Part 1 – of a two part series looking at the journey enterprise IT departments take as they increasingly seek to understand the relationships and impact of IT infrastructure performance on application performance and business services.
As a product manager at Netuitive, I’m often put in a position to explain how my product works. This question usually refers not just to the nuts and bolts of the technology, but also to the more specific question: “How do I make it work?” To get to the heart of the answer, you need to understand the underpinnings of today’s monitoring solutions and why most of them don’t represent a complete solution.
To help illustrate this, I’ll look at the problem from the perspective of Fred, an operations manager for “Acmecorp.” Fred is responsible for keeping Acmecorp’s key E-Commerce platform, BuyThis.com, up and performing under stringent 24×7 SLAs.