EMC VSPEX & Brocade Business Partner
HIGHLIGHTS
Partner Products
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Centerity Monitor
Brocade Product Suites
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VDX 6740
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Gen5 SAN
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ICX Ethernet
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Brocade Network Advisor
EMC Product Suites
UNIFIED MONITORING - VSPEX & BROCADE
Centerity is a next-gen, enterprise-class and carrier-class, unified IT monitoring
platform for complex, hybrid IT environments. Centerity provides end-to-end, holistic
IT coverage (physical, virtual, application and cloud assets) delivering real-time
business analytics regarding the status, performance and availability of all IT assets
and business processes within all the VSPEX Reference Architectures.
Named a Gartner Cool Vendor in IT Operations, Centerity serves the needs of the
entire organization (MSPs, CSPs, Mid to Large Enterprises), from IT executives to
administrators, while providing a complete business intelligence layer across all IT
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VSPEX
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VNX
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VMAX
Centerity’s unique, unified platform is deployable as a single software appliance
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Symmetrix
containing all the features and functionality an organization will need pre-bundled and
Solution Highlights
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Target Market: MSPs/CSPs &
assets via cross-domain impact, trend and root cause analysis of systemic health.
pre-integrated for superior Time-to-Value (TTV), Total-Cost-of-Ownership (TCO) and
Return-on-Investment (ROI) characteristics.
Mid to Large Enterprises
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IT Monitoring End-to-End
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Physical, Virtual, Application &
Cloud Coverage
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Business Service Management
PROBLEM STATEMENT – LEGACY TOOLS
Legacy IT monitoring systems: (1) lack holistic, systemic and correlated views of
systems, applications and services; (2) create silos of data rather than actionable
(BSM)
information; (3) lack cross-technical and cross-functional domain correlation and
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Business Analytics
impact analysis; and (4) can’t provide management with the real-time status of its
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Impact, Predictive, Trend &
critical business processes or measure SLA compliance.
Root Cause Analysis
Legacy solutions come in two forms. The first consists of comprehensive solutions that
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End User Experience (EUX)
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Multi-Tenanted Capabilities
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Federated Scalability
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SAP HANA, Hadoop, NoSQL
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Unified, Software Appliance
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Auto Discovery & Alerts
What is needed is a unified approach that collects all IT metrics systemically,
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Visualization, Ticketing & CMDB
normalizes and correlates this data for business impact and trend analysis across all
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OpenStack Coverage
domains creating real-time actionable intelligence for managers and administrators.
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Superior TTV, TCO & ROI
suffer from features being bolted on via acquisition thus lack any unified or consistent
approach while being expensive to deploy and difficult to maintain. The second
consists of point solutions provided by different vendors focused on individual
technology silos that create islands of data with no cross-domain correlation.
NEXT-GEN MONITORING – VSPEX & BROCADE
Centerity’s next-generation approach created a unified platform, deliverable as a
single installable software appliance, whereby MSPs, CSPs, and Mid to Large
Enterprises can: (1) view its entire IT environment, end-to-end, via a single pane of
glass; (2) implement Business Service Management (BSM) facilities whereby a
company can define and run its business based on its critical business processes and
services thus aligning IT’s deliverables with organizational goals; (3) receive
actionable intelligence and business analytics from impact correlations across
technical and functional domains; (4) obtain predictive, trend and smart root cause
analysis to dramatically reduce mean-time-to-restore (MTTR); (5) give management
real-time executive dashboards and reports so companies can measure performance
and availability of critical services against organizational SLAs; and (6) achieve these
goals in a timely, cost-effective and efficient manner.
BROCADE & EMC CERTIFIED INTEGRATIONS
Centerity has Brocade-certified integrations with Brocade’s VDX 6740, Gen5 SAN and
ICX Ethernet product suites and with Brocade’s Network Advisor (BNA) Management
tool to deliver complete monitoring coverage to dynamic data centers migrating to the
3rd Platform of IT Innovation with EMC’s VSPEX Reference Architectures. These pretested, EMC-Certified and Brocade-Certified solutions are for customers who want
deployment flexibility with the OPEX and CAPEX advantages of a trusted, widely
deployed reference architecture.
Brocade is the proven leader in data center Ethernet fabrics that provide the
foundation for cloud-optimized networks and highly virtualized data centers. Ethernet
fabrics built on Brocade VCS Fabric technology provide unprecedented fabric
scalability for the world’s most critical data center environments.
TECHNICAL ADVANTAGES
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Facilitating the 3rd Platform of IT Innovation
Unified Platform with All Features Included
Single Installable Software Appliance
Broad Agentless and Agent-based Capture Methodologies
Federated Scalability & Multi-tenanted Efficiencies
BUSINESS ADVANTAGES
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Business Intelligence Layer across the entire IT Environment
Proactive Actions & Management with Executive Dashboards
Business Service Management (BSM) Process Views & SLA Reporting
Business Analytics with Impact, Trend & Root Cause Analysis
Optimize CAPEX & OPEX
ABOUT CENTERITY
Centerity Systems, Inc. (www.centerity.com) is the pioneer provider of an All-in-One, enterprise-class and carrier-class IT
monitoring platform for complex, hybrid environments (physical, virtual, application and cloud). Centerity is changing the rules of
monitoring by providing a next-generation, unified platform creating a business intelligence layer across all IT assets enabling
proactive actions and business analytics regarding the performance, availability and utilization of the entire IT environment.