Instrumentation & AnalyticsHybrid IT Layer 5

Insight Guide

Insight Guide

Instrumentationand Analytics

Virtualisation

ConvergedInfrastructure

Cloud ServiceIntegration

Automation

5 Layer StackInfrastructure: comprises converged platforms (platforms of stability) and hyper-converged platforms (platforms of change) to enable more efficient resource pooling and greater resource control.

Virtualisation: releases resources from being tied to particular physical devices in order to enable portability of services.

Automation: comprises cloud automation and Data Centre automation. Cloud automation provides on premise and off-premise self-service provisioning and lifecycle services for virtual systems and workloads.

Cloud Integration: provides authentication and authorisation services for in-house Active Directory platforms to control user access to cloud services, such as Office365, Salesforce etc.

Instrumentation: this delivers the visibility and control that is needed across the entire Data Centre. The Instrumentation layer includes element managers for the core Data Centre technologies.

With these five layers in place, the IT department will be perfectly positioned to support digital business innovation and respond immediately to changing demand. IT staff will be able to provision and control resources from the Data Centre instantly to support changing demands and priorities. They will be able to control their networks in real-time and finely tune the service available to users to match their specific needs. They will be able to operate service and software defined platforms with considerably less manual intervention. And they will be better equipped to protect against new and changing security threats. The Service Defined Infrastructure operated under the Hybrid IT model will make the Data Centre and networks less costly to run, and enable IT to deliver more choice, agility and value to the business.

Overview

With traditional management tools, siloed and complex, IT cannot deliver the nimble, cost-effective service demanded by today’s enterprise.

Logicalis’ Instrumentation layer provides a single dashboard that gives IT the intelligence and control it needs.

IT infrastructure management has traditionally been achieved using management tools which are, like the systems they relate to, siloed and complex. With increasing sophistication and complexity in the data centre and across the network, such tools are increasingly unable to give the IT department the visibility, control or automation necessary to deliver the agile response demanded by lines of business, and the cost savings required by the board.

Insight Guide

The issues

Instrumentation - The benefits

How we help

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Logicalis’ consultants have extensive experience in business-led IT infrastructure transformation. Vendor agnostic and tightly focused on your business circumstances and objectives, we always provide advice and solutions appropriate to your needs.

Reduced: Improved:

Management overhead

Complexity

Return on existing investment

IT management control

Real-time performance intelligence

Logicalis Instrumentation, the fifth and final layer of the Hybrid IT stack, delivers the service monitoring, business monitoring and service telemetry necessary for IT to meet the demands placed on it today.

A unified platform with a single dashboard, Instrumentation operates across diverse physical, virtual and hybrid cloud environments as well as in traditional application architectures. It delivers:

● The information necessary to efficiently manage and continually improve data centre operations

● Simplified management, while leveraging existing investments

● Performance, capacity and compliance management across applications and infrastructure

● Proactive identification and remediation of issues with predictive analytics and smart alerts

● Analytics, such as log and KPI monitoring, highlighting anomalous patterns, proactively identifying potential issues and producing actionable insights to improve IT operations

Instrumentation - The solution

The Instrumentation layer delivers a single view of the IT infrastructure’s operational performance, with actionable analysis and proactive problem resolution allowing IT to make data-driven operational and financial decisions, and tools and processes to help manage and improve the data centre in line with solid best practices, improving uptime, security and performance.

It achieves this through element managers for all the core data centre technologies, providing a protective watch over and holistic view of the entire data centre and all services in use.

The Instrumentation components can also be integrated with, and serve data to, third party systems, including ITSM and security and business analytics.

This is Telemetry for IT, the most visible feature of Hybrid IT. It is a unified management platform, spanning physical, virtual and hybrid cloud environments as well as traditional application architectures.

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