5 Reasons to use CiRBA Software

"I am shoving old servers out the door by the truckload…We've gotten there a lot faster than we thought we would, and CiRBA is one of the major reasons…"

Underwriters Laboratories as quoted in CIO Magazine

CiRBA is the only solution that provides analysis worthy of enterprise data centers for establishing and managing virtualized infrastructure. Unlike other approaches CiRBA enables organizations to:

1. Get Actionable Answers, Not Just Data & Reports

Only CiRBA gives accurate, actionable answers as to where to place workloads, how much capacity is required, and how to configure resources. Through the application of rule-based policies, advanced workload algorithms, and multi-dimensional what-if analysis, CiRBA accurately models environments and proactively managed in a way not possible through other data center management software.

2. Maximize Savings & Efficiency

CiRBA’s advanced analysis enables you to rapidly and easily model and compare multiple scenarios in order to choose the paths that lead to the greatest efficiencies and savings possible:

• Faster time to actionable results through template driven analysis
• Increase rates of virtualization and consolidation
• Minimize hardware spend
• Maximize utilization by safely increasing densities through intelligent placements
• Uncover new opportunities for consolidation
• Manage infrastructure more efficiently

3. Get There Faster

Because CiRBA relies on template-driven analysis of empirical data, there is very little delay between targeting a group of servers and having an actionable plan. Unlike manually intensive analysis approaches, CiRBA provides answers immediately so that action can be taken and savings realized.

4. Minimize Risk

CiRBA is the only solution that considers all of the critical business, configuration, technical and workload constraints required to analyze production environments for virtualization. Approaches that rely on tools looking at basic utilization data alone ignore critical constraints that can make or break an initiative and greatly increase risk. Some of the ways in which CiRBA helps mitigate risk include:

• Template driven risk analysis for candidate qualification
• Affinity and anti-affinity rules to keep systems together or apart to avoid compliance or performance issues
• Accurate modeling of what workloads will look like when virtualized to reduce risk and identify good and bad candidates
• Infrastructure planning and design according to risk tolerance and advanced utilization modeling
• DR & HA planning
• Failure scenario planning
• Risk notifications

5. Vendor Neutral Results: No Hardware or Software Agenda

CiRBA’s analyses are vendor neutral and not tied to investments in new hardware or software. Leveraging CiRBA, you can choose the right consolidation strategies, software and hardware platforms, and targets based on your own unique requirements. CiRBA gives you the control to right size your environment and never over-provision based on ‘guesstimates’ by vendor-biased analyses