CloudPhysics should know a little something about the complexities of VMware (s vmw) deloyments. When It's CEO, John Blumenthal, is a VMware alum. And it's investors include VMware co-founders Diane Greene and Mendel Rosenblum along with the Mayfield Fund, Mark Leslie, Ed Bugnion, Peter Wagner, Carl Waldsburger and Matt Ocko.

But other than that funding news it's been pretty quiet. Until now. Tuesday, the company will unveil its KnowledgeBase, a collection of notes, articles and other resources garnered from multiple vendors in the VMware ecosystem meant to help companies guide updates and upgrades to their VMware environments, Blumenthal told me.

With CloudPhysics new SaaS-based knowledge base, you can track your specific configurations and be alerted as to potential gotchas. A recent example of a big issue was a major incompatibility between vSphere and NetApp's ONTAP management interface, he said. Most people found out about that the hard way. A little advanced notice could have prevented some big headaches.

"We continuously configure your operation create a massive index of articles and blogs and other unstructured data.. and it's arbitrated with relevance matching engine so your specific environment can be matched," he said

To be clear, this is not active management but the company is adding analytics to inform your decisions. The long term goal is for CloudPhysics to become the New Relic of VMware operations, he said.

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