Cloud computing. There's a lot of buzz about it lately and everyone seems to be adopting it. Public clouds, private clouds, hybrid clouds, software-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service, infrastructure-as-a-service, virtualization - all of these can be considered part of cloud computing. That's why cloud computing can be a bit confusing for people.
But all of these technologies and computing environments do have one thing in common. They are designed so that applications or services request access not from a specific resource but rather from pool of resources, often via a third-party. Cloud computing provides benefits such as lower costs, faster time to deployment and elastic provisioning of resources. But while the benefits can be great, cloud computing also poses new IT management challenges. The lack of visibility between IT and the organization delivering resources, as well as the dynamic movement of applications and data across these resources makes it near impossible to identify where problems lie when they occur.
PathView and AppCritical network performance tools simplify the management of cloud computing applications and infrastructure. Taking a path-based view of performance, they provide complete visibility from source to destination, even through third party networks. When performance issues arise, the tools pinpoint the exact location of the problem - whether it's in your network, your carrier's network or even through to a SaaS provider's virtual machine. Their hop-by-hop analysis along with remediation information eliminates the finger pointing that too often occurs when there is a problem in complex, cloud-based environments.
With PathView and AppCritical, you can:
- Assess the end-to-end network readiness for new cloud-based applications and services prior to deployment to reduce rollout risks
- Monitor network performance through the cloud to your cloud service provider
- Troubleshoot problems up to 70% faster with hop-by-hop analyses through cloud networks
- Understand and report on the impact cloud computing has on your business