{"id":36130,"date":"2019-12-10T10:35:03","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T10:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/?p=36130"},"modified":"2019-12-11T09:04:50","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T09:04:50","slug":"virtana-expands-monitoring-coverage-and-enhances-infrastructure-capacity-planning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/2019\/12\/10\/virtana-expands-monitoring-coverage-and-enhances-infrastructure-capacity-planning\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtana expands monitoring coverage and enhances infrastructure capacity planning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Virtana,&nbsp;a leader in hybrid infrastructure management for mission-critical workloads,&nbsp;has introduced the latest version of&nbsp;VirtualWisdom, a premier hybrid IT infrastructure management and AIOps platform for mission-critical workloads. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>VirtualWisdom 6.3 is the first product launch since\nVirtana\u2019s rebrand in October 2019 and continues the company\u2019s push into\ncapacity management with global storage array analytics, an expanded range of\nintegrations and new portable reports and dashboards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mission-critical hybrid applications combine resources\nin public clouds with physical or virtual resources residing in private data\ncentres. For these crucially important workloads, operating at web-scale,\nmanaging cost, performance and capacity has never been more complex or\nimportant. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To gain the insights and operational control that\ndeliver efficient, cost-effective operation, organisations need real-time\nvisibility, automated discovery, AI-powered analytics and immediate access to\nbest-practice solutions that proactively solve infrastructure-related\nperformance and capacity issues for critical applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>VirtualWisdom provides real-time, data-driven lifecycle recommendations to assure performance, speed problem resolution, automate workload optimisation, free-up capacity and ensure resource availability. AI-powered capacity forecasting helps organisations avoid capacity-driven problems before they can happen and AI-powered workload optimisation keeps applications operating within SLAs.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTo provide organisations with a competitive advantage, IT needs to use and manage resources efficiently. IT professionals need tools to enable them to quickly resolve problems, even as the infrastructure becomes increasingly more complex. They also need to automate as many of the mundane IT tasks as possible,\u201d said George Crump, President and Founder of Storage Switzerland. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPowered by AI\/ML capabilities, VirtualWisdom offers\nrecommendations and automated problem resolution, providing customers with deep\ninfrastructure visibility.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new VirtualWisdom release features the&nbsp;new\nCapacity Auditor, a global storage array analytic that offers a unique approach\nto global capacity management designed to provide app-centric insights and\nintelligence across hybrid infrastructure and multi-vendor data storage\nenvironments. With Capacity Auditor, organisations have a broad view of storage\nusage and trends across all storage arrays, applications, locations, physical\nstorage assets and effective capacity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other key features of the new VirtualWisdom 6.3\nrelease include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>New infrastructure integrations<\/strong>:      Support for Oracle\u2019s Solaris, Red Hat KVM and Pure Storage solutions that      provide all the power of the VirtualWisdom platform to applications using      infrastructure within these environments and management of infrastructure      elements that live within them.<\/li><li><strong>Dynamic entity insights<\/strong>:      Enhances VirtualWisdom\u2019s continuous real-time infrastructure discovery      with simple, intuitive dashboards and reports for servers, storage and      networks. Enabling immediate insights into critical relationships between      infrastructure elements, visibility into vital statistics and the      capability to automatically apply customisable information sets for      identification and cost.<\/li><li><strong>Portable reports<\/strong>:      Empowers users to share collective insights, dashboards and reports across      the VirtualWisdom community. Customers and partners can easily exchange      best-practice monitoring reports and visualisations unique to specific      environments and applications.<\/li><li><strong>Hybrid application definition<\/strong>:      Hybrid, real-time application views make it easy to visualise hybrid      applications that cross multiple technology boundaries in one view \u2013      including applications that span multiple clouds (AWS, Azure), virtual      environments (VMware, KVM, HyperV, PowerVM) as well as physical systems.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Virtana VirtualWisdom platform has been a\nfundamental enabler of our mission-critical manufacturing technology solutions\nand services for many years now,\u201d said Todd Weeks, Plex Systems Global VP of\nCloud Operations. \u201cOur ability to offer our customers nearly 100% business\ncontinuity in a highly efficient cloud infrastructure relies on the real-time\ninfrastructure visibility and AI-powered analytics that are unique to the\nVirtualWisdom platform.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDigital Transformation is\ndriving exponential data growth as today\u2019s enterprises must have global\nvisibility into all storage resources to continuously meet these ever-growing\ndemands.&nbsp;Point solutions to managing data sets across multiple\nvendor storage environments result in highly fragmented, manual and wasteful\npractices and resources \u2013 and can put entire applications at risk,\u201d said Tim\nVan Ash, SVP of Products at Virtana. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWith application aware, predictive insight into the\nunderlying digital infrastructure, VirtualWisdom offers the industry\u2019s first\nand only global infrastructure capacity auditor and forecaster that can\nproviding real-time visibility into mission-critical digital workload\ninfrastructure.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virtana,&nbsp;a leader in hybrid infrastructure management for mission-critical workloads,&nbsp;has introduced the latest version of&nbsp;VirtualWisdom, a premier hybrid IT infrastructure management and AIOps platform for mission-critical workloads. 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