TrackITOnline Announces the Powerful New Features Released by Xangati

Melbourne, 5^th June 2012 – TrackITOnline, Enterprise Solutions software distributor together with Xangati, the recognised leader in performance management for virtualisation and the cloud, announce a powerful new release of its Xangati Management Dashboard (XMD) virtualisation and cloud suite. The new release of the XMD includes capabilities that give enterprises and cloud service providers a huge advantage in performance assurance for virtualised and cloud infrastructures, delivering: a comprehensive, continuous and high-precision performance management architecture now scalable to the cloud; integrated performance and capacity management in one solution; and the ability to performance profile virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) end-user activity without agents. The new release of the XMD also allows organisations to quickly uncover cross-silo contention storms with multi-dimensional and linked alert recordings incorporated into Xangati’s flagship Performance Management Engine.

In addition, Xangati simultaneously announced that all of the new XMD functionality is immediately available at absolutely no cost through integration into its VI Dashboard and VDI Dashboard trial software and the Xangati for vSphere—Free single host tool. Administrators can download and use the free two-week trial within a critical cluster or Xangati’s free tool for a single vSphere host for instant insights on what contention storms are within their environment. Xangati’s software has revealed contention storms in more than 90 percent of its deployments.

“As large enterprises extend virtualisation deployments and begin to rely on different cloud models, performance management solutions are falling short in their ability to manage the dynamic nature of these shared environments,” said Alan Robin, CEO of Xangati. “The management capabilities that we’re delivering today fill an immediate need to dramatically improve performance assurance for cloud environments which are plagued by chronic, intermittent contention storms.”

Xangati: A Performance Guarantee for Clouds

According to the 2012 IDG Enterprise Cloud Computing Survey, 63 percent of organisations plan to increase IT budgets for cloud computing initiatives over the next 12 months. The Cloud Era is coming, yet management remains an overwhelming barrier for organisations to maximise its value. Traditional management solutions do not provide the level of precision, continuous insights or scalability needed to manage these environments, resulting in:

• contention storms affecting system performance that cannot be captured by post-mortem database driven monitoring systems;
• compartmentalised performance monitoring that doesn’t reveal contention points across the entire infrastructure;
• a lack of visibility for capacity issues and planning resulting in future contention storms; and an
• inability to guarantee the dynamic end-user experience (EUX) for VDI.

The XMD architecture was built to solve these issues with live and continuous visibility across all areas of the infrastructure and features the following new capabilities:

Cloud-Scale Performance Management Engine

An 8-fold increase in the scale of environments which Xangati’s patented in-memory performance management engine will cover – without any trade off in precision:

• delivering second-by-second precision in data collection, collation, analysis and alerts to immediately reveal areas of contention;
• merging of automated performance profiling techniques with best practice thresholds to uncover multi-dimensional contention storms;
• linked alert recordings which further accelerate time to resolution; and
• maintaining full functionality and ease-of-use of the XMD 360 navigational user interface.

VDI End-User Based Performance Profiling for VMware and Citrix

The ability to monitor and track the end user to VM activity without guest agents:

• giving managers an accurate way to tie user behaviour to performance for the very first time;
• delivering the only solution with both VMware and Citrix connection broker API integration (with direct interaction with ViewConnection Manager and Desktop Delivery Controller);
• establishing user performance profiles with the highest possible precision by tracking actual activity versus assessment models;
• alerting the service desk when ‘normal’ user activity changes; and
• allowing frictionless scalability for future growth with an agentless model.

Additionally, new enhancements have been added to support cross-functional IT teams, with focused dashboards and automated alerts now integrated for the storage team, giving storage admins the ability to track and obtain deeper insights into datastore performance health down to the LUN level.

For more information, go to http://www.xangati.com or call 1300 VIRTUAL (847 882).

About TrackITOnline
Specialising in the distribution of IT Management Tools, TrackITOnline offers technologies that span Virtualisation, Management, Reporting and Optimisation. The foundation of our product range is to provide solutions that help customers maintain, optimise and manage all areas of their IT infrastructure. TrackITOnline products can be purchasedthrough an extensive reseller network who benefit from engineering training, exceptional customer service and marketing support. Looking for the industry leading solutions to Infrastructure Management? Visit www.trackitonline.com.au or phone 1300 VIRTUAL (1300 847882).

About Xangati

Xangati, the recognised leader in Infrastructure Performance Management (IPM), provides unparalleled performance management for the emerging and transformational data centre architectures impacting IT today, including server virtualisation, cloud computing and VDI. Its award-winning suite of IPM solutions accelerates cloud computing and virtualisation initiatives by providing unprecedented visibility and real-time continuous insights into the entire infrastructure. Leveraging its powerful precision analytics, Xangati’s health performance index provides a new way to view and manage performance – in real-time – at a scale previously not possible.

Founded in 2006, Xangati, Inc. is a privately held company with corporate headquarters based in Cupertino, California. Xangati has been granted numerous technology patents for its 360-degree comprehensive approach to Infrastructure Performance Management. Xangati is a VMware Technology Alliance Partner and certified Citrix Ready Partner and supports both VMware View and Citrix XenDesktop, as well as other virtualisation environments. For more information, visit http://trackitonline.com.au/vendors/xangati.html