NetApp Cloud Insights

For example, we had an application slowdown. It looked like the slowdown was storage. However, it was a malformed SQL query that no one realized was pulling data from the storage location that also housed the application. Cloud Insights saved us hours of downtime and frustration. Cloud Insights pinpointed which system was hogging resources. What makes Cloud Insights special is the way it looks at the data collected from the data sources. The insights it provides into the flow of data; sheds new light on how things work in your environment.

Cloud Insights is meant to make your resources well optimized and cloud data integrated. It has great capabilities to monitor broad-based data and workflows generated on the entire network of a big organization and keep the resources intact for smooth operations. Very well suited for the organizations that highly rely on the IT services in the cloud and have to spend a major chunk of their budgetary costs on such services.

Cloud Insights is well suited for cloud service platform. It is a very secure service, as large amounts of data can be placed in it and it is secured from any false activities from outside. Resource management and problem solving are other important features. Data reporting (i.e. creating and modifying reports) is somehow a difficult tasks to perform, which can be improved.

Cloud Insights can be a good solution for you if the resources used by the development team that need monitoring are located in more than one public cloud platform or data center.

I would be highly likely to recommended Cloud Insights to a colleague. It is definitely a successful product in optimizing costs, especially for companies with small DevOps and infrastructure teams. In such small organizations, the importance given to cloud products can lead to serious financial problems in the long run. Using Cloud Insights, it is very easy to optimize costs even with a much smaller team.

Cloud Insights continuously monitors our cloud infrastructure to analyze costs so we can identify and take action on resources to save money and optimize operation much better. Without this visibility it is tough to manage the infrastructure.

It is well suited in case of cloud infrastructure management in terms of troubleshooting, monitoring and optimising the resources. You can easily create reports and graphs to find out what’s going on your cloud storage. It’s a bit complicated in terms of advanced features usage but there is this customer and community support which can help you learn much more.

Cloud Insights is suited very well for more complex environments, which can run in multi-vendor cloud environments. Cloud Insights is very well suited to creating a single point of contact which creates insight over multiple environments. It is less appropriate in smaller environments, for example, a single-environment cloud or on-premises situations.

The main benefit of NetApp Cloud Insights is that it's agentless. It just collects information from the SNMP protocol. We had NetApp ONTAP installed and we paired with VMware. The biggest challenge for any company is to find the bottleneck on the Edge of the technologies, like between VMware and NetApp. Both products have great reporting and monitoring tools, but whenever it comes to finding issues on the Edge between those products, you can hardly identify whether it's a storage issue or whether it's a virtualization issue.

[Cloud Insights] is easily well suited for finding problems extremely quickly. With how fast data is received nowadays, the faster that problems with the data are realized, the smaller the impact to the organization.

If you're looking for full report customization, this tool isn't going to be much use. However, that is not the bread and butter of what this tool is.