Full-Stack Performance Analytics for Pure

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Delivering Holistic Visibility and Business Service Management (BSM) to FlashArray, FlashBlade, and FlashStack.

FlashStack

Overview

The Pure Storage FlashArray family delivers software-defined all-flash power and reliability for every need and every budget, from the entry-level FlashArray/M10 to the new FlashArray//X – the first mainstream 100% NVMe, enterprise-class all-flash array. The FlashArray model enables organizations to consolidate and accelerate workloads while enjoying proven 99.9999% availability, completely non-disruptive operations, and support that’s above and beyond.

Pure’s FlashStack Converged Infrastructure (CI) is a flexible, all-flash converged infrastructure solution that brings the flash revolution to your data center, faster. It combines the latest in compute, network, storage hardware and virtualization software, into a single, integrated architecture that speeds time to deployment, lowers overall IT costs, and reduces deployment risk. FlashStack CI provides the performance and reliability business-critical applications demand.

Centerity brings its industry-leading full-stack Performance Analytics and BSM Platform for Service Assurance to IT environments containing Pure FlashArrays, FlashBlades, or FlashStack products. Centerity’s unified software platform breaks down data silos by extending its performance and availability monitoring across the entire stack from the infrastructure layer to the application layer. By covering every technology layer, from the resident infrastructure to the critical applications, operating systems and databases running on it, Centerity can deliver service-centric business intelligence that enables Pure users to focus on the health of their business, not their infrastructure.

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March 30th, Turin, Italy – IoT Conference, Enriching Your Business Decisions

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On March 30th Centerity Systems, together with its Italian local distributor, TAG, presented at the main IoT conference in Turin, Italy in order to share Centerity’s unique Performance Analytics offering for the Internet of Things (IoT). The conference focused on the increasing demand for IoT in regards to Services, Applications, Architecture, Security and much more. Most participants were C-Level, Managers, Solution-Architects, Consultants and procurement personnel mainly from Industrial, Services, IT and the Public Administration sector, scouting for solutions, knowledge, and idea-sharing in this new world of IoT.

We at Centerity had the opportunity to interact with many of the attendees that came to hear about our Performance Analytics Platform, learning about the SLA challenges and solutions in IoT. Centerity and TAG demonstrated the unique Business Service Management ability to provide impact analysis on IoT processes by capturing all OT/IT metrics for each technology or layer – creating a business model scheme including systemic health views.

During the event, our VP of Sales for EMEA, Matan Reiman, presented the importance of embracing an SLA concept while entering the IoT arena, especially in order to ensure all Business Services are performing in accordance with business demands. Reiman mentioned the new challenges in IoT and the importance of having one platform that can analyze all new technology metrics creating data-driven decisions. He also referred to Centerity’s partnership with GE & Cisco and the importance of having a “Service Guardian,” not only, but mainly in the Industrial IoT Sector.

In summary, Centerity presented its ability to help organizations leverage IoT/IIoT to become data-driven, thus becoming more productive and efficient while having a unique competitive advantage in their market. By doing so Centerity can dramatically improve the performance of systems, business processes, and productivity.

For more information and to see a demo, please contact us at:

Centerity, EMEA (sales@centerity.com), +972 09 7658080

TAG Distribution, ITALY (sales@tagdistribuzione.com), +39 059 8677790

Real-Time Performance Analytics for Industrial IoT: Engaging Operational Technology

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The Lack of Real-Time Performance Analytics in Industrial IoT

In our latest webinar, presented by Altoros, we look at the looming challenge in Industrial IoT of not only connecting and managing operational technology (OT), but how to connect them meaningfully and reliably to the traditional IT and business processes they power.

For those who may not know, OT comprises the hardware and software systems that monitor and control physical equipment. It includes devices, sensors, and software that identify and detect a change in physical devices, processes, and events within an enterprise IT infrastructure.

Alliance Manager John Speck explains how Centerity is simplifying Industrial IoT environments by providing a single console for managing connected devices, monitoring IT system performance, and watching the flow of data throughout the entire ecosystem.

A Single Pane of Glass

    “What’s crucial is translating technology data into business meaning,” John explains. “You have to look at the environment holistically, so you can see every potential point of failure and see the impact of one aspect on another. Once you’ve aligned all the devices within an IIoT infrastructure and the applications on either the edge, cloud or on-prem, then you can represent all of it as a business service instead of just seeing silos of data.”

Challenges and Requirements

IIoT environments are necessarily complex:

  • Multiple communication methods complicate connectivity and interoperability
  • Diverse data models increase ecosystem management complexity
  • Service use case and ecosystem definitions change after deployment
  • Custom-made sensors and actuators are expensive

There are also critical requirements to meet:

  • Dynamic ecosystem scalability and maintenance
  • Adjusting COTS devices to the ecosystem’s security and communication requirements with no firmware changes
  • Secure device intercommunication across the entire ecosystem
  • Potential need to switch out devices and change protocol methods over time, resulting in a constant flux of data types and flows

In the end, there’s a requirement for wide connectivity support for almost any communication method, protocol, and IT technology. So, you need a single abstract service model that translates IoT device data models at runtime into business and operational service views. Another key aspect is a connected abstraction layer that manages disparate devices through an API translator. Then you can combine your common abstract language with all the device-specific languages and low-level code. The result is a look at performance data that is presented according to business processes.

An End-to-End Approach

Centerity gives you the ability to scan, discover, and add any device/app on the network, then visualize the environment end-to-end, correlate performance data from every technology layer, and integrate the platform with any associated service to feed data to. This could be a service desk, an ERP system, or whatever you have using the data. Then, you can organize the environment to analyze it through the single pane of glass, according to whatever is most critical to running your business.

So, bridging Operational Technology and IT allows for improving business/process health with minimal unplanned downtime. As a result, mean-time-to-repair decreases while improving efficiency and troubleshooting process and enabling a proactive approach of an IoT/IIoT deployment.

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Italy’s IoT Conference

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March 30th Turin, Italy – Centerity will be presenting its unique IoT offering in cooperation with our Italian Distributer TAG!

According to Matan Reiman, Centerity VP of Sales, EMEA:

“Centerity’s ability to provide end-to-end analytics for IoT platforms will assist customers and service providers to measure SLA efficiently, allowing deep correlation between IT and OT environments.”

The IoT performance and analytics solution will be shown on Centerity’s NEW Version 4 platform, which recently went GA. Come visit our booth and start enriching your business decisions!

Learn more about Italy’s IoT Conference here.

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.

 

Unified Performance Analytics for SmartStack

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SmartStack

While business needs drive IT, SmartStack combined with Centerity makes sure every demand gets answered. SmartStack is a scalable, converged solution containing both performance compute and storage that provides modular capacity on demand while keeping operational complexity, Mean Time to Restore (MTTR) and OPEX low. The combination of SmartStack and Centerity simplifies IT operations and performance analytics due to the ease of managing. SmartStack paired with Centerity provides configurable Business Service Management (BSM) process views and in-depth performance analytics for full-stack, out-of-the-box coverage that creates a business intelligence layer across the entire environment.

The combination of SmartStack and Centerity lets IT focus on application-centric business services rather than separate technology domains as isolated silos of data. Allowing IT to act more strategically – proactively delivering mission critical application like Big Data (e.g., SAP HANA, Hadoop, Oracle, NoSQL) or key delivery platforms (e.g., Docker Containers, OpenStack, ServiceNow) rather than struggling reactively to maintain legacy systems. These critical applications will enjoy a huge boost in performance and productivity allowing the business to achieve data-driven business decisions quickly, reliably, and on time.

Nimble’s InfoSight

Nimble’s InfoSight, a cloud-based, machine learning tool, provides internal insights into the performance across the hardware infrastructure stack, including the VM layer and the health of the storage array. InfoSight, together with Centerity’s end-to-end performance analytics platform eliminates the visibility gaps between applications and hardware, providing both bottom-up and top-down visibility, transforming silos of data into actionable intelligence.

SmartStack, an integrated infrastructure solution offered by Cisco and Nimble Storage, combines Cisco’s Unified Computing SystemTM (UCS) with Nimble’s Predictive Flash platform to deliver speed, scale, and simplicity to next-gen data center applications. To accelerate infrastructure deployment and reduce risk, SmartStack is backed by Cisco Validated Designs (CVD), providing pre-tested and pre-validated solutions to cover a diverse and growing set of critical application needs. SmartStack with Centerity delivers a single pane of glass, tops down global application performance analytics platform that can transform your data center into a cohesive IT environment that is fast, agile, smart, secure, and cost-effective.

 Centerity, used by Cisco & Managed Services (CMS), provide full-stack performance analytics and service assurance to their clients’ entire environment for Big Data Layer Applications (SAP HANA, Hadoop (Cloudera, MapR, and Hortonworks)), provides infrastructure-to-application coverage for real-time performance analytics and cross-domain impact, trend, and root cause analysis. With Business Service Level awareness in mind, SmartStack with Centerity’s Business Intelligence Layer can provide controlled roll-outs while reducing operational complexity, MTTR, and OPEX making IT service and application centric.

About Cisco and Nimble Storage

Cisco and Nimble Storage jointly developed SmartStack integration infrastructure solutions that allow customers to accelerate business, ensure performance and availability through predictive analytics, and drive down data center costs. SmartStack, backed by Cisco Validated Designs (CVDs), white papers, and reference architectures combine the Nimble Predictive Flash platform with the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS). SmartStack simplifies management and support of the entire infrastructure stack by providing an integrated platform of computing, networking, and storage resources.

Learn more about SmartStack at Cisco.com or NimbleStorage.com!

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Learn more about Nimble Storage Adaptive Flash platform!

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Centerity Brings Predictive Performance Analytics to the Harris VIDA® Emergency Communications Platform

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The Harris Voice, Interoperability, Data, and Access (VIDA) Platform

The Harris VIDA services platform provides Critical Services, Converged Communications, and Integrated Applications within a fully scalable, full-featured communications (PSPC) market.

VIDA is a fully integrated solution providing unified interoperable communications for voice, data, and applications across a multitude of technologies ranging from LMR narrowband to LTE broadband data networks. By providing optimal technologies that meet each user’s needs, the VIDA services platform supports the co-mingling of selected technologies that best serve the diverse needs of all user groups operating on the system. VIDA core networks are widely deployed in hundreds of public safety systems today, providing mission-critical communications to hundreds of local, state, and federal enterprises and agencies.

Centerity’s Unified IT Analytics Platform

In order for Harris to offer deeper analytics and management of the emergency communications solutions to its clients, it requires a flexible IT monitoring solution that scales to provide real-time business process views of performance and availability, while being robust and flexible enough to incorporate a vast array of constantly shifting advanced communications technologies. The Centerity solution offers an enhanced analytics solution to the extensive infrastructure of the VIDA platform including Harris’s own multi-channel MASTR V sites, Cisco routers, Symphony™ Dispatch Consoles, and many other proprietary and third party devices.

“We felt Harris needed a carrier-class IT Analytics platform that could supplement its existing monitoring capabilities, as well as provide enriched performance metrics,” says Centerity COO Marty Pejko. “Due to the unique advantages of our unified platform deliverable as a single software appliance, we were the only solution that could offer Harris and its clients the coverage capabilities needed to stay on top of all the critical IT services involved.”

Next Generation Partners: Centerity and Harris

This OEM relationship will transform the emergency network solutions landscape. Combining Centerity’s unique fully-featured, unified, approach to IT monitoring with Harris’s vast communications infrastructure options will serve as notice to the entire industry that there is a better way to analyze and manage emergency communications technology.

“We are very excited about the added value we’ll be passing on to our clients with Centerity,” says Joel Morgan, Engineering Manager at Harris Communications. “The cornerstone of Harris’ business is the reliability and extensibility of our clients’ networks. These clients cannot afford any downtime and we’ve found an ideal partner in Centerity to help us achieve the system performance and availability our customers demand.”

For more information on Harris’ PSPC Solution visit: www.pspc.harris.com

Click here to download our solution overview on Harris VIDA!

 

Centerity Blast – Cloud Hosted Monitoring on AWS!

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First & Only Enterprise Class IT Monitoring Platform in the Cloud for Frictionless Extensibility and Scalability

 

BOSTON – October 18th, 2016 — Centerity Systems, Inc. today announces its availability as a cloud hosted solution on AWS Marketplace.  Centerity is the pioneer vendor of a next-gen, end-to-end IT performance monitoring platform. Made for complex, hybrid environments (physical, virtual, application and cloud). Making Centerity Monitor the first and only enterprise and carrier class IT monitoring platform in the cloud for frictionless extensibility and scalability.

 

Centerity can monitor any device, application, or technology layer. Whether on-prem, in public or private clouds, collocated, distributed, or in remote locations. Centerity’s vast collection of enterprise and carrier class features are bundled into a unified platform (e.g., Business Service Management (BSM) process views, automatic discovery, dependency mapping, root cause analysis and proactive actions). It’s the only service-centric monitoring platform serving mid to large enterprises and managed and cloud service providers. With an all-in-one, cloud hosted software appliance, Centerity delivers the convenience of SaaS without having to sacrifice the performance, flexibility, and customizability that only Centerity can deliver. This new delivery model will reduce operational complexity, MTTR, and OPEX. Thus bringing Centerity’s Business Intelligence Layer and performance analytics to cloud-oriented customers. This new offering helps customers successfully roll-out enterprise and carrier class monitoring services on demand for assets in the cloud, on-prem, or operations that span both.

 

“Traditional SaaS monitoring solutions have focused on SMBs offering limited coverage and deployment options,” says Marty Pejko, COO of Centerity.  “With this announcement, Centerity is making available its enterprise and carrier class monitoring platform to mid and large enterprises and MSPs/CSPs who want the convenience of cloud-based SaaS while being highly configurable to meet the complex and varied needs of enterprises.  Now they have Centerity in the cloud with Centerity Blast!”

 

Per McKinsey & Co. in a recent survey, “77% of companies in 2015 used traditionally built IT infrastructure as the primary environment for at least one workload, and that the percentage of such deployments will drop to 43% in 2018.”  Centerity is ready to facilitate this transition while understanding that customers will need holistic monitoring and control functions for both cloud and on-prem assets via a single platform for some time to come.

 

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Or Read How Centerity Monitor supports Amazon CloudWatch for AWS.

 

About Centerity

Centerity Systems, Inc. is the pioneer vendor of a next-gen, end-to-end, IT monitoring platform. Made for complex, hybrid environments (physical, virtual, application and cloud). Centerity Monitor provides real-time business value and business analytics. Giving you the status, performance, and availability of all IT assets whether in the cloud or on-prem. Our unique, unified platform was named a Gartner Cool Vendor in ITOM. Centerity serves the needs of both IT executives and administrators while providing a complete Business Intelligence Layer across all IT assets. With our Business Service Management (BSM) capabilities, we give cross technical and functional domain impact and trend analysis.

 

 

 

Press Contact:

Erika Anderson

Marketing Manager

Centerity Systems
154 Wells Avenue
Newton MA, 02459
(617) 431-1959

erikaa@centerity.com

 

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Centerity Announces Support for Docker Containers

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Supporting the Frictionless Movement of Applications!

 

BOSTON – September 28th, 2016 — Centerity Systems, Inc. today announces its monitoring support for the DockerTM containerization platform.  Centerity is the vendor of the premier next-gen, end-to-end IT performance monitoring platform for complex, hybrid environments (physical, virtual, application, and cloud).  This comprehensive monitoring of Docker Containers will further support enterprises seeking environmental consistency, as well as greater application migration and operational efficiencies for virtualized applications.

 

Containerization is a method of virtualizing the operating system whereby applications and their dependencies are “contained” within resource-isolated processes.  Containers package the application code, runtime, system tools, libraries, and any other dependencies into a single wrapper to ensure that applications can be deployed quickly and reliably regardless of the deployment environment.  This provides for frictionless movement of applications between public and private clouds.  Containers also give organizations control over resources allocated to each container (memory, disk space, CPU) on an instance; thus, containerized applications can be scaled up or down dynamically.  Also, containers can be isolated or share resources for granular resource control.

 

Centerity gives complete visibility into these processes historically and in real-time to give administrators and executives actionable intelligence and analytics about performance, service levels, and availability of applications within containers, correlating data with the performance of the supporting infrastructure to facilitate frictionless application extensibility and scalability.  “Traditional application deployment struggled with variations in environmental dependencies and incompatibilities causing slow or limited application migration between public and private clouds,” says Marty Pejko, COO of Centerity. “With this announcement, Centerity signals its support for containerization and the virtualization of operating systems in addition to directly monitoring everything in the application and infrastructure layers to provide cross-domain impact and trend analysis.  Centerity’s end-to-end Business Intelligence Layer fills in the informational gaps that have traditionally hindered the movement of applications between public and private clouds.  Now, organizations can confidently move applications on demand while maintaining the visibility and control demanded by enterprises,” continues Marty.

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“Docker provides a completely open platform for developing distributed applications. Customers turn to Docker to build, run, and deploy portable cloud-ready applications” 

 

About Centerity

Centerity Systems, Inc. is the vendor of the premier next-gen, end-to-end IT monitoring platform for complex, hybrid environments (physical, virtual, application and cloud). Centerity Monitor provides real-time business value and business analytics regarding the status, performance, and availability of all IT assets whether in the cloud or on prem. Centerity’s unique, unified platform, named a Gartner Cool Vendor in ITOM, can serve the needs of both IT executives and administrators while providing a complete Business Intelligence Layer across all IT assets via cross-technical and functional domain impact and trend analysis through our Business Service Management (BSM) capabilities.

 

 

Press Contact:

Erika Anderson

Marketing Manager

Centerity Systems
154 Wells Avenue
Newton MA, 02459
(617) 431-1959

erikaa@centerity.com

 

 

Centerity Joins NetApp Technology Alliance Program

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Providing Full Stack Performance IT Monitoring of Big Data Applications on FlexPod

 

BOSTON – July 28th, 2016 – Centerity, the pioneer developer of a next-gen, unified performance monitoring and Business Service Management (BSM) platform for complex, hybrid environments, announces that it has joined NetApp’s Technology Alliance Program in support of FlexPod deployments of  Big Data Layer applications such as SAP HANA, Hadoop, and Oracle. This technical alliance will help Centerity provide NetApp’s clients with a business intelligence layer across its entire FlexPod® or next-gen data center environments delivering business analytics with proactive alerting and actionable intelligence to reduce operational complexity, MTTR, and OPEX.

 

With the introduction of Big Data platforms like SAP HANA and Hadoop, the need to simplify operational complexity and reduce MTTR and OPEX has never been greater.  What is needed is a business intelligence layer across the entire IT environment (physical, virtual, application, and cloud) to give both management and administrators real-time actionable intelligence regarding the status and performance of its key business processes.  This means collecting performance metrics not just from the infrastructure layer but also from the application layer, plus delivering the ability to correlate these metrics across these domains and present real-time operational analytics in a clear, intuitive way.

 

FlexPod provides a pre-tested, low-cost solution that is fully integrated: Cisco® Unified Computing System™ (UCS™) C-Series servers, NetApp® FAS Storage, Cisco Nexus® switches, and Cisco UCS Manager for an affordable, easy-to-deploy infrastructure solution.  This solution can reduce the number of servers and storage capacity required for Big Data applications, simplify the overall infrastructure, and present an optimized architecture with best-of-breed components.  FlexPod’s unique solution provides: (1) simplified management; (2) higher availability with less downtime; (3) flexible workload designs; (4) resiliency with hot spares and RAID protection; (5) improved storage efficiency and (6) efficient scaling.

 

“We are excited to partner with NetApp – the trusted leader in software, storage and converged and hyperconverged platforms,” said Marty Pejko, Chief Operations Officer for Centerity. “As demand for the Big Data Layer applications like SAP HANA and Hadoop continues to grow, NetApp and Centerity are well positioned to serve the increasing demand for these innovative platforms requiring speed, agility and service assurance.”

 

Centerity, through its Business Service Management (BSM) capabilities, can correlate performance metrics across all technology domains to display the status of critical business processes via executive dashboards. Also providing impact, trend, and root cause analytics for comprehensive service assurance.  To meet organizational service level requirements, two key capacities are essential.  First is the ability to anticipate problems and trigger an automated intervention before warnings become critical.  This is implemented by having both static and dynamic threshold alerts in place on both individual metrics and on overall business processes.  Second, because incidents usually impact more than one application, service dependency maps are key to performing rapid, root cause analysis. Centerity provides continuous threshold checks and alerts that can trigger an automated response based on the service dependency profiles on the platform.

 

 

 NetApp

About NetApp

Our mission has always been to help our customers achieve what matters most to them.

Leading organizations worldwide count on NetApp for software, systems and services to manage and store their data. Customers value our teamwork, expertise and passion for helping them succeed now and into the future. Our team is passionate about customer success. Our company culture and work environment support that dedication. Together with our global network of partners, we are united in one goal: to help our customers achieve the outcomes that matter most to them.

Visit www.netapp.com for more.

 

 

Centerity BSM Monitoring for SAP HANA

About Centerity

Centerity Systems, Inc. is the pioneering vendor of a next-gen, end-to-end, IT monitoring platform for complex, hybrid environments (physical, virtual, application and cloud). Centerity Monitor provides business value and real-time business analytics regarding the status, performance and availability of all IT assets whether in the cloud or on prem. Centerity’s unique, unified platform, named a Gartner Cool Vendor in ITOM, can serve the needs of both IT executives and administrators while providing a complete Business Intelligence Layer across all IT assets via cross technical and functional domain impact and trend analysis through its Business Service Management (BSM) capabilities.  Learn more at www.centerity.com

 

Centerity, Centerity Systems and Centerity Monitor are trademarks or registered trademarks of Centerity Systems, Inc., Centerity LTD., or its subsidiaries in the US and/or other countries.  All other product and service names mentioned are the trademarks of their respective companies.

 

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Press Contact:

Erika Anderson

Marketing Manager

Centerity Systems
154 Wells Avenue
Newton MA, 02459
(617) 431-1959

erikaa@centerity.com

 

Full Stack Monitoring

SAPPHIRE NOW 2016: Full Stack Monitoring for SAP HANA

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Marty Pejko speaks in SUSE’s booth on Holistic BSM & Full Stack Monitoring of SAP HANA!

 

The Centerity Systems crew were recently at SAPPHIRE NOW 2016! Our COO, Marty Pejko, spoke in SUSE‘s booth on holistic Business Service Management (BSM), full-stack monitoring for SAP HANA, and Big Data applications.

 

Traditionally, the approach is to use multiple vendor point tools to monitor individual technology layers (physical, virtual,m network, OS, application, cloud). Doing that create silos of data with no actionable intelligence. What’s needed is a next-gen platform that provides a unified approach for end-to-end coverage. Including business analytics, business process views, and cross-domain impact analysis to reduce operational complexity, MTTR, and OPEX.

 

CLICK HERE to view the complete Full Stack Monitoring for SAP HANA slide deck used throughout SAPPHIRE NOW 2016!

 

Marty Pejko, COO at SAP SAPPHIRE NOW