The APM stuff is going like hot-cakes apparently. Adding to it’s developer & QA tools and monitoring (AlertSite) portfolio, SmartBear announced it’s acquisition of Lucierna. On that note, one of the analysts on my team, Dennis Callaghan, has a long report coming out on the APM as a Service market this month. I’ve, of course, read over the galleys, as it were, and it’s a good, comphrensive overview of what’s going in the APMaaS space. Keep your eyes peeled for it!
On a slightly meta-note, I’m curious to see how smallish roll-up companies like SmartBear and Copper.io fare. I think we’ll see a lot of that, and then there’s larger folks like Idera and Solarwinds seeming to operate in similar fashions. NetIQ and Quest were companies like this that got rolled into larger things, and with Dell and BMC being private, there’s plenty of froth in the systems management area: either by the giants divesting their own assets or wanting to acquire.
SmartBear adds APM capabilities with Lucierna acquisition