Cisco FSO Platform is an open and extensible, API-driven platform focused on OpenTelemetry and anchored on metrics, events, logs, and traces (MELT), providing AI\/ML driven analytics. It brings data together from multiple domains including application, networking, infrastructure, security, cloud, sustainability, and business sources.<\/p>\n

Cisco FSO platform also empowers a new observability ecosystem delivering relevant and impactful business insights through new use-cases and extensions. Cisc\u00a0 flexible modules that help customers with specific business outcomes. One great example is the vSphere Observability and Data Modernization built by Cisco technology partner CloudFabrix.<\/p>\n

CloudFabrix vSphere Observability and Data Modernization<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Many organizations are utilizing the VMware vSphere enterprise workload platform for their business-critical applications. So CloudFabrix took the initiative to develop a module that helps them observe vSphere through Cisco FSO Platform for a more centralized, consolidated view.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost of our customers today are running hybrid environments, so we decided our first module should bring vSphere into Cisco FSO Platform, to make them \u201cfirst class citizens\u201d of FSO,\u201d said Raja Penmetsa, CTO of CloudFabrix. \u201cCloudFabrix collects the infastructure information underneath your application, translates into OTEL telemetry signals, and puts it into FSO.\u201d<\/p>\n

CloudFabrix enables organizations to acquire a vast amount of data and entity insights from across the technology stack make them easily accessible on Cisco FSO Platform, to support application or infrastructure modernization, performance impact analysis, and other use cases.<\/p>\n

The module also enriches vSphere and VMware vRealize Operations data with their environment\u2019s Kubernetes and infrastructure data.<\/p>\n

CloudFabrix provides visibility and correlation into where services are running and how they are connected, including details about which Kubernetes service is running on a particular VMware host, on a specific VM.<\/p>\n

Our technology partners like CloudFabrix say that Cisco FSO Platform has enabled them to hit the ground running as they commence work on expansion modules. Its rich modeling available right out of the box helps them build and bring new solutions to market fast, and rapidly fill use cases for specific domains and vertical use cases.<\/p>\n

Seizing emerging market opportunities and use cases faster<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Our technology partners like CloudFabrix say that Cisco FSO Platform has enabled them to hit the ground running as they commence work on expansion modules. Its rich modeling available right out of the box helps them build and bring new solutions to market fast, and rapidly fill use cases for specific domains and vertical use cases.<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst and foremost, Cisco FSO Platform has done a really good job of enabling us to extend the platform,\u201d said Penmetsa. \u201cBased on our past experiences, something like this would have taken about six to 12 months to build. Working with the Cisco FSO Platform for the first time, it took us less than four weeks to build our vSphere Observability and Data Modernization module. And now that we\u2019re familiar with the platform, we should be able to churn out future deliverables on our roadmap even faster.\u201d<\/p>\n

Watch the full interview between Raju Penmetsa, CTO, Cloudfabrix and Sunder Parameswaran, VP Product Management, Cisco FSO.<\/p>\n