The adoption of and is accelerating, but a byproduct enterprises may not have considered is that it has never been more challenging to gain accurate and timely visibility in a uniform way.

Existing virtualization tools are either not available to the operations team or lack the standard operations center functionality required to proactively assure application performance and reliability. And conventional solutions designed to collect specific types of data that must be aggregated and reported on centrally, can't scale or provide immediate visibility across the enterprise's network infrastructure.

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These limitations are compounded by the fact that compute, network and storage resources are shared when infrastructure is being provided as a service, making it difficult for an enterprise to assess which of its are being supported, how they are performing and whether they are receiving the necessary bandwidth.