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Virtana’s Leadership in Infrastructure Observability
Virtana’s consistent presence across numerous Gartner research publications in 2024 underscores our position as a key player in the infrastructure observability space. This broad recognition spans multiple critical areas of IT operations, from cloud financial management to monitoring and observability, reflecting the comprehensive nature of our solutions and their alignment with emerging market needs.
Strategic Value for Organizations
For businesses evaluating infrastructure observability solutions, Virtana’s inclusion in Gartner research validates our ability to address complex enterprise challenges. Our recognition across various technology categories demonstrates how we enable organizations and IT leaders to achieve key business SLA objectives, including:
Operational Excellence and Resilience
- Centralized hybrid IT operations control with real-time insights and automation
- End-to-end observability enhances operational efficiency and resilience
Resource Optimization and Financial Management
- Predictive analytics for more intelligent asset usage and cost-to-value improvements
- Context-aware planning to reduce risks of over/under-provisioning
Continuous Performance Tuning
- Intelligent infrastructure management balances workloads for optimal performance
- Autonomous orchestration ensures continuous cost-performance optimization
Accelerated Innovation
- Enhance enablers for building an integration ecosystem across all telemetry
- AI/ML models that accelerate outcomes and find hidden opportunities to innovate
Proactive Threat Defense
- AI/ML engine detects and alerts of anomalous performance behaviors and events
- Continuous active discovery proactively detects potential malicious activity
Featured Gartner Research Publications
Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Financial Management Tools² Honorable Mention
Virtana’s inclusion as an Honorable Mention in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Financial Management Tools² underscores its innovative approach to cloud financial management (CFM) within hybrid IT environments. Unlike traditional CFM tools that often focus exclusively on cloud infrastructure, Virtana Platform uniquely bridges both cloud and on-premises environments, offering a unified solution for managing costs across hybrid. This makes Virtana an ideal choice for enterprises seeking holistic visibility and actionable insights into their entire IT ecosystem.
Gartner’s recognition highlights Virtana’s strength in delivering integrated infrastructure management alongside robust CFM capabilities. Enterprises benefit from real-time cost analysis, forecasting, and optimization tools that empower IT leaders to align financial and operational strategies. By choosing Virtana, organizations can achieve greater cost control, reduce complexity, and maximize the value of their hybrid deployments, positioning themselves for operational and financial success in an increasingly complex digital landscape. Access the full report here (for Gartner subscribers only)
Market Guide for Digital Platform Conductor Tools
This Market Guide highlights the challenges I&O leaders face in managing hybrid digital infrastructure post-cloud transformation. Persistent issues, such as fragmented visibility and technical debt, hinder infrastructure optimization and business value demonstration. Digital Platform Conductor (DPC) tools address these gaps by providing a cohesive view of IT infrastructure across environments, enabling cost optimization, operational improvements, and informed decision-making.
Virtana was recognized as a Sample Vendor in this Market Guide for the second time in a row. Virtana Platform aligns with the DPC market’s goals by delivering comprehensive observability and optimization capabilities for hybrid infrastructure environments. Virtana provides a unified inventory of endpoints, apps, and infrastructure across data centers, colocation, on-premises and cloud services, eliminating fragmented visibility. With advanced integration, reporting, and analytics, Virtana enables I&O leaders to effectively evaluate and improve infrastructure’s business value. Virtana’s automation, workflow, and integration capabilities further empower organizations to reduce costs, enhance operational efficiency, and adapt to evolving business needs with confidence, making it an essential tool for DPC objectives. Access the full report here (for Gartner subscribers only)
Emerging Tech Impact Radar: Cloud-Native Platforms
This report explores the rapid evolution of cloud-native platforms driven by trends like generative AI (GenAI), developer enablement, and expanding capabilities to edge and multi-cloud environments. Observability plays a pivotal role, enabling the analysis of complex cloud-native architectures through high-cardinality telemetry and open standards like OpenTelemetry. Virtana’s acquisition of OpsCruise is highlighted as a key example of investment driving innovation in observability, solidifying its position in managing cloud-native application performance and aligning with broader industry trends.
Virtana leverages open standards like OpenTelemetry to enable organizations to monitor and optimize cloud-native applications with precision. Virtana integrates seamlessly across on-premises, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments, providing actionable insights into application behavior and performance. By incorporating AI and automation, Virtana Platform simplifies the investigative user experience, enhances operational efficiency, and supports the growing complexity of modern architectures. Access the full report here (for Gartner subscribers only)
Hype Cycle™ for Data Center Infrastructure Technologies, 2024³
This Hype Cycle emphasizes the increasing need for sustainable, resilient, and efficient data center operations. By 2028, significant shifts are predicted, including the widespread adoption of sustainability programs, cloud-based infrastructure management, and changes in data center strategies due to energy supply limitations. For example, “By 2028, 40% of data center infrastructure will be managed through a cloud-based control plane, an increase from less than 15% in 2023.” Infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders are tasked with modernizing mission-critical legacy environments while optimizing costs and supporting advanced use cases like AI. This Hype Cycle outlines emerging innovations that can help I&O leaders achieve these goals by improving data center efficiency, resilience, and sustainability.
Virtana was recognized as a Sample Vendor in this Hype Cycle for the second time in a row. Virtana empowers I&O leaders to modernize data center strategies with the observability platform that provides the deepest insights into enhancing operational efficiency and resiliency. Virtana Platform delivers critical visibility into infrastructure health, resource utilization, and workload performance, enabling IT organizations to align with corporate goals while reducing costs. By supporting automation and AI-driven insights, Virtana helps enterprises adapt to emerging challenges and reinvest savings into digital transformation initiatives. Access the full report here (for Gartner subscribers only)
Hype Cycle for Digital Workplace Infrastructure and IT Operations, 2024³
This Hype Cycle highlights the increasing importance of operational efficiency and employee experience, now bolstered by emerging GenAI technologies. End-user services (EUS) leaders are evolving from supporting AI initiatives to proactively leveraging GenAI features within digital workplace tools, such as digital employee experience (DEX) and unified communication platforms. This shift requires EUS leaders to assess opportunities from innovations like generative AI, GenAI-enabled applications, and prompt engineering, focusing on achieving operational stability and adaptability.
Virtana was recognized as a Sample Vendor in this Hype Cycle for the second time in a row. Virtana’s solutions empower organizations to navigate this evolution by providing advanced monitoring and observability tools that enhance digital workplace infrastructure. Virtana Platform delivers actionable insights to maintain operational stability while supporting the adoption of new technologies like GenAI. Access the full report here (for Gartner subscribers only)
Hype Cycle for I&O Automation, 2024³
This Hype Cycle underscores the transformative role of automation in modernizing infrastructure and operations (I&O). Key trends include AI-augmented development, network activity automation, and adopting site reliability engineering (SRE) practices. By 2027, enterprises are expected to embrace automation at scale, blending human and AI capabilities to enhance efficiency, agility, and service quality. The use of GenAI is particularly impactful, moving beyond novel and niche use cases to being leveraged to accelerate automation and boost productivity.
Virtana was recognized as a Sample Vendor in this Hype Cycle for the second time in a row. Virtana Platform is purpose-built to empower I&O leaders in their automation journey. With capabilities that provide real-time insights and seamless integration across hybrid environments, Virtana enables organizations to scale automation while maintaining operational resilience. Our AI-powered observability tools identify optimization opportunities and support agile methodologies, helping teams adopt automation-first approaches. By leveraging Virtana, enterprises can harness the power of GenAI to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and ensure high-performance service delivery, aligning with the latest innovations in I&O automation. Access the full report here (for Gartner subscribers only)
Hype Cycle for Infrastructure Platforms, 2024³
This Hype Cycle emphasizes the critical role of infrastructure platforms in delivering agile, resilient, and cost-effective solutions to meet enterprise demands. By 2028, over half of I&O organizations will have adopted infrastructure platform engineering (IPE), enabling API-driven platforms with self-service capabilities. This shift is driven by the adoption of cloud-native technologies, AI integration, and the need to abstract infrastructure complexity for end users. I&O leaders are challenged to align infrastructure platforms with business demands for speed, security, and innovation while extracting value from legacy tools.
Virtana Platform empowers I&O leaders to optimize hybrid infrastructure environments with advanced observability and automation tools. By providing API-driven insights and supporting hybrid estates, Virtana ensures seamless integration of on-premises and cloud deployments. Our AI-powered solutions help organizations monitor, manage, and optimize hybrid infrastructure, enabling them to support modern workloads. Virtana minimizes complexity and reduces cognitive load, helping I&O teams deliver agile, resilient, and customer-centric infrastructure services that align with evolving enterprise needs. Access the full report here (for Gartner subscribers only)
Hype Cycle for ITSM, 2024³
This Hype Cycle explores the need for IT service management (ITSM) leaders to adopt innovative technologies like GenAI, AI-enabled virtual assistants, and event intelligence solutions to modernize practices and optimize efficiency. Trends such as the convergence of incident management with observability, increasing reliance on digital employee experience (DEX), and automation in service management are reshaping the ITSM landscape. With ITSM platforms maturing, the focus is shifting towards implementing AI-driven solutions and enterprise service management (ESM) programs to enhance agility, reduce costs, and improve user satisfaction.
Virtana empowers ITSM leaders to leverage modern technologies and practices through its advanced observability and automation capabilities. By integrating AI and machine learning into event intelligence and incident response processes, Virtana enhances operational resilience and accelerates incident resolution. Our platform supports the convergence of ITSM with observability, enabling seamless alignment with service response strategies and improving end-user experiences. Access the full report here (for Gartner subscribers only)
Hype Cycle for Monitoring and Observability, 2024³
This Hype Cycle highlights the evolution of monitoring and observability practices to address the complexity of distributed architectures and the demands of modern applications. Observability now extends beyond troubleshooting to drive resilience, agility, and business insights. GenAI is reshaping monitoring use cases while new innovations like API observability, central observability teams, and advanced cloud-native monitoring solutions have emerged. Observability technologies such as event intelligence solutions (formerly known as AIOps solutions) are transforming I&O functions and driving growth.
Virtana empowers organizations to address the challenges of modern distributed architectures with the deepest hybrid infrastructure observability platform. Virtana Platform integrates GenAI capabilities to deliver actionable insights, automate event intelligence, and enhance resilience across hybrid and cloud-native environments. With Virtana Platform, IT leaders gain actionable insights to improve performance, optimize cost, and streamline management across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Access the full report here (for Gartner subscribers only)
Virtana’s consistent presence in Gartner research reflects our unwavering commitment to driving innovation and delivering value to enterprises. By choosing Virtana, organizations gain a trusted partner recognized for empowering IT teams to ensure infrastructure resilience, optimize performance, and achieve business success in today’s dynamic digital landscape.
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