Hybrid Multicloud Infrastructure Monitoring With UnityOne

Introduction 

According to a Gartner study, 92% of enterprises have a multicloud strategy. As a result, rather than becoming simpler, the amount of complexity that IT teams must deal with these days is unprecedented and can only go up. Hybrid and multicloud environments continue to grow more diverse, distributed, and dynamic.  

Business Challenges 

As organizations try to respond to spiraling complexity, they are being stifled by outdated tools and operational processes. Today, too many teams are stuck depending on many disparate monitoring tools from different vendors or loosely integrated product suites. Also, the legacy monitoring approaches haven’t kept pace with the new hybrid and multicloud infrastructure realities, leaving organizations struggling with a range of challenges. Teams must manage a demanding mix of legacy and modern applications and infrastructure. For the teams responsible for monitoring and managing service levels, these complex environments are fueling massive increases in the volume, variety, and velocity of data to be managed. I & O and IT Leaders are under more pressure than ever to deliver maximum value in their infrastructure and Technology investments to the business. 

Monitor Your Hybrid Multicloud IT Landscape With UnityOne 

UnityOne multicloud infrastructure monitoring solution empowers organizations to optimize resource allocation, enhance security, plan future growth while maximizing utilization of existing resources to help maintain uptime, boost productivity, and drive efficiency in a complex, multicloud landscape. It offers a comprehensive, unified platform that guides you seamlessly from the initial discovery phase through to automation, providing an all-encompassing solution for your IT infrastructure management needs.  

• Unified discovery: Offers auto discovery of multicloud resources in different ways like SNMP, SSH, WMI, Active Directory, and Rest API where it automatically detects and maps the dependencies of data center, private cloud, and public cloud assets across the globe. Users can create discovery jobs using these methods and group them based on the locations, device category, operating system, make/model, and other tags.  
• Unified monitoring: A single pane of glass view for all the discovered assets to monitor in real-time. UnityOne offers basic to advance level monitoring methods to provide 360 degrees visibility into your IT landscape. Users can monitor health, network, device, applications, and other areas in a bird’s eye-view level.  
• Network topology: Unified point of topology view for Network Operation Center that comprises backend connectivity. 
• Operating system monitoring: UnityOne offers both agentless and agent-based network monitoring solutions with a wide range of major operating systems (Windows, Linux, MAC, etc.) to virtual solutions like VMware, Hyper-V, etc. 
• Server hardware monitoring: Comprehensive server monitoring that assesses health, performance, and utilization of your complete server hardware stack in real-time irrespective of on-premises or in the cloud. 
• Network monitoring: Discovers, monitors, and maps enterprise network and enables network traffic monitoring across devices to visualize bandwidth allocations, packet loss, service downtimes, etc. 
• Business services monitoring for Infra apps: A business level infrastructure monitoring that can give an overview of the entire IT landscape. These include configuration of SLA’s, SLO’s for specific services and generation of SLA reports. 
• Website monitoring: Automatically monitors uptime and traffic flow of websites, web services, APIs, and servers to deliver high availability, functionality, and performance of enterprise applications. 
• VM monitoring: UnityOne provides in-depth monitoring of virtual machines whether they are in private cloud (VMWare, vCenter, vSphere, ESXi) or public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI) and creates alerts to optimize resources, prevent capacity issues across storage, memory, and CPU. 
• SD-WAN Monitoring: SD-WAN (Software-Defined Wide Area Network) monitoring ensures optimal performance, security, and reliability of your network to proactively identify and mitigate any network disruptions. 
• Database (DB) Monitoring: Seamlessly monitor and optimize database performance with UnityOne platform that tracks key performance metrics of databases such as memory utilization, disk I/O, and query response times databases like Oracle, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, MongoDB, Cassandra, PostgreSQL and more. 
• Storage monitoring: An advanced storage monitoring system that supports leading storage solutions like NetAPP, Cisco, DELL, HP, etc. and delivers real-time insights of storage availability, health, performance of physical, virtual, and cloud storage applications. 
• Container Monitoring: Gain visibility across nodes, pods, and clusters of a container with a detailed overview of its health, performance and security of containerized microservice environments. 
• Cloud Monitoring: A single pane of glass view to monitor both private and public clouds from a unified platform with a bird-eye view of cloud services to help different IT teams easily manage distributed cloud infrastructure efficiently. 
• Remote management: Data center and network engineers get access to data center information from any location. 

UnityOne’s Unique Platform Capabilities 

• AI/ML Event Management: Integrated Artificial Intelligence driven solution that correlates events, detects anomalies, and prevents potential outages and incidents even before becoming critical. 
• Persona-Based Dashboards & Reporting: A variety of reports and dashboards that can be used to track the performance, utilization, health, monitor, and manage an organization’s IT infrastructure. 
• Data center and cabinet visualization: Dynamic representation of data center elements like health and availability using informative color codes. 
• Hybrid Multicloud provisioning and automation: End user will create the VM provisioning service request in ITSM. The required service catalogues will be available in ITSM. Post approval of service request, UnityOne orchestration platform would take care of VM lifecycle management.   
• Hybrid Multicloud cost management and sustainability: Helps to plan budget requirements and get transparency into how IT resource utilization relates to cost with right tools and processes to an effective show back model. Also aids in assessing data center infrastructure carbon footprint with power usage effectiveness. 
• Integration with 3rd party ITSM and monitoring tools: Highly flexible to use platform with a variety of integration options such as API integration, connector integration, and custom integration. 

UnityOne Hybrid Multicloud Monitoring Benefits 

• Improve Service and Support Agility: UnityOne offers NextGen tools and methodologies for agile and rapid development that will enable digital business. 
• Dependency Mapping: By pinpointing essential software assets and technical resources located both on-premises and across public and private clouds, enterprises can enhance their decision-making regarding workload processing locations and application modernization strategies. 
• Setting Up Monitoring Policies: Instead of making decisions on per-cloud basis and creating risky silos of settings, organizations will be able to adopt a holistic approach to policy management and perform tasks like – ensure uniform protocols and formats are adhered to for storage, computing, and cloud networking, set a uniform framework for access and control rules, and establish standardized guidelines for monitoring user activities, issuing alerts, identifying threats, and responding to security risks in the cloud. 
• Gain in-depth visibility: Data centers have problems in addressing visibility blind spots. A complete inventory of all data center infrastructure assets and having full visibility is now possible with UnityOne. 
• Maintain systems uptime and availability: Automated incident management flows ensure continuous availability of business applications. With its AI-powered advanced event management platform it detects events before they turn into issues.  
• Lessens power consumption: Organizations will be able to thermally manage their cabinets and racks based on the heatmaps with temperature gradients. It will help them to take appropriate measures for cooling the systems. 
• Drive towards cost optimization: UnityOne offers a single view for all public cloud and data center costs. It allows users to set budgets and forecast their overall spendings. It also offers a number of tools to help them optimize the multicloud costs.  
• Reduce carbon emissions: Users will be able to monitor, measure, and manage CO2 emissions across all their distributed IT environments including data centers, private clouds, and end user devices from a single place. 

A Single Source Of Truth To Monitor Hybrid Multicloud IT Infrastructures 

The business anywhere is distributed, fragmented and complex which creates a management and operational nightmare. UnityOne multicloud infrastructure monitoring and management platform focuses on how operations teams can maintain, administer and support I & O in a centralized manner. It fast tracks organizations on their digital transformation journeys by removing the difficulty of managing complex, distributed IT services. It goes beyond basic device monitoring to enable data center operators to understand what’s happening in their environments, including power and cooling device status.