Dewpoint can help your organization better utilize its virtualized environment, including:
Akorri™ BalancePoint® virtual infrastructure management performance and capacity management software provides analysis across IT virtualization layers and technology silos for both virtual and physical, server and storage infrastructure. BalancePoint helps companies troubleshoot problems within minutes, optimize utilization and improve performance in the dynamic data center.
The key to BalancePoint’s ability to analyze interdependencies between resources in separate IT domains is Cross-Domain Analytics™ technology. These unique analytics provide intelligent alerting, actionable recommendations and proactive service management tools to help with remediation, optimization, and planning. BalancePoint produces unique performance and capacity metrics that enable IT operations teams to better communicate, collaborate and manage service delivery as a team.
Reduce capital expenditures by getting the most out of your IT infrastructure
True infrastructure optimization requires insight and analysis into both utilization and performance; virtualization makes this challenge more difficult. Focusing on only one of the two is incomplete. BalancePoint offers this combination enabling IT organizations to maximize their infrastructure performance at the lowest possible cost. Over-provisioning wastes money; under-provisioning impacts performance. BalancePoint analytics determine the optimal balance between cost and efficiency.
By collecting data from each element (VM, server, and storage array) in the infrastructure and performing modeling and analysis, BalancePoint produces unique data center level statistics not found in any traditional system management tool. Performance Index scores the balance between application requirements and the infrastructure’s ability to deliver. It is produced from a virtual machine perspective and from a virtual host perspective so administrators can maximize VM densities as well and appropriately size VMs. BalancePoint’s virtual machine CPU Efficiency, Entitlement and Host Resource Contention enable customers to get more performance and scalability from their virtualized environments. BalancePoint enables administrators to provision the proper server and storage resources for the proper workload.
Save time & money by reducing troubleshooting time to minutes
Effective root-cause analysis requires a comprehensive view of all elements within the IT infrastructure. BalancePoint dynamically maps each element and its interdependencies from application to virtual and/or physical server to storage array disk group. Performance issues are highlighted in a color-coded interactive map and issued as alerts so IT users can immediately pinpoint and resolve. Administrators can drill down for deep analysis into the element with the bottleneck. Application Contention Analysis shows which applications are competing for the same infrastructure resources at the same time, impacting overall system performance. Problem isolation that used to take hours or days is reduced to minutes.
Accurately forecast when capital purchases requirements
Virtualization enables organizations to dynamically allocate resources where needed. Efficient capacity planning delivers IT resources to applications when they need it without over-provisioning. BalancePoint’s data center level statistics provide visibility and predictability into performance and capacity growth. Automated Scorecards on VMs, servers and storage provide a consistent set of metrics on all IT resources. BalancePoint’s reporting of the storage array and individual disk group performance and capacity provides customers insight and understanding unlike any other management application. Leveraging BalancePoint as an independent advisor, IT managers only invest in capital equipment when they truly require it, not when an IT vendor says they do.
Confidently virtualize more business critical applications
Business users demand Service Level Agreements. Virtualization’s abstraction of the physical infrastructure and underlying resource contention make this challenge more difficult. BalancePoint provides the predictability and confidence for IT staff to meet their business user demands. Infrastructure Response Time, shows the performance delivered to an application by all of the IT resources assigned to it. Use it to baseline and predict future infrastructure service, and even alert on service deviations. BalancePoint’s Abnormality Index predicts when applications are behaving inconsistently and alerts administrators for proactive resolution. Chargeback Reporting allows virtualized application costs to be accurately tracked. Today’s data center manager needs to increase their use of virtualized infrastructure and to deliver SLAs to the business. Without BalancePoint’s detailed understanding of the application performance and its impact on the underlying infrastructure, managers cannot consistently meet both objectives.
Unlike traditional system and element management tools that only look at one IT silo, BalancePoint agentless software dynamically models and analyzes across IT virtualization layers and infrastructure elements (virtual and physical, server and storage) to understand how application workloads, utilization levels and resources interact bringing much needed infrastructure-wide intelligence to the data center.
Many IT consulting companies can create a virtualized server environment, but without integrated storage and network virtualization, the solution will be incomplete. Dewpoint can architect a comprehensive infrastructure plan, working with organizations to create a customized Dynamic Data Center.
Dewpoint's team of professionals can provide your company the extra edge with streamlined process, dependable delivery and subject matter experts to meet your services needs including: solution architecture, business analysis, project management and more. Engagements can be limited to project discovery and scope, or expand as requested, up to full implementation with documentation and training.
Contact Dewpoint today for more information about how Dewpoint can support and implement your IT challenges while increasing efficiency and decreasing costs.
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