AppFirst CEO David Roth had a pretty busy May. Bouncing around from the Cloud Analytics Summit to All About the Cloud, he took some time to sit down and chat about AppFirst’s place in the cloud.
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New Highly Configurable Widget
Calling All Members of The AppFirst Collective: The rockstars in the AppFirst Development Team would like to introduce the new Highly-Configurable, Single-Metric Widget for our Dashboard; simply named Metric in the Dashboard configuration panel. Continue reading
AppFirst and Nagios Plugins: The Real Scoop
Due to many recent trouble tickets we have received here at AppFirst over how Nagios and AppFirst interact, the Samurai is unsheathing his keyboard to remedy this issue with a blog post. Continue reading
AppFirst Selected by CloudSigma as Cloud Monitoring Solution
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AppFirst Selected by CloudSigma as Cloud Monitoring Solution
Extensive Evaluation Leads to Clear Choice
NEW YORK, NY – Aug 2, 2010 – AppFirst, the only provider of real-time, proactive monitoring solutions, today announces its selection as CloudSigma’s cloud monitoring solution. The company delivers the first Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)-based application aware infrastructure performance monitoring solution that provides unique visibility into an entire application – regardless of language, application type or location (cloud, physical or virtual servers). The AppFirst CloudSigma partnership enables IT organizations running in the cloud to benefit from cloud price/performance while ensuring their applications are delivering the response time requirements of end users.
CloudSigma engaged in an extensive search for a monitoring solution to offer their cloud customers. CloudSigma’s open platform allows users to install any operating system and applications. This requires a monitoring solution that can be deployed in any number of computing environments. Additionally, cloud computing has unique properties thereby leading to specific cloud related criteria such as fast set up and ease of deployment. During the evaluation CloudSigma experienced AppFirst’s ability to deliver comprehensive, real-time performance data within minutes of installation regardless application type.
“Our customers are taking servers up and down often and are running business critical applications so we needed a monitoring solution that could span the spectrum of fast and simple to set up and comprehensive,” said Patrick Baillie, CEO for CloudSigma. “From the moment we began our evaluation we were very impressed with the AppFirst solution.”
“Visibility into how applications are performing in the cloud is key to cloud adoption,” said David Roth, CEO and co-founder for AppFirst. “The CloudSigma team has demonstrated leadership in the field with its recognition of this and its selection of AppFirst, which we are very proud of.”
Beginning immediately when users sign up for 14-day free trials on either the AppFirst or CloudSigma’s websites they will be offered the opportunity to automatically start a free trial of the other vendor’s offering. Integration also enables customers to start monitoring their CloudSigma server at any time or instantly create a CloudSigma server with monitoring enabled.
About AppFirst, Inc.
AppFirst delivers a SaaS-based application aware infrastructure performance management solution uniquely providing IT operations complete visibility into the behavior and performance of applications across the entire application stack, regardless of language, application type or location (cloud, physical or virtual servers). Visibility into the executing application enables proactive monitoring to drive down cost of operations, see changes before they become problems and reduce customer churn. 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.
About CloudSigma AG
CloudSigma AG, based in Zürich, Switzerland provides a pure Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platform offering high security, flexible cloud computing. CloudSigma offers a completely open computing platform allowing users to install any operating system and applications. Users are billed in a flexible and transparent manner with on-demand pricing and unbundled resources. Their innovative web console as well as API are designed to make cloud computing and cloud hosting straightforward. High availability redundant infrastructure is backed up by a generous 100% Service Level Agreement that covers not only availability but also performance. More information is available at www.cloudsigma.com
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AppFirst Clinches Judges and Audience Choice Honors at Under the Radar
Named Application Development and Management Category Winner
NEW YORK – April 22, 2010 – AppFirst, the only provider of real-time, proactive monitoring solutions, was chosen as both Judges’ and Audience Choice at Under the Radar in the Application Development and Management category. The company unveiled AppFirst Professional Edition, the first Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)-based application performance monitoring solution that can provide unique visibility into an entire application – regardless of language, application type or location (cloud, physical or virtual servers) at the event last week in Mountain View, CA. AppFirst enables SaaS IT operations to proactively monitor applications, driving down the cost of operations, see changes before they become problems and improve customer satisfaction.
“AppFirst is dedicated to delighting customers by providing them complete insight into how their applications are behaving on the infrastructure,” said David Roth, CEO and co-founder for AppFirst. “We’re honored to be selected as winners by the esteemed judges and our peers.”
AppFirst was selected to present at Under the Radar: Commercializing the Cloud. In its 16th series, the conference showcases the best of breed technology startups in the Cloud Computing Ecosystem. Judges include CIOs, CTOs and IT executives from Bank of America, ING, MTV, Digg, Intuit, Salesforce, Rackspace and more. Under the Radar is designed to connect CEOs, technology executives, investors, analysts and press together with one ultimate goal: to get the deal done. A complete list of winners can be found at http://www.undertheradarblog.com/blog/announcing-under-the-radar-winners-who-….
“Under the Radar showcases innovative startups with the intention of introducing them to potential customers and partners,” noted Debbie Landa, CEO and Founder for DealMaker Media, producer of Under the Radar. “We take months to carefully select companies to participate at Under the Radar, therefore winning the recognition of the judges and audience, like AppFirst did, says a lot.”
About AppFirst, Inc.
AppFirst delivers a SaaS-based application performance management solution uniquely providing IT operations complete visibility into the behavior and performance of applications across the entire application stack, regardless of language, application type or location (cloud, physical or virtual servers). Visibility into the executing application enables proactive monitoring to drive down cost of operations, see changes before they become problems and reduce customer churn. 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.
The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.
AppFirst Launches First SaaS-Based Application Performance Monitoring Solution for Entire Application
SaaS IT Operations Go from Reactive to Proactive with AppFirst
Direct View of Application Execution Environment Offers Advanced Monitoring Capabilities for Improved Performance, Satisfaction and Costs
NEW YORK and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – April 16, 2010 – AppFirst today announced the immediate availability of AppFirst Professional Edition, the first Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)-based application performance monitoring solution, at the Under the Radar: Commercializing the Cloud event in Mountain View, Calif. With only one piece of software users are provided unique visibility into an entire application – regardless of language, application type or location (cloud, physical or virtual servers). AppFirst enables SaaS IT operations to proactively monitor applications, driving down the cost of operations, see changes before they become problems and improve customer satisfaction.
Using patent-pending technology AppFirst delivers a real-time view of applications as they execute. There are no limitations on language or application components such as databases, application servers or web servers. The application execution model — the view of the application as it is running on the physical infrastructure — has never been visualized before. Without that real-time view, IT operations is constantly in reactive mode. In SaaS organizations where the application is the business it is critical to be proactive and see changes before they become issues.
“We need AppFirst to put the right operational controls in place,” said Rick Nucci, CTO for Boomi. “It provides a proactive monitoring solution that links to usage of our application so we can capacity plan effectively to ensure we are ahead of our customers needs.”
AppFirst Professional Edition includes:
- Dashboard – clear visibility into any changes in the executing application
- Alert Management – immediate notification when user defined thresholds are reached
- Data Flow – visualization of network connections and flow of information between application servers across servers that run applications
- Data Insight — detailed data of executing applications, compare time frames to understand changes in the executing application
- Capacity Planning – maximum efficiency at minimum cost, ensuring applications have all necessary resources
“Applications have always been difficult to manage and now are more complex with the movement to the cloud,” said David Roth, CEO and co-founder, AppFirst. “AppFirst is the first application performance monitoring solution that opens up the application black box, enabling SaaS IT operations to finally manage applications and deliver on the promise of software that works.”
AppFirst was selected to present at Under the Radar: Commercializing the Cloud. In its 16th series, the conference showcases the best of breed technology startups in the Cloud Computing Ecosystem. Judges include CIOs, CTOs and IT executives from Bank of America, ING, MTV, Digg, Intuit, Salesforce, Rackspace and more. Under the Radar is designed to connect CEOs, technology executives, investors, analysts and press together with one ultimate goal: to get the deal done.
AppFirst Professional Edition is available for free for 30 days. After the initial trial period, subscription pricing for four or more servers is $30 per server per month.
About AppFirst, Inc.
AppFirst delivers a SaaS-based application performance management solution uniquely providing IT operations complete visibility into the behavior and performance of applications across the entire application stack, regardless of language, application type or location (cloud, physical or virtual servers). Visibility into the executing application enables proactive monitoring to drive down cost of operations, see changes before they become problems and reduce customer churn. Founded in 2009, AppFirst is a New York City-based company backed by FirstMark Capital and First Round Capital. More information is available at www.appfirst.com.
The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.