Independent virtualization and cloud specialists,
Xtravirt, today
announced the launch of SONAR, the industry’s first
Reporting-as-a-Service (RaaS) solution that enables IT teams to automate
routine assessment of their virtual infrastructure in minutes and have
access to industry best practice guidance on system remediation. The
first SONAR service being released by Xtravirt will provide health
assessment and configuration management reporting for environments
running VMware vSphere.
“There are many moving parts in virtual data centers and cloud
infrastructure. Keeping on top of the sheer amount of changes and
events being recorded as well as the mountain of data being created by
monitoring tools is challenging for even the most well-resourced Ops
teams,” said Gavin Jolliffe, CEO of Xtravirt. “The new SONAR RaaS
service is designed to handle the heavy-lifting involved in
infrastructure reporting and data gathering and analysis, making it easy
for operations and converged teams to have fast, easy to work with,
insight into their virtual environments and their interdependent assets,
systems and networks. We’ve decided to focus our first SONAR service on
VMware vSphere environments as it is the most widely deployed server
virtualization platform.”
SONAR Reporting-as-a-Service (RaaS) for VMware vSphere enables
organisations to proactively baseline, improve and maintain the state of
their VMware vSphere infrastructure, as well as enhance operational
planning and governance. The ability to automate best practice reporting
with a subscription service reduces the fiscal and administrative
burdens that regularly derail the ability of IT to carry out routine
health assessments and configuration management processes. With the
recent announcement
of VMware vSphere 6, customers will want to ensure their environment is
ready to migrate to this new platform. SONAR reporting provides a
‘readiness’ check to enable a smooth migration to this latest version of
vSphere.
With the summary information provided by SONAR, IT Ops can detect and
resolve hidden issues before they impact service levels. They can also
take a proactive approach to reporting updates with business and
development teams as well as accelerate resolution of issues across
different areas of the IT organization, such as application, storage,
network and security teams.
SONAR RaaS for VMware vSphere provides:
• An on-demand, 42-point assessment of infrastructure against industry
standard best practices, delivering prioritised and actionable
recommendations for enhancements.
• Full documentation of installed infrastructure, reducing the time,
cost and effort involved in documentation processes by up to 70 per cent
compared with manual approaches.
• Concise, visualized and easy to digest technical and business-focused
summary reports that present the essential data on the virtual
production environment that IT operations ‘need to know’ and may need to
share with the wider IT and business team.
“As organizations embrace cloud and move rapidly towards a
software-defined infrastructure, the nature of IT delivery is being
completely transformed. In order to meet business demands and deliver
more with increasingly constrained resources, greater IT insight and
intelligence has to be introduced,” commented Clive Longbottom, service
director at analyst firm, Quocirca. “Solutions like SONAR are a great
example of how IT analytics can be applied in a practical way, enabling
IT to more easily identify direct value to the business in issue
remediation while identifying the best places for future IT investment.”
“We were able to use SONAR to highlight to our Director areas of the
infrastructure we need some more investment.” Paul Houghton,
Infrastructure Engineer, London Borough of Camden
“Concise but also very comprehensive, easy to read report highlighting
all you should know about the health of your infrastructure, but
sometimes don’t get the time to review that often.” Andrew Keywood, IT,
Kingham Capital
Pricing and Availability
• SONAR RaaS for VMware vSphere will be available as a 12-month
subscription service end of February 2015 and is priced at £4,740
(equivalent to £395 per month)
• For further information or to run a free health report please visit
http://sonar-raas.com/.