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. BMC Atrium Discovery and Dependency Mapping 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

BMC Atrium Discovery and Dependency Mapping

BMC Atrium Discovery and Dependency Mapping offered by Datatrend automatically discovers physical and virtual IT assets, applications, and the relationships between them — enabling significant cost reductions while dramatically simplifying data center consolidation, disaster recovery, CMDB, and change impact management initiatives. Plus, features like informative dashboards, dependency graphs and detailed reporting identify cost saving and IT optimization opportunities.

>> Learn more about BMC Atrium Discovery and Dependency Mapping data center discovery.

Take full advantage of BMC ADDM with Business Application Modeling, which will enable you to truly derive the benefits which ADDM can provide - things like improving application availability, managing change control, improving data quality, and being well positioned for cost-saving initiatives such as data center optimization, standardization, and virtualization.

>> Learn more about Datatrend's Business Application Modeling services

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 business transaction monitoring tool from Datatrend, gives IT operations and support teams full visibility into application systems to help them solve most application performance and availability issues. Built specifically for IT Operations teams, FactFinder discovers, maps, and monitors application transaction systems automatically – requiring no developers to configure or use. It is the only solution that, within a single product, monitors transactions (hop-by-hop and process to process), the application platforms running those transactions, and the underlying infrastructure the transactions depend on.

>> Find out more about BlueStripe FactFinder.