Virima Announces the Release of EcosystemManager Version 1.1

Oct. 7, 2010 - PRLog -- ATLANTA – Virima Technologies, Inc. today announced the release of EcosystemManager^TM version 1.1. The central hub of the Virima IT Operations Automation software suite, EcosystemManager turbocharges your data center optimization (DCO) and consolidation (DCC) projects by providing unprecedented visibility and control of IT processes, mapping IT assets to business processes, and enabling better discovery of IT assets.

A recent study found that nearly 40 percent of large enterprises in North America do not have automated asset discovery and inventory management in place despite the fact that IT assets are a large percentage of an organization's capital expense. This puts IT and line-of-business executives at risk for unplanned outages and unnecessary maintenance downtime, excessive support and maintenance costs, and too much asset performance data and not enough actionable business process performance information.

EcosystemManager^TM provides visibility into the IT ecosystem using value chain mapping with topology views, decision support for predictive analysis, and dashboard-based exception reporting. Behind the scenes, task and workflow management automate daily activities.

Unlike traditional CMDBs that capture only the relational data about IT assets and configuration items EcosystemManager^TM manages both relational data and the more difficult-to-capture semantic data such as person-to-person and person-to-asset relationships. Initial configuration and ongoing maintenance of the CMDB is simplified by EcosystemManager's use of blueprints, which enable CIOs to specify what data needs to be captured for a particular asset type.

“EcosystemManager^TM is the only software of its kind in the market today. It is a comprehensive, configurable IT ecosystem database that efficiently manages structured and unstructured data relevant to IT assets, processes and people,” said Palaniswamy ‘Raj’ Rajan, Co-Founder and CEO of Virima Technologies. “EcosystemManager provides organizations a way to defrag and homogenize the IT environment, recognize that people and their relationships are an integral part of the IT landscape, and simplifies initial and ongoing CMDB implementation processes.”

Maps Key IT Services and Dependencies
EcosystemManager is able to pull in information from existing monitoring and scanning solutions and helps construct a visual model of your IT Ecosystem. It can map not just IT hardware and software applications but also physical assets such as datacenters, virtual assets such as virtual machines, intangibles such as documents, policies, business processes, etc. Mapping the IT ecosystem gives IT managers a full view of their Ecosystem and can use this view to improve their efficiency and align their IT Operations to serve the needs of their business. ( IT to Business Alignment).

Change Management
EcosystemManager helps IT organizations standardize methods and processes to achieve a level of maturity. This helps reduce outages and service quality issues due to unplanned / unauthorized changes. Using the mapping and dependencies, it is possible to do an Impact Analysis to ensure that changes made do not cause unexpected results.  EcosystemMananger also keeps a full history of changes made to IT assets, which can be reviewed to further optimize Governance and improve efficiencies. The change history is also useful in Root Cause Analysis for determining factors responsible for outages or incidents.

Audit and Compliance
EcosystemManager helps IT organizations implement Industry best practice processes to meet audit and compliance requirements in the areas of process, security and management. The mapping of business processes, the change management and the historical record assist in ensuring compliance to process and management guidelines. EcosystemManager can also play a key role in regulatory compliance audits such as PCI-DSS, SOX, etc.

EcosystemManager^TM features include:

Executive Dash Board — Displays metrics and trends for enterprise assets, based on test results and weighting, rolled up by any subset or combination of organizational model, legislation or standards to provide CIOs with insights into organizational benchmarks

Visibility Navigator — Provides IT Operations with complete inventory and full asset management that is automatically maintained and tracked, captures asset properties, and navigates the dependencies between process, asset and controls

Universal Data Aggregator — CTOs will benefit from facilitates integration with enterprise and custom application/data sources to obtain data for near real-time analysis through the Executive Dash Board. Version 1.1 adds data integration with Cisco UCS and VMware vCenter

Service Management – Allows data center administrators to manage incidents, change requests and problems

Document Manager — Stores, tracks and records relationships in a central repository easily accessible for security and compliance managers

“Ecosystem Manager 1.1 continues the development of Virima's IT Operations Automation suite by adding integration to large data center hardware solutions such as Cisco's UCS, VMware, as well as enhancing the Service Management features,” said Karun Rajasekharan, Virima’s VP of Products. “It is the quintessential tool for fast-tracking your DCO/DCC project, and ensuring ongoing data center excellence.”

Virima's flexible licensing model enables companies to benefit from IT Operations Automation analytics with little initial investment. Monthly software subscriptions start at $5,000. For more information about EcosystemManager^TM, please visit us at http://www.virima.com. To schedule a demonstration, please contact us at 404-969-4180 or email sales@virima.com.

About Virima
An innovator in the IT Operations and Data Center Software and Solutions market, Virima Technologies provides leading-edge data center solutions that align an organization's IT operations with its business strategy. Its technology-enabled data center consolidation and optimization services leverage the world’s first autonomic and intelligent IT operations automation software suite that enables organizations to peer deep into the enterprise IT ecosystem to dramatically improve IT Business alignment, performance and governance. By providing unprecedented visibility through near real-time monitoring and analytics, Virima solutions automatically turn IT information into actionable intelligence, resulting in productivity and operational efficiency gains that can return significant savings. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Virima services organizations in North America. More information is available at  http://www.virima.com.

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An innovator in the IT Operations and Data Center Software and Solutions market, Virima Technologies provides leading-edge data center solutions that align an organization's IT operations with its business strategy.