This is the first time analyst Dennis Callaghan, The 451 Group, is aware of that a performance monitoring vendor is showing IT performance of the cloud in context with how much those cloud resources cost. "Given that any move to the cloud, either wholesale or as part of a hybrid cloud model, will be at least in part driven by cost savings, this figures to be a valuable tool," he said. "Organizations will want to know what kind of performance they’re getting from cloud resources and how much that’s costing them vs. their internal infrastructures."
Although broader public cloud support is in the works for future releases, uptimeCloud currently supports only Amazon's EC2. Callaghan says another potential drawback is that there are no modeling capabilities as yet. "If someone wants to determine what kind of service levels they can deliver through the cloud and what that will cost them, this tool can’t yet do that," he said. "They would have to build those models themselves from ongoing use of UptimeCloud."
This offering is, at least temporarily, a game-changer, he says, although he expects other companies may soon follow suit. "This also could give Uptime more traction in the service provider space, which they haven’t really penetrated, whereas their rivals like Nimsoft and ScienceLogic have."
Callaghan also expects service level agreement adherence to be huge. "I think that’s what makes this cost management component so valuable, especially for service providers. The ability to gauge how much capacity is required to provide a certain service level to a customer and what that service level ultimately will cost is powerful, and this release gives Uptime some capabilities there."
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