September 2011 - Posts

Check this out! Please sign up for the private Beta at www.moesion.com

It’s been a week since we announced the private beta availability of Moesion and the reaction from customers, partners and the press have been incredible. I thought I’d take the time to highlight some of the press coverage that Moesion has received during the last few days.

·         InformationWeek: Run your datacenter from your IPhone: We had the pleasure of being interviewed by InformationWeek’s Charlie . Charlie is one of the savviest technical reporters I’ve ever seen and bombarded us questions about different aspects of Moesion. You can read the entire story here http://informationweek.com/news/software/soa_webservices/231601915

·         BusinessNewsDaily: Yesterday we had a great chat with Ned Smith from BusinessNewsDaily. He wrote a very nice piece on Moesion which you can find here http://www.businessnewsdaily.com/-mobile-server-management-1829/

·         Sys-Con Media: Pat Romanski from Sys-Con Media ran a very nice story on the release of Moesion. You can find it at http://cloudcomputing.sys-con.com/node/1992777

·         ReadWriteWeb: In its very concise and direct style, ReadWriteWeb was the first publication to cover the launch of Moesion. David Storm was interested on the story from the first day and was very supportive with our plans for Moesion. You can read the story here http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2011/09/manage-your-servers-from-your.php

·         CNBC: I have to admit that we were a bit surprised when we learned that our official press released about the launch of Moesion  made it all the way to CNBC. You can find it here http://www.cnbc.com/id/44611619

Many other publications have been covering Moesion in the last few days. You can find a lot of those at our News Center http://www.moesion.com/?cat=16. We have been humbled by the reaction and support we have received from the press.

More to come J

 

This week Tellago Studios announced Moesion: a cloud platform to manage your IT systems or cloud services directly from your smartphone or tablet.

Moesion is the result of our constant obsession to bring innovation and modern technologies to the world of enterprise software. In this case, we want to use the power of mobile and cloud computing to make IT Professionals more productive by accessing their IT systems and cloud services directly from their smartphone or tablet. Even better, we enable all those capabilities without the need of installing any on-premise server side infrastructure.

What Problem does Moesion Solve?

As an IT professional you spend a good portion of your day interacting with different systems that could be hosted on-premise or on the cloud. Traditionally, the management of those systems requires you to have some sort of VPN connection into your corporate network which, most likely, requires you to be in front of your computer.

Wouldn’t it be cool if you could quickly perform different management tasks on your IT systems directly from your smartphone or tablet?

Well….we have an APP for that J

Moesion?

Moesion is a cloud-based platform that enables the management of your IT systems, whether hosted on-premise or on the cloud, from your smartphone or tablet. We accomplish this by using a sophisticated, highly secured, real time middleware infrastructure that brokers the communication between your phone and a very small agent that sits on your specific servers.  The following picture illustrates that concept.

What Can You Do With Moesion?

Detect and fix problems with your IT systems from your smartphone or tablet

Moesion includes a series of HTML5 applications that enable the management of some of the most popular IT systems in a visual manner directly from your mobile device. The current version focuses on the management of Windows Server infrastructure and includes the following IT systems:

  • Event Log
  • Windows Services
  • Windows Processes
  • File system
  • Users, Groups
  • Devices
  • Disks
  • Operating System Info
  • Hotfixes
  • Internet Information Services 6.0, 7.0,7.5
  • SQL Server 2005, 2008, 2008 R2
  • SharePoint Server 2007, 2010
  • BizTalk Server 2004, 2006, 2006 R2, 2009, 2010
  • Windows Azure
  • Hundreds of scripts

Publish And Use Your Own Scripts

Moesion allows you to publish your own PowerShell and VBScripts and use them directly from your smartphone or tablet.

Get New Apps: An Application Store For New IT Systems Management Apps And Scripts

Moesion includes an application store on which you can find new applications and scripts to manage your IT infrastructure. In addition to the initial apps listed above, we are currently working on new apps to manage different products and technologies directly from your smartphone. Even better, you can tell us which applications you would like us to focus on.

Check out our immediate roadmap.

Who Did What? Noninvasive Tracking

Moesion provides a tracking infrastructure that traces the different actions executed in your IT infrastructure as well as the devices those actions were triggered from. This capability will allow you have an accurate visibility of the actions taken in your IT infrastructure. It is important to notice that Moesion DOES NOT KEEP TRACK OF ANY SENSITIVE INFORMATION about your network, servers or infrastructure in general.

Relax: Your Stuff Is Secure

Moesion uses both sophisticated transport and message security mechanisms to protect the communication between our cloud infrastructures and your servers. Additionally, we include an authorization layer on which you can control the access permissions to a specific server. Finally, Moesion includes a device provisioning layer on which you can control which specific devices can interact with your servers.

How To Get Your Moesion Running?

Moesion will be available is private beta mode. You can sign up for the private beta at our website.  While you are at it, check out this cool video that shows you what you can do with Moesion.

Initial feedback

We’ve received an incredible reception by the press, customers, etc. Check out some of the news coverage of Moesion in our news center.   

A few days ago, Amazon AWS announced the general availability of ElastiCache, a new distributed, in-memory caching service which complements the storage services included in the AWS platform. ElastiCache enables traditional caching capabilities to applications running in the AWS cloud.

Seeing this, you can’t avoid drawing a comparison with the existing cloud caching technologies such as the Windows Azure AppFabric Caching Service. There are some capabilities of ElastiCache that are clear differentiators with similar technologies including the Windows Azure AppFabric. To mention a few, ElastiCache is fully compliant with Memcached which will facilitate its adoption and interoperability with existing memcached libraries and tools. Secondly, ElastiCache is tightly integrated with other AWS technologies such as Amazon CloudWatch for monitoring and SNS for events and notifications.

The following matrix might help reveals a high level comparison between ElastiCache and the Windows Azure AppFabric Caching Service.

Capability

AppFabric Caching Service

AWS ElastiCache

Cache size

128MB – 4GB

1.3GB-63GB

API

REST

REST

Libraries

.NET

Java,PHP,.NET,Ruby and Python

On-Premise Cache Interoperability

Windows Server AppFabric Cache

Memcached

Monitoring

Basic: Azure Management Portal

Amazon AWS CloudWatch

Regions

Globally available

US East (Virginia)

Topology

Caches

Cache Clusters and Cache Nodes

Configuration

Very limited

Very flexible through parameter groups

Security

Authentication Token

AIM Token

Quotas, Policy

Number of Transactions, Bandwith and Number of Connections

Over 50 parameters available through the parameters group

Pricing

$45-$325 per month

$0.095-$0.76 per hour

 

In my opinion, currently, the AWS ElastiCache represents a more compelling option if you are looking to enable distributed, in-memory caching capabilities in your cloud applications. As an alternative, remember that you could deploy an on-premise caching technology like memcached as part of a Azure Worker Roles or an AWS EC2 instance.
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