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CiRBA announced the release of version 4.0 of its flagship Data Center Intelligence (DCI) solution. Two enhancements in particular – CiRBA 4.0’s crisp new interface and unparalleled interactive visualization analysis functionality – make it easier for organizations to execute their server consolidation strategies, identify virtualization opportunities as well as avoid re-sprawl over the long term.
CiRBA 4.0 provides in-depth empirical server consolidation and virtualization analysis to generate detailed roadmaps that guide IT organizations to significantly reduce computing costs and increase systems reliability. Once consolidated , CiRBA 4.0 ensures that re-sprawl is avoided and that management has the information its needs to maintain efficient and reliable data center operations across heterogeneous computing environments in multiple geographies.
“As enterprises look to squeeze cost savings out of their IT infrastructure, CIOs and data center managers alike are turning to server consolidation and virtualization as a way to meet this objective,” said Gerry Smith, president and CEO of CiRBA. “Many are moving slower due to a lack of the visibility that would enable them to fully exploit their assets through technologies like virtualization. CiRBA 4.0 enables them to go forward with confidence and realize these potentially massive gains.”
CiRBA 4.0 enables analysis of all critical factors for analyzing large scale server consolidation or virtualization initiatives, including configuration, workload patterns such as CPU utilization and network and disk IO, and business constraints such as geography, business service or maintenance windows. By including all constraints in an analysis, results are maximized while risks are minimized. Whether an IT organization is analyzing 500 Windows servers for virtualization or building a corporate consolidation strategy for 30,000 servers across multiple platforms and strategies, CiRBA 4.0 provides the fastest and most accurate path to actionable consolidation information. As a result, CiRBA-optimized data centers are leaner, more reliable, and easier to manage.
Significant CiRBA 4.0 Enhancements
- Interactive Server Consolidation and Virtualization Analysis – At the center of CiRBA’s revolutionary analysis capabilities is a rich set of interactive interface elements and drilldowns that are available directly from the analysis screen to provide unprecedented intelligence. CiRBA 4.0 provides several options for performing what-if analysis to compare different server consolidation scenarios. With CiRBA 4.0, users can change color mapping to ease visualization of the potential within complex environments, then drill down for the underlying details and settings that would be required to act on a given plan. The unique ability to combine configuration and business constraints with workload analysis into one roadmap makes CiRBA the most comprehensive way to analyze data center changes
- New Interface – CiRBA 4.0 provides a crisp new interface and reorganized navigation menu to make it easer to find and move between tasks
- Enhanced VM Reporting Capabilities – A new “VMware Configuration” report is available in version 4.0 that provides detailed configuration on a VMware ESX host server and its guest VMs.
- Enhancement to Active Directory Integration – Additional flexibility has been added for managing the import of Active Directory group and users. CiRBA 4.0 ads the ability to explicitly specify the users or user groups to import.
- More licensing options – CiRBA now offers a departmental edition targeted at organizations that want to analyze for virtualization specifically and want to examine workload personalities only. The Enterprise edition suits those who want to analyze heterogeneous data centers and use multiple consolidation strategies considering configuration, workload and business constraints.
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