SteelCentral Portal Take the War Out of the War Room

Editor's Notes

1. So Enterprises are pouring money into apps, to get innovative apps into the market faster, better, cheaper agile DevOps Driving fast release cycles: months to days Funding these investments through spending reductions in infrastructure… Companies racing to get apps into market
2. Look at the history IT grew up around domains e.g. network, systems, applications, database, etc. – and they needed domain data…the hard part then…to do their jobs Drove a proliferation of domain-centric point tools …helpful But for even very simple transactions, domain teams only ‘see’ part of the transaction Maybe packet data Or Metrics from app server The challenge that we saw and continue to see in the majority of larger enterprise networks, is that overtime tools were added to address the needs of specific domains e.g. network, systems, applications, database, etc. – and they needed domain data…the hard part then…to do their jobs …and that Drove a proliferation of domain-centric point tools or point solutions The problem is that, these tools only ‘see’ part of the picture and if you look at it from the point of view of an end-user accessing an application, only part of that transaction Maybe packet data Or Metrics from app server
3. And It’s like the blindfolded technologists ‘touching the elephant’ with incomplete visibility, domain teams “see” different things…due to inconsistent data sets Differing analytic approaches Which can lead to a lack of collaboration, and at times ‘warring tribes’ And ultimately conflicting conclusions ….which inhibit fast time to resolution
4. Look at the history IT grew up around domains e.g. network, systems, applications, database, etc. – and they needed domain data…the hard part then…to do their jobs Drove a proliferation of domain-centric point tools …helpful But for even very simple transactions, domain teams only ‘see’ part of the transaction Maybe packet data Or Metrics from app server The challenge that we saw and continue to see in the majority of larger enterprise networks, is that overtime tools were added to address the needs of specific domains e.g. network, systems, applications, database, etc. – and they needed domain data…the hard part then…to do their jobs …and that Drove a proliferation of domain-centric point tools or point solutions The problem is that, these tools only ‘see’ part of the picture and if you look at it from the point of view of an end-user accessing an application, only part of that transaction Maybe packet data Or Metrics from app server
5. And the stakes have gone up With apps powering critical business processes… Millions of dollars are at stake High profile app-driven failures are evident nearly daily Take Jet Blue for Example – hundreds of flights per day fleet was grounded for the bulk of a day Cost them $ millions All driven by a network issue underpinning key app We’re talking huge dollars at stake So why is managing application performance so challenging?