Swinging Big

It’s nice to be noticed. GWOS has had multiple tweets on our recent Wall Street Journal ad. Tireless Matt Assay “mjasay” has checked in, as did Erica Brescia, CEO of our partner Bitrock, and industry analyst Eric Goodness. Humbly, let me say that GroundWork Open Source is doing lots worth noticing lately.

I can’t say for sure which marketing campaigns will work and which won’t. Certainly, we swung big with our first-ever Wall Street Journal ad. But we are swinging big in a lot of ways these days - and the results are quite positive.

• In June, we announced that our customer base has quadrupled in the last eight months.
• On July 8, we launched V6.2, with special features for service providers and a new service from Neustar Webmetrics that allows our customers to view their internal and external monitoring side-by-side from a single console.
• In another recent partnership, we’ve added Cloud Connector for Eucalyptus, which combines application and cloud health monitoring for Eucalyptus and UEC-based private clouds. It combines monitoring of private clouds and internal datacenters.
• We’ve also launched a series of innovative marketing campaigns, including a program to offer free industry certifications to our new customers.
• Meanwhile, we are still making GroundWork Monitor Community edition available for free for the community. We’re up to V6.0 now with more updates planned soon.

And we’re not finished by a long shot. Watch this space!