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Time to Update the Management Toolkit
One of the things that drives a customer into the arms of solution providers more easily than anything else is anything to do with managing ongoing IT operations. Every customer out there falls in love with one application or another, but when it comes to living with that application they inevitably want somebody else to take care of it for them.
Overcoming IT Blindness
One of the bad things about virtualization is that it introduces a layer of software that blinds application management tools to what’s happening with the underlying physical hardware. A variety of companies, such as BlueStripe Software, are addressing this issue. BlueStripe, for example, has developed a suite of application management tools that correlates information about application performance with what’s happening at both the virtual machine layer and the underlying hardware.
Business Trends Quarterly -- Virtual IT (by Vic Nyman)
Vic Nyman, Co-founder and COO of BlueStripe Software, talks about managing complex applications in virtualized environments. While many tools help manage virtual servers, they provide little real-time, actionable data on how the applications themselves perform and how these virtualized applications interact with one another and the infrastructure in which they reside. Today, a new generation of Application Service Management (ASM) tools are capable of providing real-time, actionable application data — a first for the virtualized data center environment.
Triangle Business Journal -- Small software company nabs $8 million to jumpstart commercialization
BlueStripe Software has closed on $8 million in second round funding, a cash infusion intended to help the Morrisville startup build on its efforts to commercialize its technology.
TechJournal South -- BlueStripe Software raises $8 million
BlueStripe Software, a company selling application service management solutions to help migrate and manage enterprise applications in a virtual server environment, has raised an $8 million round of funding. The investment round was led by Valhalla Partners, with BlueStripe’s initial investor, Trinity Ventures, also participating.
Local Tech Wire -- Virtualization software firm BlueStripe goes green with $8M in new capital
BlueStripe Software, a two-year-old startup focused on virtualization technology, has closed on $8 million in new financing, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. "This additional funding allows us to accelerate our growth and expand our capabilities for customers moving to new platforms, such as cloud or virtual infrastructures, enabling them to change the way they manage their business-critical applications," Neal said in a statement.
The News & Observer -- BlueStripe on a blue streak
BlueStripe Software has attracted $8 million in venture capital financing, money that will pay to double the young technology company's work force. The Morrisville company, founded in late 2007, has 22 employees. Its leaders are hiring sales and marketing workers, as well as other staff, and plan to expand to about 45 employees by the end of 2009.
Information Week -- The InformationWeek Startup 50: Business Technology Companies To Watch
The companies that made our list were assessed on the following criteria: innovation in technology or business model; value, delivered in lower costs, increased sales, higher productivity, or improved customer loyalty; and enterprise readiness, meaning a product that scales and is ready for deployment.
InternetNews.com -- Virtualization: Doing More Harm Than Good?
Enterprises virtualizing their infrastructure to help cut costs could be in for a shock -- system performance may be degraded and they may not save as much money as they had hoped, unless they manage the performance of their business-critical applications.
eWEEK -- FactFinder named to Products to Watch for 2009
eWEEK editors name the new hardware, software and services enterprise IT managers should have on their radars.
NETWORKWORLD.com -- 10 Start-ups to Watch in '09
Read about why Network World thinks BlueStripe Software is 1 of the top 10 start-ups to watch in 2009.
Virtual Strategy Magazine -- Applications Become Center-Stage with Virtualization Growth (by Vic Nyman)
Today's organizations are pushing hard to realize the benefits of virtualizing their systems. But as easy conversions are being completed, new challenges are arising. Better management solutions will be a necessity for effectively handling applications running on a virtual infrastructure.
NETWORKWORLD.com -- 10 IT management companies to watch: A product roundup
A look at the technology that these start-ups say will make them stand out from the pack.
TechJournal South -- BlueStripe Software eases management of virtualization environments
Virtualization offers many advantages including flexibility and cost-savings, but as a second wave of adopters move to virtualized environments, application management can become a problem. A group of four systems management veterans founded BlueStripe Software to address that problem.
NETWORKWORLD.com -- Start-up takes on application management in virtual environments
BlueStripe Software aims to solve the application visibility issues that crop up when multi-tier applications rely on virtual servers.
InformationWeek.com -- Stealthy BlueStripe Concentrates On Managing Apps In VMs
The company's FactFinder product will initially work with applications in virtual machines generated by VMware's ESX Server and with Citrix Systems XenServer. Think virtualization of the data center is hot? It's going to get hotter, if newcomer BlueStripe Software has its way.
Channel Virtualization -- BlueStripe releases FactFinder - insight & intelligence at the application level
BlueStripe Software announced the official launch of operations and its first commercial product, FactFinder.
eWEEK -- Managing Applications in a Virtual Environment
For all the great work being done on the management of virtual machines these days, much of it may be missing the point. That's one of the tenets behind a new FactFinder application management offering from a startup company called BlueStripe Software that is making its debut at the Demo conference.
ZDNet.com -- Bluestripe to tackle application management in virtual environments
Today marks the launch of Bluestripe, a Research Triangle Park, NC startup focused on application service management in virtualized data centers. The company’s first product, called FactFinder, allows IT administrators to manage application performance and availability across the data center. This platform, they argue, will allow users to deploy more multi-tier business critical applications on virtual servers.
Wall Street & Technology -- A Partial Answer to Virtual Sprawl
So far, FactFinder is designed for the early adoption phase of virtualization, as application support teams start to move critical applications to virtual machines. Future versions of the product will monitor applications and help fix performance problems as they arise. The first release is for Windows and VMWare environments; later versions will encompass other operating systems and virtualization software.