Merry Christmas from all at Metron

Happy holidays to everyone who has had contact with Metron throughout the year:  clients, prospects, partners, analysts, suppliers.  It has been another fun, enjoyable and as ever, challenging year.  More than ever before, Metron’s business seems to be encompassing a wider geographical sphere covering a more varied range of cultural and religious areas.  Whether you celebrate Christmas or not, may I wish a happy and healthy holiday season to everyone.

I guess Metron’s wider geographical coverage is symptomatic of how large scale IT infrastructure environments are developing.  More and more of the businesses we work with are treating capacity management as a centralized global function spanning data centers in many countries.  It is common now to have capacity management carried out on one continent, managed from another for applications used on a third.  The need for rapid deployment, standard processes and common format for reporting becomes ever more important in such circumstances. 

Our response to this during the year has been to formalize our capacity management beliefs and practices over the last 25 years into our 360⁰ Capacity Management strategy.  In such a disparate global environment, those delivering capacity management to their organization need to bring all views of capacity together to reduce resources required for capacity reporting and help their users understand capacity issues better by presenting such varied information in an easy to understand, common format.

360⁰ Capacity Management offers just this.  Over the 25 years Metron has developed comprehensive support for capacity management of all key server environments as a platform for enterprise capacity management.  For many years the CustomDB element of athene® has offered the capability to extend athene®’s core facilities to other areas.  Now, with Integrator, the successor to CustomDB, this has moved further forward.  Metron and clients can quickly and easily create Capture Packs, connectors to any capacity data you have available.  Metron provides and supports an ever-growing library of Capture Packs covering disk, network, application, end to end and alternative server data sources.  Combined with client provided data unique to their own business, all this data within the athene® CMIS is then available for capacity reporting and prediction using athene®’s application functionality: comprehensive enterprise wide capacity reporting for physical, virtual and Cloud environments from component, service and business perspectives.

It’s been fun formalizing this 360⁰ Capacity Management strategy over the last year and working closely with individual organizations to develop the existing Capture Pack library.  I look forward to seeing this collaborative approach continue and extend in the year ahead.  Once again many thanks to those who have been involved and best wishes for the holiday season to you all.

 

Andrew Smith

Chief Sales & Marketing Officer