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Implementing Successful Proactive IT Performance Strategy

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“Enterprise analytics provides speed and accuracy, which means getting the information needed to make a decision in a matter of minutes, not hours. It means being able to fix performance issues before users notice there’s a problem”


How to Implement a successful Proactive IT strategy?
Prerequisite to be proactive is seeing the entire IT environment. There are 3 main guidelines in order to get there:

  1. The user has information when and where he needs it.
  2. The user discovers new insights via easy-to-consume Visualized interface.
  3. The user is part of a complex, extensive and interconnected software landscape (Vs. looking at silos of data).

The only way IT experts can satisfy each prerequisite and have an immediate, clear visibility to their entire IT stack is via Unified Performance Analytics Platform. Such platforms is designed to be flexible and is already geared to Auto Discover what’s going on your entire IT environment, within the very first day, every day. 

This is another way how a Unified IT Performance Analytics solution ensures speed, which is key value for any IT Operation success. How proactive an IT expert can be is an indication of the completeness and the flexibility of the solution they have.

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About Centerity

Centerity’s award winning software provides a 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.

Overcoming Conflicting Demands for Improved Performance and Reduced Costs in IT Operations

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Enterprise service is not operationally ready until its entire IT stack is analyzed in a comprehensive and accurate way.

The only cost-effective way to do it is through a Unified Performance Analytics Platform. Such methodology is unique as it is built as one piece of a software that goes beyond collecting and organizing data alone. It provides an intuitive visualization and clear context for the information gathered.

Having such platform reduces MTTR and overheads and expands the real time visibility that is brought to your management dashboard, 24X7. Together with it’s inherited Flexibility and easy configuration set up, business units ensure a dramatic and immediate performance improvement together with overall reduced costs.

How well IT experts address contradicting demands is an indication of the completeness of the software solution the have. How quickly IT pros adapt to  change is a matter of the flexibility of their product. How rapidly they identify root causes and generate reports is an indication of the value of their product (reduces MTTR). How fast they to satisfy  business needs is a matter of what Analytics platform they have.

Interested to learn more? here you’ll discover how to implement a successful Proactive IT Strategy?

About Centerity

Centerity’s award winning software provides a 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.

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CENTERITY AT GLOBAL SAP TECHED 2017: SUPPORTING COMMUNITY INNOVATION AND DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

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Last  month in Las Vegas, Marty Pejko met with SAP experts and community leaders to discuss how Big Data (HANA, Hadoop) customers can capture critical performance and operational analytics to help maximize the return on its investments.

 Marty also met our long-time partners Dell-EMC (Vblock, VxRail, Vision), Cisco (FlexPod), Nutanix and Pure Storage (FlashStack).

While converged and hyperconverged architectures will speed deployments, these by themselves lack comprehensive performance and operational analytics at the Application and OS layers, where 90% of failures occur. This is where Centerity comes in. 

Marty Pejco, COO Centerity with Lawrence Wilcox, Director of Strategic Alliance, Nutanix

Centerity can capture all performance and operational metrics from the Application, OS and Infrastructure Layers, correlating these metrics across all domains to provide smart impact, alerting and root cause analysis. Furthermore, if multiple systems or architectures are involved, Centerity’s visualization tools can simplify the operations of these complex environments in immediately intuitive ways.

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ABOUT CENTERITY

Centerity’s award winning software provides a 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 SPEEDS APACHE KAFKA WITH MONITORING & PERFORMANCE ANALYTICS

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Real Life Scenario:

In retail chain stores it’s common to have RFID sensors on the shelves, that need to send data to the warehouse and make an order for the missing stock. Apache Kafka is a popular platform used by big-box retailers as they need big-data platforms to support their activity. There’s a potential risk of loosing money if it’s not identified in time that the Kafka stream doesn’t work and doesn’t transfer the message that the retailer is out of stock. In this case, the empty shelf would not be filled up and the retailer would be unprofitable.

Overview

APACHE-KAFKA Diagram, from: https://kafka.apache.org/

Apache Kafka is an open-source stream processing platform developed by the Apache Software Foundation written in Scala and Java. Kafka is used for building real-time data pipelines and streaming apps. It is horizontally scalable, fault-tolerant, wicked fast, and runs in production in thousands of companies. 

Additionally, Kafka connects to external systems (for data import/export) via Kafka Connect and provides Kafka Streams, a Java stream processing library.

Optimizing Apache Kafka Performance

Apache Kafka is a Big Data platform operating distributed applications running on large clusters of hardware so chances are big for down time and data motion interruptions. Kafka users, having a complex IT environment, must-have a clear end-to-end monitoring and performance view of their business key performance metrics. They need to align delivery expectations with required levels of service availability and performance for both external and internal customers (SLA/OLA).

How Centerity Improves Apache Kafka processes?

Centerity’s unified IT performance analytics platform supports Apache Kafka data intensive framework and is a certified for a variety of Hadoop distributions which Kafka may be implemented with. Centerity provides, real-time end to end visibility to the entilr Kafka environment stack including  Hardware, OS, Networking, Systems, Applications and more.

  1. Centerity’s integration with Apache Kafka includes selected, best practice metrics with a flexibility to add custom metrics from JMX and change alert thresholds.
  1. The implementation is quick because Centerity provides Unified platform which is installable as a single software appliance.
  1. Centerity continuously cycles through the system collecting metrics from each device or application in scope and normalizes this data for cross-domain, impact, trend and root cause analysis.
  1. Executive Dashboards present Real-time service levels of key business process that can be drilled into for deeper inspection.
  1. Dynamic thresholds are triggered and issued before warnings become critical and while proactive actions can be taken.
  1. History data can be analyzed for continuous process improvements.

About Centerity

Centerity’s award winning software provides a 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.

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