Cupertino, CA – May 15, 2012 – Xangati, the recognized leader in performance management for virtualization and the cloud, today announced a powerful new release of its Xangati Management Dashboard (XMD) virtualization and cloud suite. The new release of the XMD includes capabilities that give enterprises and cloud service providers a huge advantage in performance assurance for virtualized and cloud infrastructures, delivering: a comprehensive, continuous and high-precision performance management architecture now scalable to the cloud; integrated performance and capacity management in one solution; and the ability to performance profile virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) end-user activity without agents. The new release of the XMD also allows organizations to quickly uncover cross-silo contention storms with multi-dimensional and linked alert recordings incorporated into Xangati’s flagship Performance Management Engine.

In addition, Xangati simultaneously announced that all of the new XMD functionality is immediately available at absolutely no cost through integration into its VI Dashboard and VDI Dashboard trial software and the Xangati for vSphere—Freesingle host tool. Administrators can download and use the free two-week trial within a critical cluster or Xangati’s free tool for a single vSphere host for instant insights on what contention storms are within their environment. Xangati’s software has revealed contention storms in more than 90 percent of its deployments.

“As large enterprises extend virtualization deployments and begin to rely on different cloud models, performance management solutions are falling short in their ability to manage the dynamic nature of these shared environments,” said Alan Robin, CEO of Xangati. “The management capabilities that we’re delivering today fill an immediate need to dramatically improve performance assurance for cloud environments which are plagued by chronic, intermittent contention storms.”

“Our environment is highly dynamic – with students logging in and out from all over campus – making it incredibly challenging to track end-user activity,” said Ron Lee, Senior Systems Engineer at Oral Roberts University, which is using the Xangati VDI Dashboard to support its entire student body of more than 3,200 undergraduate and graduate students. “With Xangati, we can accurately track and profile VDI end-user activity from a single console – a capability that we anticipate rolling out to our entire team to ensure and maximize performance for our students. Plus, with the XMD’s agentless model, we can effortlessly scale management as our environment grows.”

“Moving to a cloud model changes everything in terms of management,” said Todd Scalzott, Director of Information Technology at Kastle Systems, a provider of innovative security systems. “Other management solutions we looked at simply couldn’t deliver for the cloud’s dynamic and shared infrastructure. With the XMD, our team was able to jump right in and start solving problems right away. Supporting our software developers is critical to our business productivity, and the XMD gives us all the right tools so we can.”

Xangati: A Performance Guarantee for Clouds

According to the 2012 IDG Enterprise Cloud Computing Survey, 63 percent of organizations plan to increase IT budgets for cloud computing initiatives over the next 12 months. The Cloud Era is coming, yet management remains an overwhelming barrier for organizations to maximize its value. Traditional management solutions do not provide the level of precision, continuous insights or scalability needed to manage these environments, resulting in:

• contention storms affecting system performance that cannot be captured by post-mortem database driven monitoring systems;
• compartmentalized performance monitoring that doesn’t reveal contention points across the entire infrastructure;
• a lack of visibility for capacity issues and planning resulting in future contention storms; and an
• inability to guarantee the dynamic end-user experience (EUX) for VDI.

The XMD architecture was built to solve these issues with live and continuous visibility across all areas of the infrastructure and features the following new capabilities:

Cloud-Scale Performance Management Engine

An 8-fold increase in the scale of environments which Xangati’s patented in-memory performance management engine will cover – without any trade off in precision:

• delivering second-by-second precision in data collection, collation, analysis and alerts to immediately reveal areas of contention;
• merging of automated performance profiling techniques with best practice thresholds to uncover multi-dimensional contention storms;
• linked alert recordings which further accelerate time to resolution; and
• maintaining full functionality and ease-of-use of the XMD 360° navigational user interface.

Proactive Capacity Management

Integration between the XMD’s performance tracking architecture and new capacity management features, giving customers both capabilities in one solution at one price and:

• allowing enterprises to proactively identify emerging capacity issues and avoid contention storms before they happen;
• forewarning organizations through automated alerts when they’re about to hit capacity thresholds across multiple data centers; and
• locating spare capacity and identifying capacity hogs to give managers the specific information they need to determine where and when they should increase capacity.

VDI End-User Based Performance Profiling for VMware and Citrix

The ability to monitor and track the end user to VM activity without guest agents:

• giving managers an accurate way to tie user behavior to performance for the very first time;
• delivering the only solution with both VMware and Citrix connection broker API integration (with direct interaction with ViewConnection Manager and Desktop Delivery Controller);
• establishing user performance profiles with the highest possible precision by tracking actual activity versus assessment models;
• alerting the service desk when ‘normal’ user activity changes; and
• allowing frictionless scalability for future growth with an agentless model.

Additionally, new enhancements have been added to support cross-functional IT teams, with focused dashboards and automated alerts now integrated for the storage team, giving storage admins the ability to track and obtain deeper insights into datastore performance health down to the LUN level.

About Xangati

Xangati, the recognized leader in performance management for virtualization and the cloud, provides unparalleled management for the emerging and transformational data center architectures impacting IT today, including server virtualization, cloud computing and VDI. Its award-winning suite of solutions accelerates cloud computing and virtualization initiatives by providing unprecedented visibility and real-time continuous insights into the entire infrastructure. Leveraging its powerful precision analytics, Xangati’s health performance index provides a new way to view and manage performance – in real-time – at a scale previously not possible.

Founded in 2006, Xangati, Inc. is a privately held company with corporate headquarters based in Cupertino, California. Xangati has been granted numerous technology patents for its 360-degree comprehensive approach to Infrastructure Performance Management. Xangati is a VMware Technology Alliance Partner and certified Citrix Ready Partner and supports both VMware View and Citrix XenDesktop, as well as other virtualization environments. For more information, visit www.xangati.com.

ComTrade Management Pack helps Citrix customers monitor and manage XenDesktop with Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager 2012

Mountain View, CA ― April 16, 2012 ― ComTrade a leading developer of management products for Microsoft System Center, today announced it is working closely with Citrix to give customers the ability to connect Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager (SCOM) to Citrix XenDesktop®.

ComTrade will begin offering a new version of ComTrade Management Pack for Citrix XenDesktop that will be compatible with Microsoft Systems Center 2012 and include monitoring and management of both Provisioning Server and Web Interface.

End-To-End Monitoring & Management of XenDesktop

ComTrade’s Management Pack for Citrix XenDesktop helps IT measure, monitor and manage XenDesktop and provides a complete end-to-end view of the Citrix environment from within Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager.

Through the collaboration between Citrix and ComTrade, customers will receive a scalable and fault-tolerant XenDesktop monitoring and management solution that plugs directly into Microsoft System Center Operations Manager, eliminating the need for a separate monitoring framework. In addition, customers will be able to monitor their environments’ health and state, from connectivity issues to utilization to load and availability across all XenDesktop components.

ComTrade Management Pack for XenDesktop Available at Citrix.com

Customers seeking a better way to monitor and manage Citrix using Microsoft Systems Center can go online at www.citrix.com/comtrade to download their free evaluation of the Management Pack.

Supporting Quotes

Rana Kanaan, VP, Product Management at Citrix

“ComTrade has been a strong partner of Citrix from the early XenDesktop product releases. Its management packs and plugins provide a reliable means of monitoring and managing Citrix products. We recommend ComTrade management packs as a preferred solution for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager integration to provide our customers with a complete view of their XenDesktop environments.”

Simon Taylor, VP Product, ComTrade

“Citrix is the undisputed industry leader in desktop transformation and we are pleased to offer their client’s the ability to seamlessly connect their desktop transformation experience with Microsoft System Center, one of the fastest growing and advanced monitoring frameworks available.”

About ComTrade’s Managment Products

ComTrade is the recognized leader in enterprise application and infrastructure management for heterogeneous, multi-vendor environments. Our management product line delivers strong, immediate value for customers and includes best in class solutions for management of Citrix XenApp, XenServer, and XenDesktop. www.managementproducts.comtrade.com

Citrix Synergy Event San Franciso

May 9-11

Citrix TV with new and updates :

http://www.citrixsynergy.com/sanfrancisco/synergy-tv/watch-live-schedule.html?sourceID=americas_webban_home

Partners on this event :

http://www.citrixsynergy.com/sanfrancisco/exhibitors-sponsors.html

Xangati will be presented with our partners UF Solutions and IT Oost Nederland. We will show the latest new on VI and VDI monitoring from Xangati and how it can monitor in realtime in these environments.

Location : Hotel Figi , Zeist

Stand number: G10

Meer informatie vindt u op onze website of op

www.twinstrata.com

Xangati Management Dashboard Suite 4.0 :

Xangati offers a truly unique product that ties together real-time analysis of virtual network traffic with virtual infrastructure statistics and virtual machine (VM) processes. Xangati Management Dashboard Suite 4.0 also provides visibility into virtual desktop infrastructures, information on the health of the virtual infrastructure and in-depth storage statistics. The product solves real virtualization problems and offers a great value.

Meer info :

http://searchservervirtualization.techtarget.com/feature/Products-of-the-Year-2011-Virtualization-management

]]> http://www.bgsoftware.nl/www1/?feed=rss2&p=886 0 http://www.bgsoftware.nl/www1/?p=845 http://www.bgsoftware.nl/www1/?p=845#comments Fri, 28 Oct 2011 06:24:47 +0000 admin http://www.bgsoftware.nl/www1/?p=845 Business Generating Software zal Xangati vertegenwoordigen in Nederland en EMEA. Xangati is een realtime performance dashboard oplossing die zich met name richt op VI en VDI infrastructuur rondom Citrix en VMware

In de afgelopen jaren heeft het Tooling Event bewezen dé ontmoetingsplaats en beurs te zijn voor IT Managers en IT professionals op het gebied van IT beheer.

Samen met de vakbeurs Storage Expo en Infosecurity.nl bieden marktleiders, verenigingen, sprekers en andere ICT professionals hun ideeën, technieken, diensten en visie aan op de meest actuele IT thema’s. Ruim 7.500 bezoekers kwamen in 2010 af op de gratis seminars, solution sessions / case studies en opleidingen van onze deelnemers.

Enkele onderwerpen die naar voren komen in het programma zijn:

• Tips&tricks bij de selectie en implementatie van tools
• Service support & performance
• Helpdesk ondersteuning
• ITIL
• Compliance
• Regie over uw leveranciers
• Ketenmonitoring
• CMDB
• Business IT alignement
• Licentiebeheer
• Het nieuwe werken
• Beheer en virtualisatie
• Impacht van IPv6 op uw beheer organisatie

 Veeam Software, leverancier van data protection-, disaster recovery en systems management-oplossingen voor virtuele datacenteromgevingen, kondigt belangrijke nieuwe functionaliteiten aan in Veeam Backup & Replication™ v6. Met deze release is Veeam de eerste leverancier die mogelijkheden biedt voor image-based databescherming die vergelijkbaar zijn met traditionele file-based back-ups. Veeam demonstreert de nieuwe release volgende week tijdens VMWorld 2011 in Las Vegas.

 Veeam Backup & Replication v6 biedt de volgende nieuwe functionaliteiten:

• Schaalbaarheid: de verbeterde gedistribueerde architectuur stroomlijnt de implementatie en het onderhoud van remote office/branch office (ROBO) en grote virtuele omgevingen. Daarnaast wordt back-up en replicatie en het herstellen van bestanden via WAN’s versneld.
• Geavanceerde replicatie: replicatie gaat tienmaal zo snel, stroomlijnt failover en biedt real failback met delta synchronisatie.
• Multi-hypervisor-ondersteuning: vermindert de kosten en complexiteit van het beheer van multi-hypervisor-omgevingen dankzij de ondersteuning van Windows Server Hyper-V en Microsoft Hyper-V Server binnen de bestaande infrastructuur voor databescherming van Veeam (één install en één console).
• Talrijke verbeteringen, waaronder 1-Click File Restore: uitbreiding op bestaande file-level recovery met gedelegeerd, web-based herstel direct vanaf de originele virtuele machine (VM), zonder dat er een directe netwerkverbinding of in-guest agent nodig is.

 “Dankzij bovengenoemde nieuwe features hoeven klanten niet langer te kiezen tussen de innovatie van Veeam en de functionaliteiten die horen bij file-level back-ups”, vertelt Ratmir Timashev, President en CEO van Veeam. “Veeam voorziet nu in allebei”.

 Een belangrijk onderdeel van de innovatie van Veeam is vPower™, de technologie die bij Backup & Replication v5 geïntroduceerd werd en waarbij een VM rechtstreeks draait vanaf een gecomprimeerd en gedupliceerd back-upbestand in productie of een isolated lab. Onderstaande vijf primeurs werden met de introductie van vPower™ mogelijk gemaakt:

1. Instant VM Recovery: herstel binnen enkele minuten een complete VM vanaf een back-upbestand.
2. U-AIR™ (Universal Application-Item Recovery): herstel individuele items vanaf iedere gevirtualiseerde applicatie, op elk besturingssysteem, zonder additionele back-ups, agents of softwaretools.
3. SureBackup™: automatische controle van de herstelbaarheid van alle back-ups, van iedere VM, op ieder moment.
4. On-Demand Sandbox: creëer test-VM’s vanaf ieder gewenst moment om problemen op te lossen of om workarounds, software patches en nieuwe applicatiecodes te testen.
5. Instant File-Level Recovery voor ieder OS of bestandssysteem: Herstel een complete VM of een individueel bestand van dezelfde image-level back-up.

 Veeam Backup & Replication v6 is naar verwachting vanaf het vierde kwartaal 2011 beschikbaar. Meer informatie en updates voorafgaand aan de beschikbaarheid zijn te vinden op http://go.veeam.com/v6-backup-replication.