I’m proud to tell you that Monitis has gotten the thumbs up from leading tech analysts The 451 Group.

“The cloud is the next frontier of IT operations management,” said Dennis Callaghan, enterprise software analyst at The 451 Group. “With its ability to do performance monitoring, testing and configuration management in the Cloud, and of workloads running in the Cloud, at an affordable price, we believe Monitis is a company to watch in the nascent Cloud management space.”

On its own, this positive comment is pretty impressive. But we’ve also been chosen by 451 to take part in their 2009 Innovators’ Showcase – at its Fourth Annual Client Conference on November 3-4 at Boston’s Marriott Longwharf Hotel.

We’re one of only six tech companies to be invited, and the event will include a pretty cool competition that will enable conference attendees (venture capitalists, investment bankers, enterprise IT end users, software and hardware vendors and system integrators) to “invest” in Innovators Showcase companies. It’ll work like this: attendees will receive 451 Group scrip, and the Showcase company that gets the most scrip (after making presentations about their technology and services) will be honored at the end of the conference.

We’re going to present our vision: “Monitoring in the Cloud: Monitor Anything from Anywhere.” I’ll be pleased, too, to have by my side one of our early customers, Schoolwires, Inc. They provide strategic online communication, website and community management and productivity solutions to K-12 schools. And they’ve been using our all-in-one suite of cloud-based monitoring tools for more than two years to track and report on activity on the 1,200-plus web sites that Schoolwires manages. And they’ve reaped major efficiencies and reduced costs, among other benefits.

Keep your fingers crossed for us, and I’ll be sure to report back on how the conference went!

San Jose, CA – Oct 29, 2009 – Monitis, the leading provider of 100% Cloud-based network and systems monitoring solutions, today announced a major holiday discount of 60% on Monitis e-Commerce Monitoring, it’s industry-leading suite of website monitoring tools for online shops.

According to Hovhannes Avoyan, Monitis’ Founder and CEO, “On average, online shop sites were down for 7 hours during the 2008 holiday season. That represents millions of online sales lost and countless customer relationships damaged. Monitis e-Commerce Monitoring insures during that the critical holiday sales period, you’ve got the information you need to keep your online shops up as much as possible.”

Monitis e-Commerce Monitoring monitors functionality and site performance for online stores by simulating actual consumer behavior on our client’s online shops every 5 minutes. While home pages often run well, many online retailers are unaware when their customer experience degrades as customers move closer to completing a transaction. Monitis e-Commerce Monitoring alerts retailers to problems as they happen so that corrective action can be taken immediately and the loss of online sales minimized.

The functions monitored by Monitis e-Commerce Monitoring include:

• log-in
  

• product search
  

• shopping carts
  

• check-out
  

• order tracking
  

• order updating
  

• payment processing
  

• product detail pages
  

• and more
  

Want to maximize your uptime this holiday season? Act now, as Monitis’ 60% holiday discount on its Monitis e-Commerce Monitoring suite is good only through Monday, November 9, 2009. Get Monitis e-Commerce Monitoring today and insure you keep every penny shoppers want to spend with you. More at http://Monitis.com/special

About Monitis All-in-One Monitoring Platform

Monitis is a 100% Cloud-based, complete, and flexible IT monitoring solution which consolidates backend monitoring, application monitoring, website monitoring, and cloud monitoring in an all-in-one, central monitoring service. The platform is easily  customizable and may be used for managing all kinds of IT assets such as websites, servers, routers, switches, VoIP devices, DNS, databases, processes and any other IP devices.  Monitis provides users with a comprehensive view of their system’s health and performance. 

About Monitis

Monitis believes that the Cloud is the biggest thing to happen in IT management since IT management. Having seen this vision early, Monitis is now the global leader in developing this market.  It is the first affordable network and systems monitoring solution based 100% in the Cloud.

Besides Monitis’ enthusiastic and loyal user base of 50,000 customers from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies to government agencies and educational institutions, Monitis has won rave reviews from the technology analyst community. The 451 Group has recently named Monitis as one of it’s 6 Innovators of 2009, based on how Monitis’ Cloud-based monitoring helps companies reduce system downtime, improve the productivity of their IT staff, and reduce operational expenditures.

Monitis was founded in 2005 by a team of seasoned entrepreneurs and fed-up and worn-out developers who were tired of complaining about the limits of software-based tools, while inspired by the promise of the Cloud.  Headquartered in San Jose, CA, Monitis is lead by a team of IT professionals with deep experience running enterprise-grade IT businesses, as well as starting and selling several IT start-ups.  Using a global workforce, particularly its R&D team based in Yerevan, Armenia, Monitis is poised to move from strength to strength.  At present, it has a loyal and enthusiastic user community of 50,000, and an average month-on-month revenue growth of over 10%.

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Monitis Inc.

Sales & Marketing Department

info@monitis.com

http://www.monitis.com

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On a tech blog, I read a good explanation of the promise of the cloud in providing a home for software ecosystems, and I thought I’d share.

The idea is that cloud hosting providers like Amazon provide a sort of global workbench on which software vendors can integrate quickly – even without having explicit business relationships. All of the cloud quick-start products are fully integrated and running, as we speak, in the Amazon cloud. And integration is available for anyone who has an account with Amazon.

The author said that what makes the cloud unique in its capacity to house software ecosystems is not the individual bits of software running in some dark data center. Rather, it’s that, for the first time, it’s a relative snap to integrate relatively complex software and make the resulting combined solution available to anyone who wants to use them.

Without the cloud, this would be pretty difficult. Why?

Take for example the elements of the cloud quickstart program, which integrates products from four enterprise software companies, WaveMaker, RightScale, IBM and Amazon. (The blog also mentioned an ecosystem for cloud business intelligence recently launched that features RightScale, Jaspersoft, Talend and Vertica.) First, you would have to obtain software licenses from each vendor, then you’d need to find a place to install them all, and then you’d have to figure out how to integrate them.

This could take months.

Sounds like another convincing reason for cloud computing to me!

Press Release

Monitis, the leading provider of 100% Cloud-based application performance, server and network monitoring solutions, today announced that it has been invited to participate in The 451 Group’s 2009 Innovators’ Showcase at its Fourth Annual Client Conference on November 3-4 at Boston’s Marriott Longwharf Hotel. In addition to announcing its new vision and roadmap at the conference, Monitis plans a series of major new network and cloud monitoring announcements during the week that will continue to cement its lead over conventional, software-based monitoring technologies.

San Jose, CA October 28, 2009 – Monitis, the leading provider of 100% Cloud-based application and IT infrastructure monitoring solutions, is one of only 6 companies selected by The 451 Group, a respected technology industry analyst firm, to present its vision: “Monitoring in the Cloud: Monitor Anything from Anywhere”, to more than 300 top executives from leading US enterprises.

The 451 Group, with its focus on analyzing the business of enterprise IT innovation, covers hundreds of stealth and early-stage companies. The 451 Group’s Innovators’ Showcase, a regular part of the company’s Client Conference since the inception of the event in 2006, showcases some of the best and brightest of these young companies.

Participants, who are nominated by 451 Group analysts, present their business plans and demos of their technologies to The 451 Group Client Conference attendees, who include venture capitalists, investment bankers, enterprise IT end users, software and hardware vendors and system integrators. Attendees are given 451 Group scrip to “invest” in the Innovators Showcase companies. The company that receives the most scrip is honored at the end of the conference.

“The cloud is the next frontier of IT operations management,” said Dennis Callaghan, enterprise software analyst at The 451 Group. “With its ability to do performance monitoring, testing and configuration management in the Cloud, and of workloads running in the Cloud, at an affordable price, we believe Monitis is a company to watch in the nascent Cloud management space.”

In addition to announcing its new vision and roadmap at the conference, Monitis plans a series of major new announcements during the week that will continue to cement its lead over conventional, software-based monitoring technologies.

According to Hovhannes Avoyan, Monitis’ Founder and CEO “Our success to-date comes from the insight that launched the company in the first place. Back then, when a few of us experienced just too many late nights stuck in the office due to inefficient monitoring and management tools, we began to look around and see that many of our counterparts were exasperated by the same issues. The Cloud was offering a better way, and we jumped at the chance to change the game.”

One of Monitis’ early customers, Schoolwires will also be joining Monitis during its presentation to discuss the impact Monitis’ Cloud-based solutions has had on his business. Schoolwires has been using Monitis’ all-in-one suite of monitoring tools for more than 2 years. “Utilizing the Cloud, has led to major advances at Schoolwires!” stated Rick Stivers, Director of Network & IT Services at Schoolwires, Inc. “We’ve been able to gain efficiencies, while reducing costs and the net result is an increase in SLA. Monitis is a critical tool we utilize to quickly respond to downtime for the 1,200 plus web sites we manage.”

What:    The 451 Group’s Fourth Annual Client Conference Innovators’ Showcase
When:    Nov 3-4, 2009
Where:    Boston’s Marriott Longwharf Hotel

For more information on The 451 Group’s 4th Annual Client Event, please visit: Innovators Showcase Webpage.

About Monitis All-in-One Monitoring Platform
Monitis is a 100% Cloud-based, complete, and flexible IT monitoring solution which consolidates back-end, application, and cloud monitoring in an all-in-one, central monitoring service. The platform is easily customizable and may be used for managing all kinds of IT assets such as websites, servers, routers, switches, VoIP devices, DNS, databases, processes and any other IP devices. Monitis provides users with a comprehensive view of their system’s health and performance.

About Monitis
Monitis believes that the Cloud is the biggest thing to happen in IT management since IT management. Having seen this vision early, Monitis is now the global leader in developing this market. It is the first affordable network and systems monitoring solution based 100% in the Cloud. More than 50,000 customers from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies to government agencies and educational institutions have chosen Monitis to reduce system downtime, improve the productivity of their IT staff, and reduce operational expenditures.

Monitis was founded in 2005 by a team of seasoned entrepreneurs and fed-up and worn-out developers who were tired of complaining about the limits of software-based tools, while inspired by the promise of the Cloud. Headquartered in San Jose, CA, Monitis is lead by a team of IT professionals with deep experience running enterprise-grade IT businesses, as well as starting and selling several IT start-ups. Using a global workforce, particularly its R&D team based in Yerevan, Armenia, Monitis is poised to move from strength to strength. At present, it has a loyal and enthusiastic user community of 50,000, and an average month-on-month revenue growth of over 10%.

About The 451 Group
The 451 Group is an independent technology-industry analyst company focused on the business of enterprise IT innovation. The company’s analysts provide critical and timely insight into the market and competitive dynamics of innovation in emerging technology segments. Clients of the company – at vendor, investor, service-provider and end-user organizations – rely on The 451 Group’s insight to support both strategic and tactical decision-making for competitive advantage.

The 451 Group also operates Tier1 Research – an independent division of The 451 Group – which analyzes the financial and industry implications of developments impacting public and private companies within the hosting, communications and Internet infrastructure sectors. The 451 Group is headquartered in New York, with offices in key locations, including San Francisco, Washington, D.C., London and Boston.

About Schoolwires, Inc.
Schoolwires Inc. is headquartered in Pennsylvania, USA.

Schoolwires provides strategic online communication, community-management and productivity solutions to the K-12 education market. The company’s core product is SchoolwiresCentricityTM, which brings together robust and flexible website management, community management and web 2.0/social network capabilities in a single, user-centric solution. Schoolwires also delivers SchoolwiresSynergyTM, a digital file sharing solution, Schoolwires AssistTM, a service request solution, and SchoolwiresShare(TM), an exclusive online client community and support center.

Schoolwires is recognized in the Inc. 500 List as one of the fastest growing private companies in the nation. The company’s on-demand solutions are deployed at nearly 4,000 schools serving an estimated four million students, parents, teachers and administrators throughout North America.

Contact:
Monitis Inc.
Sales & Marketing Department
info@monitis.com
http://www.monitis.com
US & Canada Toll Free: +1-800-657-7949
UK + International: +44-845-527-3346
France + International: +33-48-607-9035
2880 Zanker Road Suite 203
San Jose, CA-95134
USA

San Jose, CA October 26, 2009 — Monitis, the leading provider of 100% Cloud-based network and systems monitoring solutions, today added a free, web-based remote ping to its suite of services. Monitis’ free, web-based remote ping allows users to check the availability of a server or website from multiple locations worldwide.

Monitis’ new TCP remote ping service will allow web administrators to perform instant availability checks from multiple locations. It will also allow users to embed the ping component into their blog or site.

One of the most useful and reliable network debugging tools, the remote ping can be used to perform several Internet network diagnostic tests: to see if a user can reach a public server, to determine how long it takes to bounce a packet off of another site, and to probe either a domain name or an IP address. It is the best way to uncover network problems.

This announcement comes a week after Monitis announced the addition of free network calculators. Monitis, in addition to its complete, Cloud-based, all-in-one suite of monitoring tools that are sold on a Software as a Service (SaaS) model, is also known for its numerous and popular free tools, including the famous monitoring portal Mon.itor.Us, MonitorSNMP, and Monitis Links-Checker.

Hovhannes Ayovan, Monitis’ Founder and CEO, commented, “At Monitis, we are totally focused on saving IT managers masses of time. It’s what we are all about. Our new free, web-based remote ping is just one in a number of seemingly small new tools that can make a big difference for IT teams when problems pop-up unexpectedly.”

About Monitis All-in-One Monitoring Platform:
Monitis (http://www.monitis.com) is a 100% Cloud-based, complete, and flexible IT monitoring solution which consolidates backend, application, and cloud monitoring in an all-in-one, central monitoring service. The platform is easily customizable and may be used for managing of all kinds of IT assets such as websites, servers, routers, switches, VoIP devices, DNS, databases, processes and any other IP devices. Monitis provides users with a comprehensive view of their system’s health and performance.

About Monitis:
Monitis believes that the Cloud is the biggest thing to happen in IT management since IT management. Having seen this vision early, Monitis is now the global leader in developing this market. It is the first affordable network and systems monitoring solution based 100% in the Cloud. More than 50,000 customers from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies to government agencies and educational institutions have chosen Monitis to reduce system downtime, improve the productivity of their IT staff, and reduce operational expenditures.

Monitis was founded in 2005 by a team of seasoned entrepreneurs and fed-up and worn-out developers who were tired of complaining about the limits of software-based tools, while inspired by the promise of the Cloud. Headquartered in San Jose, CA, Monitis is lead by a team of IT professionals with deep experience running enterprise-grade IT businesses, as well as starting and selling several IT start-ups. Using a global workforce, particularly its R&D team based in Yerevan, Armenia, Monitis is poised to move from strength to strength. At present, it has a loyal and enthusiastic user community of 50,000, and an average month-on-month revenue growth of over 10%.

More news from Gartner’s technology conference in Orlando. Seems that amid the recent downturn in tech spending, firms still invested in cloud computing and virtualization. And they spent in order to save money.

According to Gartner, revenue from cloud services is due to exceed $56 billion this year, up from 21% in 2008. Compare that to a more than 5% decline for the entire IT industry. The cloud market is expected to reach $150.1 billion by 2013.

Aside from helping firms save money, cloud computing allows companies to grow without spending more on capital, and that’s an attractive proposition in this economy, too.

Meanwhile, the virtualization market is only in the beginning stages of growth. About 16% of the data runs through virtualized machines, stimulating multiple servers and making them more efficient. Last year, there were 5.8 million virtualized servers; Gartner predicts that number to rise ten-fold by 2012.

At the conference, a Gartner analyst said that cost-savings from VMs were less important than the agility of a virtual server, pointing out that virtualization provides a path to using more cloud services.

Gartner predicts that both technologies will remain attractive, as companies look to expand once the economy turns around. Nevertheless, others noted the skittishness among companies to put their sensitive data on the web.

I found it interesting reading, too, about how all kinds of IT companies are providing services to businesses using the cloud. And they’re doing an important work. For one, take firms that monitor cloud-based servers and apps.

How does one say “cloud computing” in French? If you’re not French and you don’t already know the answer, it’s “informatique en nuage,” literally: computing in the cloud.

I am not French, but how do I know this? I came across a story in the Wall Street Journal, on Oct. 14^th, which highlighted the difficulty that France’s guardian’s of the French language, a group of professors, linguists, scientists and others are having coming to, well, terms, with new Anglicized phrases – often spawned by Internet development, for example, the World Wide Web (in French: “toile d-araignée mondiale.”

Apparently, the proposed term, “information en nuage,” was too vague for the group and they turned it down. Other proposals: Capacité Informatique en Ligne (which means online computing). Shortened, it’s CIEL, which means “sky” in French.

One member of the oversight group even wanted to stick his head in the sand and not invent a French term at all. “I think we can survive without the term “cloud computing,” the WSJ quoted him as saying.

Ah well, at least everybody’s speaking about the cloud – even if they can’t come up with a name for it.

At this posting, the term “cloud computing” is still awaiting translation in French.

When I go to visit a prospective client, I’m often asked to explain why it’s better to have an integrated web server monitoring service to oversee that company’s websites and other public services externally, as well as its networks and server resources internally? Why a single solution rather than two specialized end-user performance and server utilization monitors? Wouldn’t multiple solutions be better apt to handle the many problems that arise?

Well, for one, your IT department will have a much simpler job. A single solution will literally alter the way that IT operates.

Let’s look at it this way. When you’re driving your car to a new destination, you’re typically required to watch a number of things in order to drive safely – for example, the dashboard to check on speed and remaining fuel plus a map to make sure you don’t’ get lost. In fact, to coordinate it all, you have to pull over every so often to check the map, ask for directions if needed, get gas and make sure your car’s running properly.

But if you have technology like a GPS navigator – you get a single solution that handles multiple tasks: a map that knows your speed and current location, and it eliminates the need for you to stop to coordinate multiple tasks. You always know where you are and, by setting your destination, you’re sure about the route you’re taking and how long it will take you to get there.

Think of it this way, too. A GPS allows you to save time and have more fun and less stress on the road. When you are late, you can focus on driving, but if you’ve got more than enough time, you can find points of interest along the way, without having to worry about getting lost.

So, why not consider a single product for monitoring IT networks, one that combines the understanding of delivered service levels provided by external monitoring systems with the knowledge of resource use you get from internal server and network monitoring. You’d wind up with the detailed picture, combined with an accurate assessment of the end-user experience.

Choosing the right, single solution, you can track:

• The uptime and speed of websites from the end-user point of view
• The performance and load of servers, including those that are virtualized or housed on the cloud
• The uptime and functionality of applications such as email, VoIP, databases, business applications, processes, transactions
• The availability of networks, including switches, routers, VPN, firewall, DNS, VoIP

A single website, network and server monitoring service can handle a multitude of tasks efficiently – leaving IT managers to better focus on more pressing issues.

Find the new free online network calculators on Monitis portal:

IP Subnet Calculator

IP Subnet Calculator finds the Wildcard Mask, Broadcast address, Subnet ID, Hex IP, Subnet Bitmap and host address range using the IP address, Subnet Mask, Network class, Mask Bits.

Network Wildcard Mask Calculator

Access Control List (ACL) wildcard mask calculator calculates First address and Last address using the IP address and the Wildcard Mask.

CIDR Calculator

CIDR calculator will help to find Wildcard Mask, range of usable IPs, Broadcast address and CIDR Network using the IP address, the maximum number of addresses, Subnets and CIDR Netmask.

We at Monitis have another new product to talk about that will make it easier for companies to compute on the cloud.

In August we launched Monitis S3 Monitoring, based on Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) monitoring technology. This new ability lets customers independently monitor their S3 usage and storage. And it notifies them when they reach prescribed thresholds.

With Monitis S3 Monitoring, we’re providing customers with greater access and control over the cloud infrastructure.

This all is based on a software-as-a-service (SaaS) approach, and is the latest product line-up in Monitis’s user-friendly, cost-effective systems (Monitis already provides EC2 monitoring). This gives Monitis the ability to show the users graphical displays illustrating the number of objects in each virtual folder or bucket, their total size, and the number of virtual folders, among other things. Users can set notification rules for each metric that we monitor. If you’re a customer, you can choose to be notified by Twitter, instant messaging, SMS, and/or email when any threshold is reached.

“On-demand cloud computing is at high-demand now, and the need for cloud monitoring is urgent,” said Hovhannes Avoyan, CEO of Monitis. “Our mission is to meet this need, and we provide tools that are fast, easy and affordable.”

Users who sign up for Monitis, receive access to Monitis Cloud, which is a web-centric on-demand software that does not require any downloads. This is a service beneficial to IT managers, as well as businesses ranging from small to enterprise-level.

A Little about S3

The S3 is an online storage service offered by Amazon’s Web Services division. Amazon S3 uses a simple web interface to provide unlimited data storage.

S3 was the first web service Amazon offered to the public, first in the U.S. in 2006 and then in Europe in 2007. There are an estimated 52 billion objects stored on Amazon S3 as of March 2009. S3 also includes image and web hosting and a back-up for its storage.

Read more about the new Monitis Cloud Monitoring Service!