In The Forrester Wave: Intelligent Application and Service Monitoring, Q2 2019, Forrester identified the 13 most significant IASM providers in the market today, with Zenoss ranked amongst them as a Leader.

“As complexity grows, I&O teams struggle to obtain full visibility into their environments and do troubleshooting. To meet rising customer expectations, operations leaders need new monitoring technologies that can provide a unified view of all components of a service, from application code to infrastructure.”

Who Should Read This

Enterprise organizations looking for a solution to provide:

• Strong root-cause analysis and remediation
• Digital customer experience measurement capabilities
• Ease of deployment across the customer’s whole environment, positioning themselves to successfully deliver intelligent application and service monitoring
  

Our Takeaways

Trends impacting the infrastructure and operations (I&O) team include:

• Operations leaders favor a unified view
• AI/machine learning adoption reaches 72% within the next 12 months
• Intelligent root-cause analysis soon to become table stakes
• Monitoring the digital customer experience becomes a priority
• Ease and speed of deployment are differentiators
  

IDC research shows that the top three trigger events leading to a need for cloud services are: growing data, constrained IT budgets and the rise of digital transformation initiatives. The shift to public cloud providers like AWS offers many advantages for organizations but does not come without risks and vulnerabilities when it comes to data.

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In this day and age, IT organizations are still learning about and adapting their cloud infrastructure. Many enterprises are either accelerating their move to the cloud or adopting cloud-native services and next-generation applications. Despite the benefits, there are still concerns around complexity, security, and management.

To help understand these concerns, Zerto sponsored new ESG research, which delves into these areas. Download the latest eBook, The Evolution of Data Protection Cloud Strategies to get an understanding of the following:

• The current state of cloud data management and protection
• An overview of critical concerns and challenges IT organizations will face
• Backup and disaster recovery best practices for applications running in the cloud
• Why and how to effectively protect your SaaS application data

The author of this Pathfinder report is Mike Fratto, a Senior Research Analyst on the Applied Infrastructure & DevOps team at 451 Research, a part of S&P Global Market Intelligence. Pathfinder reports navigate decision-makers through the issues surrounding a specific technology or business case, explore the business value of adoption, and recommend the range of considerations and concrete next steps in the decision-making process.

This report explores the following topics:

• the growth of already commonplace cloud usage for mission-critical applications
• the importance of cloud governance
• the top cloud security concerns for enterprises
• the adoption of third-party tools for cloud management
• the steps IT teams should take to make their cloud environments more secure and reliable

Vladimir Galabov, Director, Cloud and Data Center Research, and Rik Turner, Principal Analyst, Emerging Technologies, are the co-authors of this eBook from Omdia, a data, research, and consulting business that offers expert analysis and strategic insight to empower decision-making surrounding new technologies.

This eBook covers the following topics:

• the current landscape of cloud computing, including the BIG problems
• the advantages of using a multi-cloud approach
• the dangers of shadow IT, including billing surprises and security breaches
• the move of mission-critical applications to the cloud
• the considerations regarding cloud security, including recommendations for IT teams