Comprehensive Application and System Monitoring Now Available to Managed Hosting Customers, Improving Network Health and Efficiency
VANCOUVER, BC - May 19, 2009 - PEER 1 Network Enterprises, Inc. (TSX:PIX), a leading online IT hosting provider, has launched SmartMonitoring, a full suite of advanced monitoring solutions now available for its managed hosting customers. Utilizing the platform of partner, Absolute Performance, Inc., SmartMonitoring provides in-depth data and analysis to better anticipate IT needs for business success. This offering, which will be expanded to all product lines later this year, represents strategic momentum in working together with best-of-breed companies to provide PEER 1 customers a valuable range of products and services.
"With the launch of SmartMonitoring, we are offering the best monitoring services available, while continuing to provide the advanced hosting services that are in greatest demand by our customers," said Tim Varma, director of product management for PEER 1. "SmartMonitoring will help our customers increase efficiency and maximize IT resources, which is especially vital in today's economy. With our fully scalable hosting solutions and services, PEER 1 adjusts to customers' needs and helps them be more cost effective, to keep their businesses running smoothly."
With SmartMonitoring, PEER 1 customers can choose the services and features, from basic to highly complex, that are most vital to their business success. These services are available through SmartMonitoring's on-demand platform interface, which provides anyone in the organization, from CEO to system engineer, understandable information on how application and system components are working together. This real-time data gives insight into potential issuesso they can be proactively addressed in the most efficient and timely way.
"Absolute Performance is excited to be launching advanced, enterprise-class monitoring services with PEER 1," said Absolute Performance vice president of sales, Harold Montano. "This capability changes the landscape of application performance monitoring available to customers at very affordable price points. The scalability and flexibility of the System Shepherd® platform provides customers with the access and visibility into their application performance, infrastructure capacity, and key business metrics necessary to make key business technology decisions."
The SmartMonitoring suite offers a range of service levels along with additional features to choose from. The services levels are each comprised of a combination of full OS monitoring, application/database instance monitoring, URL monitoring, and TCP-port monitoring, tracking pre-determined and customized metrics for a given instance determined by the user. These services are completely automated and send instant alerts when a threshold is exceeded or an event is detected.
In addition to standard monitoring levels, SmartMonitoring offers a range of customizable features including:
- WebWalk™: Provides the ability to experience the end-user perspective from any online location, including speed of page aceess or transaction time, and validating links or page and database content, using synthetic transactions to measure application performance.
- StressWalk™: This feature puts the system through its paces by providing traffic stress exercises and predictions of how the web-based services will perforim. This simulation process delivers excellent data and metrics to support important infrastructure decisions
Using the SmartMonitroing platform interface, these services and features can be configured on-demand for individual servers. SmartMonitoring provides a comprehensive library of metric "templates", providing full control over the instrumentation and data collection of performance metrics. This allows users to gain deep visibility into operating system and application variables and proactively pinpoint issues and minimize downtime.
About PEER 1
PEER 1 believes in the limitless opportunity of the Internet, and the business growth potential it provides for its more than 10,000 customers. As a global online IT hosting provider, PEER 1 offers a reliable high perfomance Internet network supporting scalable managed hosting, dedicated hosting through the ServerBeach brand, and co-location solutions. Backed by its 100 percent uptime guarantee and 24x7x365 FirstCall Support ™, PEER 1 ensures customers' online presence is always fast, always available. Since 1999, PEER 1 has grown to include 15 state-of-the-art data centers and points-of-presence throughout North America and Europe. The company's headquarters are in Vancouver, Canada and the stock is traded on the TSX under symbol PIX. For more information visit: www.peer1.com.
About Absolute Performance
Absolute Performance, Inc., a leading application performance management service provider, delivers innovative products and services that help organizations get more productivity and value from their business critical applications, eCommerce sites, and on-demand application performance to end-users. Through a deep expertise in IT operations and a continued focus on what works best, Absolute Performance helps companies meet higher expectatios for their end-user experienece. For more information visit: www.Absolute-Performance.com.
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