ScaleXtreme is pleased to announce these new product lines for Spring 2013: Server & Application Monitoring for Windows and Linux Windows Patch and Linux Update Management Advanced Cloud Management Our new products are packed with innovative, time-saving features that make it easier-than-ever to monitor and manage your internal enterprise and cloud server deployments—all from our [...]
ScaleXtreme CEO Nand Mulchandani made a special guest appearance this week at the NYC Cloud Computing Group Meetup to discuss “tackling cloud complexity with automation,” and to introduce ScaleXtreme’s Workflow Designer—a powerful multi-cloud orchestration engine that helps customers design, deploy, and operate complex cloud deployments. The Workflow Designer, which leverages ScaleXtreme’s cloud-based server automation capability, simplifies [...]
Many thanks to Michael Bisignani and John D’Esposito of the New York City Cloud Computing Group for inviting ScaleXtreme to present to the group. Should be a fun meeting, and we’ll talk about a whole bunch of interesting topics around building and deploying servers and applications on public cloud platforms. To register, use this link: [...]
ScaleXtreme revolutionized server monitoring and cloud management when we put the power of our cloud-based tools onto your iPhone. Now we’ve taken those same tools and blown them up for use on your Apple iPad or iPad mini. And it looks great. Really. Check out the screen shot below. If you haven’t noticed, the [...]
“Oops!” That’s something you never want to hear a rocket scientist say. But this morning NASA lost communication with the International Space Station during a routine software update. The connection was down for nearly three hours, causing some serious concern on the ground. NASA says: “Flight controllers were in the process of updating the station’s [...]
One of the biggest benefits of choosing a cloud application for your server monitoring and cloud management is that we can provide you with continuous innovation and improvement—delivered right to your desktop or iOS device. So if you’ve logged in to the ScaleXtreme product recently, you’ve seen our streamlined Overview Dashboard. Our user-interface designers have [...]
The Rackspace Cloud Tools Marketplace is becoming an increasingly vibrant community, full of lots of great vendors. If you’re a Rackspace customer, it’s worth a reminder that ScaleXtreme is part of the Maketplace. You can see our page and use us natively with Rackspace. See this video that Rackspace’s thought leadership team made about our [...]
Ouch. That’s got to sting. Amazon.com went down for 49 minutes January 31 and, according to a calculation by Brandon Butler, lost just shy of $5 million in the process. Amazon.com is, of course, the biggest user of Amazon Web Services, so the hit to its revenue stream is also a knock to its burgeoning [...]
KPMG has a new report out that shows both the road bumps enterprises are experiencing on their road to the cloud and the different perspectives of business leaders and IT leaders on the cloud’s impact. Cloud cost management is a big issue for enterprises and 33% of IT leaders surveyed by KPMG said the cloud [...]
Big companies are adopting cloud computing in a big way. But a path to the public cloud can take several steps and usually involves testing workloads inside the enterprise first on virtual machines and then on a private cloud before making the leap to Amazon Web Services, Rackspace, Terremark or one of the many companies [...]
We’ve dubbed it the “Era of the Outage.” These days any web-based service that goes down, for however long, loses money, and loses face in the media and can infuriate even the most loyal users. Last week saw a 40 minute outage from Twitter, with as yet no explanation as to its cause. Twitter said [...]
We’re passionate about helping people monitor servers and manage their IT infrastructure, but we noticed there aren’t a lot of resources available to explain where to start. So we’ve written a whitepaper to help folks new to server monitoring with tips on understanding metrics, setting up performance metrics, indicators and benchmarks and how to deal [...]
You know that ScaleXtreme helps businesses with server monitoring and server management. We make it simple to see diverse IT infrastructure—physical, virtual and cloud—all in one place. That makes it easy to automate jobs, provision new machines and manage updates and patches. Whether you’re an in-house IT department, a MSP, cloud-provider or a web-based company—we’ve [...]
It’s a Mac, Mac World. At least it is for some people. And for you, we’ve got a perfect solution for monitoring your Apple Mac Servers. ScaleXtreme’s cloud-based server management product provides full-featured support for Mac OS (Darwin) machines. Simply download and install our Mac agent on the machine you wish to manage. That’s [...]
Analyst firm 451 Group did a nice write-up on ScaleXtreme and our plans for 2013. William Fellows did a great job of pulling together a lot of information about our company and offering constructive thoughts on how our industry is evolving. Fellows writes: While most of ScaleXtreme’s attention has been focused on server and cloud [...]
