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Managing the Hybrid Data Center

TDS Unified Monitoring Service

Before virtualization, understanding the inter-dependencies in a typical network environment was fairly straightforward.  A connected with B connected with C. 

With the proliferation of virtualization, compounded by clouds and SaaS applications, the challenge of maintaining continual visibility and control has put availability and performance of systems at risk.

 

While traditional monitoring tools provide availability and performance monitoring at the application, network and operating system layers,they do not provide sufficient visibility into virtualized and hybrid enterprise computing environments with multiple critical applications competing for shared resources.  There is a clear need for a more holistic  approach including unified monitoring, performance trending and unified alerting and event correlation.

TDS unified monitoring solves this need by providing a consolidated view of all internal and external services.  Built for complex, enterprise deployments, TDS tools provide visibility into both the end-to-end application environment and storage level to quickly detect and diagnose the root cause issues which are affecting service delivery.  Utilizing industry-standard monitoring tools, TDS provides a "single pane of glass" view of all internal and external services.

This unified approach identifies and isolates cross application impact (including network, storage, CPU,memory, etc.) that may not exist in the traditional environment, but do exist in a shared component, virtualized environment.

There are many considerations involved in managing a hybrid data center.  TDS unified monitoring addresses the need for a single, centralized view of overall data center performance and availability.