PRODUCTS >> WHY XANGATI?

Live “Video-Like” Visibility:  Because Real-Time Is Not Enough
Real-time used to be the holy grail, providing visibility into the current data without any processing queues or delays.

 
The problem is once the report or view is generated in real-time – it begins to age, to lose its luster, to deviate further and further from reality. Sure you could press refresh and generate another real-time report or view – but then it ages as well.

Traditional management solutions based on polling data claim to provide real-time visibility. Unfortunately their polling intervals are typically 15-30 minutes, with minimum settings of polls every few minutes. This means that while they do in fact give a real-time view of whatever their database has – their database only has a swiss cheese view of reality based on 15-minute views or only four views per hour. Would you care to drive your car for an hour opening your eyes only four times? 

Xangati never closes its eyes. Xangati captures the dynamic performance changes that are routine in the virtual world, the dynamic performance changes that come and go in the “blink of an eye”, the dynamic performance changes that disrupt the world you are charged with managing.

So called real-time solutions leave blind spots – the spots in between measurements such tools just can’t see. And what you can’t see, you can’t manage. Traders on Wall Street get live streaming views updated second by second into changing prices. Similarly, the only way to see hiccups in performance is to have visibility down to-the-second for the end-user, application or server that is being investigated. Without live, “video-like”, streaming visibility intermittent performance issues will linger causing unnecessary grief, pain and expense. Your existing tools are good for many things – just not investigation/troubleshooting, managing virtualization, verifying changes or even alarm triage. For those you need the dynamic, live visibility uniquely provided by Xangati. 

Seamless Management of Both Your Virtual and Physical Infrastructures
Xangati can track anything that has a presence on an IP infrastructure, which includes IP-networked devices (e.g., hypervisors, VMs, iSCSI targets, thin clients, VoIP phones, physical servers, etc.), applications and network interfaces. For any of these elements, Xangati is aware of their application interactions with the rest of the infrastructure. The focus on interactions is essential as it shows the relationships between elements within your virtual ecosystem and between your virtual and physical domains. Only through this visibility can you see if elements on your infrastructure are communicating in the way you would expect. And because everything that is tracked is not only presented live, but has a history with it, you can monitor changes you make to show the positive effects and to ensure that nothing has been adversely affected.

DVR-recordings to Catch and Resolve Hard-to-find Performance Issues
In addition to presenting information live the system produces “DVR-like” recordings of any activity, so there is full situational awareness at the time of a performance problem. This way, one does not have to wait to try to “re-create” the problem which in a virtual world can often be a futile effort.

Zero-footprint—No Agents, No Probes for Immediate Visibility and an Immediate ROI
Xangati summarizes virtual communications traversing vSwitches and uses Flow data from physical routers/switches. Flows summarize all communications that traverse the network and are pushed effortlessly to the Xangati appliance(s) which then consume the flows in the unique ways highlighted above. In this manner, IT gets comprehensive coverage immediately upon deployment vs. the piecemeal and costly deployment scenarios that one sees with agents and probes.

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