Monitoring, Management, & Performance

Advanced System Management Listing updated: May 30, 2008

CA Advanced System Management centrally manages your multi-vendor virtual server and cluster technologies. It improves operational efficiency by adapting to changing business priorities in real time by allocating and reallocating system resources based upon set business policies ensuring IT investments are optimized.

It also enables you to dynamically address changing business demands and manage the relationships between virtual and physical infrastructure components-ensuring service reliability and availability. With CA ASM, problems are prioritized based on business impact and automatically repaired to avoid outages. It offers virtualized server management, dynamic resource brokering, unified cluster management, visualization and discovery, policy-based management and performance reporting.
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AppManager Suite Listing updated: May 31, 2008

NetIQ AppManager delivers the productivity and visibility enterprises demand of their systems management solutions while providing the critical foundation needed for safely adopting and exploiting next-generation technologies, such as: VMware ESX Server, Microsoft SharePoint and Exchange Server 2007, BlackBerry Enterprise Server, Oracle Grid Computing, and Cisco or Nortel IP Telephony (VoIP) solutions.

The NetIQ AppManager Suite delivers systems management, including monitoring, reporting & analysis, diagnostics and resolution. It is designed to manage a variety of components – from physical hardware to server applications to end-user response time.
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Athene Listing updated: May 31, 2008

Athene provides ITIL-compliant capacity management, automatic performance analysis and reporting for UNIX, Linux, Windows and Mainframe Servers. Athene is a scalable Performance Management software for real and virtual environments with the Universal Capacity Planning Module interfacing with all third-party systems management products.

Athene captures and collects performance data from target systems and provides applications that exploit this data for alert management, performance analysis, Oracle and SQL Server performance reporting, trend analysis and analytical modeling for individual servers or Client-Server networks. It provides analysis of current and recent system performance to identify and investigate problems as they are reported and identify what courses of action are required to restore service levels. Drill Down facilities are available to analyze problems, plot trends and report on recorded metrics of system, database instance and session, user and command data.
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BalancePoint Listing updated: May 29, 2008

Akorri BalancePoint works with VMware VirtualCenter to map the relationships between virtual machines and the server/storage resources they are using. BalancePoint helps root cause and troubleshoot performance problems across servers and storage, and manage storage capacity.

Features: BalancePoint for VMware – Visibility into storage performance and capacity for VMware. BalancePoint for Oracle & MS SQL – Maps database instances and schema, identifying performance bottlenecks. Agent-less Design – Discovery and data collection without the use of software agents. BalancePoint provides advanced analytics and modeling of performance and utilization for virtualized environments.
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Cassatt Active Response Listing updated: May 30, 2008

Cassatt Active Response automates the management and failover of both physical and virtualized applications, regardless of technology, ensuring the full value of virtualization without the management overhead. Should a virtual server crash, Cassatt Active Response can restart that server instantly, or automatically select an alternative physical server with spare capacity.

If a physical server crashes, Cassatt Active Response will automatically: Quarantine the failed physical server; Identify a new physical server from a free pool of shared servers - or from a lower priority application; Create appropriate new virtual servers (i.e. either VMware or XenSource) to replace the failed virtual servers; Provision hardware with a new virtual server container image, which can be accomplished on bare metal in as little as 5 minutes; Deploy virtual servers, bringing them back online.
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CiRBA Listing updated: May 30, 2008

CiRBA software provides analyses all of the critical constraints required for server consolidation. CiRBA presents this analysis in a visual map outlining optimal consolidation and/or virtualization opportunities. CiRBA’s analysis and visualization technology simultaneously analyzes: Detailed hardware, OS, Application middleware and Database Configurations; Workload patterns across CPU, Network IO, Disk IO, Memory and others; Non-technical/business/resource factors such as change windows, service levels, geography and others.
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Configuresoft Enterprise Configuration Manager Listing updated: May 30, 2008

Configuresoft’s product, Enterprise Configuration Manager (ECM) centralizes and automates the monitoring, managing and auditing of hardware and software configurations across Windows, UNIX and Linux platforms. ECM delivers vulnerabilities assessment and remediation, regulatory & operational compliance, configuration management & control, change management, risk prevention and security management, and system optimization. ECM for Virtualization extends the IT organizations ability to visualize and manage virtual environments providing end-to-end, at-a-glance visibility across environments.
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eG VM Monitor Listing updated: May 31, 2008

The eG VM Monitor offers an outside view of how the VMs are using a physical server, and an inside view of what is happening inside a VM, using In-N-Out monitoring technology. This technology offers insights into the cause of performance problems in a virtual infrastructure.

A single agent for monitoring the ESX server and all its VMs. The agent license is independent of the number of VMs on an ESX server or the hardware capabilities of the server (i.e., number of processors, sockets, etc.). Support for agent-based and agentless monitoring of VMware infrastructures. And more...
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Enigmatec Virtual Orchestrator (EVO) Listing updated: May 31, 2008

A portal provides end-users with self-service virtual server provisioning based on virtual machine blueprints, and provides administrators with pre-built authorization workflows and policies for virtual machine requests, provisioning, change management, leasing, expiration, and usage. The EVO Portal is shipped as a set of portlets that integrate into existing customer IT portals. Pre-built authorization schemes, service levels, and audit can be customized and extended by the customer, including integration with existing corporate governance tools such as change management and cost control/chargeback system. Simultaneously manage VI3, IBM APV/PowerVM and Solaris Zones.
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Enterprise Compliance Manager Listing updated: May 31, 2008

Enterprise Compliance Manager is a product that combines asset inventory, software usage, contract terms, PO data, and license compliance management to optimize your software investment and ensure enterprise-wide license entitlement. ECM's License Compliance Engine takes input from multiple data sources—inventory, usage, procurement/financial systems, and applies ManageSoft's Application Recognition Library (ARL) to this set of data to determine what licensed applications are installed. The engine reconciles what you own against what you have installed. Complex license types are understood in conjunction with the computing environment (virtual machines, multi-core, etc.).
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