Visibility Matters
The right tools for analyzing high performance applications can increase revenues and productivity, decrease costs, and help the business understand IT investments and maximize their return.
Legacy monitoring tools are overwhelmed by the challenges of today’s high-performance and “big data” applications. For monitoring today’s business applications, legacy monitoring tools fall short in two important areas: scope and speed.
The Scope Problem
Legacy and custom-built tools are too limited in scope.
The volume of IT usage and performance data is growing astronomically. Elastic infrastructures that respond to changes in demand in real-time offer impressive business agility–as well as a daunting IT management challenge. To maximize the return on today’s distributed technologies, IT engineers, architects, and business managers need the insightful information in an actionable form, not a barrage of low-level data and log files.
- Businesses need insight into their applications presented in ways that are meaningful to them: Trades that are pending, shopping carts being filled–whatever key performance indicators (KPI’s) that best reflect business goals and operational results.
- Architects know that distributed caching is susceptible to network failures and memory shortages, demanding tuning and sophisticated monitoring. Their reputation is on the line for endorsing new applications as being “production ready.”
- Operations teams know that sharing compute grids requires visibility to white space, workloads, performance, and queues.
- Business users need to see efficiency, utilization and performance in order to justify capital investment.
- Developers need tools for in depth analysis during testing for JVM tuning and diagnosis.
The Speed Problem
Legacy monitoring tools are too slow. They don’t provide the real-time analysis that IT engineers and business managers need in order to take action in time to prevent an outage.
Traditional management tools harvest data, store it in databases, and produce reports. This approach is too slow and cumbersome for managing and optimizing real-time applications that are critical to business operations.
Home-grown tools depend on internal expertise that is most valuable elsewhere, and typically don’t scale up or have the real-time agility to grow with the enterprise. When the total costs are considered, open, third party solutions that can be configured and extended using a highly reliable platform are both lower cost and risk.
Enterprise IT organizations need better, faster insights into their increasingly complex applications. Instead of poring over low-level data, typically examining one JVM at a time, they need aggregated and correlated information that allows them to move at the speed of business.
Developers and architects need instant insight into caching, data and applications. They need to be able to fine-tune resource utilization and application code, and set expectations for performance during development and test. Enterprises need monitoring tools that can be set up and configured quickly which can deliver insights that can be acted on quickly enough to keep business online.
The Solution: Evident ClearStone
Evident gives the visibility you’ve been missing into production applications.
Evident Software provides highly scalable, real-time, performance management, monitoring, reporting and management software for high performance Java environments, such as compute, data and web applications. Evident’s intelligent analytics can help optimize performance and contain operational risk for continuously available systems, achieving the maximum return on business critical applications.
For business managers, Evident links demand forecasting to actual consumption, translates IT metrics into KPI’s that reflect business performance, and enables accurate cost allocation. With these innovative capabilities, enterprises, service providers and ISV/SI partners can achieve the following benefits faster and more affordably:
- Increase visibility. Provides information that had to collected manually before. Lets you react faster. Correlates, so you can see everything in one place. Collect from anywhere. Collect from databases. Wherever your data resides.
- Reduce operational risk. Evident’s analysis can warn about the “yellow line” conditions that threaten IT services, help IT staff more quickly pinpoint and resolve outages, and automate management functions.
- Increase the return from existing capital investment. Make more efficient use of compute and data grid infrastructures.
- Increase staff productivity. Automate the analysis and interpretation of complex events – reducing operating costs and elevating customer satisfaction.
- Reduce operating costs. Enable IT to provision and manage their applications more effectively, while eliminating the need for building point tools specific to an application or environment that cannot be leveraged across the lifecycle and enterprise.
Learn more. Contact Evident today.
