You are here: silicon.com > Resources > White Papers > Networking and Communications > Network Management > Monitoring Systems

Monitoring Systems White Papers

Using a Network Monitoring System to Optimize IT Spending Decisions: Linking IT Assets to Business Processes and Performance

Tags:
monitoring systems

Overview Today nearly every organization relies on some form of Information Technology (IT). Companies of all sizes are increasingly dependent upon computer systems and networks to enable a wide range of critical business processes. It follows that companies are allocating increasing amounts of their overall budget to the IT department for hardware and software purchases, system maintenance, and IT personnel and training. With IT budgets becoming such a sizeable portion of overall corporate spending, it is crucial that business leaders base their IT spending decisions on comprehensive, meaningful systems performance data. IT administrators in many organizations now employ a Network Monitoring System (NMS) to gather detailed performance metrics from systems company wide.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Cittio	File Format	PDF
Date Published	June 2007
Format	White Papers
Topics	Monitoring Systems, Network Administration

Did you find this white paper useful? 3 out of 5 users found this white paper useful

Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Fractal stupidity

As a result, we see control and measurement systems, performance monitoring and metrics have become all the rage. Our politicians and leaders believe that the train should be our primary choice and we must reduce the number of cars on our roads.

Surviving the Recession, a Quocirca series

We have (admittedly smaller) amounts of money that we will have to invest wisely so when conditions improve we are the ones who can react fastest and take the market by storm. However, it is often the IT budget which gets hit hardest - based on the...

Channel:
Comment & Analysis

Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Holistic security

We have to employ within our systems and organisations the capability not just to identify the enactors of a particular crime but to pre-empt that activity by monitoring over the long term their actions as they gather pace.

Channel:
PDAs

The McCue Interview: Manpower global CIO, Rick Davidson

Davidson says: "One of the things we did early on was go out and meet with the business leaders and in doing that you start to develop trust with each other because you sit down, you break bread together, you know each other, you express a real...

Meta Group Quarterly: What CIOs need to succeed

In 2003, flat base salaries kept IT labour costs at slightly under 50 per cent of IT budgets, but by 2006 to 2007, IT salaries will again escalate as the economy improves, putting labour costs at 55 to 60 per cent or more of the IT budget.

CIOs still under pressure to "do more with less"

The research report, IT leaders' next big decisions, says CIOs need to focus on the few key strategic decisions they have to make each year and set deadlines to complete them. Outsourcing also remains a key strategic decision for CIOs and Gartner...

Channel:
IT Director
Tags:
cios,
gartner

Featured White Papers

IDC reports on Novell's Secure Desktop Solution: A Modern-Day Marriage of Business Benefit and Risk Reduction

This IDC whitepaper examines how companies are turning to integrated security solutions, such as Novell Secure Desktop Solution, to deal with the vulnerability of mobile assets and implement a comprehensive security strategy.

Publisher:
Novell

Green IT: Reducing your Carbon Footprint with Citrix

Going green has become an imperative, not an option, for companies facing the new reality of balancing business objectives with dwindling environmental resources. Read on to learn how Citrix products can help bring environmental and organizational objectives into alignment by alleviating the energy impact of equipment needed to serve both the datacenter and the desktop.

Publisher:
Citrix Systems

Identity and Security Management and Strong Information Technology Goverance

A total identity and access management (IAM) – driven goverance, risk and compliance (GRC) solution should ensure foolproof and accurate measurements of policies and practises across the enterprise. This IDC white paper examines identity and security management (ISM) solutions and how these integrated offerings can play a key role in enforcing security compliance.