Visibility matters in IT Infrastructure

CIOs everywhere are faced with a common question: do we have the right infrastructure for our business today and tomorrow? The question is complicated since there is no right answer – even though the major public cloud providers would say otherwise.

Most large companies have hybrid infrastructures, comprising internal data centers, private clouds and at least one public cloud service. Increasingly, companies are using more than one public cloud service, as each one has something different to offer and prices are always changing. These choices provide needed flexibility and the potential for carving out the perfect environment for a company’s multifarious needs.

Unfortunately, many IT departments don’t know exactly what’s going on beneath the software and services that run the business. IT leaders aren’t always sure if they have too much or too few resources, nor are they confident in the optimal environment for each application. To make matters worse, nearly one in three organizations does not calculate cloud computing ROI, according to ISACA Research. Flying in the dark with no instrumentation has never been a smart strategy. It’s time to talk about visibility.

Source: https://www.networkworld.com/article/3278268/when-it-comes-to-your-it-infrastructure-visibility-matters.html