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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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.

 

Centerity Systems, Inc. Joins the Hortonworks ISV/IHV Partner Program

Centerity Systems, Inc. Achieves HDP Certification

Boston, MA — December 15, 2015 – Centerity Systems, Inc., leading developer of a next-gen, end-to-end, IT monitoring platform for complex and hybrid environments, today announced that it has joined the Hortonworks Partnerworks ISV/IHV program and has successfully achieved Hortonworks’ Certification for Centerity Monitor. Centerity will integrate the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP™) with Centerity Monitor to enable real-time business analytics regarding the performance and service level (SLAs) status of all critical IT business processes through its Business Service Management (BSM) features. Centerity’s customers can now benefit from enhanced integration with Apache ™ Hadoop ® to provide a real-time business intelligence layer across the entire IT environment delivering predictive, trend, impact and root cause analytics to reduce operational complexity, MTTR and OPEX.

By achieving Certification, Centerity can now simplify and accelerate the deployment of Open Enterprise Hadoop with pre-built and validated integrations between leading enterprise technologies and HDP, the industry’s only 100-percent open source platform built on Apache Hadoop. To certify partner technologies, Hortonworks reviews each product for architectural best practices, validates it against a comprehensive suite of integration test cases and performs benchmarks for scale under varied workloads, while comprehensively documenting every step in the process. 

Centerity’s technology is a unique, unified IT Monitoring Platform, delivered as a single, installable software appliance, containing all features and functions necessary to deliver enterprise-class and carrier class IT monitoring capabilities.  These features include unique plug-in methodologies for extending coverage to new or novel technologies, agentless and agent-based capture methodologies, automatic discovery, automation and visualization tools, federated scalability and multi-tenanted operational efficiencies. With the integration of HDP, users can now see consolidated performance views of HDP correlated with the performance views of other applications, infrastructure and all other contributing IT assets for complete end-to-end visibility for proactive management of the entire IT environment.

“We are excited about our technical partnership with Hortonworks and the prospects of further integration with its open APIs for HDP, YARN, Hive, Ambari, Falcon and Hcatalog,” says Roi Keren, CEO of Centerity.  “These optimized integrations with Hadoop speed enterprise deployments and productivity that ultimately give customers the service assurance they need to scale and extend Hadoop to all its critical analytics projects,”

continues Roi.

HDP was built by the core architects, builders and operators of Apache Hadoop and includes all of the necessary components to manage a cluster at scale and uncover business insights from existing and new big data sources. HDP enables multiple workloads, applications and processing engines across single clusters with optimal efficiency. It also provides an open platform that deeply integrates with existing IT investments and upon which enterprises can build and deploy Hadoop-based applications.

“Hortonworks is dedicated to expanding and empowering the Apache Hadoop ecosystem, accelerating innovation and adoption of Open Enterprise Hadoop,” said Matt Morgan, vice president of product and alliance marketing, Hortonworks. “We are pleased to welcome Centerity Systems, Inc. to the Apache Hadoop community and look forward to working with them to help strengthen Hadoop’s role as the foundation of the next-generation data architecture.”

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Centerity Announces Certification on Cloudera Enterprise Providing Service Assurance Platforms for Hadoop Environments

Boston, MA – November 17, 2015 – Centerity Systems, Inc. today announces that it has certified on Cloudera Enterprise 5 and that Centerity has joined the Cloudera Connect Partner Program as an ISV technology partner. Centerity’s next-generation, service assurance, IT monitoring platform extends its end-to-end coverage to include the entire Hadoop environment whether in public/private clouds or on prem.  This integration gives users holistic business process views via Centerity’s Business Service Management (BSM) features so users can know the real-time status of their key business processes and performance against its target SLAs.  Real-time visibility provides users with a business intelligence layer across their entire IT environment delivering predictive, trend, impact and root cause analytics to reduce operational complexity, MTTR and OPEX.  These consolidated views of the application, big data, and infrastructure layers, allow Apache Hadoop users to experience greater operational satisfaction and higher ROI with a lower TCO for their Hadoop investments.

Centerity can monitor the following Hadoop ecosystem components and services:

  • Spark on YARN
  • Sqoop
  • YARN
  • ZooKeeper
  • Impala
  • KS Indexer
  • Oozie
  • Solr

 

  • Spark on YARN
  • Sqoop
  • YARN
  • ZooKeeper

Centerity’s award-winning, unified monitoring platform makes this all possible.  Centerity bundles its enterprise-class and carrier-class features into a single, installable, software appliance requiring no integration or maintenance steps giving customers an extremely short time-to-value (TTV).  Also, Centerity’s novel plugin technology allows for its rapid extension to new technologies so that end-to-end coverage is maintained making the platform future-proof to changes in dynamic, next-gen data center environments.  These features coupled with our industry-leading agentless and agent-based deployment options, our multi-tenanted operational efficiencies, and federated scalability makes Centerity the choice for complex, hybrid environments (physical, virtual, application and cloud) supporting the Big Data Layer.

“Centerity can be rapidly implemented into an existing environment via its unified platform, immediately collecting KPIs and integrating these into business process views for Hadoop, SAP HANA and/or NoSQL deployments.  Centerity provides comprehensive, correlated views of business services with customizable executive dashboards, interactive maps/graphs, intuitive analytic tools and drills down root cause analysis charting.  Centerity’s out-of-the-box integration of Hadoop applications, scripts, plugins and services generates superior performance for any Hadoop or combined SAP HANA-Hadoop environments, making it indispensable to Cloudera users.”

-Marty Pejko, COO of Centerity Systems.

No one knows Apache Hadoop like Cloudera, which provides the world’s fastest, easiest, and most secure data platform built on Hadoop.

“Centerity’s certification on Cloudera Enterprise and its ability to monitor Cloudera services, enables operation managers to have a single pane of glass for monitoring all of their business critical components in their data center.”

-Tim Stevens, VP of Business and Corporate Development at Cloudera.

 

Centerity’s Next-Gen, Service & Application Centric IT Monitoring Platform for Complex, Hybrid IT Environments, Successfully Completes VSPEX® Lab Validation

Centerity Systems, Inc., the pioneer developer of a next-generation, unified IT Monitoring and Business Service Management (BSM) platform for complex, hybrid IT environments, today announced successful VSPEX® Lab Validation of Centerity Monitor™ on EMC VSPEX reference architectures!

Built with best-of-breed virtualization, server, network, storage and backup, VSPEX enables faster deployment, more simplicity, greater choice, higher efficiency, and lower risk. VSPEX provides a virtual infrastructure for customers looking to gain simplicity that is characteristic of truly converged infrastructures while at the same time gaining more choice in individual stack components.

Centerity Monitor has been proven on EMC VSPEX to address many challenges that customers face when IT infrastructure becomes a complex system with multi-vendor software applications and virtual/hardware devices. Centerity Monitor seamlessly integrates into VSPEX to provide real-time monitoring servers and data storage systems. VSPEX Proven Infrastructure accelerates deployment of private cloud, virtual desktop and virtualized applications.When Centerity Monitor is leveraged in the VSPEX stack customers can solve automated real-time monitoring and reporting tasks.

ABOUT EMC & THE VSPEX VALIDATION PROGRAM

EMC Corporation is the world’s leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions that enable organizations of all sizes to transform the way they compete and create value from their information. Information must be intelligently and efficiently stored, protected, and managed—so that it can be made accessible, searchable, shareable, and ultimately actionable. EMC creates complete information environments that are reliable, efficient, and secure. The VSPEX Validation Program offers Independent Hardware and Software Vendors the opportunity to validate and market joint solutions with EMC VSPEX. Through this program, the VSPEX’s Partner community and their channel influence can be leveraged to reach customers around the world. Solving tomorrow’s IT challenges requires technology innovation, business leadership and strong partnerships. EMC’s VSPEX Validation Program enables partners to deliver solutions that complement VSPEX and drive new business growth.

 

VCE Technology Alliance Partner Centerity Certified as VCE Vblock Ready

Boston, MA – May 13th, 2015 – Centerity today announced that Centerity Monitor is now certified as a Vblock Ready™ solution through the VCE Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) program. The TAP program is designed for independent software vendors, hardware manufacturers, virtual appliance vendors and other technology providers looking to simplify and accelerate their solutions for deployment with VCE Vblock Systems.

Centerity Systems, Inc., leading developer of enterprise-class and carrier-class IT monitoring solutions for complex, hybrid IT environments, is teaming with VCE, the worldwide leader in converged infrastructure, to bring Centerity’s unique IT monitoring and Business Service Management (BSM) capabilities to Vblock customers world-wide. Centerity delivers end-to-end IT monitoring coverage that provides a business intelligence layer across the Vblock System as well as to other supporting technologies.

With customizable executive dashboards and business analytics plus real-time predictive, trend and root cause analysis, Centerity adds to the performance, scalability, automation and agility of Vblock deployments.  Due to Centerity’s unique ability to do correlated impact analysis across technology domains, it can provide executives and operators with actionable intelligence and business value by reducing data center complexity and OPEX.

Vblock Systems integrate leading Cisco networking and servers, EMC storage and VMware cloud infrastructure technologies into a single intelligent converged infrastructure system with seamless support. This certification provides customers with the assurance that Centerity Monitor will interoperate with Vblock Systems.

“Any company leveraging the full capabilities of the Vblock converged infrastructure cannot afford anything less than complete visibility into this technology stack,” says Marty Pejko, COO of Centerity. “Due to the unique advantages of our unified platform deliverable as a single software appliance, we are the only IT monitoring solution that has the extensibility, scalability and flexibility needed to deal with growing data center complexity in today’s dynamic IT environments.  This is especially true of public and private cloud applications and Big Data Layer deployments of SAP HANA, Hadoop and NoSQL.”

 

“VCE is pleased to welcome Centerity as a Technology Alliance Partner for VCE Vblock Systems,” said DJ Long, senior director, Technology Alliances, VCE. “As a VCE TAP partner, Centerity can now integrate its products with Vblock Systems, delivering transformative data center solutions for mutual customers that enable the agility, simplicity and economics of converged infrastructure with Centerity’s expertise in hybrid IT environment monitoring and Business Service Management.”

 

Centerity Systems Named a Cisco Solution Partner Program Business Outcomes Contest Winner!

Boston, MA – May 1st, 2015 – Centerity Systems, Inc. announced today that it has been selected as a winner of the Cisco Solution Partner Program Business Outcomes Contest in the NextGeneration Data Center category. Cisco unveiled the winners at the Partner Ecosystem Networking Reception on April 27, 2015.

The Business Outcomes Contest is designed to recognize, promote and award the innovative work being done by solution partners to transform businesses and industries. Submissions in 12 categories were judged in terms of the innovation process, the problem solved and the technology used.

“Cisco is a partner-centric company and takes great pride in partnering with innovative companies that help to deliver business outcomes for our customers. It is my privilege to recognize Centerity in the first-ever Business Outcomes Contest,” said Rick Snyder, Vice President, Global, and Strategic Partner Organization, Cisco. “Centerity’s achievement recognizes its outstanding innovation in solving real-life business challenges.”

 

Centerity’s CEO Roi Keren Discusses the Company’s Bright Future in an Exclusive Interview with Rich Tehrani, CEO of Technology Marketing Corporation

6–January–2015 – Boston, MA — It’s clear to anybody with an interest in information technology that 2014 has been a big year for Centerity. With its major software updates, new visual layouts, and strengthened partnerships with some of the biggest organizations on the market, Centerity has provided users with a superior unified IT monitoring platform that is both proactive and cost effective. Since being named Gartner’s ‘Cool Vendor in IT Operations’ for 2014, Centerity has used its holistic, ‘single pane of glass’ IT monitoring platform to help mid-size and Fortune 500 companies capture IT performance metrics and accurately assess delivered business value.

 Recently, Rich Tehrani, CEO of TMC (Technology Marketing Corporation) sat down with Roi Keren, CEO of Centerity Systems, to discuss the company’s ongoing success since their first studio interview, which took place nearly two years ago to the day.

Gartner Names Centerity as a Cool Vendor in its IT Operations Report for 2014

 

Needham, MA — April 22, 2014 Centerity Systems, a pioneer provider of next-generation, unified monitoring solutions for end-to-end coverage of IT assets for complex, hybrid environments, today announces its recognition in the “Cool Vendors in IT Operations, 2014” report by Gartner.  The April 2014 report, authored by Research Vice Presidents Jeffrey Brooks, Ronni Colville, Jonah Kowall et al., outlines, “IT operations leaders are looking for new ways to deliver more value to the business. Tools for effective decision making can improve the infrastructure and operations team’s ability to allocate resources to the right types of activities. The Cool Vendors featured in this year’s research demonstrate new ways to improve automation of ITOM tasks, as well as a focus on merged views for monitoring and management.

 Centerity’s solution is a unified monitoring platform for an organization’s entire complex, hybrid technology landscape.  It provides end-to-end coverage of complex, hybrid environments including physical, virtual, application and cloud assets while providing Business Service Management (BSM) views, end-user experience (EUX) functionality and big-data stack coverage (for solutions including SAP HANA, Hadoop, MongoDB, NoSQL) in a single, software architecture. Centerity also supports cloud platforms such as Amazon CloudWatch and OpenStack.

“We are honored to be recognized by such a prestigious and universally respected organization such as Gartner.  We take great pride in our ability to offer enterprises class and carrier class end-to-end monitoring coverage of complex, hybrid environments including physical, virtual, application and cloud assets via our seamless unified platform,” says Marty Pejko, COO of Centerity.  “We believe it’s a testament to the market demanding for a next generation software platform that enables organization to finally reap the benefits of Business Service Management (BSM) in a turn-key solution with superior Time To Value (TTV), Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and Return On Investment (ROI).”

Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

 

Centerity Announces New Partnership with MapR – Providing the Advanced Monitoring and BSM Solution for MapR Hadoop

The partnership with MapR allows Hadoop customers to achieve advanced monitoring and BSM capabilities in their MapR Hadoop platforms.

MapR delivers on the promise of Hadoop with a proven, enterprise-grade platform that supports a broad set of mission-critical and real-time production uses. MapR brings unprecedented dependability, ease-of-use and world-record speed to Hadoop, NoSQL, database and streaming applications in one unified Big Data platform. MapR is used across financial services, retail, media, healthcare, manufacturing, telecommunications and government organizations as well as by leading Fortune 100 and Web 2.0 companies.

https://www.mapr.com/apps/centerity