ActiveState Buys Appsecute To Enhance PaaS With Facebook-Style Feed For Developers And IT Pros
June 4, 2013
Grazed from TechCrunch. Author: Alex Williams.
ActiveState, a platform-as-a-service provider, has acquired New Zealand-based Appsecute, a company with social monitoring tools for developers and IT professionals to monitor cloud environments. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Appsecute’s three employees will join ActiveState, based in Vancouver, Canada. They will remain in New Zealand developing the service. The Appsecute technology will get integrated into Stackato, ActiveState’s private PaaS, used for internal developer environments.
Appsecute launched as a PaaS las year, offering a universal user interface for a variety of different vendor PaaS platforms. Earlier this year, the company decided to take a different tack by offering what it calls a “social timeline for DevOps.” It essentially allows developer and operations teams to get a real-time, “single-pane-of-glass” view across multiple application management services…
The Appsecute social stream displays events from services like GitHub, Zendesk, or PagerDuty with a Facebook-style timeline. Of note are Appsecute’s API connectors that it open-sourced to allow developers and operations people to get the view they want to have into their own infrastructure and SaaS environments. Director of Product Management Brent Smithurst said ActiveState sees the most value in the social stream technology, But the connectors provide the capability for customers to develop a stream that fits their needs…
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