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A multicloud approach has been talked about for years within enterprises, but few companies have gone that direction. Now it's easier to go multicloud and AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform all share customers. Here's a look at managing multiple cloud providers, how to play them off each other and what vendors and tools can help you manage multiple clouds.
Virtual Instruments[3], which provides AIOps for hybrid IT infrastructure management, announced [4]on Wednesday that it's acquired Metricly, a 12 year-old cloud optimization and monitoring service provider. The purchase will enable Virtual Instruments expand its portfolio beyond the data center and private cloud environments, into the public cloud.
Previously known as Netuitive, Metricly rebranded in 2017. Metricly's platform uses deep learning analytics and real-time capacity metrics to identify opportunities for optimizing cloud resources and bringing down spending on Amazon Web Services. Specifically, the platform's tools address six areas of cloud cost management -- administration, billing analysis, idle resources, right sizing, reservations and capacity monitoring.
Virtual Instruments, for its part, offers an AIOps platform for monitoring and optimizing all IT infrastructure components in the data center and private cloud, including storage, network, hypervisor and operating system. Some of its customers include PayPal, Bank of America, Geico, AT&T, eTrade, Unilever and T-Mobile.
Metricly and Virtual Instruments "could not be any more philosophically aligned in the quest for applying machine learning to availability, performance, capacity and cost management," Metricly CEO Bob Farzami wrote in a blog post[5]. "Over the last few years,