What do Twitter, Zuora and New Relic have in common? Peter Fenton
Some of the hottest names in technology startups can attribute some of their success to Benchmarks’ Peter Fenton, who has backed Twitter, New Relic (see New Relic’s CEO Lew Cirne at Structure:Europe next week), and Zuora. With Twitter and New Relic expected to go public soon Benchmark is about to reap what Fenton has sown, according to this Bloomberg profile of the man.
CloudPhysics gets $10M to ease VMware deployment
The startup says it applies Google-like analytics to ensure that dynamic VMware deployments run smoothly.
VividCortex gets $2M to monitor (and diagnose) your MySQL databases
Exclusive: Startup sees the need for New Relic-type performance management at the all-important database layer.
Why you might want Stackdriver to watch your cloud infrastructure for you
Meet Stackdriver, the Boston startup that wants to wow you with its infrastructure analytics and the first of our ten Stucture:Europe Launchpad finalists.
Chart: Your web site is only as strong as its weakest link
There were an average of nine site outages a day during November 2012 through March 2013 caused by a reliance on third-party apps such as ad servers or social media buttons.
New Relic issues plug-ins to monitor databases and cloud resources
New Relic already monitors applications extensively, but it wants to give developers further visibility into performance with plugins for a wide variety of other programs.
New Relic sees revenue boost, enterprise growth and mobile-monitoring interest
Application-performance management has been hot lately, and New Relic has the revenue and customer growth to prove it.
Salesforce.com and Rackspace gear up for mobile developers
Industry giants are adding more development and platform goodies for mobile app developers. This may have the more targeted MBaaS providers a little perplexed.