We know all too well that overseeing an infrastructure isn’t exactly the most laid-back job. It’s a mass of web of servers, switches, and physical and virtual appliances. And in order to easily manage this array of complicated connections, Real Status, one of the Structure 2011 LaunchPad companies, and an Intergence Interactive (a consulting services firm) spinout, has created a tool to give us a better view of the cloud.

The company is based in Cambridge, England and is among the first to take in visualization and navigation techniques, from computer games to comprehensively outline a cloud.

The company is funded by WH Ireland along with a number of angels, amounting to a total of £1.2 million ($1.9 million USD) for the development of the tool. Dubbed as HyperGlance, it gives a bird’s-eye view of the cloud as it visualizes data by mapping out an infrastructure in 3D. It also indicates the health of an infrastructure in a single monitor.

The company believes that data is meaningless unless it’s presented correctly, subsequently aiming to present data in a way that it can easily be understood in a central, comprehensive view.  HyperGlance wants to offer this ease of use even for people who are not adeptly oriented with the technicalities of cloud command lines, harping on another aspect of the IT consumerization trend.

The software also hopes to make it easier for analysts, drawing out significant insights out of the data, while preventing the manifestation of any major infrastructure breakdown.  Analysis in this form is another perk for cloud services, becoming a necessary add-on for the competing range of companies.  Understanding your cloud is another way in which its services are being simplified for wider adoption and developing additional insight for business intelligence purposes.

IT structuring has always been a problem. Big data is driven by volume, variety and velocity, and HyperGlance comes in overseeing and predicting the flow of these factors. “Organizations that simply focus on managing the large volumes associated with ‘big data’ and fail to exploit it properly will be forced into a “massive reinvestment” within a couple of years, Gartner has warned. It is important to not only administer masses of data, but to utilize them as well.