(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web host and data center technical support, software development and phone support services provider Bobcares (www.bobcares.com) has announced a brand new iPhone application for monitoring and managing servers.
According to Bobcares’ Tuesday announcement, the iHawk monitoring system lets users view the status of their servers on the iPhone. iHawk version 1.0 is compatible with iPhone, iPod touch and iPad and requires iOS 3.0 or later.
Bobcares customers are able to receive updates for up to six services: HTTP, PING, SMTP, DNS, SSH, and FTP, as well as email alerts if their servers go down and when they are back online. It offers Receive response details for each service. iHawk is available for free via Apple app store.
Bobcares is certainly not alone in its creation of a mobile management application. Others in the Web hosting industry such as Rackspace (www.rackspace.com) have developed iPhone apps that let customers manage their services.
In May, Chicago-based managed web hosting provider SingleHop (www.singlehop.com) released a robust and feature rich remote Web hosting control panel specifically designed for the iPhone.
While iPhone boasts a very healthy application marketplace, developers have also been interested in creating monitoring solutions for other platforms such as Google’s Android operating system, which comScore’s May 2010 US mobile subscriber market share report identifies as the fastest growing mobile OS.
Just weeks after launching its mobile client application for the iPhone OS, on-demand data center services provider SoftLayer Technologies (www.softlayer.com) released the SoftLayer Mobile Client for Android, which provides much of the functionality of SoftLayer’s customer portal in a native client for Android OS-based devices.
Mobile management applications have become very popular as individuals come to expect access to a great deal to their services wherever they go. Not only do these applications increase the value proposition of these company’s hosting services by making them more accessible remotely, but they also, to a certain extent, draw upon a user’s aspirational goals of spending less time in front of a computer screen, and being able to stay connected with their IT infrastructure both casually and constantly.
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