Big news coming for DevOps: What you need to know

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2. PAG E 2 O F 12 SPONSORED BY Home VMware analytics wade into DevOps monitoring fray VMware cloud strategy claims new territory with Wavefront acquisition VMWARE’S ROLE IN THE GROWING DEVOPS CULTURE evOps is sweeping through the IT world andVMwareislookingtohelpitgrow.See how VMware’s recent acquisition better positions them to fend off their competi- tion and leverage the cloud as they move forward. D

3. PAG E 3 O F 12 SPONSORED BY Home VMware analytics wade into DevOps monitoring fray VMware cloud strategy claims new territory with Wavefront acquisition VMWARE’S ROLE IN THE GROWING DEVOPS CULTURE VMWARE ANALYTICS WADE INTO DEVOPS MONITORING FRAY Beth Pariseau, Senior News Writer A VMware analytics acquisition this week seeks to win over the hearts and minds of progressive enterprises as part of a bigger -- and still hazy -- foray for the virtualization company into microservices and DevOps. The addition of Wavefront, a Palo Alto, Calif., startup, offers support for large enterprises to manage VMware analytics as they shift to microservices by capturing more granular infrastructure data than VMware tools currently provide.ThemoveisalsomeanttoraiseVMware’sprofileamongappdevelop- ment and DevOps teams. Wavefront will add the ability to normalize logs and other data generated byinfrastructure,aswellasbyotherapplicationmonitoringtools,intometrics for rapid analysis. Wavefront’s analytics on that data -- claimed to be over 100 original algorithms -- can help IT pros get to the root of problems and predict how the infrastructure will behave. Such capabilities have largely been the domain of large web-scale IT shops with massive infrastructures to manage,

4. PAG E 4 O F 12 SPONSORED BY Home VMware analytics wade into DevOps monitoring fray VMware cloud strategy claims new territory with Wavefront acquisition VMWARE’S ROLE IN THE GROWING DEVOPS CULTURE as well as progressive enterprises that develop cloud-native, microservices- based apps. VMware already offers VM and infrastructure management and monitoring with its vRealize products, but microservices are a different animal. The vRealize tools collect information every five minutes, for example, which may not be fast enough to capture transitory container-based microservices. By comparison, Wavefront’s software can sample infrastructure data every second. Microservices may also involve an order of magnitude more objects and services than are present in a VM infrastructure -- Wavefront can collect a million data points per second and analyze them simultaneously. ITanalyticsisaburgeoningfield,withdozensofcompanieshavingentered thespaceinrecentyears.ForresterResearchcounts60suchcompaniesonthe market, and thosearejusttheonesthattargetIT,withdozensmorethattarget the general line of business, said Milan Hanson, an analyst at Forrester. Hanson predicted further consolidation as big players such as VMware look to capitalize on analytics companies’ foot in the door with progressive DevOps shops. “I don’t think the market can sustain 60 different players,” he said. Wavefront’sclaimtofameinthiscrowdedmarket--nowpartofVMware’s

5. PAG E 5 OF 12 SPONSORED BY Home VMware analytics wade into DevOps monitoring fray VMware cloud strategy claims new territory with Wavefront acquisition VMWARE’S ROLE IN THE GROWING DEVOPS CULTURE analytics intellectual property -- has been its query-centric interface, which can parse sophisticated questions to figure out what’s going on in a complex infrastructure, said Nancy Gohring, an analyst at 451 Research. “It’sthewaylargeweb-scale[shops]dotroubleshooting--theykeepasking questions until they find the root of the problem,” Gohring said. This is more efficient than dashboard-based monitoring, provided the operator knows what they’re doing. “It’s harder to use for enterprises just be- ginning to adopt modern infrastructure,” she said. Wavefront also introduced canned dashboards to accommodate this type of IT user last June. COMPETITORS ERODE VMWARE ANALYTICS CUSTOMER BASE Wavefront can act as a manager of managers, ingesting and correlating data betweenexistingtoolsthroughoutahybridcloudinfrastructure,whichissimi- lar to VMware’s goals with vRealize tools. But there’s no guarantee this new combination will increase VMware’s relevance among progressive IT teams, ascompetitorsinITanalyticsalreadydobriskbusinesswithinVMware’scus- tomer base. OpsDataStore, for example, this week claimed an industry first in root- cause analysis and infrastructure mapping -- historically the domain of the

6. PAG E 6 OF 12 SPONSORED BY Home VMware analytics wade into DevOps monitoring fray VMware cloud strategy claims new territory with Wavefront acquisition VMWARE’S ROLE IN THE GROWING DEVOPS CULTURE vRealizesuitefromVMware.Thecompany’sDynamicTopologyMappingcan establish the relationships between transactions, applications, and their vir- tualandphysicalinfrastructureeveryminute,anditreportedlysolvesacorre- lationproblembetweenapplicationmonitoringandchangemanagementtools. One large VMware shop has already left vRealize in favor of monitoring withtoolsthatincludeCisco’sAppDynamicsandTurbonomic,withOpsDataS- tore as an umbrella over them all. The company, Navis, maker of software that runsshippingportsaroundtheworld,hasbeguntouseanalyticstopredictthe availabilityofITresourcesonaglobalscaleandplaceworkloadsappropriately. OpsDataStore’s correlations also make it easy to prioritize troubleshoot- ingonmission-criticalsystems,saidDaveMcCandless,vicepresidentofITat Navis, based in Oakland, Calif. “VRealizeissomethingIcouldlookatagaininthefuture,butTurbonomic and OpsDataStore already put a stake in the ground,” he said. Navis has begun to look at the new Dynamic Topology Mapping for root-cause analysis in an infrastructure composed of thousands of VMs.

7. PAG E 7 O F 12 SPONSORED BY Home VMware analytics wade into DevOps monitoring fray VMware cloud strategy claims new territory with Wavefront acquisition VMWARE’S ROLE IN THE GROWING DEVOPS CULTURE VMWARE USERS WANT CLARITY VMware’slargestandmostentrenchedcustomersstilllooktothecompanyfor helpastheymoveforwardintomicroservicesinfrastructuresandDevOpssoft- ware development techniques. Those companies still need updated VMware analytics tools to help modernize their approach. Varian Medical Systems Inc., a medical devices company based in Palo Alto, Calif., has a massive private data center infrastructure, but also uses Mi- crosoft Azure and Amazon Web Services public cloud platforms, and it wants to unify management across them. No human can sift through all the metrics associated with such an environment, which is where Wavefront’s analytics would come in. “It seems like VMware is playing catch-up and they’re behind the curve, which would explain the acquisition of Wavefront,” said Jason Greenback, systems engineer with Varian. “But for me as a customer, there’s not a lot of clarity about their portfolio.” Due to confusion about VMware’s overall strategic direction, Varian has also begun to look into vRealize competitors such as RightScale and Cisco’s CliQr.

8. PAG E 8 OF 12 SPONSORED BY Home VMware analytics wade into DevOps monitoring fray VMware cloud strategy claims new territory with Wavefront acquisition VMWARE’S ROLE IN THE GROWING DEVOPS CULTURE BETH PARISEAU is senior news writer for TechTarget’s Data Center and Virtualization Media Group. Write to her at bpariseau@techtarget.com or follow @PariseauTT on Twitter. VMWARE CLOUD STRATEGY CLAIMS NEW TERRITORY WITH WAVEFRONT ACQUISITION Brian Kirsch, IT Architect, Instructor Inamajordepartureforthecompany--andamajorstepupinitscloudstrategy -- VMware acquired cross-cloud monitoring, metrics and analytics company Wavefront in April 2017. VMware’s journey to the cloud has been rocky, to say theleast,butitisn’tforlackoftrying.Previousefforts,suchasvCloudDirector andtheshort-livedvCloudAir,havefailedtoseriouslycompetewithofferings fromlarge-scalecloudproviderslikeAmazonWebServicesandAzure.Despite thesestumblingblocks,VMwarehascontinuedtomovetowardthecloudinan attempt to combat rising license costs associated with scaling, and the company might have found its place in this new ecosystem. The foundation of the new and improved VMware cloud strategy is

9. PAG E 9 OF 12 SPONSORED BY Home VMware analytics wade into DevOps monitoring fray VMware cloud strategy claims new territory with Wavefront acquisition VMWARE’S ROLE IN THE GROWING DEVOPS CULTURE partnerships,particularlythecompany’srecentpartnershipwithAmazonWeb Services (AWS). As part of this partnership, an administrator can now run a VMware infrastructure inside AWS. Administrators are now able to try out a relatively new technology -- cloud -- from the comfort of an infrastructure theyalreadyknowwell.Ideally,thiswillspeedtheadoptionofadditionalcloud resources because VMware already offers infrastructure and NSX portability betweenonsiteandthecloud,whicheliminatestheissueofmovingandrecon- figuring workloads. VMWARE SEIZES AN OPPORTUNITY There’s just one thing missing from this plan: monitoring. AWS, Azure, IBM andothercloudprovidersoffersomelevelofmonitoring,butit’softenfractured acrossmultipletoolsfromthird-partyvendors.Thesecloudprovidersempha- size the portability and configuration of workloads, but stop paying attention once workloads reach their destinations. As you can imagine, this leaves a pretty big hole, one most IT personnel aren’t happy to see. Although VMware hasitsownmonitoringsoftwareandtools,they’redesignedforinfrastructure, not the cloud. Rather than try to develop its own cloud monitoring products, VMwaredecidedtopurchaseamatureofferingandintegrateitintoitssoftware

10. PAG E 10 O F 12 SPONSORED BY Home VMware analytics wade into DevOps monitoring fray VMware cloud strategy claims new territory with Wavefront acquisition VMWARE’S ROLE IN THE GROWING DEVOPS CULTURE stack, much like it did with AirWatch. Data centers are typically in a state of flux as workloads move not just to thecloud,buttomultipledifferentcloudsdependingontheworkload,specialty and cost. Although the cost-saving aspect of multicloud appeals to the business side, it fractures tools and management on the IT side. Some monitoring products operate as a single pane of glass, but it’s rare to find one that does it all. Many come close, though, and share a common subset of products, which isgoodenoughformostdatacenters.However,thechallengewithpubliccloud is that these monitoring products have different owners and a varied set of interfaces depending on the services the cloud offers. WAVEFRONT IS GOOD FOR BUSINESS VMware already had its own set of monitoring tools for data center infrastructure, but didn’t have much in place for the private cloud and even less for public cloud. Therefore, it made more sense for VMware to purchase a unified cross-cloudmonitoringtoolratherthanbuildonefromscratch.TheWavefront acquisition gives VMware quick entry into a cloud market in serious need of attention. It’s also good for business. VMware intends to position Wavefront asabusinesstoolthatbalancescosts,cloudperformanceandlocaldatacenter

11. PAG E 11 OF 12 SPONSORED BY Home VMware analytics wade into DevOps monitoring fray VMware cloud strategy claims new territory with Wavefront acquisition VMWARE’S ROLE IN THE GROWING DEVOPS CULTURE services with customer experience. This data-driven approach will help managers and staff make more enlightened decisions about what types of environ- ments they use. This move helps solidify the VMware cloud strategy in a market in which the company has had very mixed results. Although VMware owns a large per- centage of the data center, when it comes to cloud, AWS and Azure still reign supreme. The Wavefront acquisition allows VMware to own a slice of the pie that no one has stepped forward to claim ownership of rather than go head to head with competitors. Though it comes with some challenges -- namely inte- gration and dealing with ever-changing APIs and interfaces from major cloud providers -- this purchase looks to be a smart move forward for the VMware cloud strategy.

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