OpsCruise, a purpose-built cloud-native, and Kubernetes observability platform, has been acquired by Virtana, the leading IT operations management (ITOM) company accelerating hybrid, multi-vendor, and multi-cloud infrastructure innovation with artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps).
The solution from OpsCruise would enable ITOps/DevOps/SRE teams to anticipate performance decline and identify its root cause. This is made possible by OpsCruise’s distinctive contextual Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) based behavior profiling, which works in conjunction with the deep knowledge of Kubernetes and popular technologies utilized in contemporary applications.
According to Virtana, users may avoid expensive proprietary alternatives by using OpsCruise’s fully integated metrics, logs, traces, flows, and configuration data with top open-source monitoring tools and cloud providers.
By expanding its hybrid coverage to accommodate cloud-native, open-source, containers, and serverless operations, Virtana continues to deliver on its promise to offer unified and simpler hybrid infrastructure observability for on-prem, cloud, and edge multi-vendor settings.
OpsCruise was founded in 2018 with a goal to address the difficulties of complexity and cost of managing applications in the cloud. It was co-created by tech entrepreneurs Scott Fulton, Aloke Guha, and Shridhar Venkatraman and The Fabric, a Silicon Valley startup foundry focused on cloud and IoT infrastructure.
Because it “uses machine learning profiling to rapidly identify performance issues in Kubernetes and serverless cloud-native environments, allowing IT Ops/SRE teams to more efficiently manage complex modern environments,” OpsCruise was recognized a Cool Vendor in Observability by Gartner in 2022.
OpsCruise is used by top companies to address issues like slowdowns, costly proprietary telemetry collection, unexpected dependencies, misconfigurations, and resource saturation across Kubernetes, cloud services, and infrastructure. These companies include Telefonica, Tesla, Avis Car Rental, and United Airlines.
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With real-time performance monitoring, large-scale analytics capabilities, support for Kubernetes on-premises, Cloud Cost Management, and Workload Placement, Virtana Platform offers comprehensive hybrid infrastructure management solutions. Virtana Platform was chosen by Gartner as a Digital Platform Conductor tool, which is a new class of technologies. These tools “coordinate the various infrastructure tools used to plan, implement, operate, and monitor supporting applications and digital product services.”With OpsCruise, Virtana is able to automate anomaly detection for data security and to enable Kubernetes deployments everywhere. Additionally, the acquisition would improve extensibility by better supporting a variety of Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offerings.
“At Virtana, we place a high importance on encouraging innovation and customer passion. The purchase of OpsCruise strengthens our team’s commitment to provide the most comprehensive hybrid cloud infrastructure monitoring and management solution in the market,” said Kash Shaikh, President and CEO of Virtana. “Our numerous conversations with IT leaders around the world to understand their challenges and how Virtana can help address them were the driving force behind the integration of OpsCruise into our portfolio.”
“The capacity of customers to provide the greatest customer experience is hampered by costly proprietary observability data collecting that they may not utilize and slow time to resolution,” added Kash Shaikh. “With the aid of open-source-based data collecting, prediction, and problem-solving, our clients will be able to innovate in highly competitive sectors while also reducing costs. We are happy to have OpsCruise as a member of the Virtana family.”
Scott Fulton, founder and CEO of OpsCruise, stated, “We are excited to join forces with Virtana to assist deliver on their goal of hybrid infrastructure management. The data challenge of cloud observability has emerged. For traditional technologies to merely display telemetry data on dashboards, extensive programming and customization are necessary. OpsCruise, an observability smart layer, automatically interprets the data to provide contextual insights, spot degradations, and automate causal analysis. It aims to free engineers from laborious monitoring devices, events, and war rooms.”
