Instana

Instana — developer of the platform for control of operation of applications. The solution helps business to trace a status of the workflows for identification of technical issues which can interfere with work of users. Instana is founded in 2015, the headquarters of the company is in Chicago (USA), and development center — in Germany.

History

2020: IBM purchased Instana

In the middle of November, 2020 IBM announced acquisition of Instana at the price which the companies did not begin to disclose.

According to Forbes, purchase of Instana will be approved with the strategy of IBM on transition from software development and services to management of hybrid clouds. The corporation places emphasis on hybrid cloud environments, Big Data and artificial intelligence. As the companies began to pass to more complex distributed systems, using public and private clouds and also the local systems, acquisition of IBM looks even more correct as it will help clients to manage difficult hybrid and multicloud environments, said in the publication.

IBM purchased the developer of the platform of application monitoring Instana

Today our clients face a problem of management of the difficult technology environment filled with crucial applications and data which work in different hybrid cloud environments — the president of IBM on cloud computing and date platforms Rob Thomas says. — IBM Instana acquisition - one more important step which we take to provide to the companies the most complete portfolio of the automated products on the basis of AI for the solution of this huge problem and prevention of unforeseen IT incidents because of which income and reputation of the companies can suffer.

Instana applies machine learning to detection of the patterns which are of interest to IT departments. Its platform can create the card of all application components and automatically update it, reflecting the changes happening to any of them. In certain cases models of machine learning Instana can also reveal the problem prime cause in advance.^[1]

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