Last week’s IBM Think 2018 conference brought together numerous IBM partners and other vendors interested in pitching their wares to the crowd of IBM employees, partners, and customers. (See my recent article on IBM Think.)
Most of these exhibitors had an IBM angle to their story – either how they go to market with IBM, or perhaps how they address some limitation in one IBM product or another.
Given IBM’s focus on cloud computing, artificial intelligence (AI), and blockchain, furthermore, many of the vendors touted how they are using these capabilities to deliver value to their customers.
Of the dozens of exhibitors at Think, I looked for the best examples of a particular mix of disruptive capabilities and offerings complementary to IBM’s. Here are my picks.
Densify: Cloud Optimization as a Service
Even though cloud and VMware VMW +1.1% virtual machine (VM) instances can respond to shifts in demand, they often remain underutilized. Densify solves this problem by optimizing how the virtualization infrastructure places workloads in VMs.
The best way to visualize how Densify works is like a game of Tetris, as Densify packs each workload into an appropriate VM as tightly as practical, given the specific processor, input/output, bandwidth, storage, and other capacity demands of each workload.
Densify is cloud-agnostic, and it was at Think touting its support for the IBM Cloud.
Nastel: Comprehensive Monitoring across Hybrid Environments
Most monitoring tools focus on particular parts of the enterprise deployment environment: some on applications, others on the network, etc.
Nastel is able to monitor the entire hybrid environment, including legacy assets and middleware as well as the components of more modern, cloud-based workloads.
Nastel is also particularly adept at monitoring transactions within IBM-centric environments, which may include legacy IBM products like IBM MQ (formerly MQSeries), WebSphere Application Server, and DataPower XML appliances.
Riverbed: SD-WAN as a Virtual Network Function
Riverbed is a digital performance management vendor with a range of tools for cloud networking, user experience, and cloud edge infrastructure.
At Think, the vendor was promoting its deep relationship with IBM, as well as its strengths in the telco industry. In particular, Riverbed was discussing how it can deliver its SD-WAN solution as a Virtual Network Function (VNF) that will run on telco service providers’ universal customer premise equipment (uCPE).
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