To help IT operations executives adopting cloud and hybrid IT infrastructures maximize the value of their resources, CA Technologies has announced new capabilities in CA Unified Infrastructure Management (CA UIM). Adding support for performance monitoring of Docker containers, PureStorage arrays, Nutanix hyperconverged systems and OpenStack cloud environments and additional capabilities for Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud infrastructures, CA UIM offers the most comprehensive coverage of currently available stand-alone IT monitoring solutions.
“Today, enterprises are increasingly adopting cloud and hybrid IT infrastructures. However, infrastructure visibility can pose a challenge for IT departments, making unified monitoring essential for digital business success,” said Richard Gerdis, vice president, DevOps, Asia Pacific & Japan, CA Technologies. “The need of the hour is to provide IT teams with the unified visibility to efficiently and proactively monitor whatever combination of physical, virtualized, and cloud infrastructure they have in place at any given time. CA UIM addresses the intensifying need for across-the-board hybrid cloud monitoring, resulting in a faster mean time to repair, better operational efficiency and rapid technology adoption.”
Maximizing the value of hybrid cloud and dynamic infrastructures
“CA UIM has given us the ability to manage our cloud and dynamic resources with the same rigor as traditional resources,” said Jongho Kang, COO, Bespin Global. “By identifying over or underutilized resources across our cloud and on-premises infrastructure, we have been able to ensure high levels of IT performance and availability for our customers, thereby reducing costs and boosting their IT and business performance.”
CA UIM encapsulates the complexity of hybrid infrastructures by providing end-to-end visibility across on-premises, private or public cloud based infrastructures through a single console. The solution’s open, extensible architecture enables users to easily extend monitoring to new technologies or expand monitoring configurations of existing elements, thus eliminating the need to access and manage other monitoring tools that are brought in as new infrastructure technology is acquired.
Enhancements to CA UIM’s monitoring coverage of AWS cloud infrastructures include billing metrics and support for additional services that provide deeper, actionable insights on performance. Also, to further help organizations achieve better operational efficiency and lower administrative, CA UIM provides:
- Service-centric and unified analytics capabilities that rapidly identify the root cause of performance issues, resulting in a faster mean time to repair and better end user experience
- Out-of-the-box support for more than 140 on-premises and cloud technologies
- Easy to use templates for configuring monitors that can be applied to groups of systems
“EMA research has seen increased adoption of hybrid cloud infrastructure, which can lead to new challenges for IT operations,” said Shamus McGillicuddy senior analyst, Network Management, Enterprise Management Associates, Inc. “These new enhancements give CA UIM industry-leading visibility into a wide variety of infrastructure components and cloud services that are in use in today’s hybrid IT infrastructures.”
In addition, to ensure the reliability of modern networks such as SDN/NFV that connect and scale today’s hybrid cloud environments, the company offers CA Virtual Network Assurance, which provides extended visibility via a single view of dynamic changes across the virtual and physical network stack to improve performance, productivity and agility while accelerating new service deployments.