Solving the right problem in the datacentre

Prevent degradation in the environment before it starts

Published January 2016

Organizations are accelerating the adoption of virtualisation and cloud deployments to meet the demands of their business and end-users. As they do so, the complexity of assuring application performance increases exponentially. Traditional approaches to virtualisation and cloud management simply cannot keep up. For decades IT has been trying to solve the wrong problem. Operating under the assumption that things must break and then IT will fix them, this break-fix loop precludes scalability, agility, and operational efficiency. When IT is bogged down with alerts, firefighting, and troubleshooting, there is no possibility of smarter, leaner growth.

This white paper discusses the limitations of traditional cloud and virtualisation management. It outlines a new approach that enables IT to operate outside of the break-fix loop, preventing degradation in the environment before it starts.