To ensure optimal performance you need to track the efficiency of your systems. Yet how do you do that when they—for cost-saving and flexibility reasons—are hosted/in the cloud? Nimsoft has the answer with new capabilities added to its Nimsoft monitoring solution, or “NMS,” that extend real-time monitoring and historical reporting beyond the virtualized datacenter to hosted/cloud/SaaS (
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Nimsoft has also launched unifiedmonitoring.com, a public service Web portal that allows organizations to objectively evaluate the performance and availability of leading cloud, hosted and SaaS services. Unified monitoring is Nimsoft’s application that enables a single, cohesive view into an organization’s entire IT infrastructure. The Web site has aggregated status feeds for leading cloud and SaaS providers on the site, providing prospective users with real-time visibility into the availability and performance of these IT resources. The portal also provides historical data and benchmarks that can be used to evaluate performance over time.
By extending monitoring from the virtualized datacenter which NMS services to the cloud, customers will gain complete visibility over their entire IT infrastructure. This enables them to measure and improve service delivery, allocate computing resources for maximum performance and enforce service level agreements, or “SLAs.”
NMS is based on a scalable and extensible architecture that enables complete visibility and monitoring from a single product, eliminating the need to invest in additional products every time IT infrastructures change or expand. By monitoring all computing resources, Nimsoft customers will be able to make better decisions as they transition to a combination of internal and external environments.
The new feature set delivers additional capabilities for monitoring both internal and external environments include:
- Cloud and SaaS Probes. These enable users to gain complete visibility over the performance and availability of Google (News - Alert) Apps for Business, Rackspace Cloud, Amazon Web Services, or “AWS,” and EC2, Salesforce.com, and other services. By understanding status and response time, users can determine if outsourced platforms and applications are meeting their service delivery commitments.
- Nimsoft Unified Monitoring APIs. These permit easy extensions to NMS. This complete set of documented APIs is available to both customers and third-party developers.
- The Nimsoft Unified Reporter. This system delivers more than 100 reports out of the box, and allows users to create their own performance and capacity planning reports. Information from these reports can be used to make decisions on how and where to redistribute workloads, to identify problems in the infrastructure, to benchmark performance metrics, and to prove where SLAs are not being met.
- Virtualization Probes. These provide users 100 percent visibility over virtualization platforms including Citrix, Microsoft HyperV, IBM (News - Alert) Power-V, VMware, and Sun Solaris Zones. Complete visibility enables users to monitor and optimize the performance of all applications and resources running on virtual servers, and enables the optimization of compute resources across business services.
- Root cause analysis, or “RCA,” and Topology Manager. They present deep discovery and both virtual and physical topology views of the network. When an outage occurs, knowing where the root cause of the problem is dramatically reduces mean time to repair.
Together the NMS systems provides, with Unified Monitoring a scalable and extensible architecture, a customizable management dashboard, rapid deployment and short time to value, that it says has a total cost of ownership up to 80 percent less than legacy systems.
“Enterprises of all sizes are investigating the deployment of external IT services to supplement or replace the traditional internal datacenter,” Gary Read, Nimsoft President and CEO, said, adding that Nimsoft is the first and only company that can deliver a single, integrated view of all these computing resources today.
“Our experience supporting hundreds of service providers for many years, together with hundreds of end-user enterprises, has put us in a unique position to understand the challenges of this new world,” Read said. “This seismic shift in IT delivery platforms will render legacy monitoring tools useless and accelerate the adoption of the Nimsoft Monitoring System as the new standard.”
Brendan B. Read is TMCnet’s Senior Contributing Editor. To read more of Brendan’s articles, please visit his columnist page.Edited by
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