Company: ScienceLogic
Headquarters: Reston, Va.
Technology Sector: Networking
Key Product: EM7 Meta-Appliances
Year Founded: 2003
Number of Channel Partners: 20 worldwide
Ideal Channel Partner: Enterprise-focused solution provider
Why You Should Care: An economic recession means customers need a more efficient network infrastructure—and therefore, an airtight way to monitor that efficiency. ScienceLogic says it has the most scalable, vendor-agnostic software out there, and it is looking to the channel to help move its EM7 Meta-Appliances into midsize and enterprise settings.
The Lowdown: For solution providers that need a comprehensive, automated management offering to add to their portfolios, ScienceLogic might have just the thing.
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Its line of EM7 Meta-Appliances promises to proffer visibility and control over a variety of IT infrastructure components, including switches, routers, servers, desktops, printers and mobile devices.
"The typical partner of ours is dealing with networks of servers or security infrastructure and has a set of solutions built for customers to help not just with product but with day- two service operability in mind," said David Link, ScienceLogic's president and CEO. "We have a very good number of reseller partners that have used our product to build a managed services offering."
The latest edition to the vendor's product line, dubbed EM7 G3, premiered earlier this month at the 2009 FOSE conference in Washington D.C. The new capabilities include continuity monitoring operations (for remote and mobile assets), collector resource pools (for automated load balancing), engineered high availability (for different access portals), IPv6 network support (for dual-stack IPv6 networks), an automation engine for event-based notification, advanced multitenancy support, core-to-edge security architecture (designed for government agencies seeking greater and more secure use of cloud computing scenarios), chargeback features and user-experience service-level monitors (for applications hosted in dedicated, private and public clouds alike).
The new EM7 G3 line starts at $85,000, while other EM7 Meta-Appliances start at $32,000. A typical EM7 dashboard for an IT manager includes application management, systems management, asset and configuration management, service desk, fault management, network management and service level management.
"You've got to have something that's going to help your customer save money or be more productive. Everyone is pinching pennies," said Link, a Compuserve and IBM veteran who watched ScienceLogic experience 830 percent growth from 2006 to 2007, about 90 percent from 2007 to 2008, and expects a 100 percent growth rate in 2009.
"We've built it for scale and cloud computing and dynamic data centers where you have virtualization," he said, describing the EM7 suite's scalability.
ScienceLogic has partnered with the likes of Dell, Cisco and IronPort, but Link said the EM7 offering's greatest strength is its ability to be heterogeneous.
"We can discover Juniper, F5, [Hewlett-Packard], whatever. If you work on Macs and OS X, we can discover those," he said. "You're never stuck because you don't have a tool that will manage the kinds of technologies you find on a network. Our reach is quite broad."
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