Cloud Computing: VMware Adds Seven Analytics Content Packs to vCenter
August 19, 2013
Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Chris Talbot.
VMware (VMW) beefed up its analytics capabilities for machine data in its vCenter Log Insight product by releasing seven new content packs from various technology partners. The content packs were developed to enable vCenter Log Insight to consume unstructured data from a wider variety of sources while at the same time providing customers with more valuable insights into their data so they can more precisely and accurately identify and troubleshoot issues in virtual and cloud environments.
"Now our partners can target the broad VMware vSphere install base by augmenting VMware’s analytics capabilities, and customers can go to our marketplace and get up-to date domain or purpose-built content packs for their specific deployments," said Ramin Sayar, senior vice president and general manager of cloud management at VMware, in a prepared statement…
The new content packs come from Cisco Systems (CSCO), EMC (EMC), HyTrust, NetApp (NTAP), NetFlow Logic, Puppet Labs and VCE. With these additions, VMware is aiming to take a leading position in log analytics. The company noted in its announcement that machine-generated log data "contains valuable operational and diagnostics details regarding IT infrastructure" that can help identify and troubleshoot IT problems…
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