CloudPhysics Aims to Help IT 'Run VMware Like Google'

CloudPhysics has released a new intelligent IT operations management service in the cloud that is designed for VMware (VMW) workloads. The new cloud-based service “uncovers hidden operations hazards before problems emerge” while also identifying efficiency improvements to give IT more power to understand, troubleshoot and optimize virtualized systems. According to CloudPhysics, the new cloud service will help IT administrators “run VMware like Google (GOOG).”

With a focus on a Big Data solutions portfolio, CloudPhysics is aiming to leverage Big Data to drive efficiencies into storage, compute and networking with this new service. As CloudPhysics noted in its announcement, virtualized environments add complexity and risk to an IT department and the business it supports; and those virtualized environments are becoming increasingly complicated.

Of course, as environments become more complex, they also become more difficult and time-consuming to manage. Remedial actions sometimes have unintended negative consequences that can’t necessarily be foreseen, and hidden problems are only discovered when IT administrators “cross safety margins, triggering urgent, dangerous and suboptimal responses.”

The head honcho at CloudPhysics described it like this:

“Google uses analysis of anonymized traffic data from everyone’s GPS location streams to help users avoid accidents and bottlenecks and to make better driving decisions. CloudPhysics brings that same kind of power to IT so enterprises can make better operational decisions,” said John Blumenthal, CloudPhysics CEO and co-founder, in a prepared statement. “Our servers receive a daily stream of 80+ billion samples of configuration, performance, failure and event data from our global user base with a total of 20+ trillion data points to date. This ‘collective intelligence,’ combined with CloudPhysics’ patent-pending data center simulation and unique resource management techniques, empowers enterprise IT to drive Google-like operations excellence using actionable analytics from a large, relevant, continually refreshed dataset.”

Additionally, the company also launched the Card Store for VMware environments. Described as an “IT operations app store built on an industry-wide dataset and community,” the CloudPhysics Card Store offers highly focused apps built by the company’s user community focusing on IT operations including planning, procurement, reporting, analysis, troubleshooting and capacity management.

And all of this is being driven—or at least helped—by a new $10 million round of funding led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Previous investors Mayfield Fund, Mark Leslie, Peter Wagner, Carl Waldspurger, Nigel Stokes, Matt Ocko and VMware co-founders also participated in the Series B funding round.