Virtual Instruments today introduced the latest version of VirtualWisdom,
the industry's most comprehensive hybrid IT infrastructure management
and AIOps platform. By leveraging WisdomAI-powered analytics and an
application-centric approach to infrastructure management, VirtualWisdom
6.2 enables enterprises to proactively gain full control over the
performance, availability, capacity and efficiency of infrastructure
supporting mission-critical applications across their hybrid data
centers. As a result, customers are able to reduce infrastructure costs,
gain greater business agility and accelerate innovation throughout the
organization.
The
modern hybrid data center model has taken full hold in the enterprise
sector, which has led organizations to re-evaluate their entire approach
to infrastructure management. Enterprises must now make a wide range of
considerations in the ongoing management of their hybrid IT
infrastructure, including evaluating their best execution venue, as well
as the efficacy of automation technologies based on AI and machine
learning. Given these factors, devising an effective hybrid
infrastructure management strategy is challenging enough, but
enterprises must also navigate the overwhelming scale and complexity
associated with these highly virtualized, hybrid and multi-cloud
environments.
Traditionally,
most enterprises have implemented monitoring tools in a siloed fashion,
largely as a result of adopting new technology platforms, resulting in
an incomplete view of the performance, health and utilization of the
underlying infrastructure supporting their mission-critical
applications. This limited visibility leads to a lack of control over
application delivery, which results in poor business performance in the
form of unmet service level agreements (SLAs), as well as costly
reactive firefighting that is the hallmark of traditional "IT war
rooms."
By
holistically monitoring, analyzing and optimizing the performance,
availability, capacity and efficiency of hybrid IT infrastructure within
the context of the application, VirtualWisdom enables enterprises to
take a modernized, AIOps-empowered approach to infrastructure
management. VirtualWisdom discovers and maps applications to the
infrastructure to understand where each application lives and how it
behaves on top of the infrastructure, in addition to discerning the
business value and SLA tier of each application. The new VirtualWisdom
then applies real-time, AI-based analytics through the updated WisdomAI
engine, including machine learning, statistical analysis, heuristics and
expert systems. As a result, VirtualWisdom delivers the capabilities
enterprises need to proactively manage the hybrid infrastructure
supporting their mission-critical applications.
"Considering
enterprises' persistent need for today's mission-critical enterprise
applications to be available at all times, infrastructure issues must be
resolved in near real-time to avoid impacting the business and its
customers," said Bob Laliberte, Practice Director and Senior Analyst,
Enterprise Strategy Group. "AIOps is rapidly becoming enterprises' path
to managing the exponentially increasing scale and complexity of their
hybrid infrastructures, but enterprises need to be able to implement
AIOps-based monitoring solutions within the context and flow of their
business. The new VirtualWisdom will help enterprises apply the machine
intelligence and expert systems needed to reap the benefits of
AIOps-supported hybrid infrastructure management."
In
addition to the expansion of the WisdomAI engine, the latest version of
VirtualWisdom offers a wide range of new features and capabilities for
capacity management and forecasting, as well as workload balancing and
rightsizing. The new VirtualWisdom Workload RightSizer enables customers
to rightsize VMs by scaling them up or down across an entire cluster or
application, which helps assure service delivery and business value.
The new Workload Drift Analyzer determines when anomalous or changes in
application workload behavior is the cause behind observed performance
issues. It also delivers real-time alerts to help IT and operations
managers proactively rebalance the workloads.
Key features of the new VirtualWisdom include:
- VirtualWisdom Workload RightSizer: The
most intelligent VM placement analytic in the industry rightsizes VMs
by scaling them up or down across an entire application, helping assure
service delivery and business value. Customers can set different
policies per tier; control the amount of CPU and memory for each VM,
host or cluster; analyze utilization and over-subscription; and make
better decisions via richer, more granular data.
- Workload Drift Analyzer: Determines
when changes in application workload behavior is anomalous or, as a
result of application changes, is the root-cause of the performance
issues observed. Delivers real-time alerts to restore workload balance
and application performance.
- Dell EMC Isilon Integration: Assures
Isilon cluster performance at scale by bringing industry-leading
performance analysis to Dell EMC Isilon environments. The new
integration has been validated against the world's largest production
Isilon clusters monitoring hundreds of nodes in a single VirtualWisdom
instance. VirtualWisdom maps application dependencies to Isilon clusters
and nodes; collecting and storing over 1,500 metrics at 10-second
granularity; and delivering unparalleled scale and fidelity.
- Predictive Capacity Management: Monitors,
reports, forecasts and alarms against the capacity consumption rate.
The Capacity Forecast alarm allows customers to specify how many days,
weeks or months they wish to be notified prior to potential capacity
exhaustion on nodes or clusters.
- Updated VirtualWisdom Proactive Dashboards: Deliver
Smart Charts with support for annotation, linking, and smart naming;
and live topology views that are specific to infrastructure or
applications.
"The
future of IT operations is autonomous: enterprises need IT operations
that never fail to deliver mission-critical services, that adapt to
business innovation, and consume resources ever more efficiently," said
Tim Van Ash, SVP of products at Virtual Instruments. "As the scope of
enterprises' hybrid infrastructure management needs has expanded, we
have continued to expand the breadth of our monitoring and inject
meaningful AIOps capabilities into the VirtualWisdom platform. With the
new VirtualWisdom, we are enabling enterprises to truly harness the
power of AI and machine learning, with a view towards the automated IT
operations of tomorrow."