Liberating Time; How Cloud-based Monitoring Is Transforming Productivity

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Wasted Time:
Every IT Manager's Secret Problem
There is a problem out there in IT-Land that is seldom spoken of-wasted time. Until recently there have been no real solutions to liberate IT managers from being stuck at work monitoring these processes. All available solutions have been software-based and therefore inherently restrictive.
Found Time:
All-in-One Integrated Monitoring from the Cloud
In 2005 a handful of IT managers at Lycos/Europe had had enough of late nights stuck in some poorly lit back room waiting for monitoring processes to finish. They wanted a life and they sensed other IT managers did too.
They soon realized that at the heart of this problem of wasted time was an outdated means of monitoring systems and networks. The existing tools all software-based inherently required someone to be physically present on-site. Sensing the potential of what was then the emerging Cloud this small band of crusaders launched out on a new mission: to save IT managers all over the globe massive amounts of time. And so Monitis was born.
From day one Monitis transformed the market by being ...
... the first monitoring company to fully integrate systems network and website monitoring into an all-in-one comprehensive suite of tools that is available entirely from the Cloud. Monitis has a depth of enterprise functionality that meets or exceeds any of its software-based competition. But unlike the competition because Monitis is 100% Cloud-based IT managers are now free to monitor anything from anywhere and are no longer stuck in the office.

Turning the Industry on It's Head:
The Monitis Difference
First of all Monitis is integrated - you don't need to worry about how your tools play with others because Monitis is built to house as much or as little as you need. Monitis' fully customizable suites of tools includes:
External Services Monitoring Tools - we've packed everything imaginable into a tool kit for monitoring websites fileservers mail servers VoIP and databases from the end-user's point of view.
Server Monitoring Tools - our complete set of tools monitors all aspects of your CPU memory processes and storage and we do it on Linux Windows FreeBSD and Solaris.
Network Monitoring Tools - a comprehensive suite of SNMP ping http ssh and discovery tools.
Transaction Monitoring Tools - a scenario-based suite of tools able to track multi-step applications via a real web browsers (e.g IE or Firefox). Behavioral scripts (or paths) are created to simulate an action or path that a customer or end-user would take on a site and insure that ecommerce sites do what they are meant to do - make money.
Cloud Monitoring Tools - Need to monitor instances automation usages or need third party verification of your SLA with Amazon (EC2 S3) Rackspace GoGrid any other Cloud provider? Our suite of Cloud monitoring tools is able to handle your full range of needs.
Web-Traffic Monitoring Tools - need in-depth insight into where your visitors are coming from where they are going to and how they got there? We've got what you need to understand your Web properties.
Application Monitoring Tools -we enable monitoring of any Java-based service with JMX hooks but to do so from the Cloud. This means that users in addition monitoring troubleshooting diagnosing root causes and pro-actively planning inside a production Java (also JRuby) application deployed in a cloud or in a datacenter are free to monitor these processes from anywhere at any time.
Second Monitis operates on a SaaS subscription model so there is no big upfront expense. For a very small monthly fee Monitis is yours to use. There is no contract and you can cancel hassle-free at any time no CAPEX no need for 6-month budgetary approval processes no depreciation to calculate.
Third since Monitis operates from the Cloud the only thing that ever needs to be installed is a teeny tiny agent that sits behind your firewallso you can be up and running on Monitis in a matter of minutes.
Fourth with Monitis there are no updates to install. While we probably have the fastest innovation schedule in the business we manage all updates on our servers in the Cloud.
Finally because you don't need to buy servers for your monitoring using Monitis has significant positive impact on the environment. With all the emphasis being placed on low-carbon approaches to IT Monitis' Cloud-based SaaS approach is truly an idea that is right for our times.
More Than Talk:
16 Ways Monitis Saves IT Managers Massive Amounts of Time
With Monitis what you see is what you get - massive amounts of time saved. Here are some of the many ways:
With Monitis you'll never have to...
1.install a monitoring server
2.install a Nagios or similar system
3.install plug-ins and agents
4.spend days configuring the monitoring system
5.set up notifications via an external SMS provider
6.set up external access (to get access from home)
7.update and patch your monitoring software as you go
8.consolidate distributed monitoring
9.set up external monitoring settings
10.find the root cause of failure or poor performance analyzing data from multiples sources
11.manually compile SLA and performance reports for management and internal/external customers
12.compromise your firewalls

With Monitis you'll make these much faster...
1.find the root cause of failure or poor performance
2.analyze performance bottlenecks and resource utilization problems
3.analyze current status and predictive actions (low resource)
4.ensure good user experiences and correct functionality

The Proof is in the Pudding:
A Very Satisfied Community of Users
Whether it is Accenture Barclays Capital the Obama Campaign Lenovo Avis BMW or any other of our over 50000 (and exploding) user community the world's leading IT managers are switching to Monitis and in the process saving themselves massive amounts of time.
Even more- in 2009 The 451 Group voted Monitis as the "Most Innovative Start-up of 2009" and in April 2010 we were named as one the OnDemand 100 for 2010 - a ranking by Morgan Stanley KPMG and AlwaysOn of the world's top 100 private companies that are taking old notions of data management customer relationships and infrastructure and forging solutions that will lead to industry shake-up and huge value creation opportunities.
For a more information or a personal demo of our system contact: info@monitis.com