networks ICT
and exchange this data with the frontend of their service. Hence IT infrastructures need to be highly flexible in order to adjust to market needs or bring new services to market quickly. Imagine this: What if a major problem occurs on the backend of such a service provider and millions of users can’t access their data? This is not only a technical, but most importantly an image problem. It can and probably will cost the company a substantial amount of time and money to recover from such an incident.
User expectations trigger monitoring needs
The growing complexity that comes with the user’s expectation of 24/7 mobile availability brings new challenges for network, server and backup structures. Monitoring is increasingly necessary to manage the complexity of networks. The sophistication of these tools will need to match customers’ evolving needs for location-independent flexibility. For them unplanned downtime is not acceptable, under no circumstances. In this environment the responsible administrator has to be even more aware of issues before they have a noticeable effect on the provided service than in the prime of desktop computing.
In today’s exciting mobile world, pro-active monitoring is an
absolute necessity-and since you can’t go back in time, you have to make absolutely sure nothing goes on without you knowing about it. For us it is crucial to fit our users’ current monitoring needs and adapt to the future, not putting them within any constraints. With PRTG Network Monitor we already help our customers to monitor the network infrastructure they need to provide software and services for this mobile future. The growing complexity also requires network administrators to be more flexible than ever. That’s why we introduced new mobile apps for iOS, Android and Windows Phone (also working on Blackberry support) to help them get all the information they need even when they are on the move (and don’t have a flux capacitor at hand).
Within the sources we used in this article you’ll find some links with more data and predictions that will make you think about the Mobile Future:
Benedict Evans, “Mobile is eating the world, autumn 2013 edition”
http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2013/11/5/mobile-is-eating-the- world-autumn-2013-edition
Internet World Stats, “Internet Usage Statistics for Africa”
http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats1.htm Marketing Land, “Mobile Close To 20 Percent Of Internet Traffic Globally”
http://marketingland.com/mobile-close-to-20-percent-of- internet-traffic-globally-58015
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