SaaS Terminology Defined

Saas products are described in several different ways by professionals, service providers, technology users, and even software vendors, sometimes resulting in user confusion. Terms such as SaaS, Hosted, Software plus Service, Cloud Computing, ASP, Utility Computing, On-Demand, and Multi-tenant applications were often used synonymously. To assist users in differentiating between SaaS products and providers, please find the definitions of each of these SaaS keywords here.

Up to 70% TCO Savings with Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing may reduce TCO by almost 70% according to recent IBM's survey. The concept of cloud computing uses Web 2.0 and software as a service (SaaS) to give its users scalable and virtual IT services including hardware and software. The users do not need to have deep knowledge of computing infrastructure, and don't have to control their companies' computer systems. Cloud computing is the next logical step to build upon grid computing, automatic computing, and other recent trends in the IT industry. Even small companies, like independent software manufacturers and service providers, will not need to spend money on their hardware or dedicated IT personnel when cloud computing is implemented.

A new network and systems monitoring site from Monitis, which contains wiki articles and blog about different aspects of systems and network monitoring.

Monitis launched new free broken-links monitoring service - Links-Checker. Links-Checker provides the following benefits for website owners, webmasters and web administrators: 1. Free, unlimited URL checks, 2. Free and unlimited email and instant messenger broken link notifications. 3. Possibility to get SMS alert notifications right on mobile phones. 4. Instant deployment, no software, so server setup, no maintenance needed. 5. Constant product updates seamless for end users 6. Increased page load speed by removing requests to missed images, css style sheets. Often users add third party libraries which may contain images, icons which maybe missed but browser still request them each time. Removing such request may improve performance. 7. Detects dysfunctional pages by identifying missed JavaScript or flash files or libraries so early detect possible broken functionality 8. Improved user experience by detecting broken page design due to missed images and style sheets. 9. Don't get penalized by search engines with reduced page ranking due to 404 errors. More at http://links-checker.com

Mon.itor.us is a comprehensive online site monitoring and tracking service which not only warns you when your website is down but also provides statistics of your website’s uptime, downtime, visitor traffic and more. It provides a lot of information about your site and web server that helps you maintain a high uptime.

Monitis SaaS Customers Advantages

Monitis is a premier provider of Systems Monitoring Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). SaaS solution offers customers many advantages:

1. Rapid instant application deployment
   
2. Enable high levels of user adoption, easy-to-use, quick learning
   
3. No capital Expanses (capex), easy decision making and approval.
   
4. Lower total cost of ownership (TCO). In case of multi-tenant application multiple users are sharing common infrastructure and software.
   
5. Extensive features, functionality and configurability.
   
6. Pay as you go, pay for what you use, easy plan upgrade.
   
7. No server, no software setup.
   
8. Secure, scalable and reliable delivery platform.
   
9. Always latest version of software.
   
10. Innovative software with frequent updates.

On-demand EC2 Monitoring

Monitis on-demand Amazon EC2 monitoring includes the following features: 1) monitor status of launched Amazon virtual server instances and trigger events and notifications 2) monitor total number of running servers in Amazon cloud and inform users when number exceed certain threshold 3) Automatically start monitoring of newly launched servers based on user-rules. Start monitoring web servers, databases, mail servers, TCP ports, telnet and SSH access and more dynamically without need to manually add each monitor and notification rules per server 4) Automatically install Monitis agent on new servers and start monitoring server performance metrics and resource utilization: CPU, memory, storage and processes. Again notification rules can be enabling to inform about low resource situation. It will help to predict and prevent possible outages 5) server failure notice. There is always a possibility to lose server in Amazon cloud, users can be early notified about such case and can take measures. 6) Virtual servers configuration monitoring. More at http://monitorcloud.com/monitorcloud