that is proactive.

About AppFirst, Inc.

AppFirst is the leading SaaS-based problem resolution solution designed to provide mid-market application architects and DevOps complete visibility into their applications across the entire application stack. AppFirst is an agnostic solution, supporting a wide range of applications, regardless of language, application type or location (cloud, physical or virtual servers) and incorporates its patent-pending miss nothing data capability. This unique feature is designed to provide clear insight into executing applications and quickly correlate with other data sources, allowing a proactive approach where IT professionals can see changes before they become problems, reduce customer churn and drive down cost of operations. Founded in 2009, AppFirst is a New York City-based company venture backed by FirstMark Capital and First Round Capital. More information is available at www.appfirst.com or you can follow AppFirst on Twitter at http://twitter.com/appfirst.

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AppFirst featured on SoftLayer’s Technology Partner Spotlight

Posted on April 27, 2011 by Steve Pessah

As cool as it was being a launch partner for SoftLayer’s Technology Partners Marketplace two weeks back, it’s always the best being under the spotlight. Today, AppFirst is featured on SoftLayer’s blog as a Tehnology Partner Spotlight, which includes a great video interview and a guest post about how you should approach monitoring in the cloud.

And don’t forget: Our CMO Pamela Roussos is presenting tomorrow at the 17th Under the Radar conference. Make sure you tune in at 2:00 PM PST!

AppFirst Named CODiE™ Award Finalist

Posted on April 14, 2011 by Steve Pessah

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Pamela Roussos

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AppFirst Named CODiE™ Award Finalist

Cited as One of Industry’s Best Systems Management Solutions

NEW YORK – April 14, 2011 – AppFirst, the only provider of complete data collection and proactive problem resolution solutions, today announced it has been named a CODiE™ Award finalist in the Best Systems Management Solutions category by the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA). Established in 1986, the awards have carried out a single purpose – to showcase the software and information industry’s finest products and services and to honor excellence in corporate achievement.

The CODiEs hold the distinction of being the industry’s only peer-reviewed awards program, which provides member companies with a unique opportunity to earn praise from their colleagues across the industry.

“We are honored to be recognized as a leader in the Systems Management Solutions segment and believe the AppFirst technology has, and will continue to, deliver the capabilities needed to allow IT professionals to be proactive and know about issues before their customers,” said David Roth, CEO and co-founder of AppFirst.

As a finalist, AppFirst participated in a thorough review of products and services by subject matter experts in the systems management software industry scoring points based on industry-accepted criteria.

The AppFirst Solution

For companies of all types and sizes, software that runs effectively and efficiently is critical. For IT departments that means clear visibility into their application performance no matter where they run in the cloud or on premises, along with the ability to drill into the root cause of problems. AppFirst is the only independent company today that delivers better server monitoring for free, for physical, virtual and cloud servers. With AppFirst technology, users can easily move forward to a true solution — application infrastructure monitoring that is proactive. The company recently unveiled its Deterministic Root Cause feature that identifies the exact server where an issue is occurring, the process on the server causing the issue and what specifically the process is doing to disturb the performance of the application. By automating the formerly manual process of searching every tier of an application and every layer of the IT infrastructure to identify the source, hours, days and even weeks of time resolving performance issues are eliminated.

About AppFirst, Inc.

AppFirst is the leading SaaS-based problem resolution solution designed to provide application architects and DevOps complete visibility into their applications across the entire application stack. AppFirst is an agnostic solution, supporting a wide range of applications, regardless of language, application type or location (cloud, physical or virtual servers) and incorporates its patent pending “inside out” visibility. This unique feature is designed to provide clear insight into executing applications and quickly correlate with other data sources, allowing a proactive approach where IT professionals can see changes before they become problems, reduce customer churn and drive down cost of operations. Founded in 2009, AppFirst is a New York City-based company venture backed by FirstMark Capital and First Round Capital. More information is available at www.appfirst.com or you can follow AppFirst on Twitter at http://twitter.com/appfirst.

About SIIA

Now in its twenty-fifth year, the CODiE Awards program has raised the standard for excellence and serves as prestigious representation of outstanding achievement and vision in the software and information industry. The Software & Information Industry Association is the principal trade association for the software and digital content industry. SIIA provides global services in government relations, business development, corporate education and intellectual property protection to the leading companies that are setting the pace for the digital age. More information can be found at www.siia.net.

The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

SoftLayer Launches Technology Partners Marketplace; AppFirst Among Group of Four Launch Partners!

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Steve Pessah

We’re thrilled to be one of SoftLayer’s Launch Partners for their new Technology Partners Marketplace! Our experience with running on the

SoftLayer platform has been stellar, and we’re looking forward to connecting with the rest of the SoftLayer community.

Congrats to the rest of the Launch Partners: Mollom, StandingCloud, and Migration Box!

Our World through a Cat’s Eyes

Posted on April 6, 2011 by Steve Pessah

Hi I’m Rosie. Welcome to my blog. I am the cat that runs AppFirst. My humans help out from time to time, mostly by providing food and an adequate supply of feather-based toys, but I do most of the work.

Today is a big day for humankind, because it’s the day that I decided to start sharing my incredible wisdom with the plebeian masses (that’s you).

It’s also a big day for me, because earlier today I ate breakfast, took a nap, and forced my slave humans to play with me. I did let them pet me for a few moments as a reward for their hard work.

As the sole catgineer working on the AppFirst product, I’m responsible for an awful lot. And recently, I’ve been noticing something about the Monitoring/IT Troubleshooting industry:

Enterprises and SMBs (small to medium businesses) both have trouble finding and fixing problems with their applications, but for opposite reasons: large enterprises have too much data, SMBs have too little.

Enterprises have too much data, so their IT troubleshooting tools are built to help sift through mountains of data to find the needle in the haystack. For example, Netuitive uses advanced statistics and machine learning to automatically identify the cause of a problem. Solutions like this are great if you have lots of data and you can afford them.

On the other hand, SMBs tend to have too little data and what they do have is disparate and hard to access. AppFirst solves this problem. First, we use our catent-pending technology to gather detailed information for all of your processes, applications, and servers. Then, we correlate this data with other sources SMBs already have in our easy-to-use console to help SMBs quickly find and solve problems within their infrastructure and applications.

If you like AppFirst, stay turned for my new project, CatFirst. It’s for businesses that have far too many mice, and far too few scratching posts.

And now, I’m off to the litterbox. So long ‘till next week. Over and meowt.

April showers bring new features

Posted on April 4, 2011 by Steve Pessah

Hope everyone had a fun and safe April Fool’s Day! Here’s all our new features we’ve made available to you over this weekend.

Features

Disk busy times
- On the server widget, you can now see individual disk drives’ busy time (the percent of time that the drives are performing I/O operations).
- Note: For Windows, this value can be greater than 100% because the OS can perform parallel operations.
Individual CPU core data is also available now on the server widget.
Disk space and disk busy alerts are now on a per drive/partition basis, rather than on the entire disk.
We’ve added new API features, including alert history message text and OS and up/down parameters on servers.

That’s all for now. Check out an awesome write-up of us from KillerStartups.com!