Given the rising popularity of software as a service in businesses this year, it's important that cloud-computing providers such as Amazon Web Services, Google, Salesforce.com and others have a healthy ecosystem of supporters.

Add Hyperic to the list. Hyperic, which bills itself as an open-source provider of Web infrastructure management, on Aug. 20 began supporting Google's App Engine cloud-computing service with its CloudStatus software.

CloudStatus is a free service that monitors cloud-computing environments to provide IT managers with insight into service availability, latency and throughput for cloud-based infrastructure and Web applications. It provides admins reports on these activities so admins can determine the root of any performance issues or changes within their environments.  

Hyperic first launched CloudStatus in June with support for Amazon Web Services, arguably the godfather of cloud-computing infrastructure with its EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) and S3 (Simple Storage Service) offerings.

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