R-U-ON Launches iPhone Widget

July 3, 2007; 03:55 AM

The popular R-U-ON monitoring platform has added another building block to its commitment for "anywhere monitoring".

Users can now access their R-U-ON information from their iPhone by browsing to the mobile section of the R-U-ON site (http://m.r-u-on.com/). The site detects the iPhone and optimizes the widget display for the superior rendering capabilities and screen size the device offers.

In addition, as R-U-ON delivers a Mac friendly monitoring experience, the entire R-U-ON site is Safari compliant making it accessible with the iPhone. With a bit of zooming in and out, iPhone users can access advanced features such as uptime reports and geographical display (powered by Google Maps).

R-U-ON is a hosted IT monitoring platform (SaaS/On Demand). Its architecture is designed to meet the needs of IT Service Providers and operators of distributed networks in general. Its free service, low cost premium package and easy setup, make it ideal for small businesses.
R-U-ON has a large array of simple APIs and an open protocol, providing an excellent solution for software and hardware vendors looking to embed monitoring functionality in their products.

The iPhone optimized web widget joins the large array of existing R-U-ON access methods. All alerts and status indications are available via RSS feeds, Mac Dashboard Widget, Google gadget,Vista Sidebar gadget and more.

R-U-ON is an Atlanta based startup providing a simple, cost-effective and pleasant IT monitoring solution.

The R-U-ON platform is hosted, agent-based. It is optimized for the use of off-premise monitoring making it ideal for IT service providers and software/hardware vendors.

R-U-ON leverages its hosted architecture to provide various data-feed channels such as RSS, email and Widgets/Gadgets for most popular platforms.

At the time or writing, R-U-ON provides monitoring services to 10,000 users.