ScienceLogic releases quick poll results, releases update for management tool
In a poll of 150 Interop attendees last week, ScienceLogic found that while 70% of respondents are either already using or planning to use cloud computing nearly as many are not quite so sure they can effectively manage the performance of those cloud resources.
Admittedly, you’ve got to take a poll on cloud management conducted by an IT operations and cloud management company with a dose of salt. However, the quick survey did reveal a few other interesting tidbits. For example, the majority of respondents agree that existing IT operations staff will manage cloud performance rather than new hires with cloud-specific skills and 60% say they’ll undertake that effort using on-premises tools and metrics offered by cloud service providers, as appropriate.
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In addition — and this is good news for ScienceLogic, as well as a slew of other vendors pitching cloud management tools — 70% indicated that they either don’t yet have a tool for managing performance in the cloud or lack confidence in the ones they do. In ScienceLogic’s case, the tool is ScienceLogic EM7, updated last week.
New in ScienceLogic EM7 is Dynamic Component Mapping, a mechanism that discovers, maps and monitors all the components — and their dynamic relationships — in integrated systems such as Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS). Users get a visual representation of the tree hierarchy and can apply context-sensitive performance and configuration policies to each component in the tree, the company says.
When changes occur, EM7 automatically updates the relationships. For example, should EM7 discover a newly provisioning VMware hypervisor running on a previously modeled UCS blade, it’ll extend the map to show the hypervisor and virtual machines linked to UCS, ScienceLogic describes.
Besides this new mapping facility, EM7 version 7.1 adds support for management of Amazon Web Services, GoGrid and Rackspace public cloud environments through native application programming interfaces or via CloudKick’s monitoring service.
The update is available now at no additional cost to existing users of the latest generation of EM7, the company says. For new users, an all-in-one EM7 appliance costs $32,500 and a distributed version $57,500. EM7 also is available in a subscription model.
