Despite the overall impact of digital transformation, the cloud migration trend has progressed in fits and starts at the individual enterprise level. Challenges from cost to talent shortages to blockages in internal processes have complicated adoption for businesses and put pressure on information technology and operations teams not equipped to manage infrastructure scaled to the multicloud level.

“Everything goes back to the application, all the business services. And the business service is running on the infrastructure. We target the IT operations team … to make sure they don’t end up being the fall guy,” said Dilip Advani (pictured), vice president of marketing at Uila Inc.

At Uila, Advani works with ops teams to implement application-centric infrastructure monitoring that pinpoints bottlenecks and helps customers with their hybrid cloud migration strategies. Advani spoke with Stu Miniman (@stu), host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, at the VTUG Winter Warmer event in Foxborough, Massachusetts. They discussed the cloud’s impact on enterprise restructuring and how Uila is helping customers adapt.

‘Lightning in the cloud’

Named for the Hawaiian word for “lightning in the cloud,” Uila aims to be “the power and the guiding light behind some of the challenges that people have with their cloud environment,” according to Advani. The company works to support full-stack monitoring and provide solutions that can help solve challenges within the data center.

“Our main goal is to help you solve the performance bottleneck, whether it’s on the application or the infrastructure side,” Advani said.

Many of those challenges stem from enterprise struggles with defining multicloud strategy. Uila sees its customers grappling with issues around which applications and services can move to public cloud as they transition to a hybrid platform. “That’s where we’ve seen a lot of organizations struggle, getting that visibility into what exists within their environment as they … take their applications to the hybrid cloud,” Advani said. The company looks at both the public and private sides, helping with performance monitoring and defining migration strategy.

Uila supports businesses in a variety of industries, working directly with customers to install, train internal operations teams, and review issues together. “We get installed as a guest VM on top of the hypervisor … do deep packet inspection to get the application and the network information … get those details … and then talk to vCenter to get all of the compute and storage statistics,” Advani said.

The company typically works with virtualization engineers or IT architects to create a streamlined process between private and public cloud systems.

Uila’s goal is to work as a true performance assessment to data centers and be considered a partner customers can rely on. “Uila believes in working with the community. … That’s why we’ve been engaged,” Advani concluded.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the VTUG Winter Warmer.

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