Machine learning simplifies managing VMware environments
With a mix of on-site, virtual and hybrid environments, today's IT systems are increasingly complex and time consuming to manage. Yet traditional monitoring tools can result in information overload.
For businesses using VMware environments, SIOS Technology Corp is launching a new solution that applies machine learning techniques to IT analytics.
SIOS iQ applies advanced machine learning analytics to broad data sets, including application and infrastructure data from third party tools and frameworks. This allows it to understand and explain complex behaviors and predict the impact of changes in dynamic virtual environments.
"This extensible analytics platform delivers simple, intelligent solutions to the most pressing problems in today's complex VMware environments," says Jerry Melnick, COO of SIOS Technology Corp. "SIOS iQ brings extraordinary ease of use and time savings to tasks that have typically required multiple experts from various IT disciplines. The solution improves IT and infrastructure efficiencies, reducing costs while helping IT meet critical quality of service goals for applications operating in VMware environments".
Traditional approaches focus on recording and reporting discrete events, such as a CPU utilization exceeding a threshold, to identify problems in a VMware environment. This means that complex or subtle issues can go unnoticed while IT staff are inundated with alerts without any guidance for prioritizing, interpreting or correcting them. SIOS iQ learns the relationships of objects and their normal patterns of behavior in a VMware infrastructure. It's then able to recognize abnormal patterns and identify the root causes of issues.
It can also analyze interactions between SQL and infrastructure resources in the VMware environment to identify the root cause of performance issues. SIOS iQ recommends the best solutions via its SIOS PERC Dashboard, filtering out the noise and large numbers of alerts that go with traditional approaches. This reduces staff time spent manually compiling and analyzing data from various sources to identify causes of issues and assign ownership of solutions.
You can find out more about SIOS iQ on the company's website and there's currently a limited feature, free edition available to allow you to try it out.
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