Centerity Joins the Nutanix Elevate Technology Alliance Partner Program

Centerity is announcing today that we have joined the Nutanix Elevate Technology Alliance Partner Program! Validated as Nutanix Ready for IT Management & Operations, Centerity’s solution helps enterprise customers by delivering single-pane-of-glass, holistic visibility into Nutanix environments, extending performance and availability monitoring to critical applications and Big Data solutions that Nutanix users rely on to keep their businesses running 24×7.

 

Centerity’s REST API integration with the Nutanix management Prism collects performance metrics from the infrastructure and hyper-visor, but the main added value is in its ability to light up the critical application layer. Our flexible plugins (requiring no code) and light-weight agents and agentless metric capture methodologies allow us to monitor all 3rd party critical applications and databases (Hadoop, SAP HANA, etc.) Nutanix users are running on XCP. Most importantly, Centerity delivers an end-to-end business intelligence layer, so users get a holistic, service-centric view of their Nutanix environments with real-time business process views and advanced features like historical, trend, and predictive reporting, end-user experience monitoring, and custom executive dashboards and live visual layouts.

 

“Centerity delivers a new level of visibility into applications running on Nutanix, enabling advanced processes like Big Data to run smoothly,” said Roi Keren, CEO of Centerity Systems. “We’re very proud to be working with Nutanix to deliver holistic visibility and service assurance to the entire Nutanix Web-Scale technology stack!”

 

“We are excited for Centerity to join the Nutanix Elevate program,” said Venugopal Pai, Vice President, Strategic Alliances and Business Development, Nutanix. “We are dedicated to building a robust technology ecosystem, working together with valued partners such as Centerity, in order to deliver open, innovative, and transformative next-generation IT solutions that can fully leverage Nutanix invisible infrastructure.”

 

The Nutanix Elevate Technology Alliance Program provides partners with technical resources, testing and documentation processes, marketing support, and sales enablement to develop comprehensive customer solutions. Nutanix Elevate Partners deliver validated solutions to market in the areas of Application Development, Applications and Operating Systems, Backup and Disaster Recovery, Desktop and Application Virtualization, Hybrid Cloud, Management and Operations, and Networking and Security.

 

Learn More: Centerity Solution Brief for Nutanix Web-Scale Infrastructure

 

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Media Contact

John Speck

 

Alliance Manager | Centerity Systems, Inc.

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www.centerity.com/ | johns@centerity.com | https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnvspeck

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

About Centerity

Centerity’s an award winning unified enterprise-class IT Performance Analytics Platform that improves Performance and Reliability of business services to ensure availability of critical systems. By delivering a consolidated view across all layers of the technology stack, including, applications, big data, operating systems, database, storage, compute, security, networking, cloud, edge AND IoT/IIoT devices, Centerity provides an early warning of performance issues along with corrective action tools to quickly isolate faults and identify root causes.

 

DATA CENTER PERFORMANCE: THE OFTEN OVERLOOKED PERFORMANCE METRICS

Guest Post by Tyler Constable

Your data is only as safe as your data center. Your IT landscape is running on one or more servers somewhere, and those servers can be damaged by almost anything — a break in, a natural disaster — even a static shock caused by excessively dry air. Unfortunately, companies that are very careful about logical security still neglect physical security. Here’s what’s required to secure a data center footprint, and why so many organizations get it wrong.

Data Center Monitoring and Performance Analytics Requires Precise Control

Data center environmental monitoring should maintain humidity between 45% and 60%. If the air becomes too humid, water can condense on cooling systems or near the ground, potentially damaging servers and other equipment. If it’s too dry on the other hand, it can cause static to build up, which can discharge and fry electronics.

Other environmental factors, like heat and airflow, also need to be carefully controlled. To do that, you need 24/7 supervision, along with redundant data center environmental monitoring equipment, so there’s always a backup in place when a thermometer or humidity gauge fails.

Data centers also need backups for core systems, like networking and fire suppression. That way, if something fails (or returns a sensor reading that indicates it may be about to fail) the redundant system can pick up the slack. The goal is to be able to keep the IT landscape up and running with little to no disruption, no matter what goes wrong.

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Poor Data Center Design Undermines Monitoring

Although industry standards account for how data centers should operate, they tend to overlook flaws in the facilities themselves. Too many data centers started their lives as warehouses or office buildings.

This poses additional risks for environmental monitoring, and raises the operational cost of environmental control; if the building is poorly sealed and insulated, it’s harder to control humidity and temperature. Cracks can let unpredictable bursts of humid air into the building, creating spots where condensation can form, or even form leaks.

Converted buildings are also difficult and expensive to protect against disasters. They may be built in areas vulnerable to earthquakes or fires, using outdated construction methods. They also tend to be less secure; often, features like hollow-core walls, false ceilings, and multiple entry and exit points make it much harder to prevent unauthorized entrance. Properly installing internal access control, server cages and other security features can be prohibitively expensive, and many providers cut corners.

Businesses Need Better

In the last decade, businesses have gone from poorly implemented tape backups to carefully planning disaster recovery with RTO and RPO. Customers have learned why good DR is important, and how to ask the right questions.

Disaster center monitoring and security needs to go through the same evolution. Enterprises need to familiarize themselves with existing metrics like TIA-942 and Uptime Institute tiers, and the importance of external SSAE 16 compliance auditing.

While many companies have some sort of monitoring in place it’s usually at the host or application level.  Physical datacenter monitors such as heat, intrusion and moisture often are controlled on a set of additional monitors.  A true solution would be to have ALL monitoring components reporting back to one centralized monitoring application.  Any break away from this strategy can lead to confusion or even missed critical checks.

The auditing standards need to incorporate deeper physical security and safety assessment. If a building can withstand a hurricane, or survive an armed attack, that data should be available to customers. Likewise, if a data center is at risk of a major disaster. Although not every company needs the same level of protection, each needs a realistic assessment of what risks it faces — something much of the hosting industry still doesn’t provide.