Enterprise IT organizations leveraging private and off-premises public cloud services face several additional performance management challenges:

" Cost containment -- Collecting, monitoring and baselining performance across technologies is critical to allowing IT to right-size environments based on the needs of the services they support and deliver, therefore optimizing or maximizing their infrastructure investments.

" Timely notification -- Baselines are essential because IT must rapidly identify changes in performance behavior. Business dissatisfaction is a big problem and when performance issues arise due to an increase in application usage, proactive notification allows IT to dynamically reallocate resources to ensure SLAs are met.

" Traffic management -- Analyzing usage data allows IT to better architect and plan for new services. They need to understand where they can reduce costs through virtualization and convergence of infrastructure, while also enabling leading edge delivery models supported by usage-based accounting.