[April 25, 2012]

Circonus Earns Distinction as a 2012 Gartner Cool Vendor

Circonus, the organization-wide performance monitoring company, has been named a Cool Vendor by Gartner (News - Alert) Research. Gartner defines "Cool Vendor" as a company offering technologies or solutions that are:

• Innovative: The vendor has developed products and services that enable users to do things they never could before.
• Impactful: The vendor has developed technologies and products that have or will have business impact. It isn't just "technology for the sake of technology."
• Intriguing: The vendor has developed technologies and products that have caught their interest/curiosity.
• Pioneering: The vendor has the potential to alter competitive dynamics in their industry.

In sum, the highly-respected analyst firm's annual Cool Vendor lists identify companies delivering what Gartner researchers determine as being potentially disruptive technologies in their space.

"We are pleased that such a prominent research firm as Gartner has so recognized Circonus as offering innovative and impactful solutions," says founder & CEO Theo Schlossnagle. "World class companies have selected Circonus based on our ability to help them improve their IT and business operations, and hence bottom line. We continue in execution of our vision of being a game-changer in the world of performance monitoring - enabling real-time visibility across the entire enterprise in a single system."

The Gartner Cool Vendors process starts with their annual nomination list of emerging IT vendors who are not yet well known, generally $1M-$100M in annual revenues, and have captured the attention of the Gartner analysts. Since 2004, the Cool Vendors process has benefitted many companies by allowing them to be discovered by enterprise customers seeking innovative vendors to work with, other companies looking for acquisition targets, and investors seeing vendors in which to invest.

According to Gartner analysts, among the reasons for Circonus' "Cool" factor are its providing the ability to:

• Quickly collect, process, and store hundreds of thousands of key metrics
• Perform relatively sophisticated data visualizations and trending analysis
• Support real-time updates of graphical information
• Extensively customize dashboards
• Flexibly handle detected faults
• Ensure the scalability needed to support rapidly growing environments

Further, Gartner identifies the following groups as ones who should care about Circonus - DevOps and/or enterprise web operations teams, IT network operations center (NOC (News - Alert)) teams, and system administrators (SA's) that have a need to rapidly deploy a monitoring infrastructure, and possibly service providers due to its scalability.

"Our selection is a validation of the vision of our founder and CEO, Theo Schlossnagle, and the execution of that vision by our outstanding technical staff led by our CTO, Brian Clapper." said Circonus VP of Sales & Marketing, James Sivis. "We will continue to innovate, further developing and expertly supporting our industry-leading solutions."

Circonus has been powering the IT and Business performance monitoring of established and emerging companies from a wide range of industries. Circonus continually feeds client experience into its solution creation and development plans. In this way, the company has been able to create the most easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use, and cost-effective solutions available today for organization-side dashboarding, correlation, alerting, and analytics.

The company has a Circonus SaaS version, a fully client-internal on-premise Circonus-Inside solution, and a white label offering for service providers (Circonus Service Delivery Platform or SDP). The Circonus suite of monitoring solutions provides marked improvement in operational and business performance for enterprises of all sizes. Industry-leading visualizations, such as configurable dashboards, and a comprehensive alerting suite give clients better and faster planning, greater operational insight, and more rapid responsiveness and root-cause analysis.

About Circonus

Circonus provides a "single pane of glass" for visibility into the real-time operational performance of the entire organization. Circonus Unified Monitoring is the easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use system for dashboarding, alerting, and analytics. Circonus has the unparalleled flexibility to monitor both IT and business metrics, and to correlate between all of your metrics. Circonus seamlessly performs monitoring of both physical and virtual environments, internally and externally, and does so as either SaaS (News - Alert) or Circonus-Inside. Circonus enables operational excellence and governance for companies ranging from the smallest to the largest Big Data environments. Further, Circonus provides instant ROI, displacing multiple existing systems. For more information, please visit: http://circonus.com or email sales@circonus.com.

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