What's New in up.time 5

Manage, Measure, and Monitor VMware Infrastructure Efficiently to Drive Performance and Cost Savings

Reducing costs, improving efficiency, and managing complex IT environments is par for the course in today’s enterprise. While Virtualization has helped enable associated initiatives, it has also created some hefty new challenges as well:

• Do You Have Trouble Managing VM Sprawl?
• Are You Still Reacting Most of the Time?
• Are You Wasting Resources, Time, and Budget?
• Do you Need to Plan and Manage Your VMware Growth?

up.time 5, from uptime software, helps IT Directors, IT Managers, and System Administrators plan, manage, and monitor their virtual infrastructure better. In addition, up.time’s powerful solution has gained praise from VMware, the leader in virtualization today.

1. Increase VM Efficiency

With up.time, one solution quickly identifies repeat outage offenders and VM contention issues, decreases the number of incidents, increases VM density, and tracks the status of VM sprawl.

• “up.time dynamically tracks VMotion as instances migrate around and I am able to quickly report and graph it. up.time provides a powerful platform to deeply monitor all our virtual and physical servers.” – $1B European Bank.

2. Improve Visibility and Manageability with One Dashboard

 up.time provides visibility and manageability of your entire IT infrastructure (including applications) through role based dashboards. Minimize risk and downtime with one complete cross-platform solution.

• “We've been able to stretch the hardware a lot further, and in some cases we're getting 50-to-one virtual workloads per server with up.time.” – Joe Kitchen, Senior Manager of Infrastructure Development, Bank of Montreal

3. Quickly Prioritize and then Isolate Problems To Save Time and Resources

up.time alerts when problems occur, quickly pinpoints root-cause, and can automate actions to stop outages from reoccurring in the future. Quickly prioritize IT issues and then triage performance rapidly and decrease Mean-Time-To-Repair (MTTR). Drill deep into advanced VMware metrics to optimize workloads for maximum density.

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4. Automatically Avoid Incidents Before They Occur

up.time’s deep integration with VMware’s vCenter Orchestrator® makes automating actions to stop recurring and future outages easy, saving time and resources.

5. Enable Rapid Virtual Infrastructure Growth

up.time helps plan, consolidate, monitor, optimize, and automate the virtual infrastructure. Avoid sprawl and over provisioning, while enabling automated problem resolution. 

6. Cost-Per-Physical Server Licensing

Perhaps the biggest advantage with up.time 5 is its virtual-friendly pricing. uptime software has decided to buck the industry trend and provide what customers have been calling for – per physical server licensing. This model allows customers to spin up as many instances as they want on licensed servers at no additional cost, helping companies realize the true cost savings of virtualization.

• “With up.time, rolling out to 250 servers across VMware, Solaris, Linux, and Windows was a snap and we didn’t have to pay for each virtual host; that’s a huge cost savings.”

Global Infrastructure Management, Measurement, and Monitoring

• Do You Have Live Visibility Across Your Datacenters?
• Do You Really Need to Spend More on Global Hardware?
• Do You Have Reliable and Secure Remote Systems Monitoring Capabilities?
• How Do You Enable Datacenters to be Independently Managed while still Including them in a Global View?
• Can You Reduce Costs by Outsourcing and Maintain Control and Visibility at the Same Time?
• Do You Want 24/7 Monitoring Support but Don’t Have the Resources?

up.time helps you manage, measure, and monitor Global IT systems and applications by  providing a consolidated, live, enterprise-wide view of an organization's infrastructure and services across multiple datacenters. Report on the global infrastructure without compromising local control. Create role-based, cross-regional enterprise dashboards and reports to better align and optimize global IT resources.

1. Get Live Dashboards and Reports Across Multiple Datacenters and Platforms

up.time consolidates metrics from multiple datacenters into dashboards and reports that visualize distributed applications, performance, and service levels across multiple platforms.

2. Leverage Underutilized Global Hardware to Cut Costs

up.time provides live and historical Global resource consumption, so you can easily see opportunities to rebalance Global workloads and drive real IT efficiency.

• “We really wanted a product that we could drop in place easily and not incur 2 years of professional services. We also wanted a solution that was powerful from an expandability point of view, and we wanted 90% of the functionality out-of-the-box. up.time was the answer to those needs.” - Stephen Boucher, Unix Infrastructure manager, Toll Holdings Group

3. Reliable, Secure Remote Systems Monitoring

up.time uses direct transfer technologies that are mature, reliable, trusted, and highly efficient to collect data while providing seamless drill-through from Global monitoring station to any datacenter.

4. Get Global and Local Datacenter Access with One Solution

up.time’s loosely coupled architecture ensures local datacenters have the ability to function independently while still remaining part of the federated Global view.

5. Maintain Control even when Outsourcing or Off-shoring

up.time gives you Global views across datacenters, yet still allows you to seamlessly drill-through to any local datacenter, even if it’s outsourced.

6. Easily Implement 24/7 Support for Global Applications with 9-to-5 Staff

up.time gives you ‘follow-the-sun’ escalation management capabilities that allow you to automatically pass responsibilities to operators in the ‘live’ time zone.

“We looked at a stack of solutions, including the larger tier vendors, but the timelines to deployment and costs were not reasonable. I’d had a few recommendations from peers on up.time and it really stood out as a quick deployment and quick results software solution. I would absolutely recommend up.time, as they’re not just a product, but a company that has become more of a partner with us. I couldn’t be happier with it.”

- Stephen Boucher, Unix Infrastructure manager, Toll Holdings Group