Companies that adopts cloud computing do not pick one vendor. In most cases, they will have a number of different applications that run on any number of cloud computing providers.

They will use a cloud service where the apps run exclusively in a public cloud environment. Some apps will run on an internal data center but also have extensions to a third party service.  It’s the hybrid cloud approach and it’s a natural extension of the traditional enterprise.

ServiceMesh is a self-funded startup that has a monitoring platform for measuring and monitoring a hybrid infrastructure. The company was founded in 2008 and now has 100 employees. Today the company ia announcing the availability of Agility Platform version 7.3, a  Services Level Agreement (SLA) management platform for reporting, and security in enterprise hybrid cloud environments.

The new version of the Agility platform manages external workloads for groups across an organization.  Managers may monitor apps, build custom reports for SaaS applications, Hadoop clusters or business critcal applications.

Services Angle

ServiceMesh is one of these new kinds of organizations that represent a defining time in the enterprise. Companies like ServiceMesh are growing fast by providing a service that fits with the new IT environment. Legacy providers such as HP, IBM and BMC are offering pre-cloud technologies designed for a client-sever infrastructure, making integration difficult. The orchestration becomes a chore.

The challenge for ServiceMesh is branding. It’s a technology designed for the cloud but it such a young company facing legacy giants. It’s a classic struggle in a defining time. The young innovators are challenging the old. But the old giants control the purse strings and enjoy long standing engagements. It takes time to unseat these leaders. And time is the one thing that startups can’t afford to waste.