We would like to keep you up to date with the latest news from Digitalisation World by sending you push notifications.
Digital Newsletter
Each week our editor Phil Alsop rounds up the most popular articles, videos and expert opinions. We compile this into a Digital Newsletter and send it straight to your inbox every week.
Digital Magazines
We'll let you know each time a new edition of Digitalisation World is released so that you're always kept up-to-date with the latest and greatest news and press releases.
Video Magazines
The Digitalisation World Video magazine contains the latest Zoom interviews with experts in the industry.
“As more organizations leverage the cloud for production, they often learn the hard way that resources and costs can easily spiral out of control,” said Mark D’Apice, Executive Director of R&D and Product Management, Quest Data Protection. “It is now more important than ever for IT teams to have complete visibility into their growing virtual hybrid infrastructure to ensure both performance, resources and budget are optimized. Foglight for Virtualization is designed to give businesses deep insights to control spend, reduce unnecessary hardware purchases, and enable agility to ensure the most business-critical applications are up and running at all times. With Foglight for Virtualization, IT teams can focus on the business – not bottlenecks.”
Key Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition 8.8 Features and Benefits
The latest version of Foglight for Virtualization supports VMware and Microsoft hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) platforms, expands storage array support, and simplifies SLA management. Foglight for Virtualization 8.8 is now certified for VMware Cloud on AWS with additional support for Azure and AWS. Additionally, a technical preview supports Kubernetes and Docker containers, helping businesses avoid performance bottlenecks and manage demand across CPU, memory, storage and IOPS.
Additional details and other key features and functionalities new to Foglight for Virtualization 8.8 include:
? Cost Director: Accurate chargeback and hybrid data center cost management aggregates costs associated with space, software licenses, add-ons, hardware and operating expenses.
? Hyperconverged Infrastructure Support: Helps IT teams monitor VMware vSAN and Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct in context with compute to expose contention and reduce troubleshooting to minutes rather than hours.
? Support of VMware Cloud on AWS: Customers benefitting from VMware’s enterprise-class Software-Defined Data Center software and looking to implement elastic, bare-metal infrastructure from AWS with VMWare Cloud on AWS can control costs and increase compute utilization efficiencies and create operational consistency across on-premises and cloud environments.
? Enhanced Business Service Management & SLAs: Advanced visualizations of service relationships, automatic OS-level dependency discovery, and a simplified service-building workflow help IT teams easily find the root cause and understand the true impact of an issue.
? Foglight Container Management: In technical preview, Foglight Container Management shows live heatmaps that track Kubernetes and Docker Swarm container resource consumption and historic charts that reveal performance-impacting trends to keep container environments healthy.
? EMC VPLEX Array Support: Support for EMC VPLEX storage Virtualization to view performance, availability and visual dependency mapping from VM through to the supporting physical storage.
“We have been using Foglight for Virtualization for the past 18 months to help manage our virtualized SQL Environments,” said Ming Yeung, Database Team Lead, Westpac. “With version 8.8 we’re now able to provide a quantitative cost of our environments based on consumption which then allows us to compare against potential public cloud offerings along with live billing data. This new capability has greatly simplified our cloud migration projects. Prior to version 8.8 we had no accurate way of really knowing if migrating a VM to the public cloud was going to save or cost us money. Now we see the costs before, during and after.”
Further expanding Quest’s predictive business continuity capabilities, Foglight for Virtualization 8.8 also features a new integration with Quest NetVault Backup. With the integration, businesses can monitor and manage multiple NetVault servers simultaneously through a single console to resolve backup failures in minutes and ensure their entire environment is always recoverable.
