Grange Insurance Deploys PERFMAN for Virtualization Lifecycle Management By VSM News Staff published: Tuesday, October 28 2008
$1B Insurance
Provider Uses PERFMAN to Monitor and Manage VMware Environment,
Physical Environment.
BETHLEHEM, Penn., Oct. 28, 2008 - PERFMAN, a leading enterprise
systems management company, announced today that Grange Insurance, a $1 billion
insurance provider, has deployed PERFMAN's highly regarded cross-platform
performance management and capacity planning software to help manage Grange's
VMware virtual server environment.
Grange's use of PERFMAN's Virtualization Planning Tool has already
created significant cost-saving opportunities for the company, and PERFMAN's
VMware Sprawl Reporting capability will enable Grange to track the
proliferation of virtual machines in its data center. More information about PERFMAN is available
at www.perfman.com.
Grange evaluated several other
vendors' offerings before selecting PERFMAN.
Several factors contributed to Grange's decision. First, PERFMAN provides Grange with a single
tool that manages both physical servers and VMware environments. The entire virtualization lifecycle is
supported, from discovery and candidate selection through deployment, monitoring,
and ongoing management.
"It is imperative to plan virtual
server infrastructure management in conjunction with more broad-based
enterprise serviceability needs, which rely on both physical and virtual
assets," said Cameron Haight, vice president, research, Gartner.
Grange was also attracted to powerful
virtualization management features offered exclusively by PERFMAN. For example, PERFMAN is the only available
product that provides an aggregate view of multiple VMware Virtual Centers,
delivering a "single pane of glass" view of an organization's entire virtual
infrastructure. In addition, PERFMAN's ability to manage operating systems and
applications inside VMware guests provides root cause analysis not offered by
any other tool. PERFMAN is also unique
in its ability to collect years of data for trend analysis, enabling the
identification of potential problems weeks or even months before they arise.
In addition, Grange determined that
major investments of time, effort, and money would be required to deploy many
of the other vendors' virtualization management tools. Grange was able to deploy and begin using the
PERFMAN solution in only a few hours.
"The PERFMAN Virtualization
Planning Tool revealed that half of the SQL servers we monitored were utilized
at less than 2% of their capacity," said Jerry Valentine, project manager,
capacity planning and disaster recovery, Grange Insurance. "Information like this could easily save a
company like Grange hundreds of thousands of dollars."
PERFMAN saves Grange even more
money by eliminating routine purchases of new servers in response to user
complaints about application performance:
PERFMAN isolates the root cause of performance bottlenecks, enabling
users to address the actual problem and not merely attack the symptom by simply
adding new hardware.
"PERFMAN offers an ideal
combination of ease-of-use, industry-leading features, and rapid ROI," said
Valentine. "Every enterprise seeking to
maximize the value of its virtualization investment, especially those without
departments full of performance- and capacity-planning experts, should put
PERFMAN on its short list."
About PERFMAN
PERFMAN delivers cross-platform performance management and
capacity planning software for virtual and physical environments, with support
for VMware, Linux, UNIX, Windows, and z/OS.
PERFMAN solutions offer the industry's fastest time-to-value, and the
company has a 100% implementation success history. PERFMAN was founded in 1987 and is privately
held. The company is headquartered in Bethlehem, Penn. For more information, please visit www.perfman.com or call 610-865-0300.
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