Is your head in the clouds?

Well, CiRBA, the data centre guys are hoping to put your mind rest, with version 7.0, said to provide a new way of visualising and managing environments, giving infrastructure managers unprecedented control over virtual and cloud infrastructure.

“Most large enterprises are struggling to understand what is going on in their virtual and cloud infrastructure, let alone proactively manage and control it,” said Andrew Hillier, CiRBA CTO and co-founder. “No other solution in the market enables infrastructure managers to instantly understand the status of IT infrastructure and how to better place and allocate resources across an environment. Infrastructure managers can now know exactly what needs to be done to mitigate risk, improve efficiency and meet policy requirements – whether that is rebalancing workloads, changing allocations, adding or removing capacity, or booking resources for new workloads coming on board.”

CiRBA DCI enables infrastructure managers to determine at a single glance, which resources are appropriately placed, configured and provisioned and which are at risk at the VM, host, cluster and environment level.  Users can assess where risks exist (under-provisioned resources) and which resources have excess capacity that may be reclaimed (over-provisioned resources), as well as access a new time-based view showing the current state, as well as historical and predictive views to understand an environment’s status and requirements over time.