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Infrastructure performance management is best practice for private cloud migration
Application performance is a major concern for any enterprise considering virtualisation, never mind cloud adoption, with most IT managers being reticent to adopt the cloud for mission-critical applications and data. This is particularly true in organisations where large volumes of confidential data must be accessible on a 24/7 basis, 365 days a year. By Chris James, Marketing Director EMEA at Virtual Instruments.
WHILE THE ADOPTION OF leading-edge IT systems and infrastructures in this industry is well documented, until recently there was a reluctance to embrace virtualisation and cloud computing due to the complexity they can bring to infrastructure performance management and especially to data and application migration, both regular and unwelcome occurrences in larger datacentres. IT administrators in this sector often have to balance several factors simultaneously including mergers and acquisitions, new technology roll outs and stringent regulatory compliance.
While a large bank for example, may be comfortable moving parts of its datacentre (e.g. those supporting human resources and marketing) to a virtualised environment, it is far more likely to take much longer in deciding how to manage its business-critical applications. It is not perhaps surprising that when enterprises started to migrate applications to a private cloud computing model they went down the over-provisioning route to reduce the risks associated with migration and consolidation projects. However as its name suggests over-provisioning means buying more capacity than is needed and to do so over a large IT infrastructure is expensive, wasteful and does not necessarily guarantee that a migration will be successful. Furthermore, a recent survey of 200 IT decision makers in the UK and Germany conducted by independent research agency Vanson Bourne for Virtual Instruments, found that approximately 48% of respondents prefer to benchmark their data migrations to help ensure a smooth transition.
Until recently, benchmarking has entailed measuring capacity, utilisation and management of individual physical components. With the move to virtualisation and new deployment models, Application Performance Management (APM) and Network Performance Management (NPM) tools have been used to try to extend and
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fill-in for what’s missing. The challenge has been that this does not give a holistic view of the underlying IT infrastructure. So, between all of these tool sets that address device, application and network performance, there is still a huge gap in understanding system-wide performance. This has lead to the development of Infrastructure Performance Management (IPM) for assuring performance optimisation, risk mitigation and sustainable service level agreements.
Some 30% of the largest 100 companies in the world has found that to reduce the risks and successfully benchmark migration, innovative technologies that give full transparency across the IT infrastructure, such as an Infrastructure Performance Management (IPM) platform, are essential.
IPM can reduce the risk and cost that come with migrating applications to a private cloud and can ensure critical application performance throughout the process. By using such technology, application performance can be base-lined before the migration starts and monitored during the move, end-to-end and in real-time.
According to industry analyst reports the market for solutions that address IPM will be worth $9 billion globally by 2015. In addition, when organisations migrate business-critical
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