Nimsoft's “IT Monitoring Cloud Readiness Self Assessment” tool helps IT teams gauge their current cloud monitoring capabilities and challenges so they can make informed decisions on how to best manage their planned cloud environments.
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Providing a quick way for clients to assess their readiness for monitoring cloud environments, unified monitoring solutions provider Nimsoft (www.nimsoft.com) has launched a new online diagnostic tool. It also has added support for Cisco’s latest automated blade-server system infrastructure platform, Unified Computing System.
According to Nimsoft’s announcement this week, the “IT Monitoring Cloud Readiness Self Assessment” tool helps IT teams gauge their current cloud monitoring capabilities and challenges, enabling them to make informed decisions on how to optimally manage their planned cloud environments.
After taking a brief online survey, users receive a customized report, which quantifies their technical readiness, organizational preparedness and IT/business alignment. Based on these results, the tool provides best-practices guidance about how an organization can safeguard the success of its cloud initiatives with effective monitoring.
“Cloud computing offers organizations tremendous business value-but it also requires IT to adopt a whole new approach to management and operations,” Nimsoft chief executive officer Gary Read said in a statement. “Nimsoft is helping customers make this transition by providing IT teams with a practical way to quickly gauge how well-equipped they are to monitor the cloud and to determine where they need to address potential technology and process deficits.”
Nimsoft has also announced additional capabilities for NMS with the addition of comprehensive monitoring support for the Cisco UCS data center platform, which is designed for dynamic, scalable and highly virtualized data centers and cloud environments. According to the company, NMS adapts to the flexibility inherent in Cisco UCS, and is able to discover changes in physical elements (such as fans, power supplies, and servers) and then apply monitoring through the use of service profiles that facilitate the configuration and deployment of the solution.
NMS also monitors Cisco UCS components within a single, common framework with other cloud and traditional data center resources, such as the network, storage, virtualization, and Web applications.
“As customers look to Cisco UCS for its significant economic advantages, they have to meet the new monitoring challenges presented by highly virtualized processing environments,” said Chris Chrobocinski, who heads managed services for national IT solutions provider MTM (www.mtm.com). “With its support for Cisco UCS integration into our Virtual Desktop Alliance solution, NMS uniquely enables us to help our customers fully realize the benefits of private clouds-providing us with clear competitive advantages and the ability to offer new services that deepen our account penetration.”
Nimsoft also recently enhanced its monitoring solutions with support for Vblock Infrastructure Packages, and usage metering.
Spurred by these and other improvements, Nimsoft has continued reported rapid market adoption, signing more than 35 new customers in last quarter including enterprise users of on-premise NMS-such as Computer One, Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems, and MedQuist, as well as cloud infrastructure and application service providers-such as ACADIA, Basefarm AS, and Information Transport Solutions.
Earlier this month, it expanded its relationship with on-demand data center services provider SoftLayer Technologies (www.softlayer.com) to give customers a more comprehensive view of their infrastructure, services, customer views, and customer service levels.
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