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Whether you work for a very large company with thousands of services in production or a small company with only a couple, visibility into the performance and uptime of those services is critical. Before you start investigating the myriad of governance products on the market, many of which will set you back a great deal of money, let me save you some time (and money). You can get up and running in about an hour for chump change with JaxView from Managed Methods and get a firm handle on how your services are performing (or not performing as the case may be). If you’ve ever worked with SiteScope for website monitoring, you’ll recognize the quick time-to-value paradigm of JaxView and for good reason – it is brought to you by some of the same people who built SiteScope. You’re going to love JaxView’s intuitive user interface and different deployment options, including ... (more)

Apptio Launches Demand-Based Forecasting for IT Budget and Spend Management

Apptio is betting big on the market for demand-based budget forecasting. A new feature in its technology business management solutions software suite aims to help business managers plan and budget more accurately by inputting departmental forecasts into its software. The Bellevue, Wash., company is calling it a “closed-loop” approach to financial planning, cost management, and transparency. The promised result: tighter alignment with business priorities, improved cost efficiency, and transparent reporting on the cost and value of IT services. Michel Feaster, vice president of produ... (more)

Managed Methods Offers SOA Management Support

Managed Methods has announced the availability of their SOA management and runtime governance support for deeper visibility for Aqualogic ESB, WebLogic Integration (WLI) and Progress Sonic ESB 7.6. This capability expands the SOA environments that JaxView supports, including  a wide range of support for applications exposed by ESBs , protocols and messaging and back-end-databases and systems. "We are exceptionally pleased with this release for the support of these integration and mediation products. Our customers are using JaxView in varying ways, from agentless visibility to se... (more)

eSignature Service for Box.net’s Cloud Content Management Platform

newScale Inc. on Wednesday announced that Cable&Wireless Worldwide has selected the newScale FrontOffice Suite to support its enterprise cloud computing solution. C&W Worldwide’s cloud offering will combine newScale software together with Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS), as well as technologies from VMware and EMC, to deliver a secure, resilient and easy-to-use cloud computing infrastructure for enterprises. “This solution from C&W Worldwide represents the ‘best-of-the-best’ in enterprise cloud computing,” said Scott Hammond, newScale CEO. “It offers the on-demand resourc... (more)

Managed Methods Releases JaxView Free Version for up to 5 Active Monitors

Managed Methods announces the latest release of its free solution for monitoring Web service availability. Managed Methods enhances its offering to customers looking for simple availability in smaller environments. Architects, developers and IT operations managers working with Web services in production need visibility into the operation and performance of XML-based services. Managed Methods offers a wide variety of functionality and installation options at a cost effective price. JaxView’s functionality includes runtime governance, policy enforcement, management, agent-less... (more)