Monday, 5 December 2011

Metron at Gartner - Bringing data and information together

We've been dealing with capacity management and an IT landscape that has been rapidly increasing in complexity for the last quarter-century. Our software, consulting and training has helped many companies, in all sectors, manage their IT capacity with a focus now on managing complex, cloud-based environments. 
It will be solutions to this very topic that Metron will be discussing at the Gartner Data Center conference taking place in Las Vegas December 5-8.
At the conference we'll be on hand at Booth 12 to talk visitors through our proposed 3-pronged approach:

athene®, for infrastructure capacity management, data storage and reporting needs
The capture, storage, analysis, and reporting of capacity data is crucial for customers to accurately manage the capacity of resources, services, and applications.  Both cloud providers and cloud customers can benefit from timely, accurate capacity reporting and analysis and can accurately forecast future resource requirements that will continue to satisfy agreed-upon service levels.

athene® also has the capability to report, trend, and alert on data that comes from external sources, such as service level data, transaction data, and any time-series file containing any data valuable to capacity management efforts.

SharePath, for the capture of end-to-end transaction data
If a cloud customer doesn’t know or, worse, can’t quantify the amount of time it takes for transactions to complete, it’s impossible to properly police or enforce service level agreements.  SharePath allows for the capture of end-to-end transaction response time data for all real end-user transactions.  This data can then easily and automatically be imported into athene® for reporting, trending and alerting purposes.  The automation means that a customer won’t have to spend time carefully looking over reported response times for thousands or millions of transactions to ensure SLA compliance.

Integrator Capture Packs, for the capture, storage, reporting, trending, and alerting of data from “hard to reach” data sources
Every company has tools and platforms that store vital numeric data in log files or other sorts of time-series text files.  athene®, via its Integrator, can import any time-series numeric data for reporting, trending, and alerting purposes.

Upon client request and as part of consulting engagements, we have been very active in developing Integrator ‘Capture Packs’ – pre-defined templates that can import popular types of data into the athene® database. 
Integrator Capture Packs have been developed for data coming from the HP Performance Manager, Hyper-V, storage devices, network devices, Apache and IIS web logs, iSeries, and many other data sources.  Best of all, Metron or the athene® user can quickly create custom Capture Packs for their own business data, enabling capacity planning from a business perspective.

Companies have long been looking for a cohesive end to end capacity management solution. Our trilogy brings data and information together enabling Infrastructure planning to move out of the Infrastructure and become end to end planning from the business and user perspective.
We believe our customers are going to love the flexibility that our solutions bring.
If you're unable to catch up with us at Gartner and would like to know more visit our website or contact us.
Andrew Smith
Chief Sales & Marketing Officer






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