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Release: CiRBA 5.1

January 29, 2009 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

CiRBA today announced the release of CiRBA Version 5.1.  With Version 5.1, CiRBA provides advanced analytics and collaborative capabilities that enable enterprise views of capacity health for both physical and virtual infrastructure.

The widespread adoption of virtualization and consolidation technologies has provided unprecedented opportunities for organizations to increase efficiency within data centers.  However, these technologies have had a significant impact on the way capacity supply and demand is managed.  Virtual infrastructure is often a pooled resource serving different business users, impacting the roles and informational requirements of architects, application owners, and server administrators. Additionally, to facilitate enterprise level planning efforts, organizations require aggregate views of environments that allow them to manage IT services efficiently and safely.

Key features added to CiRBA Version 5.1 include:

Enabling Enterprise Level Capacity Planning through a Single, Open Capacity Database
CiRBA Version 5.1 includes several data-level integration enhancements that enable CiRBA to be used as a centralized repository for enterprise capacity data. By leveraging CiRBA’s advanced repository design, this new facility combines efficient centralized storage of capacity data with open data access capabilities to form the foundation of enterprise capacity management.

Improving Workload Placement and Resource Allocation Decisions through Capacity Status Analysis & New Dashboards
CiRBA’s new Capacity Status Analysis assesses the health of IT environments, both from a historical and forward-looking trend perspective.  This analysis enables organizations to continually assess how much capacity is required and where it should be allocated to meet projected demand. These new capabilities leverage CiRBA’s advanced pattern-based workload analysis to allow users to define thresholds and risk tolerances. By continually assessing these criteria, CiRBA automatically generates alerts to provide visibility into and/or early warning of potential problems.

Capacity Status analysis reporting enables organizations to track risk levels through aggregate and single system views. When used in conjunction with the new Capacity Manager Dashboard, CiRBA provides a consolidated view of capacity supply and demand, enabling users to accurately right-size environments and avoid over-provisioning hardware and software.

Enabling Collaboration on Capacity Decisions through Pending Optimization Reporting
Virtual machine management systems are often the domain of system administrators and fall short in providing the insight required by the broad spectrum of stakeholders involved in capacity decision making. In addition, changes to environments typically happen without the involvement of application owners, creating friction and causing key business constraints to be overlooked. CiRBA enables users to review specific action plans that result from what-if analysis thereby facilitating collaboration between groups by automatically communicating proposed and pending changes.  This ensures that all stakeholders are aware of virtualization plans, hardware refresh schedules, and other pending optimizations that affect their application systems.

Facilitating Communication and Reporting through Configurable Dashboards and Integrations to Third-Party Data and Portals
Critical to facilitating collaboration on capacity-related decisions is the ability to deliver relevant content in a convenient location to a variety of users including capacity managers, application owners, and senior managers. CiRBA Version 5.1 includes flexible UI components that enable organizations to incorporate CiRBA reports and intelligence into existing intranet portals or role-specific dashboards.

CiRBA Version 5.1 will be available January 30, 2009.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: CiRBA, CiRBA 5.1, CiRBA Version 5.1, virtualisation, virtualization

CiRBA Packages Analysis Templates Comparing Hyper-V and VMware Based Solutions

September 11, 2008 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

CiRBA today announced the availability of packaged analysis templates that enable organizations to compare the impact of implementing Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V versus VMware-based virtualization.

Using CiRBA’s analysis, organizations can quickly examine the suitability of each hypervisor for a given environment, understand consolidation ratios, longer term management considerations, and financial returns associated with each platform. CiRBA’s analysis templates for Hyper-V and VMware-based virtualization are driven by specialized Rulesets for each platform in combination with the solution’s advanced utilization analysis.

CiRBA provides cross-platform, multi-dimensional analysis that enables organizations to safely and cost-effectively consolidate heterogeneous environments and maximize efficiency within virtualized infrastructure through dynamic capacity management.

CiRBA’s comparative analysis templates for Hyper-V and VMware provide an opportunity for organizations to leverage vendor agnostic analysis, empirical data, and organization-specific business and technical constraints to determine the optimal solution for any given environment.

As with other Rulesets in the CiRBA product, CiRBA customers can access these new analysis features through CiRBA Central, a central repository of analysis rules that allows organizations to stay up to date on the latest best practices in data center optimization. CiRBA Powered Partners will also have access to these rules in order to help guide their clients through the selection of the optimal technology for their environment.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: analysis templates, CiRBA, Hyper-V, packaged analysis templates, virtualisation, virtualization, vmware, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V

CiRBA Releases Version 5.0 of Its Virtualization Analysis Platform

June 18, 2008 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

CiRBA, provider of Data Center Intelligence software, today announced the release of Version 5.0 of its virtualization and consolidation analysis software. With Version 5.0, CiRBA aims to enable organizations to build dynamic models of their virtual and physical infrastructure to continually identify opportunities to improve performance, optimize VM placements, and minimize operational risk.

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“Version 5.0 underscores the fact that all the details that go into planning virtualized infrastructure must also be factored in on a daily basis when managing virtual environments,” said Andrew Hillier, CIRBA CTO and Co-Founder. “All business-level constraints, technical compatibilities, workload personalities, and risk tolerances need to be respected every time an environment undergoes changes. And because virtual environments are constantly changing, CiRBA’s latest release provides the dynamic analysis needed to bring all of this together to optimize utilization and minimize operational risk, while at the same time keeping an eye on minimizing power consumption and maximizing financial returns.”

Using CIRBA Version 5.0, organizations build unique dynamic models of existing IT environments. These models provide a consolidated view of the critical business, technical, configuration, and workload data typically stored in disparate systems. Pre-packaged and customizable analysis templates are applied to these models in order to provide the intelligence required to transform an environment and continually assess the impact of change within virtualized infrastructure.

Because the analysis is rule-driven, the options for analysis are virtually unlimited and are generally categorized according to the type of transformation being considered such as P2P, P2V or V2V, or by the requirements of an individual’s role or focus, such as capacity planning, risk management or compliance reporting.

CiRBA Version 5.0 also introduces integrated financial analysis by enabling the results of an analysis to be directly inserted into any Excel-based financial model. CiRBA 5.0 includes a default model that provides a comprehensive TCO/ROI calculation, factoring in both capital and operational savings, applying hardware, power, facilities and staff costs to analysis results to determine the true financial profile of each strategy being considered.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: CiRBA, CiRBA 5.0, CiRBA Version 5.0, Data Center Intelligence, virtualisation, virtualization, virtualization analysis

Video: Demo from Ayman Gabarin, VP Europe, Middle East & Africa with CiRBA (VMworld Europe 2008)

March 4, 2008 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

The interview below is part of our Virtualization Video Series, a recurring theme we want to implement on Virtualization.com featuring interviews with key players from the industry, event reports, etc.

This interview was recorded at VMWorld Europe 2008 in Cannes, France, and features Ayman Gabarin, VP Europe, Middle East & Africa with CiRBA.

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Interviewer: Tarry Singh
Video blogger: Charbax

Filed Under: Interviews, People, Videos Tagged With: Ayman Gabarin, CiRBA, Data Center Inteligence (DCI), Data Center Intelligence, virtualisation, virtualization, VMWorld, VMWorld 2008, VMWorld Europe 2008

Video: Interview Chuck Tatham, VP Marketing & Business Development with CiRBA (VMworld Europe 2008)

March 2, 2008 by Robin Wauters 1 Comment

The interview below is part of our Virtualization Video Series, a recurring theme we want to implement on Virtualization.com featuring interviews with key players from the industry, event reports, etc.

This interview was recorded at VMWorld Europe 2008 in Cannes, France, and features Chuck Tatham, VP Marketing & Business Development with CiRBA.

We apologize for a minor glitch in sound from around the 1:10 mark until the 1:20 mark.

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Interviewer: Tarry Singh
Video blogger: Charbax

Filed Under: Interviews, People, Videos Tagged With: Chuck Tatham, CiRBA, Data Center Intelligence, Data Center Intelligence (DCI), server consolidation, server virtualization, virtualisation, virtualization, VMWorld, VMWorld 2008, VMWorld Europe 2008

Another Virtualization Company Raises Funding; This Time Pano Logic Is Getting $ 12 Million

January 29, 2008 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

After Virtual Iron and CiRBA , it’s now Pano Logic announcing fresh funding to the tune of $ 12 million. This is the desktop virtualization company’s second round, which was led by New York-based Goldman Sachs.

Other participants included Foundation Capital, which has an office in Menlo Park (where Pano Logic is based).

The company said it uses existing server virtualization technologies to create a new approach to client/desktop computing that lowers total cost of ownership while increasing security, management and mobility.

Founded in 2006, Pano Logic also has an office in Toronto, Canada.

[Via BusinessJournal ]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: CiRBA, financing, Funding, Goldman Sachs, investment, Pano Logic, PanoLogic, server virtualization, Virtual Iron, virtualisation, virtualization

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