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Forrester Research reports that as much as 80% of a company's IT budget can be put toward daily operations and maintenance, which boils down to a lot of manual tasks performed by staff. An updated breed of automation technology could help address the exorbitant spending, help IT organizations put tedious tasks behind them and move toward innovative projects. Run-book automation, IT process automation and data center automation products today work with existing management tools to take the human element out of many daily IT tasks. Evelyn Hubbert, a senior analyst at Forrester Research, discusses this new breed of automation, shares which vendors she has her eye on and offers advice to network managers hoping to introduce automation to their daily operations today. (18:29)
Interviews with industry experts and analysts that give you a high-level view of the networking landscape.
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This paper highlights the impact of virtualization on application performance. "Managing Application Performance in Virtual Environments" states: "Best-in-Class organizations are predominately taking actions around improving visibility across both physical and virtual systems, assessing the business impact of application performance and understanding interdependencies of applications in virtualized environments."
Forrester Research analyst Glenn O'Donnell and BlueStripe co-founder Vic Nyman discuss a breakthrough approach to application problem management. Learn the new approach for ITSM problem management, which provides: Rapid isolation of application slow-downs to specific components for quick problem resolution, 24/7 monitoring for proactive notification of potential issues before end users are impacted and much more.
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