Less is More Approach Addresses IT Managers’ Need for Relevant, Actionable Data

FiveRuns today unveiled its Systems Management offering, a hosted Web 2.0 application designed for today’s IT professionals. Now in beta, FiveRuns delivers a simple, straightforward answer for monitoring, analyzing, reporting, and predicting, through a rich web-based interface, enabling users to quickly identify problems in their environment and take proactive steps to improve overall system performance. FiveRuns will demonstrate the software at the JBoss World conference this week, in Las Vegas, at booth #105.

FiveRuns advances the quality of choices available to previously underserved markets. The company’s extensive research showed that small and mid-sized businesses hadn’t been able to afford enterprise level systems management solutions, so they went without, typically responding in a reactive fashion to problems in their environments. Amplified by the growing replacement rates of Win32 with open source technologies, IT departments now require new management solutions more than ever.

“SMBs should consider the management of their IT infrastructure as strategic to the success of their business. Heterogeneous IT systems management for SMB IT organizations have historically missed the mark due to high pricing and hard to use functionality,” said Stephen Elliot, research manager, IDC, enterprise system management. “Open source system management solutions aimed at this audience offer the potential for low cost alternatives that address unique system management needs of availability, performance and reporting.”

FiveRuns brings traditional and open source systems management together in one application through a simple, sleek interface, which sets it apart from clunky, proprietary monitoring tools. Additional features that differentiate FiveRuns from existing systems management solutions include:

• Rich user interface, which leverages Ruby on Rails and Ajax technologies for optimal user experience
• Software As A Service (SaaS) based monitoring, offering the flexibility to subscribe to the appropriate level of service as infrastructure changes
• Lower implementation costs driven by automated configuration discovery and auto baseline thresholds

“All IT departments want to better manage their systems, but most can’t afford the time or the cost of installing traditional management solutions,” said Steven Smith, CEO of FiveRuns. “The overwhelming response to our beta program is yet another indication that the market is more than ready for a new, innovative way to monitor mission-critical system environments.”

Extending the high quality, low cost benefits of open source solutions, FiveRuns’ offering is a fraction of the cost of traditional management software.

Availability

FiveRuns Systems Management is currently available in beta release.

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