eG Innovations Named Finalist in the 2013 Hot Companies and Best Products Awards by Network Products Guide

eG Innovations was named finalist in the Hot Company category by Network Products Guide. The industry and peer awards from Network Products Guide honor achievements and recognition in every facet of the IT industry.

eG Innovations is an award-winning provider of automated performance management solutions for virtual, cloud and physical IT infrastructures. As IT environments become more complex, and more difficult to manage and troubleshoot, eG Innovations enables customers to accelerate performance diagnosis, reduce operational cost, deliver user satisfaction and unlock the potential of virtual, cloud and physical IT environments.

A recent report by 451 Research acknowledged eG Innovations’ strong momentum in the IT performance management space noting the company’s flagship product, eG Enterprise, is being used by hundreds of large enterprise customers worldwide to provide unprecedented performance visibility, automated cross-silo performance correlation and diagnosis, pre-emptive problem alerting and predictive analytics.

The company was recently honored as a Top Data Center 100 company by CRN. Research firm EMA also awarded eG Innovations the Best Private Cloud Coverage and Value Leadership awards in the application performance management industry. eG Innovations has been recognized as a Gartner Cool Vendor, received VirtualizationAdmin Readers Choice Awards, and is a VMware Gold Award Winner in the category Best Application & Infrastructure Management. >> More

eG Innovations Opens Office in the Netherlands

eG Innovations today announced that it has opened an office in The Hague, the Netherlands. This new location will allow eG Innovations to better meet the growing demand for performance management solutions in Europe.

In the Netherlands, eG Innovations will be led by its Regional Sales Manager Renne Bots, a 25-year veteran in developing new markets for software companies in Europe. Renne previously headed the North West European sales operations of Bottomline Technologies.

“Our expansion into the Netherlands is an important and strategic move for eG Innovations,” said Srinivas Ramanathan, CEO of eG Innovations. “Europe has been one of our fastest growing markets in the last year, and with the increasing adoption of Citrix and virtualization technologies in the Benelux, we see a significant growth opportunity. Our Netherlands location will allow us to work more closely with our existing local partners and better support our customers throughout continental Europe.”

“Today, eG Enterprise is being used by hundreds of enterprise customers to provide unprecedented performance visibility, automated cross-silo performance correlation and diagnosis, and pre-emptive problem detection,” said Renne Bots, Regional Sales Manager, eG Innovations Netherlands. “I look forward to working closely with our customers and partners in the Benelux.”

eG Enterprise is a highly cost effective solution with an easily measurable ROI that pays for itself in months. Customers typically experience a 30% reduction in the number of severe performance incidents, a 35% reduction in downtime, over 20% improvement in hardware utilization rates and 15% reduction in staffing levels required to support the IT environment. In addition, eG Enterprise delivers rapid ROI by providing the insights required for right-sizing and optimizing IT infrastructures to maximize resource utilization and reduce hardware/software cost.

Additionally, eG Enterprise provides unprecedented performance visibility, automated cross-silo correlation and diagnosis, pre-emptive problem alerting, and predictive analytics to accelerate performance diagnosis, reduce operational cost, deliver user satisfaction and unlock the potential of virtual, cloud and physical IT environments.

eG Innovations Named to 2013 CRN Data Center 100

eG Innovations was honored by CRN as a 2013 CRN Data Center 100 company.

“The 2013 CRN Data Center 100 list is recognition and a validation of our strategy in developing performance management solutions that help our customers balance the realities of dramatic change in the data center driven by virtualization and the cloud,” said Srinivas Ramanathan, CEO eG Innovations. “Our customers are interested in being able to correlate, diagnose, predict and analyze their virtualized environments to ensure maximum performance, improve the user experience and generally improve the ROI of their IT investments.”

According to CRN, the Data Center 100 list looks at companies developing software tools for monitoring and managing data center operations. These tools are primarily software applications that help monitor data center functions. More importantly, those tools notify administrators proactively when something is not working properly so that issues can be addressed before users call the helpdesk.

Selected by CRN’s editorial staff, the 2013 Data Center 100 list was featured in the January issue of CRN Magazine and online at http://www.crn.com.

eG Innovations Shows Strong Momentum in Application Performance Management Market

eG Innovations’ third quarter was highlighted by a record number of new customer wins for management of virtual desktops and applications, product innovation and new strategic partnerships. A report by 451 Research said that eG Innovations is gaining momentum in the application performance management space by building on its steady growth with large enterprise customers. 451 Research noted that eG Enterprise is being used by hundreds of enterprise customers today to provide unprecedented performance visibility, automated cross-silo performance correlation and diagnosis, pre-emptive problem alerting and predictive analytics. These unique capabilities enable companies to accelerate performance diagnosis, reduce operational cost, deliver user satisfaction and unlock the potential of virtual, cloud and physical IT environments.

“Customers are anxious to have a solution that addresses the systemic performance challenges inherent in virtualized environments. Often, these challenges prevent customers from achieving the ROI benefits they envisioned when they embarked on virtualization initiatives,” said Srinivas Ramanathan, CEO eG Innovations. “With eG Enterprise V5.6 our customers will achieve even broader value as we deliver total performance visibility across the virtualized IT infrastructure. Going forward, we will build on our success by focusing on further accelerating the discovery, diagnosis and resolution of critical business service performance issues.”

Completing Q3, eG Innovations has achieved significant results:

• Accelerating Customer Growth: Today over 400 enterprise customers use eG Innovations’ eG Enterprise to manage their dynamic enterprise IT infrastructures, including VDI, application virtualization, and Citrix XenApp / XenDesktop technologies, besides other conventional IT applications like SAP, Java apps, databases, etc.
• Strong Product Innovation: eG Enterprise 5.6 builds on automated correlation and problem diagnosis technology to accelerate performance diagnosis, reduce operational cost, deliver user satisfaction and unlock the true potential of virtual, cloud and physical IT environments. The company was awarded two patents recently. The first one relates to its virtualization-aware automatic root-cause diagnosis technology that correlates application and virtualization performance. A second patent focuses on eG Innovations’ In-N-Out monitoring technology for virtual infrastructures that provides correlated outside and inside view of virtual machines.
• Strategic Partnerships: eG Innovations and Egenera announced a joint solution that offers customers greater return-on-investment by automating provisioning, performance management and capacity planning. With the joint solution, customers benefit from faster problem identification and resolution, thereby freeing up IT operations time for more strategic initiatives. eG Innovations announced a partnership with Red Hat whereby administrators can use eG Enterprise to monitor the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization server and desktop platforms — including the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization hypervisor, datastores, virtual networks and Virtual Machines. Additionally, eG Innovations’ software has been validated by Microsoft to work with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM).

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Join 451 Group and eG Innovations for Live Webinar on Application Performance Management

We would like to invite you to the live webinar “Application Performance Management – 5 Steps to Performance Assurance for Dynamic IT Environments“ with APM expert Dennis Callaghan (451 Group) on November 29 (Register here: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/427030417 ).

Today’s IT environments are complex and dynamic. Virtualization, cloud, and BYOD create new dependencies that make it more difficult, costly, and time consuming to manage user experience and application performance. The toughest (and most costly) performance problems are the ones where users call the helpdesk and complain that “my application is slow”. IT administrators struggle to determine the root-cause of the problem: Is it the application, the virtualization layer, the network, storage or desktop?

Join the webinar and find out how to deliver performance assurance for mission-critical services and applications:

• Dramatically enhance user experience, application performance, and service uptime and quality
• Remove blind spots and get complete, real-time visibility into how your mission critical applications and services are performing, and how they impact user experience
• Overcome diagnosis complexity and accelerate from a slow and reactive approach to rapid, pre-emptive problem solving
• Empower your help desk to do more and reduce the burden on scarce experts
• Reduce cost through higher uptime, scalability and improved resource utilization

WEBINAR DETAILS

Date & Time: November 29 @ 2:00 pm ET | 1:00 pm CT | 11:00 am PT | 6:00 pm UK

Presenters: Dennis Callaghan (451 Group); Bala Vaidhinathan (eG Innovations); Rick Ruskin (eG Innovations)

Registration: (hurry, webinar seats are limited to 1,000): https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/427030417

Feel free to forward this invite to your colleagues. We look forward to seeing you at the webinar!

eG Innovations Extends Performance Management Leadership with Launch of eG Enterprise V5.6

eG Innovations today announced a major release to its flagship offering, eG Enterprise. The new release builds on eG Innovations groundbreaking automated correlation and problem diagnosis technology to accelerate performance diagnosis, reduce operational cost, deliver user satisfaction and unlock the true potential of virtual, cloud and physical IT environments. eG Enterprise will be showcased for the first time at VMworld San Francisco in Booth # 2524.

“When users complain about slow performance, IT administrators come under fire while having to face their toughest challenge,” said Mike Matchett, senior analyst, Taneja Group. “The root cause of thorny performance problems can stem from deep contention or misconfiguration issues, buried under layers of virtualization or hidden between IT domains. Isolating and diagnosing such issues by manually coordinating the efforts of multiple domain experts using domain-specific tools is time-consuming and costly, and sometimes just doesn’t work. eG Innovations provides a unique approach to performance management that dramatically simplifies and accelerates the discovery, diagnosis, and resolution of performance issues so IT teams can deliver better service to their users while controlling delivery costs to the organization.”

eG Enterprise embeds the industry’s first virtualization-aware, root-cause diagnosis technology for managing the performance of services and applications running in complex virtual, cloud and physical environments. After auto-discovering all service components and dynamic dependencies, eG Enterprise correlates performance metrics across every layer, every tier – automatically and in real-time – across all silos, from desktop to datacenter. This patented approach delivers deep, actionable insights into the true causes of cross-domain service performance issues and enables administrators to pre-emptively and accurately detect, diagnose and fix root-cause issues before end users notice.

“As we work with our rapidly growing customer base, we’ve listened to their experiences to build an even better solution for automated performance management,” said Srinivas Ramanathan, CEO of eG Innovations. “Version 5.6 builds on our history of innovation as we enable customer to overcome the challenges of managing application performance in dynamic and complex IT environments.”

eG Enterprise v 5.6 delivers a number of new and unique capabilities:

• Total Performance Visibility & Auto-Correlation of all components and dependencies that impact user experience – across desktop, application, network, storage and virtualization tiers. New features in 5.6 include: Enhanced virtualization and cloud support (including monitoring support for VMware vCloud Director), increased breadth and depth of coverage for databases, storage, Active Directory, virtualization, deeper visibility into Java transactions and NetFlow monitoring.
• Fast & Pre-emptive Problem Detection & Alerting allows administrators to fix performance problems BEFORE users complain. Prevent downtime, ensure great performance and enhance user satisfaction. New features in 5.6 include: New, intuitive dashboards, automated metrics aggregation, improved performance prediction, advanced auto-baselining and tight integration with Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 2012.
• Easy & Automated Root-Cause Diagnosis enables admins to accurately pinpoint problems and accelerate diagnosis of performance issues – so highly skilled staff can be more productive rather than fighting fires all day. New features in 5.6 include: root-cause diagnosis extensions for cloud environments, auto-discovery of business service topologies, improved AD integration, monitoring configuration validation for easy configuration, and personalized VM views for use by cloud providers providing managed services.
• Right-Size & Optimize IT Environments with predictive analytics that help to reduce hardware and software cost by 20% through better utilization and consolidation ratios. New features in 5.6 include: Cluster capacity planning reports, cumulation reports, and significant scalability enhancements to the eG manager and agents.

eG Enterprise is a highly cost effective solution with an easily measurable ROI that pays for itself in months. Customers typically experience a 30% reduction in the number of severe performance incidents, a 35% reduction in downtime, over 20% improvement in hardware utilization rates and 15% reduction in staffing levels required to support the IT environment. In addition, eG Enterprise delivers rapid ROI by providing the insights required for right-sizing and optimizing IT infrastructures to maximize resource utilization and reduce hardware/software cost.

Egenera Integrates eG Innovations Advanced Cloud Performance Management Solution

eG Innovations and Egenera, a pioneer in management and automation for physical, virtual and cloud infrastructures, today announced a global technology alliance. The partnership will enable Egenera to incorporate eG Enterprise performance management software into Egenera’s PAN Manager software. The combined solution will give joint customers true end-to-end visibility to more accurately understand performance at every layer of the IT stack and to quickly address issues to ensure optimal service availability for mission-critical business services.

“Today’s enterprises are increasingly under pressure to bring efficiency and performance assurance to complex and dynamic business models especially when utilizing the cloud,” said IDC Group Vice President and GM, Matt Eastwood. “Yet most times, it is difficult and time consuming to pinpoint the cause of slow application performance to determine the root cause of the problem. Enterprises are looking for rapid and accurate diagnosis of performance problems in order to free an IT staff and improve overall service levels.”

Egenera’s PAN management suite provides an infrastructure management solution for physical, virtual and cloud-based environments that enables enterprises to quickly create and benefit from automated and self-service infrastructures. Customers use Egenera products to transform their static IT environments and deliver scalable and reliable IT services. As a result, IT is radically improved and businesses operate with much greater agility.

Together eG Innovations and Egenera solutions allow:

• Greater return-on-investment by automating provisioning, performance management and capacity planning;
• Faster problem identification AND resolution thereby freeing up IT time for more strategic initiatives;
• Better business service availability and performance resulting in more satisfied and pro-ductive users;
• Services to operate at the highest level possible producing fewer headaches for IT;
• Automate the delivery of IT services to meet the needs of a diverse end user community, accurately understand what is happening at every layer of IT and quickly address issues and challenges to ensure optimal availability for mission critical business services.

“We are delighted to be partnering with eG Innovations, a clear leader in the performance management space,” said Pete Manca, CEO of Egenera.  ”In a world of 24×7 mission critical IT services, customers increasingly need the ability to deliver real time performance monitoring, root cause analysis and problem resolution. For our enterprise, service provider and cloud customers, the combination of eG Innovations and Egenera provides the capabilities they need to ensure their business services meet the SLA’s they’ve set.”

To learn more about this strategic relationship, visit eG Innovations at www.eginnovations.com and Egenera at www.egenera.com.

CloudVDI Partners with eG Innovations to Deliver Virtual Desktops in the Cloud

CloudVDI and eG Innovations today announced a partnership in which CloudVDI will use eG Innovations advanced cloud performance management solutions as an integral component in CloudVDI’s Virtual Desktop service. Cloud VDI will also resell eG Innovations products to its Citrix consulting client base to expedite Citrix deployments.

CloudVDI offers a Virtual Desktop subscription service, offering businesses the ability to run Windows OS and compatible software on any CPU and mobile device through CloudVDI’s hosted servers. According to CloudVDI Co-founder Ryan O’Connor, “It’s time consuming and expensive to pinpoint the root cause of a virtualization problem in a timely and accurate manner. We are pleased with eG Innovations capability to automate and accelerate the discovery, diagnosis and resolution of performance issues across our virtual and cloud environments. It was a natural extension to further partner with them to resell their solutions to our clients.”

“Manual performance diagnosis of virtualized IT environments is virtually impossible due to their highly dynamic and heterogeneous nature”, said eG Innovations Co-founder and CEO Srinivas Ramanathan. “Our patented automated technology delivers deep insight into virtual application performance, which is critical for rapid and accurate diagnosis of performance problems. CloudVDI’s integration of our solution in their service offerings is a great endorsement of our capabilities to provide unparalleled support for virtualization initiatives. We are pleased to be partnering with CloudVDI.”

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Citrix Performance Assurance (Video Interview)

Watch eG Innovations CEO Srinivas Ramanathan in this interview at Citrix Synergy, discussing the value eG Innovations provides to customers looking for Citrix performance assurance.

New Webinar: Performance Assurance for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV)

Join Red Hat and eG Innovations in the upcoming webinar “Performance Assurance for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) – How to Deliver User Satisfaction, Scalability and ROI“. The webinar is presented at two different times to better accommodate your preferred timezone.

WEBINAR DETAILS

Date & Time:
First webinar: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 | 13:00 UTC / 9 a.m. (New York) / 3 p.m. (Paris) / 6:30 p.m. (Mumbai)
Second webinar: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 | 18:00 UTC / 2 p.m. (New York) / 8 p.m. (Paris) / 11:30 p.m. (Mumbai)

Presenters:
Geert Jansen, Senior product marketing manager, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Red Hat
Srinivas Ramanathan, CEO, eG Innovation, Inc.

Registration:
https://engage.redhat.com/forms/20120612PerformanceAssurance

Virtualization offers significant operations and cost savings. But at the same time it makes managing business services operating on virtualized infrastructures more challenging. When users call and complain about slow applications or service outages, administrators often struggle to diagnose and quickly fix the true performance bottleneck: Is it the network? Database? Web? Virtualization platform? SAN? The resulting outages and frustrated, unproductive users cost the organization significant money and hurt IT departments’ reputations.

Join this webinar to learn how you can build performance assurance into your Red Hat® Enterprise Virtualization infrastructure from the start to ensure exceptional performance and user experience, and dramatically simplify and accelerate troubleshooting. Before service performance impacts user productivity and the success of your virtualization initiative, learn how to proactively manage it so you can:

• Make informed IT operations decisions.
• Move from insight to action.
• Right-size your environment.
• Quickly resolve the root cause of service performance issues

We look forward to seeing you at the webinar!