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By David Hamilton, theWHIR.com
July 24, 2008 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Monitoring service provider Panopta (panopta.com) has announced five additional monitoring locations spanning three continents for its flagship server monitoring and outage management platform.
According to the announcement from Panopta Wednesday, the new locations include New York neighbor Newark, New Jersey in North America, Milan and Amsterdam in Europe, and Singapore and Hong Kong in Asia, increasing the total number of monitoring locations to 15 and establishing its first presence in Asia.
All facilities are fully equipped by Panopta's advanced outage verification system and the outage management tools available in the monitoring control panel.
Current customers can add additional checks from the new locations or relocate checks from current locations, with Panopta's support team on hand for assistance, especially helpful in coordinating bulk migrations, according to Panopta.
A 30-day trial is available, giving users free access to all monitoring and outage management functionality.
"The new locations give our customers the ability to monitor their servers from even closer geographic proximity, as well as get a better sense of the performance of their websites for customers around the world." Panopta founder Jason Abate said in a statement. "We're excited to see these new locations come online and will continue to expand our global monitoring network in the coming months."
In June, competitor Keynote Systems (keynote.com), an on-demand, website test and measurement firm, announced KITE 2.0, a new, web application performance testing environment that includes testing of web 2.0 and cloud applications to be released in August. Keynote has 240 monitoring locations worldwide.
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