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 ...

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 ...