by Mikayel Vardanyan
| Sep 01, 2009
Press Release
San Jose 26 Aug, 2009 Paid Monitor Inc., a leading provider of hosted enterprise-class systems management software, launched a new cloud monitoring service. Paid Monitor provides user-friendly, cost-effective systems monitoring through a software-as-service approach. Paid Monitor’ on-demand cloud monitoring service is now enhanced through Amazon S3 monitoring. This new ability, Paid Monitor S3 Monitoring, lets customers independently monitor their S3 usage and storage, and notifies customers when they reach prescribed thresholds. Paid Monitor thus provides its customers with greater access and control over the cloud infrastructure.
The Simple Storage Service, or S3, is an online storage service offered by Amazon’s Web Services division. Amazon S3 uses a simple web interface to provide unlimited data storage. This was the first web service that Amazon offered to the public, first in the United States in March 2006 and then in Europe in November 2007. Amazon has charged users monthly by the gigabyte, with additional charge for each get or put request and for bandwidth used to send and receive stored data. There are an estimated 52 billion objects stored on Amazon S3 as of March 2009. S3 also includes image and web hosting and a back-up for its storage.
Paid Monitor already provides EC2 monitoring, and now adds S3 storage service monitoring as well. This gives Paid Monitor the ability to show its users graphical displays illustrating the number of objects in each virtual folder (known as buckets), their total size, the number of virtual folders, and the number of objects in each bucket etc. Users can set notification rules for each metric that Paid Monitor monitors. They can choose to be notified by Twitter, instant messaging, SMS, and/or email when any threshold is reached.
Paid Monitor is an independent service that can be used by business administrators and IT managers to monitor and exercise control over their Amazon cloud usage. Cloud computing customers do not typically own the physical assets that store their software. Instead, cloud computing customers usually pay for only what they use, and enjoy the cloud resource as a service. Cloud customers need more visibility into the cloud than other service users, to make sure that their software is running properly. The Paid Monitor cloud monitoring system allows customers this transparency, giving users management and monitoring capabilities comparable to those enjoyed with in-house systems.
According to Hovhannes Avoyan, CEO of Paid Monitor, “On-demand cloud computing is at high demand now and needs for cloud monitoring is explicit. We cannot ignore the request and we provide fast, easy, affordable tool to address these needs”. Users who sign up for Paid Monitor receive access to Paid Monitor Cloud, which is a web-centric on-demand software that does not require any downloads. This is a service beneficial to those who provide IT services, and businesses ranging from small to enterprise-level.
About Paid Monitor Performance Monitor
Paid Monitor Performance Monitor is industry leading comprehensive, affordable, scalable, fault and performance management platform. Paid Monitor Performance Monitor monitors, collects and analyzes information from websites, servers, routers, switches, VoIP devices, DNS, databases, processes and any other IP devices providing users with a comprehensive view of their system health. Open sourced Paid Monitor plug-in with powerful API’s allow users to extend Paid Monitor powerful monitoring and management capabilities. Users can be assured of always on reliable service as Paid Monitor Performance Monitor is deployed across the world providing resilient service.
About Paid Monitor
Paid Monitor is a leading provider of affordable performance monitoring and management solution. More than 50,000 customers spanning small businesses, Fortune 500 companies, government agencies and education institutions have chosen Paid Monitor to reduce system downtime, improve IT administrator productivity, and reduce operational expenditure. Paid Monitor is radically changing system monitoring and management landscape by providing easy to use, affordable, flexible (deployment configurations include: shared, internal cloud and external cloud), and simple to manage SaaS performance monitoring and management solution. For more information, please visit https://www.monitor.us
