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Cloudkick 
Developer(s) Cloudkick Operating system Web-based application Type Cloud computing License Proprietary Website http://www.cloudkick.com/ Cloudkick is a cloud server management and monitoring SaaS based out of San Francisco. Cloudkick's products include a centralized server monitoring tool for multiple cloud server providers, as well as dynamic server management tools. Users manage and monitor their cloud servers, known as nodes, through a dashboard[1], which lists the names and performance metrics of each node.
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Features
Features currently offered by Cloudkick are Alerts at selected thresholds that send to email and/or via SMS, with Metric Monitoring [2](CPU, Disk, Memory, Load, IO, Bandwidth, Memcache, HTTP, HTTPS, Ping, and SSH) and Node Diagnostics[3]
Cloudkick also offers Multiple Cloud Server Provider Management[4] (Including Amazon EC2, GoGrid, Linode, Rackspace, Hosting.com , Joyent , OpSource, RimuHosting, Slicehost, Softlayer, and VPS.NET), Virtual Machine Management [5], User Management (allows admins to set user permissions for different nodes), an in-browser Terminal (allows users to access any server on the dashboard) and Changelog Tracking
History
Cloudkick was founded by Alex Polvi, Dan Di Spaltro, and Logan Welliver in January 2009, upon acceptance to the Y Combinator startup incubator, from which they received initial funding. The company raised $750,000[6] from Avalon Ventures and Nueva Ventures, later that year. Paul Querna, former VP of Infrastructure at the Apache Software Foundation, joined the team soon after[7].
Cloudkick released a for-pay offering in January 2010[8], and later followed up in March with the ability for users to manage and monitor dedicated hardware with the system[9].
Technology
Cloudkick has used a variety of open source software projects in the construction of its management platform, including: Django, Cassandra, Twisted Python, and Rabbitmq.
Libcloud is an open-source software project founded by Cloudkick as an agnostic abstraction layer that allows applications function across multiple cloud service providers without the need to write alternate software for each. Libcloud has since been adopted into the Apache Software Foundation's incubator program[10].
References
- ^ http://www.techcrunchit.com/2009/03/16/y-combinators-cloudkick-offers-simple-cloud-management-system/
- ^ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/26/cloudkick_cloud_of_clouds_launch/
- ^ http://techcrunch.com/2010/01/25/cloudkick-rolls-out-freemium-model-for-server-management-system/
- ^ http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2010/01/cloudkick---helping-customers.php
- ^ http://www.economist.com/business-finance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15663898
- ^ http://deals.venturebeat.com/2009/09/14/cloudkicks-simple-cloud-management-gets-750k/
- ^ https://www.cloudkick.com/blog/2009/aug/03/welcome-paul-querna/
- ^ http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/nsm/2010/020110nsm2.html
- ^ http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2010/03/cloudkick-monitors-cloud.php
- ^ http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10441166-16.html
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- Companies established in 2009
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