Virtana, a leading provider of hybrid cloud infrastructure monitoring and management solutions, has recently acquired OpsCruise, a cloud observability platform. OpsCruise offers a purpose-built, cloud-native, and Kubernetes observability platform that empowers ITOps/DevOps/SRE teams to predict performance degradation and identify its root cause. With a deep understanding of Kubernetes and popular technologies used in modern applications, coupled with contextual Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) based behavior profiling, OpsCruise’s solution provides valuable insights for efficient management of complex cloud environments.
One of OpsCruise’s key features is its tight integration with leading open-source monitoring tools and cloud providers for metrics, logs, traces, flows, and configuration data. This integration eliminates the need for customers to rely on expensive proprietary alternatives, providing a more cost-effective solution. The acquisition of OpsCruise aligns with Virtana’s vision of delivering simplified and unified hybrid infrastructure observability for multi-vendor environments across on-premises, cloud, and edge deployments. This expansion extends Virtana’s hybrid coverage to include support for cloud-native, open-source, containers, and serverless functions, catering to the growing demands of modern applications.
OpsCruise was co-founded in 2018 by The Fabric, a Silicon Valley startup foundry focused on cloud and IoT infrastructure, along with tech entrepreneurs Scott Fulton, Aloke Guha, and Shridhar Venkatraman. The company was established with the goal of addressing the complexity and cost associated with managing applications in the cloud. Their efforts were recognized by Gartner in 2022 when OpsCruise was named a Cool Vendor in Observability. Gartner praised OpsCruise for its use of Machine Learning profiling to quickly identify performance issues in Kubernetes and serverless cloud-native environments, enabling IT Ops/SRE teams to effectively manage complex modern environments.
Several leading organizations, including Avis Car Rental, Telefonica, Tesla, and United Airlines, have already benefited from using OpsCruise to address various challenges such as slow-downs, expensive telemetry collection, unexpected dependencies, misconfigurations, and resource saturation across Kubernetes, cloud services, and infrastructure. OpsCruise has proven to be instrumental in overcoming these obstacles and ensuring smooth operations.
Virtana Platform, Virtana’s flagship product, provides unified hybrid infrastructure management solutions, offering real-time performance monitoring, large-scale analytics capabilities, support for Kubernetes, Cloud Cost Management, and Workload Placement. Gartner has recognized Virtana Platform as a Digital Platform Conductor tool, a new category of tools that coordinate various infrastructure tools used to plan, implement, operate, and monitor technology and services for applications and digital products.
With the acquisition of OpsCruise, Virtana now supports Kubernetes deployments anywhere and automates anomaly detection to identify suspicious behaviors and data protection. The integration of OpsCruise also enhances the extensibility of Virtana Platform by providing improved support for a broad range of Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offerings. This expanded functionality enables Virtana to better cater to the evolving needs of its customers and deliver comprehensive solutions for their hybrid infrastructure management requirements.
Kash Shaikh, the CEO of Virtana, expressed his enthusiasm about the acquisition and stated that it aligns with Virtana’s commitment to delivering the industry’s most robust hybrid cloud infrastructure monitoring and management solution. He emphasized the importance of understanding the challenges faced by IT leaders worldwide and how Virtana can help address them. Furthermore, Shaikh highlighted the common issues faced by customers, such as expensive proprietary observability data collection and slow time to resolution. He believes that the acquisition of OpsCruise will help accelerate cost reduction through open-source-based collection and enable customers to predict and pinpoint problems more efficiently.
Scott Fulton, the CEO of OpsCruise, shared his excitement about joining forces with Virtana. He emphasized that cloud observability has become a data problem and traditional tools require significant configuration and tuning to present telemetry data on dashboards. OpsCruise’s solution automates the process and provides contextual insights, enabling engineers to spend less time on monitoring tools, incidents, and war rooms.
The acquisition of OpsCruise by Virtana marks a significant step towards delivering enhanced observability and management capabilities for hybrid cloud infrastructures. By leveraging OpsCruise’s expertise and innovative technology, Virtana is well-positioned to meet the evolving needs of its customers and provide comprehensive solutions for their hybrid infrastructure management requirements.