Once you get all that cool cloud stuff into your enterprise, you have to manage it. This is no doubt the thinking behind EMC’s acquisition of Watch4Net, a 12-year-old Montreal-based company that provides \u201centerprise and carrier-class\u201d performance management software.
\nEMC made a spate of announcements at its own show last week (some which I reported here). The Watch4net buy continues that push, even if it seems to be a relatively small acquisition (cash-based and said by EMC not to have material impact on its fiscal year earnings).
\nTwo big bullet points accent this buy: a need for availability management, to determine if components are functioning; and performance management, \u201cto track any system or component degradation, plot trending, and (to) intervene as needed,\u201d according to EMC.
\nThe company says Watch4Net will complement its existing IT Operations Intelligence Suite. The company also notes that Watch4Net has worked closely with EMC over the past seven years, and is \u201calready tightly integrated\u201d with the suite.
\nJay Mastaj, Senior Vice President and General Manager, spoke for EMC about the acquisition, noting that \u201cregardless of where customers are along their journey to cloud computing, insight into every aspect of IT performance and the ability to manage it without growing staff and with increasing granularity, are no longer optional.\u201d<\/p>\n