Tools for Today's IT Challenges

Today's IT infrastructure is increasingly complex and costly – making the task of IT infrastructure optimization more important and more difficult than ever. Add an IT initiative such as a data center move, server and storage consolidation, virtualization or even simple strategic planning into the mix and a detailed understanding of your infrastructure becomes even more crucial.

Data center discovery tools used by the Datatrend Technology Services team are well known through out the industry and will pass your security review as they are agent-free and do not have access to your sensitive and confidential information. The output delivers information at your fingertips simply, accurately and right when you need it. These offerings save your organization time and money, and take the risk out of your IT infrastructure initiatives.

Assessments That Hit The Mark:

Before embarking on a consolidation and/or virtualization project, the initial assessment effort will have a material impact on the success of your project. Datatrend has a series of assessment tools that we leverage. No one tool does it all! A Datatrend data center assessment may utilize one or more of the world class, tried and proven, best of breed tools we have or endorse. However, tools cannot deduce your corporate standards, preferences, constraints or application ownership (and who has the knowledge and skill to test validate to the optimized target realm). Therefore, Datatrend supplements the tool(s) discovery data with years of experience in optimizing many thousands of servers but also whereby the assessment and project approach are tailored to your enterprise.

Data Center Optimization Assessment Tools:

Whether you are going to consolidate, virtualize or both.... tools vary in specialization. Optimization Pro by Datatrend is an industry leader in data center discovery, resource utilization determination and credentialed inventory. Tideway Foundation, part of the ADDM family of solutions from BMC enhances an assessment by diving deep into various categories of dependencies and in delivering robust graphical depictions that provide efficiencies in interpreting information. BlueStripe is very strong in monitoring and analyzing application/workload performance. These different specialization and complimentary tools are detailed below:

Data Center Discovery

Tideway Foundation^™

Now part of the Atrium Discovery and Dependency Mapping (ADDM) family of solutions from BMC Software

Tideway Foundation offered by Datatrend is part of the Atrium Discovery and Dependency Mapping (ADDM) family of solutions from BMC Software. Foundation can automatically creates a 360-degree view of your IT infrastructure. It maps the dependencies between your servers, software and other configuration items across unrelated technology layers. Plus, features like informative dashboards, dependency graphs and detailed reporting identify cost saving and IT optimization opportunities.

>> Learn more about Tideway Foundation data center discovery.

IT Optimization Pro

Datatrend IT Optimization Pro allows IT executives to regain control of their IT infrastructure. In just a few hours on site, Datatrend experts use a powerful automated assessment tool to inventory, measure, detect and report on every detail of your server environment. Their analysis provides you with comprehensive reports and money-saving recommendations, outlining your complete infrastructure and identifying critical next steps.

>> Learn more about IT Optimization Pro assessments.

Application Performance Management

BlueStripe FactFinder

BlueStripe FactFinder, an advanced application performance management tool from Datatrend, monitors each application hop-by-hop across all the silos of information in your IT system. It allows you to quickly isolate or prevent application problems in any IT environment – identifying exactly where service requests are going, where they spend their time and why.

>> Find out more about BlueStripe FactFinder.