{"id":7198,"date":"2013-04-30T19:11:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T19:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2638643"},"modified":"2013-04-30T19:11:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T19:11:00","slug":"stackdrivers-aws-rackspace-cloud-monitor-betas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/stackdrivers-aws-rackspace-cloud-monitor-betas\/","title":{"rendered":"Stackdriver\u2019s AWS &amp; Rackspace Cloud Monitor Betas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bain Capital-backed Stackdriver, a public cloud monitoring start-up, pushed its widgetry out into public beta Tuesday.<br \/>\nThe SaaS stuff currently works on Amazon Web Services and the Rackspace Cloud.<br \/>\nThe year-old company says it\u2019s got close to 100 AWS customers using its eponymous Stackdriver Intelligent Monitoring to reduce the complexity of managing their cloud-powered applications.<br \/>\nMarket research done by Stackdriver\u2019s founders Dan Belcher and Izzy Azeri, both veterans of VMware, found the cloud wasn\u2019t delivering all the elasticity, performance and security it\u2019s cracked up to, forcing users to hire DevOps engineers and write their own scripts, especially as their cloud environments grew larger and more complex.<br \/>\nIt also found that the tools to hand weren\u2019t designed with the cloud\u2019s dynamic nature in mind. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2638643\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bain Capital-backed Stackdriver, a public cloud monitoring start-up, pushed its widgetry out into public beta Tuesday.<br \/>\nThe SaaS stuff currently works on Amazon Web Services and the Rackspace Cloud.<br \/>\nThe year-old company says it\u2019s got close to 100 AW&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}