Drew Conry-Murray shares his thoughts on Nyansa, who presented at Networking Field Day last month. The company has an interesting approach to analytics, they use measure user experience by using mobile device endpoints as sensors, effectively turning any phone, laptop or tablet into a sensor. These on-prem metrics are then sent to Nyansa’s cloud for further analytics and to establish baseline network performance. This can be used to easily assess problems when they deviate from these baselines, and also let you see how performance of your network stacks up to others in your vertical.
Big Switch Networks Extends VMware Visibility, Adds Mesosphere Support
Big Switch Networks presented an vast array of products at Networking Field Day last month. Drew Conry-Murray was there, and he wrote up a look at their Big Cloud Fabric, the company’s SDN software for data centers. In its 4.0 version, Big Cloud now supports vSAN storage in vSphere, continuing the solutions tight VMware integration. It also supports a variety of orchestration platforms, including OpenStack, Kubernetes, and Mesosphere. In this new version, Big Cloud Fabric continues to refine and fill out its offering.
Netwrix Adds Support For Office 365, Oracle To Audit User Permissions
Drew Conry-Murray gives you an update on the latest 8.5 release of Netwrix Auditor. Auditor offers the ability to track and configure users and administrator permissions for various business services. The 8.5 update now supports Oracle databases and Microsoft cloud services. Drew thinks of this as operation vegetables: maybe not your favorite, but essential for healthy operations.
Startup Radar: ZeroStack Streamlines OpenStack For Private Clouds
Drew Conry-Murray gives a look at what ZeroStack is providing. Simply put, they’re offering an OpenStack based private cloud software solution that’s easy to deploy and configure. ZeroStack supports both their own 2U units, or servers that an organization has in house. Overall, Drew thinks the market for these kind of solutions is still open enough for ZeroStack to really make an impact. Perhaps the biggest appeal, ZeroStack is saying you don’t need to be an OpenStack expert to operate their solution. That certainly lowers the barrier to entry for a lot of enterprise customers.
Startup Radar: Igneous Systems Blends On-Prem Hyperconvergence With Cloud Management
Startup Radar: Igneous Systems Blends On-Prem Hyperconvergence With Cloud Management
New CloudPhysics Calculator Compares VM Costs For Public, Private Clouds
New CloudPhysics Calculator Compares VM Costs For Public, Private Clouds
Comtrade Software Lets You Monitor Nutanix Via Microsoft SCOM
Comtrade Software Lets You Monitor Nutanix Via Microsoft SCOM
SD-WAN Startup Versa Touts Multitenancy, Scalability To Stand Out
SD-WAN Startup Versa Touts Multitenancy, Scalability To Stand Out
Big Switch Takes A Risk With Innovative SDN Pricing
Big Switch Takes A Risk With Innovative SDN Pricing
Just How Big Is The SD-WAN Market? And Should We Care?
Just How Big Is The SD-WAN Market? And Should We Care?