10 Reasons to Update Legacy Monitoring Tools
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10 Reasons to Update Legacy Monitoring Tools
Here's why organizations should examine the state of their legacy monitoring tools and update them as they implement new infrastructure initiatives. -
Cost of Outdated Tools
84% of respondents are monitoring their infrastructure, but only 11% are satisfied with the capabilities and ROI of their current performance management platform. -
What They Monitor
Most organizations are focused on monitoring network gear (85%), servers and data centers (81%), enterprise apps (63%), traffic (63%), the cloud (31%) and IoT devices (20%). -
Low Confidence in Performance Data
84% of respondents don't completely trust the performance data they collect. -
Lack of Scalability
Only 14% of respondents are happy with the scalability of their monitoring tools. -
Lagging Support for New Tech
45% of respondents believe their tools don't support their strategic initiatives, such as hybrid cloud, IoT and SDN. -
Biggest Challenges
The top concerns cited with their current platform are slow troubleshooting (52%), lack of end-to-end visibility (48%), supporting emerging technologies (29%) and migrating business-critical applications to the cloud (22%). -
Slow Certifications
74% of respondents said it takes 10 days or more to certify new technologies, and 26% say it takes one to 10 days for new devices to be certified. -
Support Issues
Organizations are focused on key strategies, but can't adequately support them. The top issue is server virtualization on which 65% of organizations are focused but 15% can't support, followed by cloud monitoring on which 47% are focused but 24% can't support. -
Tools Evaluation
62% of respondents said they are likely to evaluate and select new tools for digital infrastructure management in 2016. -
Budget Increases
83% of respondents expect their budget for infrastructure monitoring to remain the same or increase.
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Why Metrics Matter to the Channel There is no doubt that companies rely on technology to conduct business. The challenge is that as their digital infrastructures grow and become more complex, the monitoring tools added over the years have become difficult to manage and use together. A new report, State of Legacy Tools, from SevOne, a digital infrastructure management solutions provider, finds that in many instances these legacy infrastructure monitoring tools don't work together, don't scale and don't provide insight into the health of the infrastructure. The survey of 322 IT professionals finds that legacy tools aren't supporting how businesses work today and companies are struggling to replace them. Even as they implement new initiatives, such as server virtualization, the cloud, software-defined networks and the Internet of things (IoT), they don't think their tools will support them. The good news for solution providers is that the majority of respondents said they are likely to select new tools for digital infrastructure management in 2016, and their budget for infrastructure monitoring will stay the same or increase. Here's why organizations should address their legacy monitoring tools as they implement new infrastructure initiatives.