Source: Nimsoft

Date: October 2010

Type: White Paper

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Overview: Much has been written and said about cloud computing. Many use cases have been tested, and the performance and cost benefits are now measurable. The notion that cloud computing will soon become an integral part of all IT strategies is evidenced by the fact that most enterprises have either begun to invest in it or have at the very least moved to the starting gate. Cloud computing initiatives are taking off at such a rapid pace that leading analyst groups such as IDC have forecast that by 2013 enterprises will be investing upwards of $44 billion in cloud-related IT projects. There remains, however, one looming question on the minds of IT department managers tasked with taking advantage of the cloud on behalf of their enterprises: "How will I manage an infrastructure that is outside of my physical domain?" After all, no one wants to be left without visibility into how mission-critical resources, applications, and business services are performing. Fortunately, there is a new breed of management and monitoring technologies that provide real-time insight into the performance of cloud-based applications and services, and can enable you to achieve control over external IT infrastructures. As an added benefit, a number of these new technologies simplify the overall IT monitoring task by providing visibility of internal and external IT infrastructures through a single, unified view.

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