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April 26, 2006 | Comments: (0)

Five Runs-Open Source Systems Management

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FiveRuns offers system management software, both as open source software and as a hosted service. Functionality includes monitoring, analyzing, reporting and predicting system health.

In researching the business model, FiveRuns found that the barriers to adoption in SMBs have to do with TCO, complexity and risk that can get introduced into the environment. One way to overcome this is through open source (obviously)-low cost of entry gets passed on to customers. The software monitors the performance and availability of your servers and does analysis, reporting and prediction. This comes either on-site or via a hosted version which requires a client on the server that facilitates one-way information flow out to the managed service.

The complexity is removed because the software auto-finds and configures—basically you drop in, deploy and get going quickly unlike traditional behemoths like Tivoli. The other side of this is that FiveRuns aggregate knowledge-base articles relating to similar subject matter. This knowledge base aggregates information that is generic and and specific to your organizations infrastructure.

The software is also very hip, all, Ruby, Rails etc. with a very slick UI that makes system management a lot more pleasant. Correlated metrics etc...it's shaping up to be a great product.

Posted by Dave Rosenberg on April 26, 2006 01:52 PM

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