Hitachi Data Systems Corporation has announced Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer 2.5, an all-in-one availability and performance monitoring software product for midsized business IT environments. The software provides essential capabilities to efficiently and cost-effectively monitor heterogeneous server, network and storage devices. Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer features include automated root cause analysis, a simplified network path view, an agentless architecture, an award-winning unified, intuitive web-based interface, proactive alerting, multivendor platform support and an open platform.
Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer includes access for third-party reporting tools to the Analyzer database. It also features full integration with Dell servers enabling Analyzer to monitor Dell server specific metrics. The new version has added D-Link and Netgear switch monitoring. Additionally, a new Java plug-in framework gives users flexible and powerful monitoring of a wider variety of devices in their IT environment.
"IT departments in midsized companies need to know the health of the devices in their IT infrastructure," said Patricia Meacham, IT Operations software business leader, Hitachi Data Systems. "They realize that if an IT system fails or becomes unavailable, it impacts business and revenue can be lost. Today's enhancements in IT Operations Analyzer improve its ability to monitor a wider range of servers, switches and storage devices from multiple vendors to provide customers uncomplicated, thorough monitoring capabilities for a broad set of heterogeneous IT equipment. Analyzer gives IT organizations integrated insight into the performance and availability of their infrastructure."
