Modernizing a data center, implementing a
private cloud, moving to a public cloud or just managing the daily routine of
rolling out new applications are initiatives that can have great impact not
only on the IT environment, but on end users and the company’s bottom line.
The dynamic nature of change—and its
increasing frequency—make it a significant issue in IT today.
Managing change from an application performance
perspective is a key factor for IT success. Likewise, in today’s dynamic
environment it is the basis for assuring that end-users are not negatively
impacted by critical changes and that service level agreements (SLAs) continue
to be met.
Most existing IT management
tools do well managing a steady state in environments where today’s system
configuration and requirements haven’t changed from yesterday, and will remain
the same tomorrow.
The problem is that you most need
help from your tools when change is occurring. For example, the only way to
diagnose a service level degradation is to find out what has changed and use
that information to get to the source of the problem.
Change efforts are always started with positive
goals and the best intentions—for example, modernizing a data center to lower
costs or to roll out a new application with the aim of increasing revenue. Your current tools will ensure that your change efforts don’t completely fail and that you will get the data center migrated or the new application will go online.
The nightmare happens when performance issues arise in a new production environment. Legacy applications in a new data center may work, but perhaps they're not performing as well as they did in the previous environment and they aren’t meeting their SLAs. So, the change efforts that started with the best intentions become exercises in finger pointing and blamestorming
IT operations and capacity planners of today must
understand and optimize their applications and infrastructure from the end user
to the data center.
We’re running a webinar that deals with this topic and
looks at how end to end transaction monitoring can provide significant benefits
to the business, by understanding the volume, flow and speed of business
transactions through the IT services. As well as showing you how the same data
can be used to improve the accuracy and presentation of your planning exercises.
Why not join us on November 8th, register now http://www.metron-athene.com/services/training/webinars/webinar-summaries.html
Rich
Fronheiser
SVP,
Strategic Marketing
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