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Cirba™ Unveils Optimization Service for Public Cloud and On-Premise Virtual Infrastructure
Cirba, Inc. today unveiled an analytics service, Densify™, for
optimizing public cloud and on-premise virtual infrastructure. The
Densify service is the next evolution of SaaS (News - Alert) as it combines the
organization's predictive and real-time optimization analytics with an
assigned Densification Advisor™, eliminating the burden of learning,
operating, managing and maintaining software. Cirba also announced it is
rebranding to Densify, reflecting the company's strategic value
proposition to reduce cloud and infrastructure costs while also
improving application performance. The Densify service offers fast time
to value, ease of adoption and use and the greatest potential for
savings in the market through the industry's most powerful optimization
engine. For a limited time, customers can start with Densify service
free for the first 14 days.
"Based on our experience, we know that organizations desperately want to
reduce their cloud bill and show highly utilized infrastructure, but
there are only so many hours in the day," said Gerry Smith, CEO of
Densify. "We understand that IT is looking for more than a software
product - they want outcomes. They are looking for experts who can tune
and watch over the automated analytics; they want to know that someone
is there for them, helping them deliver results - not another management
and maintenance burden."
Driving Immediate Business Value With a unique combination
of SaaS-based analytics and the Densification Advisor service, Densify
is a complete service for automated optimization of public, on-premise
or hybrid cloud infrastructures. With Densify, companies automate
virtual machine (VM) placement and resource allocation actions to
proactively remove risk and drive the lowest unit cost. The new service
also offers precise, data-driven cloud migration and transformation
strategies and real-time hybrid and multi-cloud workload placements. One
of the key benefits of Densify is that it delivers better application
performance with the highest asset utilization and lowest public cloud
spend without requiring any special training. The service is up
and running within 15 minutes, maximizing efficiency, simplicity and
results for customers under the guidance of the Densification Advisor.
"Densify serves as the 'brain' of our customers' environments,
right-sizing them, taking the guess work out of adding new applications,
and determining the best way to leverage cloud," said Andrew Hillier,
CTO and co-founder of Densify. "The analytics engine is extremely robust
and has the ability to model some really advanced modernization
techniques such as stacking workloads in bare metal clouds or optimizing
container placement within a public cloud instance, which can save
upwards of 80 percent of thecloud bill for some customers. Our approach
is completely different from other products that are reactionary and
can't offer any visibility or insight into the reasoning or best
practices of cloud utilization."
The new service offering delivers immediate business value in these key
areas:
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Reduced Cloud Costs - Densify examines detailed public
cloud utilization and billing data to help customers actively reduce
costs for services such as Amazon Web Services (AWS)®,
Microsoft (News - Alert) Azure®, Google® Cloud Platform and IBM®
SoftLayer®. Densify leverages workload pattern analysis and
industry benchmarks to enable more advanced optimization of cloud
usage. For customers, this translates into savings of 41% on average.
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Reduced Infrastructure Requirements - In bare metal clouds and
on-premise infrastructure, such as an internal VMware®
environment, Densify analyzes workload patterns to right-size
allocations and strategically place VMs. Densify is the only solution
that can dovetail workloads to increase density by an average of 48%,
resulting in a savings of 33%.
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Better Performing Applications - Densify's predictive analytics
leverage historical patterns to model what a workload is going to do
in the future. This enables Densify to automatically and proactively
place and size VMs to avoid compute and storage risks. It also
provides real-time responses to address operational anomalies and
unexpected resource shortfalls.
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Optimized Application Placement and Transformation - Densify
reviews all application requirements and workload patterns to
automatically place workloads in the best hosting environments whether
in the cloud or on-premise according to requirements, cost and
strategic priorities. It also provides detailed cloud migration and
technology refresh plans.
Addressing Cloud Infrastructure Market Challenges Despite a
growing desire to move to the cloud, many organizations remain concerned
about the complexity and risk of such a transition, the scarcity of
skilled resources that truly understand new cloud environments, and the
time and costs required to manage these new implementations. Other cloud
optimization solutions require companies to learn and manage tools,
which is resource intensive. At the same time, these offerings lack deep
analytics to truly identify how to reduce and control operating costs
and risk, putting customers in an ongoing reactive mode with ever
escalating operating expenses. In contrast, Densify's deep,
pattern-based workload analysis provides sophisticated cloud
optimization capabilities through right-sizing and advanced hosting
strategies, such as leveraging containers. With this unique approach,
Densify safely reduces cloud spend by 20 to 80 percent.
"Enterprises are often painfully reminded by their monthly AWS and Azure
bills that shoveling their apps to public cloud can lead to
unpredictable OPEX," said Torsten Volk, Managing Director, Hybrid Cloud
& Infrastructure Management, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA (News - Alert)).
"Our research shows that cost control is the number one priority in
hybrid cloud operations, driving demand for a solution that increases
the efficiency of public cloud use and provides guidance regarding which
public cloud service offers the desired compromise between risk and
cost. Densify's service provides exactly this analytics and control
layer to instantly optimize existing application environments and show
how future environments will be deployed in a policy driven and cost
effective manner. This gets even more interesting when considering the
new economics introduced by container-as-a-service offerings and by
server-less functions."
Pricing, Availability and Free Usage Period The new service
is available immediately to customers. Pricing is based on service tiers
and platform. For a limited time, Densify is enabling customers to start
for free for 14 days. Users can get started with Densify within 15
minutes. For more information or to get started for free, visit www.densify.com.
About Densify™ Densify has re-imagined infrastructure
optimization and control for the hybrid cloud era. Its optimized service
delivers operational simplicity while scientifically balancing
infrastructure supply and application demand to maximize efficiency and
cost savings while enabling better performance. For more information,
visit www.densify.com
or follow us on Twitter (News - Alert) @Densify.
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