The year XNUMX has been an unusual year in every single aspect, it has undoubtedly been a disruptive year for the enterprise IT infrastructure market, with an accelerated transformation of the business model. Hybrid cloud adoption and the general trend of infrastructure modernization drives very active development. About the Author Claire Kago, Sales and Business Development Manager for France at Paessler. Large IT environments are becoming larger and more complex, with thousands upon thousands of connected devices, systems, and applications across multiple sites, making it essential for large enterprises to have visibility and control over their infrastructure, hybrid computing, or traditional. Successful management of these large IT environments requires the collection of information about the performance, availability, and utilization of each and every element that makes up the environment. The rapid pace of software and hardware changes to the Internet, testing, deployments, and monitoring means that IT teams must balance business goals, constraints, and trade-offs. Regardless of the size of the environment, the basic principles of surveillance remain the same. But larger networks present 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 prominent company to have ten to fifteen monitoring tools for different purposes, such as monitoring cloud storage, network performance, applications, databases and monitoring, multiple devices, etc This situation is a waste of time and creates data silos that can lead to human failure.
2. Distributed networks
In large companies, equipment and infrastructure are often spread across multiple geographic locations. Depending on how these networks are managed, they can be separate, semi-independent networks, or they can be linked together in one huge connected network. Regardless of the architecture, the challenge is whether to monitor each "subnet" separately and figure out how to get an overview of the health of the entire infrastructure.
3. Surveillance beyond IT
Specialized computing environments have their requirements: healthcare, automotive, manufacturing, and many other industries have their protocols, types of equipment, systems, and challenges. And while previously these elements ('OT' operational technologies for the industrial field or medical equipment for the health field) could be completely separated from the traditional IT infrastructure, the recent digital transformation has led to a greater nesting between these domains. The consequence is that little by little more equipment that is not part of traditional computing must also be monitored.
4. Teams and specialists
To have full visibility for centralized administration, individual views are also required for certain areas. This is the case, for example, if a specific team is in charge of databases in the cloud and another is focused on network traffic. This requires role and entitlement management functionality, individual cards and dashboards, such as alarm management to ensure that the right person receives an alarm at the right time and has access to the precise information they need to fix the issue.
5. Get a complete picture
With an extensive plurality of equipment, protocols, monitoring tools, and also infrastructure distributed across different sites, it is really difficult to get a comprehensive view of all traditional business IT. Add to that IT specialty, such as medical or industrial IT, and you are bound to have a lot of dashboards and reports in a lot of different places as well. In addition to this, monitoring many devices, applications and systems produces a myriad of data. Since it is easy to get lost in this information, there must be a way to anchor this data in a view.
Facing the challenge of network monitoring in large companies
In a large organization, it is inescapable that you have multiple methods for monitoring each and every element of the IT environment. The challenge for these large organizations is to successfully monitor tens and tens of thousands and thousands of different items in real time and make sure they are working properly. The result is faster response times, improved IT processes, and satisfied employees and customers. Ultimately, this leads to better performance through a high level of monitoring, intelligence, and automation. The most obvious solution is to incorporate centralized monitoring of the IT infrastructure so that data from many disparate sources can be compiled and IT teams are not drowned in a huge deluge of information. Creating visibility across the entire technology stack lets teams work smarter, not harder, while ensuring business goals are met. It is this centralization on a single monitoring platform that allows IT teams to be instantly informed when issues arise in their IT infrastructure and take appropriate and immediate action to mitigate the danger. The ability to view the entire infrastructure through a single integrated dashboard gives a clear view of the entire system and eliminates blind spots. By empowering themselves to create this complete visibility into each and every technology component, large enterprises can create a culture of surveillance across their infrastructure, networks, virtual environments, storage, applications, cloud, and hardware. Purchasing this real-time monitoring will reduce troubleshooting time and drastically improve the end-user experience.