Ironically, the adoption of cloud computing—public and private—has clouded the visibility into resources running in those environments. Organizations have trouble seeing, monitoring and managing cloud resources. And that lack of visibility means security problems can go undetected and cloud services costs can unknowingly run up.

To help shine a light on those issues, Hyperglance Ltd. announced the general availability of Hyperglance 4.0, a browser-based, interactive, 3D platform that gives Amazon Web Services (AWS) and OpenStack customers visibility into their infrastructure.

Hyperglance 4.0 brings “clarity to the chaos,” said Stace Hipperson, CEO and founder of Hyperglance.

“When you look at something like Amazon Web Services, they have a lot of different services—and they’re adding more every day. So, it’s really hard to get a view of what is talking to what and what the relationships are. We give [users] straight away a relationship map inside AWS,” he said.

Specifically, Hipperson said the platform allows users to do the following:

• Automatically map public and private cloud resources and monitor alert data across infrastructure domains, cloud systems, cloud accounts and virtual private clouds,
• Quickly troubleshoot issues and optimize resources,
• Validate proper network segmentation for security compliance such as that required by the PCI Data Security Standard,
• Collaborate across infrastructure domains or IT group, and
• Identify anomalies, performance issues and under utilization of services.

Not only do customers see what is happening, but they can take action on it, Hipperson added.

“It’s active, not passive,” he said. “You can take actions on the instances. You can start, stop, and terminate. So, you can interact with the data. It’s not just passive monitoring.”

The fact that Hyperglance 4.0 now runs in a browser also facilitates use of it, Hipperson said. It runs on anything that has a modern browser, so customers can use mobile devices such tablets and smartphones to monitor and manage their cloud resources.

Hyperglance provides a valuable tool for AWS and OpenStack users, said Dan Twing, president, COO and executive cloud analyst at Enterprise Management Associates (EMA). They gain cross-domain infrastructure visibility and can implement actions with greater context.

“The unique, interactive, 3D topology console provides users with faster time to insight and more proactive troubleshooting of relevant cloud resources,” he said in a news release.

Hyperglance 4.0 is currently integrated with AWS, OpenStack and Nagios IT infrastructure monitoring, but the company plans to add platforms such as VMware, Cisco APIC EM, Docker, Open Daylight and Microsoft Azure.

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