One thing we all know for sure is that the cloud market keeps on changing – nothing stays the same for very long.  Heavyweights in this business keep on putting out more, better, cheaper products.  Flashback to May of this year (a lifetime ago), Google threw its hat into the ring alongside Amazon AWS and Azure to compete in the cloud market with the public launch of Google Compute Engine (GCE).  How this ends up is anyone’s guess, but Google is an all-out machine and a prime competitor.  Among the biggest points of value to the industry are the partner programs that support these various cloud services.  GCE is no different and have their own Google Cloud Platform Partner Program to provide a powerful gallery of options that suit the enterprise customers they serve.  One of those important ecosystem partnerships was announced today with the announcement of the inclusion of San Francisco-based Boundary.

Boundary provides a cloud-based system that delivers DevOps.  The system provides rapid analysis and data correlation at scale in an incredibly flexible variety of on-site and cloud environments.  This alignment with GCE means that customers can now monitor and manage application performance within the GCE environment using Boundary’s powerful features.  It is the first operations management service for GCE and the first monitor in the environment.  Boundary is also offering 1GB of free monitoring per day to GCE users and have integrated their service with fellow GCE partners Opscode and Puppet Labs.

Boundary Joins Google Cloud Platform Partner Program

Boundary will bring application monitoring and IT operations management to Google Compute Engine customers, with a free full-function version.

San Francisco, California – July 2, 2013 – Boundary has joined the Google Cloud Platform Partner Program to provide application monitoring and visualization to organizations using Google Compute Engine (GCE).  GCE provides a fast, consistently high-performance environment for running developers and businesses to run virtual machines in Google’s cloud. The platform is known for its speed, low latency and high throughput, which Boundary is uniquely suited to monitor.  Boundary is the first monitoring and IT operations management service for GCE.

Boundary combines real-time data streaming, third-party alerts and events, and sophisticated analytics for modern IT operations management.  The service uses lightweight meters to stream, analyze, and correlate per-second application traffic “chatter” to provide early warnings on potential application failures.  Boundary currently handles more than 10TB of data per day, and has integrated its service with GCE partners Opscode Chef and Puppet, giving GCE customers an integrated monitoring and automation solution.

Boundary is offering companies 1GB of free monitoring of application traffic hosted by Google, per day.  Companies can sign up for the service here.

“All application providers running on Google Compute Engine should use Boundary,” said Gary Read, CEO at Boundary.  “Our service provides unprecedented visibility into application performance, and because we do it in real time, users can adjust on the fly to fluctuations.”

The arrival of this kind of powerful DevOps tool in GCE’s cloud means corporations can now step into the cloud and be rolling with a solid enterprise foundation.  The powerful platform of cloud and DevOps will help deliver production and development environments that are flexible, rapidly deployed, and dependable.  Moreover, the ability to monitor and manage applications in those environments is incredibly enabling.  After all it’s applications and data that people are concerned with the most – not infrastructure, and that’ s the way it should be.  The accessibility of this tool through this monstrous access point of the Google GCE means that Boundary is due for some further rapid adoption.