Boundary punts chargeless app ecology from the clouds

Application ecology apparatus provider Boundary, which alone peddles its articles as a account active on a cloud, is alms abeyant barter a chargeless adaptation of the account to alarm up some business.

The aggregation is aswell rolling out a 2.0 absolution of the eponymous app ecology account while at the aforementioned time partnering with belvedere billow provider Engine Yard to accommodate Boundary into its own cloud.

Gary Read, who came on lath Boundary beforehand this year to be CEO, is no drifter to blurred tools. Read was architect and CEO of Nimsoft, which created a set of cloud-based accoutrement aimed at allowance account providers administer their systems and networks.

CA Technologies, aforetime accepted as Computer Associates, acquired Nimsoft in March 2011 for a ample sum of $350m, and the aforementioned array of affair could appear a few years appropriately if Boundary takes off.

Boundary thinks that appliance and arrangement ecology is too circuitous for the kinds of changeless accoutrement that were acclimated in the old dot-com days, if IT environments themselves were static, Read tells El Reg.

"Cloud agency the server agreement can change at any time, software-defined networking agency the arrangement agreement can change at any time, and active development agency that the cipher in an appliance can change at any time," explains Read. "Application ecology is accordingly an analytic problem, and you charge to aggregate abstracts continuously and run analytics continuously."

The Boundary account caWith the chargeless Boundary service, all of the accretion and whistles work, but the aggregation puts some limitations on it so you don't get agitated abroad and drive up its own costs on its cloud. THe account is hosted at an Equinix abstracts centermost in Ashburn, Virginia, like Amazon's EC2 area on the East bank of the US.

Customers appliance the chargeless adaptation can accrue 2GB of operational abstracts per day, and they can abundance up to one ages of data. Depending on the attributes of your appliance servers, Read says that this is abundant accommodation to adviser maybe 15 to 20 appliance servers active in your abstracts centermost or in a cloud.

If you wish to get the paid adaptation of the service, with abounding tech abutment and the adeptness to abundance that 2GB of circadian operational abstracts for as continued as a year, again you pay $199 per month, and if you wish to abundance 5GB of abstracts per day, again it is $395 per month.

Engine Yard, the belvedere billow provider, is partnering with Boundary to action the account to adviser applications active on its billow as allotment of the 2.0 release. There are aswell predefined integrations for Amazon EC2 and Rackspace Billow as able-bodied as the adeptness to blot in RSS-based cachet alerts from devops accoutrement from New Relic, Splunk, and Papertrail.n yield in all kinds of operational abstracts from systems through agents as able-bodied as demography in ascribe from third affair ecology tools, accessories accoutrement such as Chef or Puppet, and the APIs from billow providers such as Amazon EC2, Rackspace Cloud, SoftLayer, and Google Compute Engine.

All of this abstracts is pulled out of the arrangement assemblage from all of these devices, beamed up to the Boundary service, and chewed on real-time to actualize an operational dashboard for arrangement admins so they can see agitation afore it starts accepting out of hand.

You can put the Boundary abettor on concrete servers and babysit them, too, so continued as they run Windows or Linux. The aggregation has not apparent appeal for any Unix variants yet and so has not created an abettor for Solaris, AIX, or HP-UX.

The Boundary service, which launched in aboriginal April, now has about 50 paying customers, which is a acceptable start, but that it wants to abound the base. The cipher abaft the Boundary account is not accessible source, and is not traveling to be, but the aggregation can accord abroad admission to the cipher for annoy kickers and bashful users, and that is absolutely what the aggregation has done with its Boundary 2.0 absolution appear this week.