* Tools give IT the ability to monitor private and public cloud services and other infrastructure from a single console
Traditional management and monitoring companies continue placing their dibs on the emerging cloud computing management market. Here’s a quick recap of two of the latest announcements.
Traditional management and monitoring companies continue placing their dibs on the emerging cloud computing management market.
Here’s a quick recap of two of the latest announcements.
Heroix has added private and public cloud management capabilities to its Longitude application performance and network monitoring software. Longitude Cloud Edition integrates user experience, key performance and infrastructure, and service levels into a single management console, the company says.
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From this console, enterprise IT managers can monitor and assess the performance of anything from a single physical or virtual entity to a multitiered application or business service that spans physical, virtual and cloud environments, Heroix says.
Annual subscriptions for Longitude Cloud Edition start at $299 and Perpetual licenses start at $999 for 10 managed devices. In addition, Heroix offers a free two-week trial of Longitude Cloud Edition.
Meantime, Nimsoft, a business unit of CA Technologies, has extended the unified monitoring capabilities it offers as part of the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS) and Nimsoft On Demand offerings. It has added real-time usage metering, elastic portlets and unified service dashboards, says Chris O’Connell, director of product management at the company.
With these new features, IT staffs can create and deliver monitoring data and alerts that expand and contract, via dynamic display portlets, with cloud and virtualized service delivery. These portlets are reusable across IT organizations, and can be aggregated along with usage metering data and other information into customized unified service dashboards, he says.
The new unified monitoring capabilities are now available for the NMS and Nimsoft On Demand products at no additional cost to new or existing customers.
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