Essilor Focuses on Predictive Analytics for Virtual Data Center Management

"As our virtualization consolidation initiative continues to grow, we need to gain much better visibility into our virtualized environment to prevent service outages and to improve operations efficiency," said Frédéric Damez, Chief Innovation Officer, Essilor. "Netuitive's predictive analytics platform will give us the visibility, automation and real-time analysis to enable a proactive approach for managing our virtualized environment in context to the business impact on our critical services."

"Going forward, we are evaluating Netuitive's analytics-based approach for expansion globally on all our physical and virtualized servers and across other areas of infrastructure, just as storage and network, as we move up the stack into the customer experience and applications."

Categorized as "transformational" by Gartner, Behavior Learning innovation, which is at the core of the Netuitive solution, is being recognized as a key advancement for overcoming major performance issues connected to virtualization and cloud computing.(1)(2)

The world's leading ophthalmic opticals company

About Essilor The world's leading ophthalmic opticals company, Essilor designs, manufactures and markets a wide range of lenses to improve and protect eyesight. Its corporate mission is to enable everyone around the world to access lenses that meet his or her unparalleled vision requirements. To support this mission, the Company allocates around 4% of annual revenue to innovation and development, in a commitment to indiscriminately bring new, more effective products to market. Essilor's flagship brands are Varilux®, Crizal®, Definity®, Xperio®, Kodak® and Foster Grant®. It as well develops and markets equipment, instruments and services for eyecare professionals.

Essilor reported consolidated revenue of more than EUR 3.9 billion in 2010 and employs 42,700 people in around 100 countries. It operates 14 plants, 332 prescription laboratories and several technology and development centers around the world.

The Hype Cycle for IT Operations Management

Gartner published the Hype Cycle for IT Operations Management, 2010(1) and the Hype Cycle for Real Time Infrastructure, 2010(2). Behavior Learning was listed and was categorized as transformational in both reports and was the only innovation to achieve a transformational categorization in the Hype Cycle for IT Operations Management, 2010.