Hitachi Data Systems Upgrades Data Center Monitoring Package
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HDS adds support for Hyper-V and VMware vSphere to its all-in-one performance monitor that continually checks the availability of all servers, routers, switches and storage arrays in an IT system, and compiles and displays all the relevant information on a single computer screen.
Hitachi Data Systems said May 18 that it is shipping a new version of its
data center monitoring software for midsize IT environments, which-thanks
largely to widespread use of virtualization-are getting as complicated as large
enterprise systems.
Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer 2.0 is an all-in-one performance monitor that
continually checks the availability of all servers, routers, switches and
storage arrays in an IT system, and compiles and displays all the relevant
information on a single computer screen.
This continual supervision and reporting reduces in substantial fashion the
industry's so-called "mean time to diagnose" (MTTD) IT infrastructure
outages, which solves a common pain point for IT managers. IT Operations
Analyzer 2.0 can trim this problem-diagnosis time by as much as 90 percent, HDS
said.
New features in the 2.0 version include enhanced virtualization support for
Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware vSphere; expanded device monitoring (up to 750
nodes per license); new support for Hitachi Universal Storage Platform VM, SUSE
Linux, Cisco ISR, Extreme, Linksys/Cisco (SGE) and Enterasys; and a partner-
and ISV-enabled plug-in development
platform.
Using those open standard plug-ins, Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer is able to
integrate with numerous data center applications and third-party devices to
provide complete monitoring of the network infrastructure, the company said.
"When an IT system fails or becomes unavailable, work is delayed, revenue
is lost and the business suffers," said Sean Moser, HDS vice president of
Software Products for Global Solutions and Strategy Development.
"IT infrastructure can be a complex and often accidental architecture made
up of servers, switches and storage devices from multiple vendors. Our goal is
to provide uncomplicated, thorough monitoring capabilities for a broad set of
IT equipment."
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Chris Preimesberger was named Editor-in-Chief of Features & Analysis at eWEEK in November 2011. Previously he served eWEEK as Senior Writer, covering a range of IT sectors that include data center systems, cloud computing, storage, virtualization, green IT, e-discovery and IT governance. His blog, Storage Station, is considered a go-to information source. Chris won a national Folio Award for magazine writing in November 2011 for a cover story on Salesforce.com and CEO-founder Marc Benioff, and he has served as a judge for the SIIA Codie Awards since 2005. In previous IT journalism, Chris was a founding editor of both IT Manager's Journal and DevX.com and was managing editor of Software Development magazine. His diverse resume also includes: sportswriter for the Los Angeles Daily News, covering NCAA and NBA basketball, television critic for the Palo Alto Times Tribune, and Sports Information Director at Stanford University. He has served as a correspondent for The Associated Press, covering Stanford and NCAA tournament basketball, since 1983. He has covered a number of major events, including the 1984 Democratic National Convention, a Presidential press conference at the White House in 1993, the Emmy Awards (three times), two Rose Bowls, the Fiesta Bowl, several NCAA men's and women's basketball tournaments, a Formula One Grand Prix auto race, a heavyweight boxing championship bout (Ali vs. Spinks, 1978), and the 1985 Super Bowl. A 1975 graduate of Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif., Chris has won more than a dozen regional and national awards for his work. He and his wife, Rebecca, have four children and reside in Redwood City, Calif.Follow on Twitter: editingwhiz
