NEW YORK, Feb. 20, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- A free webinar from Neebula Systems on March 6 will assess the role of current application and system monitoring tools in assuring continuous availability of information technology (IT) systems and delivery of business services.
The problem of maintaining uptime so that business operations continue uninterrupted is an ongoing challenge for IT professionals. Interruptions are inevitable so it's critical to help minimize disruptions to business operations by diagnosing and resolving issues to get things back online as quickly as possible. Application and system monitoring tools certainly have a role to play and they are widely deployed as the basis of service availability solutions. However, aggregating and using this information to understand the availability of services still represents a major challenge. While legacy vendors emphasize the upper-level building blocks through which IT operators gain visibility to monitored data (such as service modeling, impact analysis, and dashboard), these do not exist independently. It is critical to have an effective monitoring solution as it forms the basis upon which all other layers are built.
"On the one hand, it's critical to have a solid foundation of monitoring systems in place to continuously track the health of IT applications and systems," said Ariel Gordon, co-founder and vice president of products at Neebula. "But, unfortunately, existing monitoring approaches do not provide the required coverage in many organizations and that deficiency is often overlooked."
The webinar will cover:
· How monitoring is typically used, with tips to help avoid an over reliance or abuse of monitoring systems.
· Ways to automate monitoring.
· Aligning monitoring systems to provide useful information on availability of business services.
· Ways to modify the implementation of monitoring so that it provides a firm basis to measure the availability of the upper-level building blocks (such as service modeling, impact analysis, and dashboard).
Webinar: Current Application & System Monitoring Tools - Viable Approaches or a Sheer Waste of Time?
Date: Wednesday March 6, 2013
Time: 1 pm Eastern time / 10 am Pacific time
More information and registration is available at www.neebula.com/landing/webinar-current-monitoring-tools.
About Neebula: "IT all Starts with the Map"
Neebula provides Service Availability Management software that improves IT performance and availability through an automated and unified approach to mapping business services which is 20 times faster and 80 percent less expensive compared to other solutions. Optimized for SaaS delivery, Neebula encourages IT organizations to shift from monitoring data center silos (servers, network, storage, applications) to managing end-user business services (examples: CRM, billing, tax payment, fund transfer services). Believing that effective IT "Starts with the Map," Neebula's unique technology automatically creates and maintains a run-time map of business services including underlying physical, virtual, network, and storage infrastructure. Focused on business impact and realizing that IT should monitor only what matters, Neebula's run-time service map enriches event management and monitored information by presentation in the context of the business service, resulting in improved IT change control, rapid problem isolation, and meaningful service health monitoring. While no CMDB is required, Neebula service maps can be imported into software from BMC Software, CA Technologies, HP, IBM, and ServiceNow, making existing CMDBs "service-aware" with run-time accuracy. Headquartered in New York and Tel Aviv, Neebula has an installed base of global enterprises, Fortune 10,000 companies, and government/education customers in Europe and North America.