INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Cloud
Quest announces development for
better infrastructure management
across hybrid cloud environments
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uest Software, a global systems management, data
protection and security software provider, has announced
the release of its newly rebranded and repackaged Foglight
Evolve, formerly known as Foglight for Virtualization. Foglight
Evolve takes a holistic and proactive approach to hybrid cloud
management. A built-in automation engine simplifies complex data
centre management by giving IT teams the power to maximise
performance, minimise downtime, right size resources and predict
future outcomes across hybrid cloud environments with more
accuracy. The new enhancements offer simple licensing options to
give customers greater functionality at a fraction of the cost and
empower organisations to take advantage of rich, single pane of
glass monitoring to reclaim resources, defer costs and reduce the
risks associated with cloud migration.
According to a recent report from IT analyst firm, DCIG, more
companies than ever plan to go ‘all-in’ on the cloud using platforms
such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure to host
their applications. But as a company goes ‘all-in’ on the cloud, it
needs to re-examine some of its assumptions and processes as to
how it will administer this new environment. In many instances,
a company’s IT staff will find that it must manage a hybrid cloud
environment for some time – perhaps even indefinitely.
Quest is addressing this need with the new development and goes
beyond simply enabling organisations to monitor and track each
application’s usage of resources in the cloud. It spans both on-
premises and cloud environments to provide companies with a holistic
view into its applications, regardless of where they reside. IT teams
gain a clear understanding of their hybrid environment usage pattern
and can optimise resources with predictive analytics capabilities that
reduce costs and allow organisations to plan for the future.
Foglight Evolve’s product line introduces three new editions – that
can work together or individually – and are designed specifically for
the needs of customers, including:
• Foglight Evolve Cloud ensures easy monitoring and migration to
Microsoft Azure and AWS public clouds and provides users with
complete control of performance and associated costs. An ‘easy
to migrate’ button takes the strain out of cloud migration and
makes it simple to model and migrate VM workloads to Azure.
This ability to plan takes the risk out of migration while ensuring
organisations get the right performance in the cloud at the right
cost, ensuring the business pays only for what it needs
• Foglight Evolve Operate makes it easy for organisations to
remove waste, reclaim under-used resources and optimise
resource allocations to successfully plan for future resource
needs based on analytics and trends allocation before taking on
extra unnecessary IT costs
• Foglight Evolve Monitor offers deep monitoring capabilities for
all IT resources across the hybrid cloud environments. It embeds
expertise and behavioural analytics across the virtual and physical
infrastructures and the infrastructure applications that run on
them, reducing mean time between outages and mean time to
recover. Built-in automation ensures IT teams can proactively see
the benefits of capacity planning and resource rightsizing across
large environments and identify trends and potential risks before
they impact the business
“Foglight Evolve takes a holistic, proactive approach to hybrid
cloud management that makes it simple for businesses to realise
the benefits of optimisation recommendations through its built in
automation engine,” said Mike Condy, Senior Product Manager,
Quest Data Protection business. “With so much time wasted on
monitoring multiple systems, Foglight Evolve simplifies data centre
complexity and allows customers to reclaim resources, defer costs
and reduce the risks associated with cloud migration. To put it simply,
it enables our customers to spend more time on innovation.” n
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