Category: Cloudyn

Cloudyn recently announced new functionality for its cloud monitoring and optimization platform in the form of SmartSizing and the ability to manage hybrid clouds. Cloudyn’s SmartSizing solution assesses deployments by means of an analysis that includes instances, workloads and applications as opposed to the traditional approach of considering instances alone. By including attention to workloads and use cases in its assessment of the optimal deployment, Cloudyn delivers a smart-sized analysis of the scale of a deployment based on a holistic view of the hardware-based infrastructure in conjunction with the architecture specific to its applications and workloads. Cloudyn’s SmartSizing solution takes into consideration the deployment’s projected growth trajectory and recommends downsizing or upsizing accordingly. In addition to SmartSizing, Cloudyn announced the ability of its cloud monitoring platform to monitor private clouds, thereby enabling customers to manage hybrid cloud infrastructures from a single, unified management console. Cloudyn’s prescriptive, real-time analytics provide guidance regarding the optimal combination of private and public cloud deployments. Moreover, the combination of the Cloudyn platform’s ability to smart-size deployments alongside its support for hybrid clouds means that customers can now size up exactly the right size and type of deployment while managing the entire hybrid cloud infrastructure from a single pane of glass. Taken together, Cloudyn’s SmartSizing product and ability to support hybrid cloud infrastructures renders its cloud monitoring and optimization platform hugely relevant for customers seeking to manage hybrid clouds while understanding the optimal size of their deployments as well.

Today, cloud monitoring vendor Cloudyn announces the general availability of Cost Allocation 360, a tool that enables granular tracking of cloud-related costs. Cloudyn’s Cost Allocation 360° enables IT administrators to decompose cloud-related expenses by components such as the application, business unit, user group, product or sales region. Cost Allocation 360’s Tag Manager enables customers to tag infrastructure components as related to analytic dimensions of interest for subsequent use in cost-related reporting and trend analytics. As such, Cost Allocation 360° enables an unprecedented degree of visibility into the drivers behind cloud-related expenses and provides the means whereby IT and Finance departments have access to granular reporting that can be used for more accurate intra-departmental billing, and analytics of the relative expense incurred by hosting various products and applications. Cost Allocation 360° also boasts automated tagging of untagged infrastructure and application components and thereby minimizes the degree of manual intervention and upkeep required to keep track of the decomposition of cloud-related costs. Cost Allocation 360° supports public, private and hybrid cloud deployments on Amazon Web Services, Google Compute Engine and OpenStack-based IaaS infrastructures. The initial rollout of the application lacks the ability to track costs that are shared by infrastructure components such as shared services that leverage the same server, although Cloudyn customers can expect successively nuanced iterations of the tool’s ability to track costs as the tool evolves. Nevertheless, the tool represents a key step forward toward empowering enterprises to more effectively understand cost allocations within their cloud infrastructures and to subsequently tweak their deployment and cloud operational management strategies accordingly.