Virtual Instruments has launched the fourth-generation of its VirtualWisdom solution labeled VirtualWisdom4. The new platform offers an innovative new approach with enhanced capabilities, which gives customers insight into how their applications and infrastructure are performing.
Virtual Instruments has launched the fourth-generation of its VirtualWisdom solution labeled VirtualWisdom4. The new platform offers an innovative new approach with enhanced capabilities, which gives customers insight into how their applications and infrastructure are performing.
VirtualWisdom4 is the industry’s first entity-centric approach, enabling application-aware infrastructure performance management. With this method, organizations can logically group system-wide resources from physical devices to application workloads, which provides users of all kinds with the insight needed to understand how resources and applications are performing. Additionally, IT departments can now customize entities to show all of the resources supporting a specific application, business unit, or tier of service. As a result, this allows individual users, as well as teams, to immediately display the information that is relevant relevant to them.
The VirtualWisdom4 platform designed from the ground up, offering an intuitive and responsive Web-based user interface. This enables customers to quickly answer the most important questions and deliver the right information at the right time. The new platform is also underpinned by an analytics-focused database, which ingests millions of metrics per second and presents data significantly faster than before. In addition, the user interface provides real-time visualization of thousands of metrics allowing multiple groups across IT, including application, server and storage teams, to collaboratively use the information to fine-tune application and infrastructure performance and align infrastructure spend to the actual workload.
On top of offering improved capabilities for traditional fibre channel environments and top of rack fibre channel over Ethernet (FCoE) switches, Virtual Instruments is also expanding into the NAS market with the introduction of its new probe, ProbeNTAP. The software-based storage probe takes advantage of agentless APIs to capture and present health and utilization statistics for NetApp storage arrays.
Key features of VirtualWisdom4 include:
- Intelligent Topology: This new view provides insight at a glance, enabling customers to understand the connectivity and relationship between entities and gain a high-level understanding of resource utilization, health and performance.
- Case-based Alarms: Case-based alarms are designed to provide relevant and actionable information and drive a shift from reactive alarm management to proactive infrastructure management. Based on best practices observed from hundreds of customer engagements, case-based alarms enable users to view history and trending information to understand the frequency and urgency of alarms so they can take action before an issue becomes a production-impacting event.
- Live Reports: Live reports provide intuitive and dynamic visualization of millions of wire, machine, and analytic metrics across the performance, utilization, and health of devices and entities. Live Reports can include bar charts, trend graphs, time based comparisons and histograms at an unmatched level of granularity.
- Applied Analytics: With the goal of turning data into real answers, analytics have been built into the platform based on the expertise gained from working directly with enterprise clients to optimize their infrastructure. VirtualWisdom4 delivers analytics to help customers quickly address common performance management requirements, such as workload balancing, event investigation and trend correlation across the environment.
Availability
VirtualWisdom4 will be available by the end of May 2014. For more information, visit the product website.
