Archive for April, 2010
AppFirst Clinches Judges and Audience Choice Honors at Under the Radar
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
Named Application Development and Management Category Winner
NEW YORK – April 22, 2010 – AppFirst, the only provider of real-time, proactive monitoring solutions, was chosen as both Judges’ and Audience Choice at Under the Radar in the Application Development and Management category. The company unveiled AppFirst Professional Edition, the first Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)-based application performance monitoring solution that can provide unique visibility into an entire application – regardless of language, application type or location (cloud, physical or virtual servers) at the event last week in Mountain View, CA. AppFirst enables SaaS IT operations to proactively monitor applications, driving down the cost of operations, see changes before they become problems and improve customer satisfaction.
“AppFirst is dedicated to delighting customers by providing them complete insight into how their applications are behaving on the infrastructure,” said David Roth, CEO and co-founder for AppFirst. “We’re honored to be selected as winners by the esteemed judges and our peers.”
AppFirst was selected to present at Under the Radar: Commercializing the Cloud. In its 16th series, the conference showcases the best of breed technology startups in the Cloud Computing Ecosystem. Judges include CIOs, CTOs and IT executives from Bank of America, ING, MTV, Digg, Intuit, Salesforce, Rackspace and more. Under the Radar is designed to connect CEOs, technology executives, investors, analysts and press together with one ultimate goal: to get the deal done. A complete list of winners can be found at http://www.undertheradarblog.com/blog/announcing-under-the-radar-winners-who-came-out-on-cloud-9/.
“Under the Radar showcases innovative startups with the intention of introducing them to potential customers and partners,” noted Debbie Landa, CEO and Founder for DealMaker Media, producer of Under the Radar. “We take months to carefully select companies to participate at Under the Radar, therefore winning the recognition of the judges and audience, like AppFirst did, says a lot.”
About AppFirst, Inc.
AppFirst delivers a SaaS-based application performance management solution uniquely providing IT operations complete visibility into the behavior and performance of applications across the entire application stack, regardless of language, application type or location (cloud, physical or virtual servers). Visibility into the executing application enables proactive monitoring to drive down cost of operations, see changes before they become problems and reduce customer churn. Founded in 2009, AppFirst is a New York City-based company venture backed by FirstMark Capital and First Round Capital. More information is available at www.appfirst.com.
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AppFirst Launches First SaaS-Based Application Performance Monitoring Solution for Entire Application
Thursday, April 15th, 2010
SaaS IT Operations Go from Reactive to Proactive with AppFirst
Direct View of Application Execution Environment Offers Advanced Monitoring Capabilities for Improved Performance, Satisfaction and Costs
NEW YORK and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – April 16, 2010 – AppFirst today announced the immediate availability of AppFirst Professional Edition, the first Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)-based application performance monitoring solution at the Under the Radar: Commercializing the Cloud event in Mountain View, Calif. With only one piece of software users are provided unique visibility into an entire application – regardless of language, application type or location (cloud, physical or virtual servers). AppFirst enables SaaS IT operations to proactively monitor applications, driving down the cost of operations, see changes before they become problems and improve customer satisfaction.
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3 Views of your Application
Tuesday, April 13th, 2010
If you are part of the 95% of the rest of us you are missing the critical 3rd view of your application. I’m getting ahead of myself. To say that that you may or may not be missing a view of your application implies that there is more than one view of an application. So, what is a view? It’s not complicated; it’s simply the way you think of your application, the picture in your head about what the app is and how it works, that’s your view of the application.
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Introducing AppFirst
Tuesday, April 13th, 2010
Welcome to the AppFirst blog. My name is David Roth and I am a founder & CEO of AppFirst, Inc. We have all seen the aggressive adoption of Software as a Service (SaaS) along with applications leveraging Cloud Computing. What has this trend done? It has shifted the “Application Operations” burden; from set up to every detail ensuring it works, from the end user or corporate buyer to the ISV. Beyond writing great software ISV’s now need to learn how to deliver “operational excellence” specific to their application or the consequences are stark ranging from the loss of customers due to any performance issues to the excess spend that occurs from over-provisioning because there is no visibility to what each application component actually consumes from a production hardware resource perspective.
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