Boundary is an Application Performance Management (APM) company based in San Francisco, California. Boundary's APM solution, also called Boundary, is delivered in a software as a service (SaaS) model.[1] Boundary's APM software can monitor applications that are running in cloud, on-premises, or hybrid environments.[2][3] The software displays data as a real-time visual map so that IT managers can see changes to their systems.[4] The application runs on Windows and Linux operating systems.[5] Boundary was acquired by BMC Software in 2015.[6]

Boundary
Company typePrivate Company
IndustryApplication Performance Management
Founded2010
Key people
Cliff Moon and Gary Read
Websitewww.Boundary.com

History edit

Boundary was co-founded by Cliff Moon, previously an engineer for Powerset. In 2012, Scale Venture Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners invested $15 million in the company.[7] CEO Gary Read joined the company in 2012.[8] In 2014 Moon acts as the company's CTO.[9]

References edit

  1. ^ Ricknas, Mikael. "Boundary Offers Free Monitoring of Cloud Apps". PCWorld. Retrieved August 14, 2012.
  2. ^ Preimesberger, Chris. "Startup Boundary Offers Realtime Cloudbased App Monitoring Analytics". eWeek. Archived from the original on March 16, 2014. Retrieved April 8, 2017.
  3. ^ Burns, Christine (August 13, 2012). "Nine 'everything-as-a-service' (Xaas) companies to watch". NetworkWorld.
  4. ^ Whiting, Rick (August 24, 2012). "Boundary Software Tracks Application Performance In Real Time". CRN.
  5. ^ Prickett Morgan, Timothy (August 16, 2012). "Boundary punts freebie app monitoring from the clouds". The Register.
  6. ^ "BMC Acquires Cloud IT Ops Technology From Boundary". GlobeNewswire.
  7. ^ Higginbotham, Stacey. "Boundary raises 15M for network aware applications". GigaOM.
  8. ^ Panettieri, Joe (August 9, 2012). "Boundary Makes Big Data Cloud, Application Monitoring Moves". MSPMentor. Archived from the original on August 18, 2012. Retrieved September 18, 2012.
  9. ^ Krazit, Tom (June 21, 2012). "To SQL or to NoSQL: the database dilemma". GigaOM.