Cedexis Expands Cloud Availability Visibility

Grazed from eWeek. Author: Sean Michael Kerner.

The cloud is an amorphous technological construct with varying degrees of performance and availability, depending on the location and the network of the end user. That’s where the Cedexis Radar cloud app performance and benchmarking service comes into play, providing users with visibility into cloud availability and performance metrics.

Marty Kagan, co-founder and CEO of Cedexis, explained to eWEEK that his company is now expanding the scope of its monitoring business to provide a more comprehensive view into cloud services delivery. The Cedexis Radar service is now being enhanced with improved data visualizations and alerts that enable users to compare multiple aspects of cloud availability and performance, including page load times…

The way Cedexis Radar works is by way of a network that is connected to more than 80 cloud and content delivery network (CDN) providers. "We collect the data from all of our customers, so it’s all based on end-user measurements," Kagan said. For example, he noted that NBC News is a Cedexis customer and, as such, anyone who visits that site will trigger the Cedexis Radar code, which will measure the performance of the Website. The actual code is just a piece of JavaScript that runs in the end user’s browser. The idea is to get insight into what the actual end-user experience is for a given Website…

Read more from the source @ http://www.eweek.com/cloud/cedexis-expands-cloud-availability-visibility.html/