IDC Vendor Spotlight: Requirements for Effective Virtualization and Private Cloud Management
Increasing numbers of large-scale enterprise IT environments are deploying virtualization and private cloud infrastructure architectures with the goal of reducing costs, improving service levels, and enhancing business agility. To fully realize these potential benefits of virtualization and the cloud, IT teams need to implement new types of systems management solutions that are just as dynamic and adaptive as the virtualized cloud environments they are managing.

Managing Enterprise Virtual Infrastructures
To manage Virtual Infrastructures effectively, IT organizations need an always current and reliable view of the environment as well as a high degree of control and automation. As they transform their infrastructures, they also need to transform their management tools and processes. ManageIQ’s EVM Suite was specifically designed for these new environments and the unique challenges they present.

Private Cloud Enablement and Management
The new service models of cloud computing environments, with the “hands on” participation of internal cloud customers in creating and operating their own server configurations present significant additional challenges to enterprise ITSM processes and IT staff already overwhelmed by the increased complexity and management issues of traditional server workload virtualization. EVM’s Adaptive Management Platform™, with its unique ability to integrate and interoperate with other management agents and processes, enables highly automated IT Service Management for private clouds and virtual infrastructures.

Resource Management, Optimization, and Capacity Planning
Virtualized IT infrastructures present major challenges to capacity planning as well as resource utilization and optimization. ManageIQ’s Enterprise Virtualization Management Suite provides IT administrators and managers with a comprehensive solution to optimize their virtual infrastructures with advanced capacity planning and sophisticated resource management capabilities including trending and alerting.