EMA Impact Brief:Entuity EYE 2011 Paves Private Cloud Path
In late November 2010, Entuity announced the availability of a major upgrade to its Eye of the Storm (EYE) network management solution, EYE Enterprise 2011. The release adds significant new functionality specifically designed to aid organizations needing to adapt network management strategies to accommodate virtualization within data centers as well as make progress on the path towards internal private Cloud. Enhancements have also been made for further leveraging application aware monitoring sources, such as IP SLA and NetFlow, improving overall system efficacy through a  new browser-based operator interface, and substantially refreshed reporting capabilities. Further, the release includes a long list of workflow and visibility improvements. Read more...

IAIT Product Test: Eye of the Storm 2011 Enterprise 
With Eye of the Storm 2011 Enterprise, Entuity offers a network management solution for data centers which monitors network components using SNMP and similar technologies, analyzes data transfers within the network, and provides administrators visibility to applications, SLAs, and virtual infrastructures. IAIT closely examined the product, paying particular attention to newly added features of this software solution. Read more...

How Enterprises Can Avoid Event Management Overload
Tackling the twin problems of how to gain more value from IT infrastructure events and how to deal with the sheer volume of events remains an issue for most organizations. In this Gartner Research Note, Jonah Kowall, Gartner Research Director, examines current challenges and the potential value of emerging technologies in this area. If you are a Gartner subscriber, you can read the note here...

NOTABLE QUOTES

Quote, attributed to Jim Frey, Managing Research Director - Network Management, Enterprise Management Associates
“Entuity continues to impress with its focus on continuous improvement in core features and capabilities of the EYE platform while also adding support for new technologies.  Network managers will appreciate EYE 2012’s extended support for virtual switches, the improved discovery accuracy, and the new streamlined user interface.  Of special note are the major changes made to the charting features in the operator console, which open new realms of scope and flexibility to shorten diagnostic and reporting workflows.

Quote, attributed to Bojan Simic, President and Principal Analyst, TRAC Research“With the release of EYE 2011 Updraft, Entuity continues to focus on those areas of network management that provide the most value to customers while helping them reduce the time and effort required to obtain actionable results. It is good to see that this release of EYE is focusing on two of the key pain points for network management that end-user organizations are reporting: managing virtualized environments and measuring the business impact of network performance.

Quote, attributed to Jim Frey, Managing Research Director, Network Management, Enterprise Management Associates “Entuity has long focused on delivering a comprehensive set of network management capabilities with their EYE solution. With the release of EYE 2011 Updraft, Entuity has continued raising the bar by adding more functionality for managing virtualized environments, multi-vendor support for configuration management, and significant new levels of flexibility for customizing dashboards and reports. Entuity’s ability to deliver such breadth in a single system makes them a worthy alternative to traditional enterprise-class network management platforms.”

Quote, attributed to Bojan Simic, Principle Analyst, Trac Research
"Organizations are becoming more interested in taking a unified approach for managing the performance of IT services that would allow them to have full visibility into how different infrastructure parts are impacting the quality of end-user experience. The integration with Entuity's EYE product adds a network management piece to application performance management and end-user experience monitoring, providing more visibility across different parts of the application delivery chain."