Hovhannes Avoyan

Monitis is signed on and listed with Google Apps Marketplace, which the company introduced earlier this month. It feels good to be listed on the Google Marketplace, and we’re in the company of about 50 providers (so far) who will benefit and serve everybody from individuals running businesses from small and home offices (SOHOs), to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). We’re listed right up there with Google’s own suite of applications, Gmail, Calendar, and Docs. Services range from business-from accounting to mailing lists to task management. The applications integrate with Google Apps using open protocols. What I especially like about Google Apps (and this is a key difference with Microsoft Office) is Google’s ability to access all data from any program. Google has a universal navigation bar that gets added to your browser for one-click access, otherwise known... (more)

Improving Its UI, a Systems & Network Monitoring Suite Just Got Better

Monitis, a provider of 100% Cloud-based network and systems monitoring solutions, today announced a major overhaul and upgrade of it’s user interface designed to make the world’s most innovative suite of monitoring tools even more user-friendly. First-generation and second-generation internal and external monitoring systems have been notoriously complex and difficult to use. When it launched, Monitis’ third generation suite of monitoring tools fundamentally changed this dynamic. With it’s latest UI upgrade, the user experience has been made even simpler. The new changes include:... (more)

Chickens, Cows, Money and the Cloud

Opening Keynote at Cloud Expo Here’s an interesting analogy on cloud computing for you! In the Christian Science Monitor’s Reformed Broker blog, the writer reports on the recent RSA Conference on computer security held earlier this month in San Francisco, and he quotes an observation from an attendee that appeared originally in The Economist. At the meeting, Art Coviello, president of EMC’s security division, likened the cloud to the virtualization of money. Once upon a time, people carried chickens under their arms and led cows around to market in order to barter for the goods... (more)

One-Fifth of the Take Ain’t a Bad Deal

Google Session at Cloud Expo Wow! I’m impressed with the deal Google cut for sales of apps on its cloud-based Google Marketplace, which it launched on March 9th.  The cut is 20% of sales of apps, which are integrated with and extend Google Apps.  Apparently, Google will charge developers a $100 admission fee to enter its market and then take the 20% cut of application sales, recurring on subscriptions. (This includes the purchase and install process, as well as any integration features that go along with installable apps.) To date, Google Apps has more than 2 million businesses a... (more)

Monitoring: Via the Cloud or Open-Source Tools?

As today’s fast-paced IT industry changes, with the development and growth of virtualized infrastructure and cloud computing, both open-source network and cloud-based monitoring tools are attracting growing interest. But which to choose? Advocates of open-source technology praise the flexibility and reasonable costs of these tools, making them a viable alternative to software offered by large enterprise technology companies. And there are dozens of different open-source projects that target the issue of network monitoring. One program, Snort, developed by Sourcefire, counts 270,0... (more)