Xtravirt launches SONAR Reporting-as-a-Service for virtual infrastructure

“There are many moving parts in virtual data centers and cloud infrastructure. Keeping on top of the sheer amount of changes and events being recorded as well as the mountain of data being created by monitoring tools is challenging for even the most well-resourced Ops teams,” said Gavin Jolliffe, CEO of Xtravirt. “The new SONAR RaaS service is designed to handle the heavy-lifting involved in infrastructure reporting and data gathering and analysis, making it easy for operations and converged teams to have fast, easy to work with, insight into their virtual environments and their interdependent assets, systems and networks. We’ve decided to focus our first SONAR service on VMware vSphere environments as it is the most widely deployed server virtualization platform.”

SONAR Reporting-as-a-Service (RaaS) for VMware vSphere®enables organizations to proactively baseline, improve and maintain the state of their VMware vSphereinfrastructure, as well as enhance operational planning and governance. The ability to automate best practice reporting with a subscription service reduces the fiscal and administrative burdens that regularly derail the ability of IT to carry out routine health assessments and configuration management processes. With the recent announcement of VMware vSphere 6, customers will want to ensure their environment is ready to migrate to this new platform. SONAR reporting provides a ‘readiness’ check to enable a smooth migration to this latest version of vSphere.

With the summary information provided by SONAR, IT Ops can detect and resolve hidden issues before they impact service levels. They can also take a proactive approach to reporting updates with business and development teams as well as accelerate resolution of issues across different areas of the IT organization, such as application, storage, network and security teams.

SONAR RaaS for VMware vSphere provides:
· An on-demand, 42-point assessment of infrastructure against industry standard best practices, delivering prioritized and actionable recommendations for enhancements.
· Full documentation of installed infrastructure, reducing the time, cost and effort involved in documentation processes by up to 70 per cent compared with manual approaches.
· Concise, visualized and easy to digest technical and business-focused summary reports that present the essential data on the virtual production environment that IT operations ‘need to know’ and may need to share with the wider IT and business team.

“As organizations embrace cloud and move rapidly towards a software-defined infrastructure, the nature of IT delivery is being completely transformed. In order to meet business demands and deliver more with increasingly constrained resources, greater IT insight and intelligence has to be introduced,” commented Clive Longbottom, service director at analyst firm, Quocirca. “Solutions like SONAR are a great example of how IT analytics can be applied in a practical way, enabling IT to more easily identify direct value to the business in issue remediation while identifying the best places for future IT investment.”