With the likes of cloud computing and virtualisation starting to become staples for today’s business, IT environments are continuing to grow in complexity. Furthermore, there is growing pressure on many organisations to reduce the environmental impact of their IT systems.

In response to these developments, organisations need to change the way they manage and therefore monitor their IT infrastructure. For example, with the advent of virtualisation, organisations now have a fundamentally different infrastructure platform from which they are running business systems. This in turn requires a different monitoring approach. Continue reading »