Lyatiss offers free cloud network management tool for AWS
June 6, 2013
Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Shamus McGillicuddy.
French cloud network management and orchestration vendor Lyatiss is offering a free tool that discovers and maps IaaS resources that an enterprise has in Amazon Web Services. CloudWeaver Discovery is the first product available from Lyatiss’s suite of CloudWeaver tools, which will include analysis and orchestration modules in future releases. "There’s always been a concern about Amazon sprawl," said Bob Laliberte, senior analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group.
"Instead of going to the finance department to figure out who’s got instances up on Amazon, with this you are able to take a more holistic and corporate-wide view and understand who’s using it and how they are using it." CloudWeaver Discovery finds Amazon resources and provides a topology map for IT administrators. The Web-based product delivers real-time, graphical flow maps and reports for virtual machines and network services such as load balancers…
The tool shows how different resources are interconnected and how they are organized into regions and availability zones. "It’s a logical rather than physical view," Laliberte said. "This is about topology mapping and reporting, rather than performance. It allows them to go out and take a look at what they have and then think about how they can rein in that sprawl."…
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