Core business applications are moving out from the local legacy data centres into new more cost efficient and fast to deploy environments such as SaaS (Software as a Service) or the cloud. IT operations is still held accountable for the performance, availability and security, but the new flora of IT environments is making it increasingly hard for IT operations to stay in control of the whole network and all its dependencies in order to deliver performance and quality in accordance with the business needs. By using op5 Monitor for your Cloud Monitoring you don’t have to make any difference where and how your services are running, whether they run in the cloud, on virtual servers, SaaS or in your legacy data centre, you can monitor them from a single tactical overview over your entire IT environment.

Make sure you have the full picture

A company’s IT environment is becoming more of an hybrid of different platforms and environments where cloud services is becoming an natural part. A challenge in this hybrid model is that there are more different players becoming involved and the control of all parts is dispersed. It doesn’t matter where and how your services run, you are responsible to ensure high availability and service quality for your business. Your hosting provider is only responsible for its part and your Internet provider for its part. Having the full picture with understandable reports is crucial for successfully manage a growing hybrid environment with many involved parties. By monitoring your Service Level Agreements (SLAs) that you have signed with your service providers you can leverage control over the relationship, assuring you get what you pay for and can get compensation if the SLAs are breached.

Why you should monitor your cloud services

• You are accountable for the performance and availability for your business.
  • Your business services needs to be monitored independent of were and how they are hosted.
• Make sure you have the full picture
  • A single tactical overview of your entire network, including your cloud based, virtualized or outsourced services is a prerequisite for maintaining control.
  • Monitor your SLAs
  • You need the full picture to leverage control over your service providers
• Get the priorities right
  • With the information gathered with op5 Monitor you can schedule informative reports that will make your decision making easier when based on facts.
• Proactive IT management
  • Location of the problems becomes even more important to shorten MTTR (mean time to repair)
• Bridge the gap between IT and the business
  • By deliver intuitive and sophisticated dashboards and reports that enable fast analysis and provide real insights.
  • Allow cross department access and reports to increased business value
  • Visualize your service dependencies

Cloud monitoring with op5 Monitor

• A single product that manages physical, virtual, and cloud devices in the same tool, giving you a tactical overview of your whole network and all its services.
• op5 Monitor provides comprehensive cloud monitoring of networks, devices, and relationships.
• Fast identification on where a problem has occurred, letting you know who owns the problem, you or your service provider?
• Measure and report on availability, performance, response times and much more
• Ease of use lowers the barrier for working with the tool across departments.
• Flexible solution that are prepared for tomorrows challenges
• Cost efficient monitoring system for your cloud services and the rest of your IT environments.

Remember: Adequate monitoring is one of the key success factors for successful cloud deployment.