Monitoring your 'Cloud Stuff' (Enterprise Edition)

ServiceMesh seems to be on a bit of a roll nowadays.  They just scored $15M from Ignition to (one presumes) expand their offerings and their geographical footprint.  Mind you, the latter is somewhat interesting since they exist to help enterprises control/manage/track their Cloud Services, which are - kinda - geography neutral :-)

Regardless, this is a space that historically companies like BMC and HP have lived in.  They have been somewhat slow to adapt, though BMC has been making relevant noises vis-a-vis their Cloud LifeCycle Management line.  ServiceMesh's 'secret sauce' is that they are actively pushing their Agility Platform, a one-stop shop that (supposedly) brings the benefits of 'Agile' across an enterprise's IT services. (At this point, my snark sensor kicks in, wanting to point out that it might be easier to teach an elephant to tango, but hey, whatever).  Still, it does look kinda nifty - largely because they have nice APIs.

Probably something I need to keep an eye out for....