One-Click Access to Key Business Insights and Analytics Helps Companies Stem the Tide of VM Sprawl
AUSTIN, Texas - July 29, 2009 - With a goal to help companies get more out of their virtualization investments, Hyper9, Inc. today announced the release of its flagship Virtualization Optimization SuiteTM (VOS) giving IT managers and administrators better business insights into their virtual infrastructure. The product combines usability and dashboard features with in-depth analytics and reporting to help users find, reclaim and right-size virtual resources - and stem the tide of "VM Sprawl".
"The rapid proliferation of virtualized servers, storage, licensing and labor leads to a growing phenomenon of ROI erosion," said Rich Ptak, Principal Analyst, Ptak, Noel & Associates "Organizations need solutions such as VOS, that can consolidate data across virtual environments and provide the visibility and context necessary to support proactive business decisions and restore ROI."
A recent survey of Hyper9 customers concluded that at least 20 percent of existing VMs are deemed superfluous - and that organizations are spending significantly more than necessary on their virtualization strategy.
Lack of visibility into the virtual infrastructure, manual processes that circumvent best practices and standardization, multiple disconnected management tools and data sources, and undetected elements of VM sprawl - such as suspended VMs, VMs that are powered on but not being used, orphaned files, redundant snapshots, out of compliance software licenses and thin provisioning - are all contributing factors to the escalating costs and inefficiencies in virtual environments.
Hyper9's Web-based Virtualization Optimization Suite provides a tops-down, cross-functional view into the virtual infrastructure by inspecting myriad data sources and displaying the results according to what a specific user - or group of users - cares about most. Key features and capabilities include:
- Targeted InsightsTM -- My Environment and At-a-Glance views into the virtual infrastructure, such as VMs, VCs, hosts, guests and clusters
- Hyper9 Active LinksTM -- one-click access to data, out-of-the-box reports and common tasks, such as "find VMs", "run reports", and "solve VM sprawl"
- Hyper9 VMDNATM -- analyzes historical performance and configuration data, including visual comparisons of VMs over time and to each other
- WorkspacesTM -- helps users organize and share content, and gain visibility into VMs and their usage
- Visual Launch PadTM and Tutorials - step-by-step guides and processes to solve virtualization challenges, such as VM sprawl
- My Content -- ability to build, save, organize and bookmark searches and reports for reuse
- Customized Searches - for drilling down into the virtual infrastructure, including pre-built filters that support further data segmentation
- Automated Monitoring and Alerting - proactively track changes, rogue VMs, VM sprawl and other key events
- Community Support - provides access to resources, answers and advice from virtualization industry experts
"The original promise of virtualization was to reduce costs and risks, and increase productivity - when in fact the opposite has happened," said Bill Kennedy, Hyper9's executive vice president of research and development. "As virtual environments have become more complex, so too has the ability to troubleshoot and manage them. Our Virtualization Optimization Suite gives customers greater transparency into and control over their virtual environments by enabling them to proactively monitor, troubleshoot and report on the issues that matter most to them."
To download a free evaluation copy of Hyper9's Virtualization Optimization Suite, visit: http://store.hyper9.com/Free-Trial-Form. To learn more, visit: http://www.hyper9.com/product_overview.aspx.
About Hyper9, Inc.
Hyper9 is a privately held company backed by Venrock, Matrix Partners, Silverton Partners and Maples Investments. Based in Austin, Texas, the company was founded in 2007 by enterprise systems management experts and virtualization visionaries. Since then, Hyper9 has collaborated with virtualization administrators as well as systems and virtualization management experts to develop a new breed of virtualization management products that leverages Internet technologies like search, collaboration and social networking. The end result is a product that helps administrators discover, organize and make use of information in their virtual environment, yet is as easy to use as a consumer application. For more information about Hyper9, visit http://www.hyper9.com/.
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