Last week at the annual Gartner Data Center Conference in Las Vegas, key analysts overviewed the most important issues that data centers face in the next five years. As expected, rising energy costs and the movement toward “green” solutions was a primary topic, as was social networking technology. But there were several other hot topics which the responsible network operations professional should be pursuing.
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Monitoring Optimization ROI Part VI: The Productivity of the Staff Managing the Data Center
When analyzing ROI for network monitoring, most data center managers focus on Asset #1, The Network, and to a lesser extent, #2, The Tools. However, the amount of time and effort it takes to set up, manage, configure, and troubleshoot cannot be overlooked. Any solution that claims to solve the first two problems must also be easy to use, or it will actually introduce more complexity and less efficiency into the process.
Monitoring Optimization: More Than Just Plumbing
By now, you’ve surely seen the Anue Systems announcement of the Net Tool Optimizer generation of products. Aligned with that announcement, you’ll also notice that the term Tool Aggregation is no longer representative of everything the products can do, hence the new moniker Monitoring Optimization. Let’s spend a few minutes reviewing exactly what we mean by this technique – and that’s exactly what it is, a technique for optimizing your network, application, and security monitoring approach, methodology, and execution.