Xangati today announced three new data-source compute extensions to
its best-in-class service assurance analytics and performance control
platform - the only live, cross-silo intelligence and IT efficiency
solution engineered for hybrid-cloud infrastructures. With support for
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Docker, Xangati's virtual
appliance software will correlate real-time data across on-premise
virtualisation, containers and public clouds to enable self-healing
optimisation.
Hybrid-cloud infrastructures are designed to
accommodate multiple applications, a shared or converged physical layer
and a software-defined layer, all of which expose the dynamic data
centre to higher risk of unpredictable performance problems and resource
inefficiency. But conventional infrastructure monitoring solutions are
silo-specific and application unaware, while application performance
management (APM) solutions alone are inadequate as they are largely
infrastructure unaware.
Instead, Xangati maps infrastructure
behaviour to autonomic controls across traditional silos in real time
and analyses impacts to virtual application performance, efficiency and
delivery to optimise the end-user quality of experience across any
compute platform from private to hybrid cloud.
According to
Gartner analysts Pankaj Prasad and Vivek Bhalla: "IT operations teams
will need to move away from siloed operations for better synergies
across various teams to take full advantage of ITOA tools. This is also
necessitated by the fact that workloads are taking centre stage over the
siloed domains of IT (servers, networks, databases, etc.), and IT
operations teams have to work together to ensure these workloads are not
impacted, while also improving the mean time to restore services (MTTR)
in case of any outage." (Gartner, Modernize ECA With IT Infrastructure
Monitoring Tools, Pankaj Prasad, Vivek Bhalla, 21 January 2016,
G00291860).
"The contemporary enterprise now considers cloud
infrastructure as the reality whereby hybrid/bi-modal IT incorporates an
organisation's applications and data when they are distributed across
multi-tiered environments," said Atchison Frazer, CMO, Xangati.
"While
IT operations teams may not control all the siloed assets services run
on, they still need to gain granular visibility into the performance of
all functional components in order to drive attainment of business
outcomes tied to metric-based service levels," added Frazer. "With new
innovative cloud and container capabilities, Xangati allows
cloud-virtualisation and IT operations managers to bank on the optimal
performance of their entire hybrid infrastructure through one management
console that automates prescriptive actions and drives greater
efficiency."
The extensions for AWS, Azure and Docker are
subscription licenses stackable on top of the core Xangati ESP for Cloud
Infrastructure platform. The AWS and Azure Extensions analyse CPU,
memory and storage utilisation of virtual machines and associated
objects along with Virtual Private Cloud VMs hosted in an AWS or Azure
account. With AWS and Azure extensions, system administrators can
optimise the performance and utilisation of their hybrid-cloud
infrastructure assets with agentless second-by-second accuracy.
In
a classic hybrid-cloud infrastructure, any VM can be a Docker host if
the proper credentials to collect data are granted, such as for
micro-services that execute one service or app. Each Docker host
consists of containers and images supporting a business service. The
Xangati ESP Extension for Docker tracks and correlates metrics for
containers and images so that they can be profiled and alerted upon
within the overall context of end-to-end visibility and performance
control services provided by Xangati.
Product Features and Functionality
For more information about the Xangati ESP software modules and extensions, visit http://xangati.com/products/