VMware Extends Leading Analytics Capabilities to Unstructured Machine Data with VMware vCenter Log Insight

New Product to Offer IT Organizations a Novel Approach to Simplifying Log Management to Enable Greater Operational Efficiency in Enterprise and Cloud Environments 

KUALA LUMPUR, June 13, 2013 — VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today introduced  VMware® vCenter™ Log Insight™, a new automated log management and analytics product for the cloud era. By extending analytics to logs, VMware enables IT organizations to gain real-time insights from vast amounts of log data generated by applications, physical hardware and virtualized infrastructure, helping to minimize troubleshooting times as well as improve operational efficiency and reduce IT costs.

“Dynamic virtual and cloud environments generate vast amounts of structured and unstructured data, requiring analytics for real-time intelligence and visibility across IT infrastructure and applications,” said Ramin Sayar, vice president and general manager, Cloud Management, VMware.  “With VMware vCenter™ Log Insight™, we’re extending our analytics-based approach to provide timely and rich insight of machine-generated data to IT administrators and operations teams. By integrating VMware vCenter Log Insight with the industry-leading VMware vCenter™ Operations, we are enabling our customers to take advantage of our unique solution that simplifies troubleshooting in dynamic virtual and cloud environments.”

VMware vCenter Log Insight Offers Fast Time to Value, Optimized for VMware vSphere®
Machine-generated log data contains valuable operational and diagnostics details regarding IT infrastructure that can be applied to identify and troubleshoot IT problems. With the high volume of log data and the dynamic nature of data structures, IT organizations of today are challenged with managing and mining logs for operational insights in real-time.

Purpose-built for log analytics, VMware vCenter Log Insight delivers automated log management through log aggregation, analytics and search for system monitoring, troubleshooting and root cause analysis. The product consumes unstructured log data from a wide range of IT infrastructure components including applications, firewalls, network devices, operating systems, storage, virtual machines and hosts, and more, to provide enterprise-wide visibility. VMware vCenter Log Insight supports streaming data and real-time queries, and features a just-in-time schema definition that adapts to any data format. Additionally, VMware vCenter Log Insight delivers the performance and scalability required by IT organizations for visualizing and analyzing multi-terabyte datasets.

Organizations seeking a log analytics solution optimized for VMware environments can utilize VMware vCenter Log Insight, which features built-in knowledge and native support for  VMware vSphere, including pre-built dashboards and reports based on best practices from VMware engineering and global support. Integration between VMware vCenter Log Insight and  VMware vCenter Operations further enables organizations to bring together and analyze both structured and unstructured data for end-to-end operations management. Directly from VMware vCenter Operations, administrators can launch VMware vCenter Log Insight in context for any object or alert to identify the root cause of an IT infrastructure issue.  VMware vCenter Log Insight also converts log data into KPIs that are fed directly to VMware vCenter Operations for administrators to view log details and alerts in a single dashboard.

VMware vCenter Log Insight was developed to make it easy for customers to deploy, use and consume. Delivered as a virtual appliance, VMware vCenter Log Insight can be deployed within minutes, offering IT organizations fast time-to-value. Once running, administrators use an intuitive graphical user interface featuring a search and query box, as well as pre-configured dashboards and reports to gain real-time insights from log data. VMware vCenter Log Insight is priced per operating system instance, such as physical server, virtual machine or virtualized host, rather than by log data volume. This offers customers a simple, predictable pricing model.

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“VMware vCenter™ Log Insight™ is surprisingly easy to setup. It just worked after deploying the virtual appliance and setting the IP,” said Brandon Gordon, IT Architect II, CSX. “The ease of extracting data, combined with the data visualization makes VMware vCenter Log Insight deceptively simple and extremely powerful to use.”

Public Beta Program Opens to Foster Community Input
To encourage broad product feedback and testing from customers and partners, VMware vCenter Log Insight is now available for download via a public beta program. Participants can provide detailed product feedback, rank features and request new capabilities via the public beta program site at:  http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/vcenter/vcenter-log-insight . The public beta program opens on June 11, 2013 and will run for an extended period of time.

Pricing and Availability
A standalone product, VMware vCenter Log Insight is expected to be available in Q3 2013. It is priced at $200 per operating system instance with no log data size limits offering customers a predictable pricing model.  Go to VMware vCenter Log Insight Pricing/Buy page.