- Acquisition to help businesses use AI to better manage
complexity of modern applications that span hybrid cloud landscape;
Builds on IBM's industry-leading AI-powered automation
capabilities
ARMONK, N.Y., Nov. 18, 2020 /CNW/ -- IBM (NYSE:IBM) today
announced a definitive agreement to acquire Instana, an
application performance monitoring and observability company. The
acquisition will help businesses better manage the complexity
of modern applications that span the hybrid cloud landscape.
Today's news further advances IBM's Hybrid Cloud and AI strategy
and strengthens its AI-powered automation capabilities. Financial
details were not disclosed.
With the acquisition of Instana, IBM will help companies
overcome the challenge of managing application performance across
multiple teams, and across 2 to 15 clouds, on average.i
And it is another example of how IBM is building on its AI-powered
automation capabilities, including:
- the launch of IBM Watson
AIOps earlier this year, IBM's AI offering for automating how
enterprises self-detect, diagnose and respond to IT anomalies in
real time;
- its acquisition of WDG Automation to provide clients
with broader access to intelligent automation through software
robots;
- its expanded partnership with ServiceNow to develop a
joint solution to help companies reduce operational risk and lower
costs by applying AI to automate IT operations;
- and continued updates to IBM Cloud Pak for
Automation designed to help companies drive innovation across
their expanding IT environments and accelerate digital
transformation.
"Our clients today are faced with managing a complex technology
landscape filled with mission-critical applications and data that
are running across a variety of hybrid cloud environments – from
public clouds, private clouds and on-premises," said Rob
Thomas, Senior Vice President, Cloud and Data Platform, IBM. "IBM's
acquisition of Instana is yet another important step that we
are taking to provide companies with the most complete portfolio of
AI-automated solutions to tackle this enormous challenge and help
prevent unforeseen IT incidents that can cost a business in lost
revenue and reputation."
Headquartered in Chicago, with
a development center in Germany,
Instana provides businesses with capabilities to manage the
performance of complex and modern cloud-native applications no
matter where they reside – on mobile devices, public and private
clouds and on-premises, including IBM Z. Instana's enterprise
observability platform automatically builds a deep contextual
understanding of cloud applications and provides actionable
insights to indicate how to best prevent and remedy IT issues that
could damage the business or reduce customer satisfaction --
such as slow response times, services that aren't working or
infrastructure that is down.
Once Instana's capabilities are integrated into IBM, companies
will be able to feed these insights into Watson AIOps. The
information could then be compared to a baseline of a normal
operating application, with AI triggering alerts to resolve issues
quickly before negative impacts to that transaction or activity.
This can help eliminate the need for IT staff to manually monitor
and manage applications, freeing these employees to focus on
innovation and higher value work.
"With the added responsibility of ensuring the build and run
quality of the software they develop, DevOps teams need a new
generation of application performance monitoring and observability
capabilities to succeed," said Mirko
Novakovic, co-founder and CEO, Instana. "Instana's
observability capabilities combined with IBM's AI-powered
automation capabilities across hybrid cloud environments will give
clients a full view of their application performance to best
optimize operations."
Instana will offer both SaaS and on-premises solutions
depending on the client's unique needs.
Developers can try the Instana offering by utilizing the
free sandbox and trials, already available through their
website.
The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions. It
is expected to close within several months.
For more information on today's announcement, please visit
https://www.ibm.com/cloud/blog/ibm-and-instana.
To learn more about IBM's AI-powered automation capabilities,
please visit: https://www.ibm.com/products/watson-aiops
Media Contact:
Hanna
Smigala
IBM Media Relations
smigala@us.ibm.com
i "Assembling your cloud orchestra: A field
guide to multicloud management." IBM Institute for Business Value.
October 2018.
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