Today, our newest release of TeamQuest Performance Software hit the market. We are proud to announce that we are giving IT professionals the ability to monitor and analyze the performance of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (KVM) and to capacity plan for migrations to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).

KVM is a widely adopted and well respected virtualization platform. With this release, you can detect and quickly troubleshoot performance issues in your virtual environment – regardless of OS. We now support VMware, Hyper-V, Solaris Zones, Containers and LDOMs, and IBM LPARs and WPARs. The addition of KVM makes the TeamQuest solution the front runner in adapting to the complex, heterogeneous virtual and cloud environments that are being built today.

When people think of IaaS, they usually think of Amazon first. We’ve given you the power to create what-if scenarios to evaluate just how a workload will perform in an Amazon EC2 cloud with TeamQuest Predictor. No more hoping that things won’t break or guessing how much it will cost – we take the guesswork out of the equation. This is yet another valuable addition to the multi-vendor environment coverage that enterprises need to support their business.

We are all about giving you options, and another noteworthy item is our PostgreSQL alternative to Oracle or the TeamQuest proprietary database. Just another way we continue to listen to our customers and build a solution that makes them successful.

For more information, check out the press release.

TeamQuest Corp. today announced the availability of a single KPI that gauges the overall performance health of a system or application in near real-time, called TeamQuest Performance Indicator (TPI).

Using a simple, easy-to-understand scale from zero to 100, TPI is calculated automatically and provides a simple key performance indicator for overall health. Competitive solutions typically combine several KPIs using simple math to create an overall health KPI. But TPI incorporates more sophisticated analysis that actually understands the queuing behavior of computer systems.

“TPI is far superior to anything else available in the industry,” said Director of Product Management Scott Adams. “We’re providing an easy way to see and understand the true performance health of your systems and applications. You don’t have to sift through tons of disparate metrics only to draw your own conclusions. TPI is simple, automated and accurate.”

TeamQuest also announced it’s new TeamQuest Storage Capacity Management solution that allows users to seamlessly analyze the performance and capacity of SAN storage systems and other infrastructure together. A capability new to the industry, this application-to-virtual server-to-physical server-storage system analysis helps troubleshoot, manage, and optimize virtualized cloud environments.

The TeamQuest solution allows a more comprehensive multi-tiered analysis for the entire IT infrastructure that contributes to overall performance, including business data as well as performance data regarding physical servers, guest systems, and storage.

“This solution integrates performance analysis and reporting across multiple tiers, giving a true big picture of combined storage and server technologies supporting the performance of business services,” said Director of Product Management Scott Adams. “Unlike standalone storage or server-centric products, this is a fully integrated solution that uniquely analyzes and reports capacity and performance from the business service all the way down to storage.”

1. Seamlessly analyze storage and other infrastructure — together
2. Rapidly understand when storage is the bottleneck, why, and what services are impacted
3. Report on who or what is using how much, and when

“The TeamQuest storage solution uniquely spans servers, applications and storage to provide a single pane of glass view of the environment,” said Adams.

Director of Product Management Scott Adams led off with a recap of Release 11 that just came out a few weeks ago. His excitement for this release shows, and it’s contagious! Given the hallway talk, attendees are ready to get their hands on it.

Product Manager Perry Stupp described the philosophy of the TeamQuest Surveyor product. He said they’ve spent the last 6 years developing this product based on user input. “Customer understand their problems better than anybody – it’s been our job to listen so we can build a product that meets their needs.” He likens the flexibility of TeamQuest Surveyor to legos…you can snap together the same legos in different ways to create a Star Wars Death Star or a bionicle or anything else. In much the same way, TeamQuest Surveyor provides flexible building blocks so customers can adapt it easily to fit their needs.

Future releases of TeamQuest Surveyor will include enhanced end-to-end analysis, giving users the ability to look at the performance and capacity of infrastructure devices both in isolation and holistically. More out-of-the-box integration with additional data sources is a top priority, as well as building a community of users that can share the cool views and reports they use.

We’ll be seeing some auto predict features soon, too! Sophisticated algorithms will run in the background and predictions will be saved for analysis. That’s some leading-edge stuff! Adams also talked about some automation features coming in TeamQuest CMIS. All of this feeds into the underlying theme of scalability, convenience, usability, and automation.

With TeamQuest and our customers working together as partners as freely and openly as is occurring at this event, the journey ahead should be exciting!

Today we are “turning it up to 11″ with TeamQuest Performance Software Release 11, a new suite comprised of four products:

• TeamQuest Analyzer — IT performance analysis
• TeamQuest Surveyor — Enterprise capacity management
• TeamQuest Predictor — Capacity planning
• TeamQuest CMIS — Distributed Capacity Management Information System

The new release brings newly acquired Performance Surveyor fully into our product suite as TeamQuest Surveyor. Other new capabilities include:

1. TeamQuest Administration Console — a new component of TeamQuest CMIS providing policy-based management of TeamQuest software in larger installations
2. Remote agentless collection of performance data from Microsoft Hyper-V
3. Support for new versions various hypervisors and operating systems
4. And much more!

Check out our press release for more details.

Our latest release has improvements for VMware, PowerVM, support for LDAP and Active Directory, and much more. This particular update includes features suggested by 26 customers. Take a look at the release flyer for more information. If you are a customer, log into the support area and download the release notes for all the details.