Archive for the ‘Applications’ Category

Release 6.3 Tackles Customer Requests

Thursday, October 14th, 2010

Today we are releasing the latest version (6.3) of our flagship GroundWork Monitor Enterprise, with a host of features our customers have asked for. The two big themes are visualization tools and the return of an old favorite—the trouble-view dashboard. We also add support for accessing GroundWork Monitor on the iPad, furthering our thrust into ...

Integrating ArcSight with GroundWork

Monday, September 27th, 2010

Congratulations to the employees and stockholders of ArcSight on the pending sale of a great company to Hewlett-Packard. While HP and ArcSight begin the arduous task of knitting together products, channels, organizations, roadmaps, I thought you might want to know how easily products like ArcSight Logger™ and other log ...

Cloud Use-Cases for IT Operations

Friday, April 23rd, 2010

Some common use-cases we’re seeing for the private cloud approach to infrastructure: Horizontally scaling, primarily of Web-based applications. Using variations of the LAMP or Ruby stacks these appear to be sites and portals engineered for horizontal scaling via HTTP load-balancing and loosely coupled application components. Specialized cluster-aware applications. A mixture of ...

Building a private cloud? Help shape the future of GWOS.

Wednesday, April 7th, 2010

Now that the wraps are off on our partnership with Eucalyptus Systems I'm happy to be able to share more about our plans for the GroundWork Monitor Enterprise Cloud. Our mission is to create a seamless application monitoring solution that delivers timely, actionable intelligence across across public clouds, private clouds ...

The little things are the big things

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

I'm happy to announce we just released GroundWork Monitor Enterprise 6.1.1. As a minor release it doesn't have much in the way of new features but it does include some really popular customer requests: Status viewer page load times greatly improved. Our testing team claims navigating around the status viewer is ...

On the Road with the Startup Bus

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

Since early Tuesday morning, I’ve been on a bus heading East to Austin for the South By SouthWest Interactive conference. I’m on The Startup Bus, which has been receiving hype for the past few weeks on various tech rags. For those of you catching up, the Startup Bus is an ...