Intelligent Data Centres Issue 12 | Page 51

Virtana expands monitoring coverage and enhances infrastructure capacity planning capacity issues for critical applications. 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. VirtualWisdom 6.3 hybrid app definition The hybrid infrastructure management and AIOps platform builds on customer requirements to deepen infrastructure visibility, simplify capacity management and better control infrastructure costs. V VirtualWisdom 6.3 is the first product launch since Virtana’s rebrand in October 2019 and continues the company’s push into capacity management with global storage array analytics, an expanded range of integrations and new portable reports and dashboards. Mission-critical hybrid applications combine resources in public clouds with www.intelligentdatacentres.com physical or virtual resources residing in private data centres. For these crucially important workloads, operating at web- scale, managing cost, performance and capacity has never been more complex or important. To gain the insights and operational control that deliver efficient, cost-effective operation, organisations need real-time visibility, automated discovery, AI-powered analytics and immediate access to best- practice solutions that proactively solve infrastructure-related performance and “Powered by AI/ML capabilities, VirtualWisdom offers recommendations and automated problem resolution, providing customers with deep infrastructure visibility.” The new VirtualWisdom release features the new Capacity Auditor, a global storage array analytic that offers a unique approach to global capacity management designed to provide app-centric insights and intelligence across hybrid infrastructure and multi- vendor data storage environments. With Capacity Auditor, organisations have a broad view of storage usage and trends across all storage arrays, applications, locations, physical storage assets and effective capacity. Other key features of the new VirtualWisdom 6.3 release include: • New infrastructure integrations: Support for Oracle’s Solaris, Red Hat KVM and Pure Storage Issue 12 51 irtana, a leader in hybrid infrastructure management for mission-critical workloads, has introduced the latest version of VirtualWisdom, a premier hybrid IT infrastructure management and AIOps platform for mission-critical workloads. TO PROVIDE ORGANISATIONS WITH A COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE, IT NEEDS TO USE AND MANAGE RESOURCES EFFICIENTLY. “To 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,” said George Crump, President and Founder of Storage Switzerland.