Virtana, a leader in deep hybrid-infrastructure observability, announced the acquisition of Zenoss, a pioneer in real-time IT service monitoring and AI-powered event intelligence. This strategic move aims to bridge gaps between service visibility and infrastructure control, creating the industry’s most comprehensive AI-driven observability platform for hybrid environments.
A Unified Vision for Hybrid Observability
- Bridging the Gap:
The combined Virtana-Zenoss platform empowers IT and risk management teams to trace incidents end-to-end—from business-service impact to underlying infrastructure—through a single AI-powered lens. - Enhanced Insight:
By correlating real-time user impact, service topology, and hybrid infrastructure telemetry, the integrated solution eliminates blind spots, enabling rapid pinpointing of failures, performance issues, and cost drivers.
Market Opportunity and Strategic Positioning
- Expanding Market:
As the hybrid and multi-cloud monitoring market is forecast to exceed $19 billion by 2028, Virtana is positioned to meet growing enterprise demands for unified, AI-powered operational insights. - CEO Perspectives:
Paul Appleby, Virtana CEO, highlights the acquisition as a strategic shift toward end-to-end hybrid infrastructure control, combining Zenoss’ event intelligence with Virtana’s deep analytics. Zenoss CEO Greg Stock emphasizes the enhanced visibility and unified strategy this partnership offers customers, including large enterprises and government entities.
Benefits of the Combined Platform
- Unified Observability:
Integrates Virtana’s deep infrastructure and container metrics (over 16,000+) with Zenoss’ event intelligence and real-time service mapping for full-stack visibility. - AI-Driven Resilience:
Combines Zenoss’ model-informed AIOps and event correlation with Virtana’s AI and machine-learning models, accelerating predictive root-cause analysis (RCA) and automated remediation. - Proactive Issue Prevention:
Detects internal system failures like misconfigurations or capacity limits earlier to prevent disruptions, enhancing business continuity. - Operational Efficiency:
Enables up to 95% faster mean time to resolution (MTTR) and 99.999% uptime by integrating early warning signals with AI-enhanced event intelligence. - Unique Market Position:
Delivers the deepest hybrid observability for on-premises, data center, containers, and multi-cloud, reducing tool sprawl and simplifying platform modernization. - Accelerated Innovation:
Combined R&D accelerates development of automated remediation and optimizations for AI workloads, all integrated into the Virtana Platform.
Commitment to Customers and Industry Impact
Virtana and Zenoss share a vision to scale actionable observability with business outcomes while reducing operational complexity. The combined company will serve a broad customer base across financial services, healthcare, telecommunications, and the public sector, operating fully under the Virtana brand. Current offerings remain supported while an integrated roadmap advances next-gen unified observability solutions.
The acquisition of Zenoss by Virtana marks a pivotal moment in hybrid cloud monitoring, delivering the most comprehensive AI-powered observability platform that combines real-time service intelligence with deep infrastructure analytics. This unified approach equips IT teams to drive resilience, operational efficiency, and business success in increasingly complex hybrid environments.
