IT teams—old-school and new-generation alike—must rely on the availability, reliability and performance of their daily production networks, servers and business applications. That's a given. But deployment, orchestration and maintenance complexity is growing fast as these teams face seemingly unending waves of new technology. There's a lot more to learn about and juggle when it comes to the cloud, bring-your-own-device (BYOD) practices, virtualization, the Internet of things (IoT), wireless and mobility. While these waves of new tech generally have brought increased productivity and cost savings, 66 percent of surveyed IT professionals stated in a recent survey by IT management software vendor Ipswitch that increasing IT complexity is making it more difficult for them to do their jobs successfully. Based on our own reporting plus insight provided by Ipswitch Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer Jeff Loeb, ffers 10 best practices for network monitoring in today's complex IT world.
- eWeek