Solving the Virtualization and Cloud Management Puzzle

Recommended Reading: On GigaOM.com, Nicola Sanna, President and CEO of Netuitive, explains how new technology and powerful IT analytics are coming together as a framework for the next generation of performance and capacity management solutions.

"The advent of virtualization and cloud computing infrastructure has made conventional, rules-based approaches to systems management obsolete. Managing the volume, speed, and complexity of IT data being generated in virtual and heterogeneous environments now defies human analysis. But a new breed of performance management technology, which leverages powerful IT analytics and is tailor-made for virtualization and the cloud, is being proven by early adopters in financial services and telecommunications. I expect 2011 to be a breakout year for end-to-end management in the cloud. But to understand where cloud monitoring and management is going, one must look at where it came from, and what virtualization has wrought."

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