Cisco Intersight Workload Optimizer
Cisco Intersight Workload Optimizer is a real-time decision engine that ensures the health of applications across your on-premises and public cloud environments while lowering costs. The intelligent software continuously analyzes workload demand, resource consumption, resource costs, and policy constraints to determine an optimal balance. Cisco IWO is an artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) toolset that makes recommendations for operators and can trigger workload placement and resource allocations in your data center and the public cloud, thus fully automating real-time optimization.
With Cisco IWO, infrastructure and operations teams are armed with visibility, insights, and actions that ensure service level agreements (SLAs) are met while improving the bottom line. Also, application and DevOps teams get comprehensive situational awareness so they can deliver high-performing and continuously available applications.
Benefits of using Cisco Intersight Workload Optimizer:
• Radically simplify application resource management with a single tool that dynamically optimizes resources in real time to ensure application performance.
• Continuously optimize critical IT resources, resulting in more efficient use of existing infrastructure and lower operational costs on the premises and in the cloud.
• Take the guesswork out of planning for the future with the ability to quickly model what-if scenarios based on the real-time environment.
Figure 5-2 illustrates how IWO ensures application performance with continuous visibility, deep insights, and informed actions.
Figure 5-2 Application performance with continuous visibility, deep insights, and informed actions
CWOM-to-IWO Migration
In June 2019, Turbonomic and CWOM became inaugural members of the Integration Partner Program (IPP), which takes the technology partnership to another level by helping joint customers maximize the value of their AppDynamics and CWOM investment. The extended integration and partnership delivers on the vision of AIOps, where software is making dynamic resourcing decisions and automating actions to ensure that applications are always performing, enabling positive business outcomes and improved user experiences. Organizations across the world are investing heavily in developing new applications and innovating faster to deliver better, more simplified user experiences. The partnership and the combination of AppDynamics and CWOM ensures that applications are architected and written well and are continuously resourced for performance.
As a full-stack, real-time decision engine, Intersight Workload Optimizer revolutionizes how teams manage application resources across their multicloud landscape, significantly simplifying operations. It delivers unprecedented levels of visibility, insights, and automated actions, as customers look to prevent application performance issues.
Figure 5-3 provides a very high-level view of IWO application management.
Figure 5-3 Very high-level view of IWO application management
Simply put, IWO provides the following customer benefits:
• It bridges the gap between application and IT teams to ensure application performance.
• It eliminates application resourcing as a source of application delay, meaning applications can perform and continuously deliver services.
• It helps IT departments stop overspending and delivers a modern application hosting platform to end users.
• It enables high-value application and IT teams to focus on strategy and innovation without jeopardizing applications.
IWO expands Intersight capabilities. All in one place, Intersight customers can manage the health of the infrastructure and how well that infrastructure is utilized to ensure application performance. Additionally, Intersight customers can monitor and manage application resources on third-party infrastructure, public cloud, and container environments.