Poor infrastructure monitoring leads to outages, slowdowns and missed targets

Almost 90 percent of enterprises fail to meet SLA targets due to inadequate monitoring of IT infrastructure, according to a new report. The study by Dimensional Research for infrastructure performance management specialist Virtual Instruments, reveals that 61 percent of respondents report that they experience four or more significant application outages and/or slowdowns each year. This is despite 71 percent using more than five IT infrastructure monitoring tools, but more than half of respondents (54 percent) note that they lack full application and infrastructure visibility. 59 percent say that their application performance issues are related to the underlying infrastructure, and a… [Continue Reading]