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Virtualization/Cloud Computing

Network and server virtualization efforts allow IT organizations to consolidate application infrastructure and pool application resources within virtualized server platforms, ultimately saving companies money.  As an enabler for cloud computing, virtualization allows IT staff to maximize the entire application infrastructure while continuously delivering application services to end users. While virtualization and cloud computing can provide infrastructure cost savings, they introduce new risks and blind spots to the application delivery infrastructure.

A Performance-First approach to managing application delivery in a virtualized and cloud computing infrastructure requires visibility into application performance before and after virtualization efforts are initiated.  The NetQoS Performance Center allows IT staff to passively measure and baseline application response times prior to any change in the infrastructure, ensuring service delivery benchmarks are maintained throughout the virtualization process.  In addition, NetQoS Performance Center provides end-to-end visibility into traffic flows and device performance to ensure application delivery across the entire infrastructure. With NetQoS Performance Center baselines on application response times, traffic flows, and device performance, IT staff can mitigate the risk of virtualization and cloud computing in the existing application-server infrastructure.

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The NetQoS Performance Center virtualization context report provides side-by-side analysis of virtual machine health with performance of hosted application services.

Once virtualization initiatives are complete, IT staff need continuous visibility to prove the performance of applications and troubleshoot ongoing application delivery issues. The NetQoS Performance Center ensures this continuous visibility with integrated monitoring components in the virtualized infrastructure – providing accurate end-to-end application response times between virtual images on a single physical server. To visualize how the virtualized infrastructure is being used, NetQoS Performance Center reports highlight the network traffic flows across shared resources within the cloud. Virtual machine device metrics can be integrated from VMware vCenter to create context dashboards that combine virtual and physical server metrics along with application response time and traffic flow information about how that infrastructure is supporting application delivery.

With the NetQoS Performance Center, IT staff can mitigate the risks of sweeping changes across the infrastructure due to virtualization and cloud computing initiatives with before and after visibility into application response times, network traffic, and device performance across the entire infrastructure.

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