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The Definitive Guide to Monitoring Virtual Environments
The virtualization of physical computers has become the backbone of public and private cloud computing from desktops to data centers, enabling organizations to optimize hardware utilization, enhance security, support multi-tenancy and more. These environments are complex and ephemeral, creating requirements and challenges beyond the capability of traditional monitoring tools that were originally designed for static physical environments. But modern solutions exist, and can bring your virtual env

OVERVIEW

The virtualization of physical computers has become the backbone of public and private cloud computing from desktops to data centers, enabling organizations to optimize hardware utilization, enhance security, support multi-tenancy and more. These environments are complex and ephemeral, creating requirements and challenges beyond the capability of traditional monitoring tools that were originally designed for static physical environments. But modern solutions exist, and can bring your virtual environment to new levels of efficiency, performance and scale.

This guide explains the pervasiveness of virtualized environments in modern data centers, the demand these environments create for more robust monitoring and analytics solutions, and the keys to getting the most out of virtualization deployments.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

·        History and Expansion of Virtualized Environments

·        Monitoring Virtual Environments

·        Approaches to Monitoring

·        Why Effective Virtualization Monitoring Matters

·        A Unified Approach to Monitoring Virtualized Environments

·        5 Key Capabilities for Virtualization Monitoring

o   Real-Time Awareness

o   Rapid Root-Cause Analytics

o   End-to-End Visibility

o   Complete Flexibility

o   Hypervisor Agnosticism

·        Evaluating a Monitoring Solution

o   Unified View

o   Scalability

o   CMDB Support

o   Converged Infrastructure

o   Licensing

·        Zenoss for Virtualization Monitoring

Gartner Market Guide for IT Infrastructure Monitoring Tools
With the onset of more modular and cloud-centric architectures, many organizations with disparate monitoring tools are reassessing their monitoring landscape. According to Gartner, hybrid IT (especially with IaaS subscription) enterprises must adopt more holistic IT infrastructure monitoring tools (ITIM) to gain visibility into their IT landscapes.

With the onset of more modular and cloud-centric architectures, many organizations with disparate monitoring tools are reassessing their monitoring landscape. According to Gartner, hybrid IT (especially with IaaS subscription) enterprises must adopt more holistic IT infrastructure monitoring tools (ITIM) to gain visibility into their IT landscapes.

The guide provides insight into the IT infrastructure monitoring tool market and providers as well as key findings and recommendations.

Get the 2018 Gartner Market Guide for IT Infrastructure Monitoring Tools to see:

  • The ITIM market definition, direction and analysis
  • A list of representative ITIM vendors
  • Recommendations for adoption of ITIM platforms

Key Findings Include:

  • ITIM tools are helping organizations simplify and unify monitoring across domains within a single tool, eliminating the problems of multitool integration.
  • ITIM tools are allowing infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders to scale across hybrid infrastructures and emerging architectures (such as containers and microservices).
  • Metrics and data acquired by ITIM tools are being used to derive context enabling visibility for non-IT teams (for example, line of business [LOB] and app owners) to help achieve optimization targets.
See It, Fix It, Manage It: Ensuring Hybrid and Multi-cloud Applications Are Reliable and Secure
Most enterprises are moving to hybrid or multi-cloud architectures. Operating these environments requires IT teams to rethink their approach to monitoring and reporting on applications and environments. Cloud services differ in functions which makes achieving and maintaining a consistent configuration difficult but not impossible. A significant portion of companies plan to utilize third-party products, reducing some of the variability in feature capabilities across clouds to simplify management.

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
Solving the BIG problems in cloud computing
The two big challenges in deploying and growing cloud usage are cost and security. Shadow IT has contributed to those challenges by causing overspending and exposing organizations to significant security risks. So, how should enterprises address both hybrid (on-premises and in the cloud) and multi-cloud challenges? This research reviews new technologies and approaches that can improve visibility for IT teams, enable security policies across the entire network, and manage costs more effectively.

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
Self-service password reset and remote work
Remote and hybrid work environments mean IT Service Desks have a new set of complex challenges to navigate while maintaining a trusted level of security. Navigate the IT service desk in a remote & hybrid work environment more efficiently.

Remote and hybrid work environments mean IT Service Desks have a new set of complex challenges to navigate while maintaining a trusted level of security. Navigate the IT service desk in a remote & hybrid work environment more efficiently.

We examine the common driver for Service Desk tickets including network access, cached credentials workarounds, and password resets. All of which can present unique cyber-security challenges that require change for increased efficiency, productivity and security.

Download the whitepaper to learn what the Specops Software cybersecurity team recommends increasing efficiency without sacrificing security.

Password Reset Calls Are Costing Your Organization Big Money
This whitepaper examines the challenges the help desk faces, especially with the prevalence of remote and hybrid work environments. The help desk has multiple workarounds and password resets to handle daily. On top of that there is the evolving landscape of unique cybersecurity challenges in a remote or hybrid-remote workforce that requires help desk staff to be extremely vigilant. See how your help desk can be seeing time and cost savings with a decrease in password resets, providing them with
This whitepaper examines the challenges the help desk faces, especially with the prevalence of remote and hybrid work environments. The help desk has multiple workarounds and password resets to handle daily. On top of that there is the evolving landscape of unique cybersecurity challenges in a remote or hybrid-remote workforce that requires help desk staff to be extremely vigilant. See how your help desk can be seeing time and cost savings with a decrease in password resets, providing them with an increased focus on the more complex problems.

Hybrid Cloud Success Stories
Real stories to inspire success
Hear from inspired customers from all over the world. No matter where you are in your journey use these stories as a guide to hybrid cloud backup success.
Cloud Migration Guide SQL Server to Azure
This guide will provide a detailed look at the migration process and options and show you how SolarWinds® SQL Sentry and SolarWinds Database Mapper can assist with the upgrade and migration of SQL Server platforms to the Microsoft Azure Cloud.
The Microsoft Data Platform technology landscape is rapidly advancing, with increased release cadence and new capabilities regularly added. Businesses need to evolve their data platform strategies—migrating to Microsoft Azure is a key pillar of this strategy to deliver greater agility and operational efficiencies. However, transitioning from on-premises to a cloud or hybrid cloud data platform can be difficult without the right solutions to help discover, document, and validate migration activities. Whether moving to infrastructure as a service (IaaS) or platform as a service (PaaS), SolarWinds® provides solutions designed to reduce the risks and time taken to perform cloud migrations to Microsoft Azure. This guide will provide a detailed look at the migration process and options and show you how SolarWinds® SQL Sentry and SolarWinds Database Mapper can assist with the upgrade and migration of SQL Server platforms to the Microsoft Azure Cloud.
Increasing Productivity in Your IT Environment With Hybrid Cloud Observability
Hybrid Cloud Observability delivers a simple, powerful, and secure full-stack observability solution built for hybrid IT environments of all sizes. This whitepaper shows how Hybrid Cloud Observability delivers a powerful way to accelerate root cause identification and remediation through AIOps. It discusses the many benefits of integrating and optimizing the solution’s features and explains why Hybrid Cloud Observability is ideal for those looking to get the most out of their observability jour

Troubleshooting complex IT problems can consume your organization’s financial and physical resources. To combat this, you need an observability solution capable of providing end-to-end visibility for proactive troubleshooting.

SolarWinds® Hybrid Cloud Observability is the answer. Powered by AIOps and machine learning (ML), Hybrid Cloud Observability delivers a simple, powerful, and secure full-stack observability solution built for hybrid IT environments of all sizes.

This whitepaper shows how Hybrid Cloud Observability delivers a powerful way to accelerate root cause identification and remediation through AIOps. It discusses the many benefits of integrating and optimizing the solution’s features and explains why Hybrid Cloud Observability is ideal for those looking to get the most out of their observability journey.

To learn more about Hybrid Cloud Observability and how it can help drive growth, read the whitepaper.

US Cybersecurity Census Report
Cybersecurity is now recognized as a key priority for U.S. businesses. However, cybersecurity threats are evolving as risks, and the responses necessary to mitigate them, change rapidly. Staying a step ahead of bad actors is a continuous challenge and businesses—despite their intentions to do so—aren’t always keeping pace.

Cybersecurity is now recognized as a key priority for U.S. businesses. However, cybersecurity threats are evolving as risks, and the responses necessary to mitigate them, change rapidly. Staying a step ahead of bad actors is a continuous challenge and businesses—despite their intentions to do so—aren’t always keeping pace.

To solve this problem, IT leaders must understand why. They need answers to questions such as, how is cybersecurity transforming? How are cyberattacks harming businesses? Where must investments in preventative training and tools be focused? Is cybersecurity being prioritized by leadership? And how does cybersecurity fit within organizational culture?

In partnership with Sapio Research, Keeper Security analyzed the behaviors and attitudes of 516 IT decision-makers in the U.S. to answer these questions and more. This report, Keeper’s second annual U.S. Cybersecurity Census, maps the transforming landscape of cybersecurity based on these expert insights. It provides leaders with a forensic assessment of the threats their businesses face and details the urgent strategies necessary to overcome them.

Businesses across the U.S. are making cybersecurity a priority. However, despite efforts and investments, clear gaps remain. Our research shows that there have been small steps, but no giant leaps.

The volume and pace at which threats are hitting businesses are increasing, and leadership can’t afford to wait. If they do, the financial, reputational, and organizational penalties will be severe. Likewise, as work has transformed dramatically over the past two years—with hybrid and remote working normalized— companies need to rethink how they are building cybersecurity resilience.

Leveraging the Combined Power of Liquit and Microsoft Intune
This white paper explores the many benefits of leveraging the capabilities of Liquit and Microsoft Intune by explaining the potential they hold in shaping the future of the modern Workspace.
This white paper explores the many benefits of leveraging the capabilities of Liquit and Microsoft Intune by explaining the potential they hold in shaping the future of the modern Workspace.