Archive for April, 2009

Farewell Cassatt, Lessons Learned

Monday, April 27th, 2009

Bill Coleman, BEA founder and CEO of Cassatt, said in a Forbes interview today that Cassatt is "close to an end" after burning through nearly $100MM in funding. The Register has followed up with their own commentary. Having followed (and sometimes positioned against) Cassatt for years, watching its unraveling has been ...

The Open Source Honey Blender

Friday, April 24th, 2009

Thanks to the thoughtful posts of Roberto Galoppini About the Open Source Whole Product Concept, I've just finished reading the latest, version 2 of James Dixon's The Bees and the Trees. Over a great dinner at the Water Bar with Roberto after the Open Source Think Tank last March, I remarked ...

GroundWork Adds Tap In Cloud Management

Sunday, April 19th, 2009

GroundWork is pleased to announce the availability of Tap In System's Cloud Management Service via the GroundWork Exchange. Tap In’s CMS option adds Amazon EC2 cloud management features to the core monitoring functions of GroundWork Monitor 5.2.1 or higher: Monitors cloud infrastructure status Measures cloud-specific instance metrics Maps and tracks dynamic host name and ...

Survey Results: Community Edition (GWMCE) Downloaders Do More with Open Source

Friday, April 10th, 2009

GroundWork conducts an ongoing community edition downloader survey that provides a better understanding of how GWMCE is used and how GWMCE can be improved. Here are some of the monitoring trends reported from our first round of results. The IT environments that GWMCE monitors are complex, heterogeneous, and require a high level ...