Managing the monitoring, resilience and complexity of a large IT environment can be a real challenge. Centralized monitoring can help to achieve this.
The year 2020 was an exceptional year in every way, it was undoubtedly disruptive for the enterprise IT infrastructure market, with accelerated business model transformation. The adoption of hybrid cloud and the general trend of infrastructure modernization are driving very dynamic growth. Large IT environments are becoming even larger and more complex, with thousands of devices, systems and applications connected across multiple locations, making it critical for large enterprises to have visibility and control over their hybrid or traditional IT infrastructures. Successfully managing these large IT environments requires gathering information about the performance, availability, and utilization of all the elements that make up the environment. The increased pace of software and hardware changes, testing, deployments and network monitoring means that IT teams must find a balance between business objectives, constraints and tradeoffs. Regardless of the size of the environment, the fundamentals of monitoring remain the same. But larger networks come with additional challenges due to their increasing complexity: Large environments typically consist of equipment and systems from many different vendors, most with their own monitoring tools. Therefore, it is not uncommon for a large enterprise to have 10 to 15 monitoring tools for different purposes, such as monitoring cloud storage, network performance, applications, databases and various devices etc. This situation wastes time and creates data silos that can lead to human error. In large enterprises, equipment and infrastructure are often distributed across multiple geographic locations.
