UNCOVERING THE LAYERS
specific users, buckets or storage nodes,
allowing them to quickly and proactively
address any inefficiencies or anomalies
before they drive costs upwards.
Another key factor is security and
compliance, with the enforcement of
security policies now being critical to
maintaining business reputation and
success. The need to ensure compliance
and avoid unauthorised access to
valuable or sensitive data is particularly
challenging in a distributed environment.
But, with a full, unified view of their hybrid
cloud infrastructure, businesses will be
able to make the necessary adjustments
and enforce their security and compliance
policies when needed. For example,
they could set up automated alerts to
monitor LAN and/or WAN connections,
data egress rates or user storage and
access quotas. This would enable them
to respond in a timely manner to fix
and prevent any incidents that could
compromise company policies.
How does the recently
launched Cloudian HyperIQ
solution help businesses
solve some of the storage
infrastructure challenges
they’re facing?
Cloudian HyperIQ is an observability
and analytics solution that empowers
businesses to go beyond basic
monitoring and reporting. Through a
single graphical interface, it provides
continuous monitoring and real time
insights into their storage infrastructures
across on-premises and hybrid cloud
environments, regardless of their
geographical location. This makes it
easier for businesses to track system
operations and make informed decisions.
HyperIQ features three core
capabilities: intelligent monitoring to
reduce administrative overheads and
lower operational costs; predictive
maintenance to minimise outages
and disruptions and advanced user
analytics to detect usage anomalies and
enforce compliance policies. These are
supplemented by monthly health checks
that enable enhanced security and
resource optimisation.
It also provides planning capabilities.
These focus on predicting where the
IO bottleneck will appear next, as
well as looking at capacity utilisation
to understand when to start planning
upgrades and analysing whether the
network is being over-utilised and
impacting performance.
This all helps businesses overcome
the visibility and complexity issues
they are currently facing, allowing
them to better attack the problems
of increasingly intricate storage
infrastructures. From reducing mean
time to repair, to increasing availability
and accelerating new deployments,
businesses will be able to adapt more
easily to workload demands and
maintain peak performance. ◊
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