Managing complex environments has always been tricky, and having good tools to provide you with actionable information is invaluable. When you start talking about cloud native applications and micro services, this challenge is magnified.

I have always felt that Application Performance Monitoring tools are very under deployed. They can be such an invaluable tool to IT, but the value proposition has often been hard to translate up the chain to CFOs. While there isn’t a direct line to greater profits, reducing the time to resolution or proactively addressing problems can have enormous value. In a micro services world, having some sort of APM in place is simply a requirement. 

I had the opportunity to talk with Instana which provides an APM solution built for cloud, containers and micro services. They help you visualize your environment and provides continuous discovery with 1 second data granularity to monitor dynamic environments. On the backend they utilize Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to detect and resolve problems.

Here is Paul Jasek, a presales engineer from Instana to tell you about their product and company.

Infinidat is a storage company that has been seeing steady growth in the market. The company was founded by Moshe Yanai who created EMC’s Symmetrix and IBM’s XIV. Their Infinibox enterprise storage arrays tackle the challenge of providing performant, affordable storage at petabyte scale. I ran into Erik Kaulberg who is Vice President of Cloud at Infinidat. I asked him to fill us in on what the latest and greatest is for Infinidat.

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