What is Visual Storage Intelligence?
VSI is software designed to automate your analysis, data reporting and visibility across your entire IT infrastructure.
We stand apart from other solutions in six ways:
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Multi-Vendor Reporting: VSI collects and and reports all of of your storage infrastructure data into a single dashboard regardless of vendor whether your storage is physical, virtual, or in the cloud.
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Storage Capacity Planning: Using models, forecasting, and pinpoint data accuracy, VSI helps you anticipate precise outcomes, improve budgeting accuracy, track your growth trends and negotiate necessary purchases while avoiding un-necessary ones.
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Consolidated Alerting: While VSI isn’t a real time monitoring system, it does provide warnings of anomalies helping you prevent shortages, outages, and even ransomware attacks.
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Storage Optimization: Data insights into performance, capacity, and utilization help you find and reclaim space, extend the life of your hardware, and prevent unnecessary purchases.
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White Glove Service: Support is available 24/7 along with comprehensive email reports from a storage expert who knows your environment.
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Unbeatable Value: Even with more services than our competitors, our price per petabyte is still the best among similar products. Better yet, we’re all-inclusive – no extra charges for add-on services.
How VSI Works
Working with VSI entails a few phases.
Data Collection From Your IT Assets
First, we work with you to identify your reporting objectives. Once that is established, we need to set up data collection for the elements within your IT infrastructure needed to meet your reporting objectives. The data collection is agent-less. Instead of a traditional agent, which represents uncontrolled and unverifiable software running beyond your firewall doing who knows what, VSI leverages the diagnostic tools that come with your equipment. We use clear-text Python scripts to manage the data collection, and those scripts are always available for inspection. You’ll find that all they do is execute a series of commands using the diagnostic tools and API’s built into infrastructure elements like storage arrays, switches, virtual infrastructure, etc.
Data Upload
The data are gathered into a plain-text log format, zipped, and uploaded to VSI via encrypted HTTPS. There are no ports to open on your end, assuming 443 is already open which is usually the case.
Once your data collection scripts are set up, you can pick the frequency of data collection. VSI supports weekly or daily collection.
We Analyze Your Raw Data
Once we have your data, we go to work analyzing it. Depending on the amount of data you upload, you’ll likely have your results within 10 minutes. Once its processed, you can login to the VSI Application and review the data in our portal.
Review Reports
The VSI portal is available anytime to review your data. The application supports a wide range of reports.