Ruxit, part of digital performance management company Dynatrace, has debuted its first managed service offering.
Ruxit Managed, which was revealed at the Dynatrace Perform conference in Orlando this week, is designed to provide the same application monitoring services as its standard SaaS offering, but running in an on-premise environment rather than a public cloud
The solution offers a battery of performance monitoring metrics, including keeping tabs on the performance and availability of websites, applications, clouds, and both virtual and physical servers.
One of the main benefits of the SaaS model that Ruxit wants to bring to on-premise with its managed offering is full web scale architecture, and the ability to monitor hundreds of thousands of hosts.
Via a machine learning-based system, Ruxit Managed auto-detects and maps all the nodes, endpoints and instances of a user's network within a few minutes of deployment
This 'smartscape', as the company refers to it, monitors dependencies and processes, and can keep track of large amounts of microservices passing through private, public and hybrid clouds. This allows companies to monitor the performance and health of their datacentres and applications in real time.
Full-stack monitoring is then used to establish an operational baseline for the network. Using this baseline, the AI algorithm can monitor the network in real-time, comparing its current state against its historical data.
However, the AI system doesn't just immediately alert the user to every unexpected event it comes across. Instead, it operates a causal model, ensuring the fault is actually impacting application performance for an end user, before notifying administrators and providing a detailed description and timeline of the problem.
Ruxit's AI also means that network operators no longer have to manually sift through drilldowns and data in order to find the specific details of exactly which customers a problem is affecting. The system will instead present all that information to operators automatically.
This is part of Ruxit Managed's stated goal to provide SaaS functionality to on-premise environments, by taking a large number of metrics and measurements and presenting them in an actionable context. "Answers instead of data", Ruxit founder and CTO Bernt Greifeneder says; "this is the mantra".
In keeping with this, Ruxit relays its information not as dense reams of data, but as customised infographics, specifically tailored to individual use cases by the AI. This, Greifeneder says, is to eliminate the tedious number-crunching that analytics and performance management can entail
Further deepening the similarity to SaaS models, Ruxit Managed will operate on a basis of continuous delivery. Rather than the often long waits for upgrades experienced by on-premise customers, Ruxit Managed deployments will receive new builds every two weeks.
The solution is designed primarily for regulated industries, such as finance, healthcare and government, which are prevented from running public cloud deployments.
According to Greifeneder, Ruxit is also in talks with multiple cloud providers and telcos. Due to the fact that it's architected with full multi-tenant capabilities, many are exploring using Ruxit Managed as a basis for providing their own SaaS performance management offering, supposedly fuelled by concerns over NSA spying.
Hybrid cloud has previously been a solution of choice for organisations that wish to pair the agility and scalability of cloud systems with the security and reliability of on-prem datacentres, but with Ruxit Managed, these businesses could be able to have the best of both worlds.
