Cirba Inc., the leading provider of software-defined infrastructure
control software has been listed as a representative vendor in Gartner’s
February 2016 report titled “Innovation Insight
on Dynamic Optimization Technology for Infrastructure Resources and
Cloud Services.”
“Cirba determines the best hosting environment for applications in real
time, and because our analytics are accessible through a web services
API, this allows high degrees of automation in cloud and greenfield
environments,” said Andrew Hillier, CTO & co-founder of Cirba. “Also,
this placement analysis is predictive in nature, and Cirba is designed
to work with, not against, standard load-balancers such as VMware
DRS or OpenStack Watcher. This is ideal for preventing risk while at the
same time driving significantly higher efficiencies, providing the best
of both worlds.”
Hillier added, “Cirba’s predictive analytics support all placement
scenarios such as new applications coming online, re-routing existing
apps to a different environment, and even modeling of upcoming server
and storage changes that may impact where an app should go. In all of
these cases Cirba is unique in its ability to model an environment and
all of the workloads that are in it in order to determine the best
possible placement. Other more reactive approaches to placement not only
conflict with standard load-balancers, but make placement decisions
based on very limited point in time models, which leads to performance
issues and excessive VM motioning.”
Cirba’s analytics automatically optimize VM routing and placement
decisions considering all the utilization requirements, alongside
policies such as business policies, compliance rules, and even software
licensing boundaries technical requirements, software licensing
considerations, etc. Cirba is unique in its ability to choose the best
hosting environment for workloads in real time and it also dovetails
workloads in a way that is analogous to the game of Tetris,
to safely densify infrastructure by an average of 48 percent in virtual
and cloud hosting environments.
To see a short demonstration of Cirba’s real-time placements visit
Cirba’s Web site at www.cirba.com/real-time.