Monitoring the Data Center, Virtual Environments, and the Cloud
In the beginning, data centers were giant buildings housing a single, vacuum tube‐driven computer, tended to by people in white lab coats whose main job was changing the tubes as they burned out. Today’s data centers are so much more complicated that it’s likecompletely different industry: We notonly have dozens or hundreds or even thousands of servers to worry about, but now we’re starting to outsource specifc services—like email, spam filtering, or customer relationship management (CRM)—to Web‐based companies selling “Software as a Service (SaaS)” in “the cloud.” How do we manage it all, to ensure that all of our IT assets are delivering the performance and service that our businesses need? Download Now
