In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, where IT infrastructure and cloud costs play a pivotal role, organizations demand advanced solutions that streamline operations, optimize performance, and drive cost efficiency. Virtana, a trailblazer in infrastructure monitoring and observability and true multicloud cost management, has taken another leap forward by introducing a host of groundbreaking features to our flagship products. These cutting-edge enhancements are poised to revolutionize how businesses manage their hybrid-infrastructure environments and cloud expenditures, ultimately leading to enhanced performance, reduced costs, and improved ROI. 

New Infrastructure Monitoring Innovations that Simplify Hybrid Infrastructure Performance Management

Virtana’s IPM, renowned for its robust data collection and insights into performance metrics, utilization, and health data, now offers an interconnected browsing and search experience for IPM entity data. This transformative UI enhancement enables users to effortlessly navigate through the device hierarchy, unveiling relationships between objects. The result? A more intuitive and accelerated issue resolution process, empowering IT teams to pinpoint and address problems swiftly. 

Furthermore, Virtana has simplified product workflows by introducing clickable entities, file-based alarm thresholds, and device summary pages. These enhancements pave the way for seamless navigation within Virtana IPM: 

  • Every reference to an entity within the UI is now a clickable link, leading users to the entity’s comprehensive detail page. 
  • Device categories such as arrays, switches, and hosts boast dedicated summary pages, facilitating efficient sorting, filtering, and viewing of items. 
  • Real-time metric values, such as current CPU utilization, can be instantly graphed over time with a single click, delivering actionable insights at your fingertips. 

By seamlessly integrating these enhancements, Virtana IPM propels organizations towards faster MTTR, better-informed decision-making, and an overall elevated performance monitoring experience. 

To learn more, visit our Virtana Community IPM page

Effortlessly Forecast Cloud Cost and Accurately Attribute Cloud Spend with New FinOps Innovations

In the realm of FinOps, Virtana has harnessed the power of data-driven forecasting to tackle one of the industry’s most pressing challenges: accurate spend prediction. The new capabilities introduced in Virtana CCM provide FinOps practitioners with a robust toolkit for reliable forecasting and budgeting: 

Forecasts on the Overview Dashboard: Addressing the challenge of variable cloud spend, Virtana CCM offers precise, rolling 12-month cloud spend forecasts. With a clear overview of anticipated expenditures, organizations can proactively manage budgets, allocate resources effectively, and maintain financial stability. 

Multicloud Resource Groups: By allowing the creation of up to 10 resource groups, Virtana simplifies resource alignment, making it effortless to correlate metrics with key performance indicators. 

Surface Untagged Resources: CCM tackles the tagging challenge head-on by introducing a dedicated category for untagged resources within each Resource Group. This enables users to implement and enforce a true FinOps practice, effortlessly track tagging progress, identify unassociated resources, and conduct necessary tagging cleanups.

Overview Dashboard Filtering and Sharing: CCM now comes with enhanced visibility and advanced filtering options within the Overview Bill Analysis reports. Organizations can now make better data-driven decisions by slicing their cloud usage based on their specific requirements. Additionally, advanced email scheduling and report download options from the Overview Dashboard facilitate seamless knowledge sharing across teams, ensuring everyone gets the information they need when they need it. 

Easier Access to Savings Policies: Virtana is making it even easier to access the policies page by placing it directly on the Cost Savings Opportunities page. This advancement makes managing and adjusting savings policies faster and easier, enabling organizations to capitalize on potential cost-saving opportunities more efficiently. 

To learn more, visit our Virtana Community CCM page

If you are looking for a way to improve the performance, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness of your infrastructure and cloud environment, then you won’t be disappointed by Virtana’s latest features. To learn more about these and other capabilities, please visit our website or contact us today. 

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