AccelOps Sees into Virtual Machines

AccelOps extended its namesake monitoring software today to add support for not only virtual machines but also the guest operating systems running on top of them. That capability, in addition to being able to simultaneously monitor physical servers, networks and applications gives IT organizations access to one of the few tools that can reduce the amount of time to discover where problems actually lie in any given IT ecosystem, said Scott Gordon, vice president of marketing and business development for AccelOps.

In addition to adding support for virtual machines, version 1.6 of AccelOps adds the ability to generate synthetic traffic to test systems in order to discover potential problems and integration with a variety of third-party monitoring tools.

Gordon said this latter capability is important because IT specialists tend to favor product-specific tools, while senior managers need access to a framework to determine the true level of any given business service based on information gathered from a broad array of sources, including virtual machines that are not easily seen by existing management tools.

At the same, Gordon said many IT organizations are also looking to cut costs by rationalizing the number of monitoring tools they need in favor of a more comprehensive approach that is less expensive.

Pricing for AccelOps, which can be deployed on an appliance or invoked as a service, starts at $2,000 a month.