Virtana continues to evolve the infrastructure performance management (IPM) capabilities of Virtana Platform, with a focus on proactive enterprise IT management. Through Virtana's Capacity Planning solution, companies get access to real-time data for highly accurate and reliable forecasts - bringing resource efficiency and better purchase and expansion planning to both on-premises and cloud infrastructure. 

As cloud costs continue to soar for both compute and storage, many companies find it hard to understand and control their IT bills. Research found that 82% of organizations with workloads running in the public cloud have incurred "unnecessary" cloud costs. The need for future forecasting and resource efficiency has never been more urgent. Virtana Platform's historical data collection shows long-term capacity usage trends so that customers can get reliable insights into seasonal usage, trends over time, speed-to-capacity thresholds, and more. 

One of the top three US global telecommunications providers has been using Virtana's Capacity Planning solution for the past two years. With it, they can see how much capacity is available on the floor, allocated, in use, and can view compression ratios. From this data, they are able to make assessments month over month on capacity thresholds and whether they need to expand. 

"We had a fire drill one day and needed to see capacity across our environment with host data included ASAP," said the Head of IT for this key global telecommunications provider. "With Virtana's capabilities, we were able to get access to the needed cross-view of host data within hours, showing all of our arrays, where we have them allocated to each host, and how much each is using. This rapid turnaround and useful insight is the reason we continue to work with Virtana for our capacity planning and IPM needs." 

Business results of Virtana Platform's Capacity Planning solution: 

• Better purchase and expansion planning - resource efficiency allows customers to understand future spending needs
• Problem avoidance and increased availability - running out of capacity can severely impact business performance
• Proactive troubleshooting - depth of observability and monitoring allows customers to be proactive versus reactive
  

"Virtana Platform's (VP) capacity planning tool keeps you from overrunning budget and ensures you have capacity when you need it," said Jon Cyr, VP of Product at Virtana. "You'll never be surprised by on-prem or cloud costs again. With VP's capacity planning, you can set alarms to know critical points of failure before they occur - for example, you can be made aware six months in advance of the problem that at your current growth rate, you'll run out of storage in six months."