BlueStripe News

05/18/2009 | BlueStripe Announces Support for Solaris 10

FactFinder now provides process-level application visibility and performance data to customers responsible for mission-critical applications running on Sun’s Enterprise Servers

RTP, N.C. – May 18, 2009 – BlueStripe Software, the only provider of APM 2.0 solutions for today’s dynamic IT infrastructures, today announced that its award-winning FactFinder application management product now offers full support for the Solaris™ 10 operating system (OS).  By extending the reach of its intelligent application discovery and unique service-level triage capabilities for application support to Solaris, FactFinder helps customers optimize their infrastructure investments and roll out new applications with confidence.   

“As our customer base continues to grow, we have seen increasing demand for Solaris 10 support and recognize the need to broaden our platform as the IT ecosystem supporting business-critical applications continues to evolve,” said BlueStripe co-founder and CEO Chris Neal.  “Adding support for Solaris extends the value FactFinder offers to customers taking advantage of Solaris’ scalability and performance for critical business applications.”

With the growth of SOA-based applications supported by dynamic infrastructure, enterprises must take a service-level driven approach to managing business-critical applications, regardless of virtual machine (VM), platform, operating system, or physical host server.  Only by managing the application, not just the systems on which it resides, can companies truly understand what is impacting the performance of their critical applications and quickly take action to resolve those issues. 

FactFinder employs a unique service-level driven approach to application triage, enabling users to follow service-level performance hop-by-hop across application tiers, identify the offending server, and drill down through each layer in the server stack to isolate the performance issue.  It automatically discovers and maps the application, highlighting process-level dependencies from end-to-end, captures detailed performance metrics to measure the application’s health and performance, and provides quick triage capabilities when problems arise. 

FactFinder provides those responsible for managing business-critical applications with the tools to measure application health and performance and the ability to triage applications during P2V conversions, new application roll-outs, and to manage and support production applications.  

Availability and Pricing

FactFinder for Solaris™ 10 OS is now available.  Pricing starts at $10,000 and varies based on the scale of the managed environment.

About BlueStripe Software

BlueStripe Software provides the only Application Performance Management solution that gives IT Organizations the visibility into exactly what IT components make up important business applications, where the application transactions go in those systems, exactly where transactions are spending time and why.  BlueStripe’s flagship application management product, FactFinder, provides 24x7 application monitoring and problem management for important production applications across any application architecture, across any server platform: physical, virtual or cloud.

Based in the Research Triangle Park (RTP) area of N.C., BlueStripe is led by an executive team that has built some of the industry’s leading enterprise application management companies, including Wily Technology, Computer Associates, Cisco and IBM/Tivoli. For additional information, please visit http://bluestripe.com.