New ReportPack for Vblock Infrastructure Packages by Watch4net

Headquartered in Montreal, Canada with offices in Europe, Watch4net Inc., provider of service assurance software, added a new ReportPack for Vblock Infrastructure Packages to its APG Software Suite a leading carrier-class IT performance management solution.

With this new module designed for Cisco, EMC, and VMware Cloud Computing offerings, APG discovers, models and monitors the end-to-end dependencies across storages, servers, network and virtualization domains, managing Vblocks as a single entity. Key performance metrics are collected for all Vblock components and analyzed in context with their relationships with and impacts on other resources. This provides organizations (service providers and enterprises alike) with unified visibility into their data centers, showing in real-time the dependencies between services and underlying applications, operating systems and Vblock infrastructures as well as giving them detailed insight into the quality of service delivered. Operation teams can map service-related issues with infrastructure components, and vice-versa, in order to facilitate troubleshooting and better meet committed service levels.

Key Features:

• Predefined performance instrumentation, certified for Cisco UCS, Cisco Nexus family, Cisco MDS 9000 series, EMC Symmetrix VMAX, EMC Unified Storage (Celerra and CLARiiON family) and VMware vSphere.
• More than 300+ out-of-the box reports and dashboards, covering fabrics interconnects chassis, servers, ESX and VMs, Server Policies, Traffic Utilization, LUNs, Physical Disks.
• Representation of services dependencies across the data center — including applications, servers, networks, storage — both physical and virtual.
• Real-time Performance Scorecards, Trending Analysis, SLA compliance Reporting, Adaptive alerting, Inventory Reports.
• Global Search Functions, spanning all devices in the data-center.
• and Outbound adapters to exchange data with third-party applications – CMDBs, Service Catalogue, EMS/NMS…
• Customizable, multi-customers web portal, with role & profile access-control.
• Agent-less approach, leveraging SNMP agents, Cisco UCS API and EMC storage management APIs.
• Distributed and Scalable architecture, supporting tens of thousands of devices and millions of indicators.

“This new module meets the increasing demand of Service Providers for unified visibility across all their devices and customers. The pre-packaged reports and advanced analytics of the solution address enterprises’ needs to reduce their operational costs. The multi-customer portal gives a competitive advantage to drive new services and revenue streams,” says Nicolas Souty, CTO Watch4net.