Hyperic HQ is a pioneering new solution that enables data
centers to consolidate complete discovery, monitoring, analysis and control of
all application, system and network assets—both inside and outside of VMware
virtual machines. The software provides system administrators with a complete
perspective of the performance and availability of their VMware environments.
Hyperic HQ is able to analyze performance metrics from the physical hardware,
VMware software and all the operating systems, software and services of the
guest virtual machines. This layered view of the infrastructure deployment
allows system administrators to quickly diagnose performance issues that are
easily missed when viewed from the traditional, hardware-only perspective.
Historical charting, event correlation capabilities, and configurable graphs
allow system administrators to quickly review, drilldown and see performance
data analysis to achieve results.
With support for VMware Server and ESX, HQ's auto discovery
dynamically finds all virtual machines in any VMware host and discovers the
software and applications running within that guest operating system, while
continuously updating the inventory to keep pace with the rapid change typical
of a virtualized deployment. HQ also
tracks the guest as it moves physical hosts, maintaining the critical
perspectives of historical trending and event correlation. HQ provides monitoring of the VMware host and
individual VM resource utilization to help administrators understand the
consumption of host machine resources by individual virtual machines.
SYS-CON’s
Virtualization Journal’s “Readers’ Choice Awards”
SYS-CON's Virtualization Journal announced today its first
annual Virtualization
Readers' Choice Awards. SYS-CON's Readers' Choice Awards, also
known as the "Oscars
of the Software Industry" has been one of the most
prestigious industry award programs for more than a decade. This year's
virtualization awards will be given in 17 categories and award-winning products
and services will be selected by Virtualization Journal
readers.
Virtualization takes the cost and complexity out of IT, and can even help us
reduce the CO2 footprint. IDC has stated that the virtualization services
market alone is going to reach $11.7 billion by 2011 and in general this
technology, which has been around for a good number of years, seems suddenly to
be on everyone's mind.
In short, Virtualization is fast becoming a key requirement for every server in
the data center, enabling increased workloads in server consolidation projects,
efficient software development and testing, resource management for dynamic
data centers, application re-hosting and compatibility, and high-availability
partitions.
The tipping point, though - as anticipated by
industry experts already back in 2005 - seems to be coming in 2008.
2008 will be the year of Virtualization with many companies
offering their products and services, including: 3 Leaf, Acronis, Agilysys,
Akorri, AMD, APC, Appistry, AppStream, Attune Systems, Avanade, BEA Systems,
Blue Lane, Brocade, CA, Cassatt, Certeon, CiRBA, Citrix, ClearCube, Coraid,
Crosswalk, DataDirect, DataSynapse, Digipede Technologies, Double-Take
Software, Dynamic Network Factory, Ecora Software, Egenera, Embotics, EMC,
Enigmatic, Enomaly, EqualLogic, Evault, eXludus Technologies, F5Networks,
FalconStor, FastScale Technology, Fortisphere, GlobalFluency, Grid Dynamics,
Hitachi, HP, IBM, InovaWave, Intel, KACE, Kidaro, Layeredtech, LeftHand
Networks, Leostream, Mainline, ManageIQ, Marathon Technologies, Mellanox
Technologies, Microsoft, Mid-Atlantic Computers, Mindbridge Software,
Ncomputing, NeoPath Networks, Neoware, Network Appliance, Neverfail, Novell,
Opalis Software, OPNET Technologies, Opsware / HP, Oracle, Panologic,
Parallels, PlateSpin, Platform Computing, PolyServe, Provision Networks, Raxco
Software, Red Hat, Reflex Security, rPath, Sagent Solutions, SAP, Scalent
Systems, ScienceLogic, Seanodes, Splunk, Stoneware, StorageNetworking.org,
Supermicro Computer, Surgient, SWsoft, Symantec, Tangosol, Thinstall, Tideway
Systems, TOA Solutions, TRANGO Virtual Processors, Trigence, United Devices,
VeeAm Software, Virtual Iron, VirtualLogix, Virtugo Software, Vizioncore,
VMLogix, vmSight, VMware, vThere – Sentillion, Wyse Technology, XDS, XenSource,
Xsigo Systems, and ZenithOptimedia.