PagerDuty gets $10.7M to become ‘central nervous system of IT’

Andresseen Horowitz leads the first round of venture funding for PagerDuty, which provides IT alerting and incident tracking software.

IT infrastructure provider SevOne raises a massive $150M

Formed in 2005, the company provides a suite of IT monitoring and reporting tools to its customers -- primarily large enterprises. Today, it has pulled in an impressive $150 million in funding from Bain Capital Ventures.

HootSuite Command Center: take a little Bond, add social, throw in enterprise (shaken, not stirred)

In the movies, corporate barons and evil geniuses have command and control centers with giant screens displaying the disposition of their empires. A new product from HootSuite may not make you James Bond or Dr. Evil ... but it will give you the ability to see and showcase your social media status in a very big way.

AppFirst gives sales, ops, and IT one unified dashboard for business visibility

Sports fans typically know much more about the performance of their favorite team and how well its key players are performance than execs know about the internal processes of their IT infrastructure ... and how they impact profitability.

That's what the new DevOps Dashboard from AppFirst is built to solve.

New Relic launches a report card for website speed (how do you rank?)

Web application monitoring service New Relic is adding a new site speed index to its product line-up, offering website and web application managers new insights into how they rank compared to similar sites … even competitors.

New Relic calls it …

4 key steps for website safety

(Editor’s note: Greg Collier is the founder and CEO of Geebo.com. He submitted this story to VentureBeat.)

Some of the most widely used sites on the Internet are attracting negative attention these days for neglecting to attend to the user …

Marketwire acquires Sysosmos for brand tracking

Marketwire, a press release distribution company, today announced that it has acquired social analytics company Sysomos for an undisclosed amount.

Sysomos is a typical social monitoring and analytics service offering customers the ability to track their social presence across sites …