Virtual
Instruments, the leader in Infrastructure
Performance Management (IPM) for physical, virtual and cloud computing
environments, today launched the fourth-generation of its VirtualWisdom
solution. The new VirtualWisdom4 platform delivers an innovative new approach
and enhanced capabilities, providing customers definitive insight into how
their applications and infrastructure are performing.
VirtualWisdom4 delivers the
industry's first entity-centric approach enabling application-aware
infrastructure performance management. Using this approach, organizations can
logically group system-wide resources from physical devices to application
workloads, providing everyone from IT operations to line of business leaders
with the insight they need to understand how resources and applications are
performing. IT teams can now customize entities to show all of the resources
supporting a specific application, business unit or tier of service, allowing
individuals and teams to immediately see the information relevant to them.
"We worked closely with our
customers to develop the new platform to fill the gaps in the vendor ecosystem
and address the broad set of use cases only Virtual Instruments can solve,"
said Barry Cooks, vice president of engineering at Virtual Instruments. "I'm
proud of our team of engineers and data scientists and am confident that
VirtualWisdom4, with its entity-centric approach, is the solution customers
need to be certain in developing, deploying and proactively managing their
infrastructure strategy."
Architected from the ground up,
the VirtualWisdom4 platform offers an intuitive and responsive Web-based user
interface, enabling customers to quickly answer the important questions and
deliver the right information at the right time. Underpinned by an
analytics-focused database, the new platform ingests millions of metrics per
second and presents data significantly faster than before, making this the most
powerful performance platform available on the market. The user interface
delivers real-time visualization of thousands of metrics allowing multiple
groups across IT, including application, server and storage teams, to
collaboratively use the information to fine-tune application and infrastructure
performance and align infrastructure spend to the actual workload.
In addition to providing enhanced
capabilities for traditional fibre channel environments and top of rack fibre
channel over Ethernet (FCoE) switches, Virtual Instruments is also expanding
into the network-attached storage (NAS) market with the introduction of its new
probe, ProbeNTAP. The software-based storage probe leverages agentless API's to
capture and present health and utilization statistics for NetApp storage arrays.
"With so many enterprises turning
to cloud computing and software-defined solutions, it is critical that they
have real-time insight in order to ensure that their IT infrastructure is
flexible and dynamic and aligned to the needs of their mission-critical
applications," said Steve Duplessie, founder and senior analyst at ESG.
"VirtualWisdom4 delivers a level of granular data in a truly unbiased,
vendor-agnostic way that gives customers the insight they need to successfully
adopt these new technologies."
Key features of VirtualWisdom4
are:
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Intelligent Topology: This new view provides insight at a glance, enabling
customers to understand the connectivity and relationship between entities and
gain a high-level understanding of resource utilization, health and
performance.
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Case-based Alarms: Case-based alarms are designed to provide relevant and
actionable information and drive a shift from reactive alarm management to
proactive infrastructure management. Based on best practices observed from
hundreds of customer engagements, case-based alarms enable users to view
history and trending information to understand the frequency and urgency of
alarms so they can take action before an issue becomes a production-impacting
event.
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Live Reports: Live Reports provide intuitive and dynamic visualization of
millions of wire, machine, and analytic metrics across the performance,
utilization, and health of devices and entities. Live Reports can include bar
charts, trend graphs, time based comparisons and histograms at an unmatched
level of granularity.
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Applied Analytics: With the goal of turning data into real answers, analytics
have been built into the platform based on the expertise gained from working
directly with enterprise clients to optimize their infrastructure.
VirtualWisdom4 delivers analytics to help customers quickly address common
performance management requirements, such as workload balancing, event
investigation and trend correlation across the environment.
"With
VirtualWisdom4 we'll be presenting information that means something to each of
the users of the interface, not just the storage team," said Simon Close, head
of storage at WM Morrison Supermarkets PLC. "It'll help establish common
dialogue and understanding about how the service infrastructure that supports
the business is performing-by showing things in an intuitive, user friendly way
that is relevant to any team that is responsible for performance and
availability in their respective focal areas."
VirtualWisdom4
will be available by the end of May 2014. More information, including videos,
can be found online at
www.virtualinstruments.com/virtual-wisdom/.