Leading PHP Hosting and Management Vendors Team with New Relic to Provide On-Demand Web Application Management in the Cloud or in the Datacenter

Addition of RPM’s on-demand monitoring and tuning capabilities to leading platforms enhances managed cloud offerings and drives customer success

San Francisco - December 8, 2010

New Relic, Inc., the leading software-as-a-service provider of application performance management (APM) solutions, today announced that the leading PHP cloud platform and management vendors are bundling New Relic RPM, making it available to their customers as its solution for managing the performance of PHP web applications. The list of vendors includes Blue Box Group, cloudControl, Joyent, Morphlabs, Network Redux, and PHP Fog. The addition of New Relic’s PHP web application monitoring and tuning capabilities to these leading platforms creates an unparalleled set of solutions for deploying and maintaining superior-performing applications in the cloud or in the datacenter. Additionally, with shared visibility into customer application performance, these vendors’ support teams can use RPM to collaboratively troubleshoot and tune application performance.

New Relic RPM is an on-demand web application performance management solution that offers 24x7 visibility and code-level diagnostics for web applications deployed on traditional dedicated infrastructures, or in private and public clouds. RPM for PHP monitors overall application response time and throughput including memcache, database and external services. It provides deep visibility into individual web transactions and database calls to MySQL, PostgresSQL, and any PDO-supported database all the way down to SQL statements. This enables application teams to better ensure superior service for PHP applications and frameworks such as Drupal, Wordpress, Zend as well as their proprietary web apps.

“New Relic is grateful to the PHP community, including leading cloud platform and management vendors with whom we are partnering, for its enthusiastic response to our support for monitoring PHP web application performance,” said Bill Lapcevic, New Relic’s vice president of business development. “We look forward to working closely with these companies to help organizations build, deploy, and manage their business-critical PHP-based apps.”

New Relic RPM is an on-demand web application performance management solution that offers 24x7 visibility and code-level diagnostics for web applications deployed on traditional dedicated infrastructures, or in private and public clouds. RPM for PHP monitors overall application response time and throughput including memcache, database and external services. It provides deep visibility into individual web transactions and database calls to MySQL, PostgresSQL, and any PDO-supported database all the way down to SQL statements. This enables application teams to better ensure superior service for PHP applications and frameworks such as Drupal, Wordpress, Zend as well as their proprietary web apps.

Teaming with Industry Leaders Provides Customer Value

New Relic has teamed with an impressive list of platform providers who will offer New Relic RPM to their customers as part of their own solutions, making it easier for organizations to deploy PHP web apps that meet high standards for performance and scalability. Customers of these leading solutions are encouraged to inquire about New Relic from their vendors’ account representatives. The list of PHP partners includes:

Blue Box Group, a leading provider of customized Ruby on Rails hosting solutions that serves over 600 international customers. With hosting solutions as unique as their customers, Blue Box Group is able to design and deploy infrastructure tailored to individual goals. Its focus is on the success of customer applications via its 24/7 support offering and a leading SLA, all without contract lock-in.

“Blue Box Group is excited to team with New Relic as they release their PHP monitoring agent. As a company that provides maximum flexibility, we have Rails clients that use PHP and desire the same level of application visibility that they’ve become accustomed to in their Rails applications. This service will enable our PHP clients to have a full suite of application monitoring and will give our support team powerful capabilities for an even greater level of collaboration with Blue Box Group customers.” said Jesse Proudman, founder and CEO Blue Box Group.

cloudControl, a cloud platform as a service provider. cloudControl provides a Platform-as-a-Service Solution with an optimized environment for the development and hosting of complex web applications such as e-commerce systems, content management systems or web based applications.

“Companies turn to cloudControl because they are looking for a robust hosting platform to support applications that must meet high standards for performance and availability,” said Philipp Strube, founder and CEO of cloudControl. “By partnering with New Relic to provide its proven application management capabilities, we can work even more closely with these organizations to help them achieve their goals.”

Joyent, a leading cloud computing software and service provider. Joyent offers public cloud solutions directly to customers worldwide and through partnerships with leading service providers, and also licenses its solution to third parties allowing them to run their own private clouds. Joyent’s SmartTechnologies and partnerships with leading technology vendors combine to create a scalable, reliable, and secure solution for deploying business-critical services.

“Seventy percent of our customers support one or more PHP apps and one of the biggest frustrations they have is debugging slow performance or rogue processes,” said Jason Hoffman, Founder and Chief Scientist at Joyent. “With New Relic’s RPM, we expect social and gaming app performance to increase by several factors, which in turn can reduce our infrastructure and support overhead with more proactive app management.”

Morphlabs, a cloud computing platform provider whose solutions enable enterprises and service providers to deploy automated and elastic cloud computing infrastructures. Morphlabs’ flagship product, mCloud™ Controller, converts commodity hardware into a cloud environment and builds on the best practices of Enterprise Cloud Architecture (ECA), a new approach, which companies to easily create their own private cloud infrastructure.

“The integration of New Relic’s RPM solution into Morphlabs’ enterprise cloud stack is an ideal fit for enterprises who want more granular application management information,” said Yoram Heller, VP of Corporate Development of Morphlabs. “When combined with mCloud’s comprehensive cloud computing platform, New Relic’s deep, application-level visibility makes it even easier for our customers to deploy and manage their mission critical PHP web applications.”

Network Redux, a web hosting and data service provider that develops, deploys and manages web-hosting environments for Internet projects both large and small, including virtual servers and complex enterprise platforms for clients worldwide. Its hosting services are premised on transparency, Open Source and Tier-1 infrastructure that it privately owns and manages.

“As we build their custom cloud computing solutions, we work very closely with customer organizations to provide the tools they need to be successful,” said Kris Watson, Director of Platform Development at Network Redux. “New Relic RPM not only let customers see inside their PHP and Ruby apps 24x7, but also gives our support teams shared visibility into app performance, enabling closer collaboration as we work together to ensure application performance and availability.”

PHP Fog, a provider of cloud computing platforms for PHP-based applications such as Wordpress, Drupal, Shopify, Zend Framework and more. Customers need only to choose an application, server number and size. PHP Fog does the rest.

“PHP Fog is committed to helping organizations take full advantage of cloud computing through the delivery of a comprehensive set of PHP-based applications and frameworks,” said Lucas Carlson, PHP Fog founder. “Teaming with New Relic to provide these organizations with production PHP application monitoring and troubleshooting makes perfect sense and we are please to offer it to our customers as a complement to our hosting solution.”

About New Relic

As a leader in observability, New Relic empowers engineers with a data-driven approach to planning, building, deploying, and running great software. New Relic delivers the only unified data platform that empowers engineers to get all telemetry—metrics, events, logs, and traces—paired with powerful full stack analysis tools to help engineers do their best work with data, not opinions. Delivered through the industry’s first usage-based consumption pricing that’s intuitive and predictable, New Relic gives engineers more value for the money by helping improve planning cycle times, change failure rates, release frequency, and mean time to resolution. This helps the world’s leading brands including adidas Runtastic, American Red Cross, Australia Post, Banco Inter, Chegg, GoTo Group, Ryanair, Sainsbury’s, Signify Health, TopGolf, and World Fuel Services (WFS) improve uptime, reliability, and operational efficiency to deliver exceptional customer experiences that fuel innovation and growth. www.newrelic.com.

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