CiRBA  a provider of Data Centre Intelligence (DCI) software, has released CiRBA 6.0. With this latest version, CiRBA provides an enterprise solution for efficiency management that meets the evolving demands of managing cloud and virtualised infrastructure. Version 6.0 combines cross-platform analytics with customizable role-based dashboards that increase visibility and control over the efficiency and risk of systems.

CiRBA 6.0 was specifically designed to support the changing dynamics of infrastructure management, including the increased use of virtualisation and Cloud-based business models. To effectively manage these environments, organizations must be able to make faster decisions within very fluid environments, have access to accurate, reliable information, and be able to communicate effectively with the various stakeholders that impact decisions or policies governing environments. CiRBA’s new dashboards deliver role-based views of efficiency and risks that offer accurate, actionable answers. CiRBA helps to automate the decision-making process leaving less to the interpretation of the user, thereby saving time, increasing accuracy and reducing risk.

“As virtualisation and Cloud adoption increase, we have seen a broader group of individuals needing to track efficiency and risk related metrics,” said Andrew Hillier, CIRBA CTO and Co-founder. “For many organizations this consumes huge amounts of time. Those relying on manual approaches and spreadsheets simply cannot aggregate the required data, analyse it accurately, and provide answers with any level of reliability. Organizations are exposed to significant risk and cost by leaving the analysis to error-prone, time-consuming, unreliable methods.”

“Reliable and actionable answers require highly detailed, recent and complete data. CiRBA is the only solution that provides a quality rating that shows the users of the answers that all of these requirements have been met. Without this, in many cases analysts may be trusting answers that are invalid, unreliable or just plain risky. CiRBA enables organizations to avoid costly problems such as over-provisioning, performance issues, and downtime that arise from acting on poor quality analyses,” said Hillier.

CiRBA’s Version 6.0 builds on the only cross-platform analytics solution that enables organizations to safely maximize the efficiency of Cloud-based, virtualised and physical infrastructure by determining what the right host infrastructure is, how much is required, how it should be allocated, and where to place workloads in order to maximize utilization. CiRBA’s policy-driven multi-dimensional analysis simultaneously examines detailed configuration data, business policies and utilization patterns and personalities. It is only through looking at the intersection of these three types of constraints that organizations’ can control risk while optimizing the efficiency and manageability of infrastructure.