Virtela, a managed network, security and cloud services provider, announced that its automation and predictive analytics platforms have been extended to the company's managed IT infrastructure services for virtualized data centers and private clouds.
The newly-integrated technologies enhance Virtela's full lifecycle of managed data center network and security services, giving enterprises faster provisioning for their virtualized infrastructure and proactive identification and resolution of 95 percent of data center network issues before they impact quality of service.
Virtela's managed IT infrastructure services for virtualized data centers and private clouds alleviate complexity with the latest tools, technologies and expertise to accelerate data center optimization and transformation while avoiding downtime associated with operational issues.
Enterprises can select from a full suite of modular services ranging from transition strategy and deployment through "Day-2 support" and ongoing 24x7 service monitoring and/or management by Virtela's Global Operations Centers' engineers. These engineers offer expertise in supporting multivendor IT solutions across global data center/private cloud environments. They also leverage Virtela-proprietary automation and analytics platforms that exploit emerging technologies to cut service configuration times by an average of 90 percent, reduce data center downtime by 5x, and deliver operational cost savings of up to 30 percent.
Customers of Virtela's managed data center/private cloud services now also benefit from predictive analytics technology - VirtelaPredict -- which diagnoses more than 95% of potential data center network and security issues before they can impact operational performance.
By speeding resolution of issues - or avoiding them altogether - the service enables enterprises to achieve a 5x reduction in data center downtime while cutting support and operating costs by an average of 30 percent.
Virtela serves as a single point of contact worldwide for proactive management of a wide array of data center IT infrastructure - including LAN, WAN, security, IP telephony, Web proxy and application acceleration devices - whether residing in traditional data centers, virtualized data centers or private clouds.
Beyond predictive analytics, Virtela's IT Infrastructure Management services encompass network discovery, compliance and other capabilities that drive IT efficiencies. These include VirtelaDiscover, which automates network device and topology discovery, analysis and optimization, and VTerm, which provides authentication, authorization and audit services to centrally control and regulate access to all network devices.
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