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World Cup and the Cloud: The Case for Monitoring
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BuzzBy John McEleney
The World Cup is the world’s largest sporting event and this year’s extravaganza from South Africa has been exciting, but not without controversy. Any sports fan watching the recent match between England and Germany had to be frustrated to see English midfielder Frank Lampard’s goal clearly crossing the goal line, but without the referee awarding the goal. Where was the videotape? A simple review of a videotape could have prevented this miscall.
Fortunately the IT world has subscribed to the old adage, “you can’t fix what you can’t see.” For this reason, we have a plethora of tools and processes to help monitor networks, operating systems, applications, etc. These tools and processes are essential for IT operations teams to determine what’s wrong and pre-empt an even larger problem. In the IT world, it’s impossible to imagine how you would be able to run your operations without this monitoring capability.
Today the cloud is separate and distinct from your enterprise data center, but as the cloud becomes an integral part of the IT strategy, the big question is: how will people monitor their networks? Application performance? Operating systems? Undoubtedly, the existing monitoring players will try to “cloudify” their offerings – but will these really work? Are they extensible to the cloud?
At CloudSwitch, we are extending the enterprise data center to the cloud, so in effect the cloud is simply part of your infrastructure. The implications are profound:
- Your existing virtualized applications will work with no modifications
- Your connection to the cloud is encrypted and secure
- Your existing monitoring tools and processes will continue to work
While we can’t claim that we will be able to help FIFA resolve future World Cup disputes, we can help you monitor and examine your applications and networks in the cloud!
