Slow application performance and application outages cost money and the price for downtime is rising. According to Statista, 24 percent of respondents worldwide reported the average hourly downtime cost of their servers as being between $300,000 – $400,000, with more than 50 percent of respondents reporting costs in higher brackets. These statistics echo those released ...
For many organizations, the route to digital transformation is to migrate a set of applications or workloads to an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform, aka “Lift and Shift”. Industry analysts estimate “Lift and Shift” will comprise a significant percentage of the initial migrations, with the remainder of the migrations focused on re-engineering applications to ...
IT organizations, instead of spending time on modernization efforts is drowning in a sea of day-to-day task and interrupt driven fire-fighting drills. To help they have enlisted the aid of multiple management tools to provide them with the insight into the performance problems they are encountering. The problem is most of these solutions are silo’ed. ...
Infrastructure Managers (looking after mission-critical applications) responsible for monitoring SLAs for virtualized infrastructure; their staff; and associated business managers will gain important insights and recognize that many organizations are still using on-premises legacy infrastructure; The trend is firmly towards virtualized infrastructure and Cloud-enabled interfaces. The availability of robust performance metrics is important for any environment. ...
This document provides a summary and details for characterizing network storage workloads and determining the level of data required for a good, better, or best outcome. Virtual Instruments combines a storage workload modeling application – WorkloadWisdom, with purpose-built load generation appliances and data capture probes, to help storage architects and engineers to accurately characterize storage ...
Plex was looking for a solution that would provide real-time monitoring, data collection and analysis of infrastructure performance—including availability, throughput, response time and resource utilization, as well as workload and storage I/O performance. Because Plex’s cloud based solution is hybrid, it was important that the solution work seamlessly across physical and virtual environments. Read this ...
Virtualization brings numerous benefits to the data center, but it invariably increases complexity for everyone as well. With environments comprised of hardware and software from multiple vendors, it’s difficult – if not impossible – to ensure performance and availability of the IT infrastructure delivering business-critical applications. It’s even harder to accurately pinpoint root causes when ...
IT infrastructure exists for one main purpose: supporting line-of-business (LOB) applications. There are often two very different groups sharing this responsibility: the application owners and the IT operations managers. The application owners are tasked with delivering the actual business activity, while the operations team is responsible for making it all work. This division has often ...
In every enterprise around the world, massive amounts of data are being generated every second. But most of that data ends up in the equivalent of a corporate ‘landfill,’ taking up space but not generating any value. This information ought to be mined for insights to help drive decision-making, but because it’s siloed and unstructured, ...
Over the course of years, most operations manage to patch together all of the disparate systems that provide line-of-business support. While many organizations migrate older systems to newer solutions regularly, every business always has a mix of legacy systems that must interoperate with more modern tech. Any years-old environment is going to have many interconnection ...