When evaluating monitoring choices, cost is always a major factor. While seemingly simple, pulling together an accurate accounting of costs can be trickier than expected, especially considering all of the variables that can be associated with each offering. But in general, costs can be divided between two categories: “Upfront” and “Ongoing.” In this article, we’ll ...
In some recent conversations with customers around the different types of key performance indicators, or KPIs, they are interested in monitoring, the topic of “stolen CPU” came up several times. Based on these recent discussions, we thought we would share a bit more information with you about this whole idea of stolen CPU, as well ...
Imagine this scenario: Your staff has just wheeled in your shiny new Converged Infrastructure. Then the CFO calls – the person instrumental in getting you this amazing new equipment – and wants to move several key finance applications from legacy infrastructure to the new CI system. They need the same SLAs and compliance reports across ...
A few weeks ago, I spent two hours of my Saturday the same way many Americans did – sitting in a theater with my daughter watching a movie about Danish toy building bricks. Yep, Legos. Lego has taken “integrated marketing” to a whole new level –TV shows, books, and now a movie all which, while ...
In this final installment of our series looking at real-world unified monitoring benefits shared by some of our largest customers, it is not much of a surprise that faster incident resolution is the focus. This benefit is perhaps the one most commonly touted when it comes to unified monitoring. But really, it’s what ANY monitoring ...
In Part 1 of this blog series we discussed how some of the largest Zenoss customers were experiencing significant productivity gains from their adoption of Unified Monitoring. The second benefit that these enterprises highlighted was monitoring reach. Monitoring reach isn’t really a benefit that immediately comes to mind when you think of unified monitoring, but ...
Framework based IT monitoring solutions have far outlasted their welcome. As the cloud-era datacenters continue to throw unprecedented challenges their way, these tools, some fromtwo decades ago are just not aging gracefully. These “solutions” sold by many of the Big 4 Framework vendors (BMC, CA Technologies, HP & IBM) were once monolithic single technology platforms ...
