THE EVOLUTION OF DATA CENTER MANAGEMENT WITH BUSINESS SERVICE MONITORING & ITIL
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1 THE EVOLUTION OF DATA CENTER MANAGEMENT WITH BUSINESS SERVICE MONITORING & ITIL SUMMARY The infrastructure in a modern corporate data center manages critical business information for the enterprise. In that sense the data center is the heart of the business, and the data center is a critical corporate asset. Data centers house the power systems, networks, servers, storage, and applications that enterprise business processes depend upon. Most activities in a business process, whether the process involves taking an order or billing for delivered products, is tied directly to the effective functioning of one or more software applications and the underlying IT infrastructure in the data center. Related white papers are available at: Virtualization and Private Cloud Monitoring Next Generation Distributed, Scalable and High Availability Monitoring Architecture Innovative Approaches for Identifying Root Causes of Service Performance Degradation View online demo of advanced BSM software: Download free trial Zyrion Traverse: Yet, data center monitoring is still focused on just measuring the technical metrics and trends of IT applications and infrastructure. This approach results in significant gaps in determining the business impact of a specific problem. IT has also evolved from the ownership perspective business unit managers are no longer content with IT being an independent black box component within the organization. Today s business managers are demanding increased accountability, and want visibility into service performance metrics to ensure that poor IT service does not impact the end user experience and productivity, and by extension, impact revenues. Uptime status and technical performance reports on individual routers and servers in a data center are less meaningful from a business perspective. What organizations need to monitor are the metrics and measurements of the IT services supported by the data center infrastructure, not siloed metrics of the individual underlying components. Aligning the monitoring and management of IT infrastructure with business services is a necessity in today s business environment. Data centers need to adopt management and monitoring solutions that enable operations personnel and business process owners to better understand the impact of the complex mesh of technology on the performance of business services and processes. Data center monitoring has to go beyond just looking at the performance of servers and network nodes, but has to also include a service oriented view. When a Zyrion, Inc. 440 N Wolfe Rd. Sunnyvale, CA t: f: u:
2 component within the data center fails, the operations team has to be able to see which business or IT services have been impacted. Operations personnel and process owners need to be provided the means to proactively monitor the status and trending of underlying IT services to prevent potential problems, or catch them early before the effect is experienced by a wider constituency. TODAY S IT ENVIRONMENT INCREASINGLY COMPLEX A number of disruptive technologies have made their way into the data center and overall IT environment. These include cloud computing, virtualization, unified computing, mashups, composite applications, and green IT. New applications that rely on distributed technologies, Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) and Web services are much more computationally and network intensive, resulting in greater infrastructure demands. Dispersed and remote workforces are placing increased performance and availability demands on the overall network, computing and data center infrastructure. Data center network architectures are continuing to evolve to maximize efficiency gains using virtualization capabilities such as Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) and virtual private LAN service (VPLS). Additionally, the adoption of IPv6 will soon create an explosion in the number of uniquely identifiable, network addressable devices that now need to be managed more formally. All of this is placing a significant strain on IT organizations. ITIL BEST PRACTICES IN THE DATA CENTER Dealing with the increased complexity will require organizations to take a more holistic approach to managing the corporate data center and incorporate industry best practices. The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is a set of IT management frameworks and concepts that help organizations improve the overall quality of IT services and reduce the total cost of ownership. ITIL has identified best practices in the data center from the very beginning it clearly separated fault (event) management, capacity planning and trend analysis, configuration management and troubleticketing. All of these concepts already existed in mature data centers in fact ITIL is just a formalization of these best practices. However, these traditional best practices were not enough to address the evolved t: f: u: Page 2
3 needs of today s data center, which demands quick mean time to repair (MTTR) for services, proactive warnings for service degradation and accountability to the business managers. Recognizing the need and demand for this in the industry, ITILv3 added Business Services Management (BSM) as a new best practice. As indicated by ITIL, enterprises need to view BSM as an integral part of an end to end data center management strategy and approach. BSM LINKING YOUR DATA CENTER TO YOUR BUSINESS Traditional data center management systems focus on measuring and monitoring the technical metrics and trends of IT applications and infrastructure. The primary users of these systems are network operators and systems administrators in the IT operations organization. Although these systems enable the IT operations team to identify problem areas from a technical point of view for a given piece of the infrastructure, significant gaps exist in determining the business impact of a specific problem. If a router and a server fail at the same time, these systems offer no way for Network Operations Center (NOC) personnel to determine which of these is more critical or which business services have been impacted by the failure of these devices. The challenge is being compounded further given the ongoing evolution of the data center. A single business process or service may be supported by a number of next generation technologies and composite applications, all of which could be dependent on a diverse set of distributed computing and communications elements. An isolated issue anywhere in this complex Web may impact one or more tasks in the business process. Traditional data center management systems and technology centric monitoring approaches are incapable of determining the business impact of an issue in such a complicated infrastructure environment. Given the disconnect that currently exists between operations personnel having a clear understanding of problems with business processes, and their view of what is going at the technical level, there is a need t: f: u: Page 3
4 for solutions that bridge the information gap. Organizations need management solutions in the data center that enable preemptive and rapid identification of business issues, accurate identification of root causes in the supporting IT infrastructure, and quick resolution of problems. Organizations are recognizing the important role that Business Service Management (BSM) systems play in connecting the worlds of IT and business. They see the value in having business and IT operations personnel collaborate as BSM system users in assuring the effective functioning of IT enabled business processes. Within a BSM enabled data center environment, business impacting issues are dealt with proactively and rapidly, with the team remaining informed and in control of setting priorities on the problems that need to be addressed right away versus things that can be postponed. Additionally, information is presented in a way that is relevant to the user roles within the organization. The business process owner may want to see a simple dashboard view for those IT services on which his business depends. The information in this view is described in business terms. An IT operations person may want to view the detailed performance data plots for a given server cluster for example, where the data is defined in technical terms. BUSINESS CONTAINERS MAPPING TECHNOLOGY TO SERVICES The enabling technology for creating many to many and hierarchical mappings between the underlying technology and services is that of Business Service Containers. These are flexible, automated objects which represent business services in an organization. They allow an organization to create logical, business oriented views of the overall physical and virtualized computing network. Users can define different SLAs for different containers, create fault tolerant redundant models within a container, and have nested containers with cascading alarms. Business Service Containers allow different departments and users to create views of the IT infrastructure that align with their roles with full flexibility and access control that is essential for adoption within the enterprise. Most importantly, the Business Service Container model is overlaid on top of the physical topology discovery/display model to provide service relevant topology views, reduce alarm floods and enable rapid root cause analysis of service performance degradation or downtime. Business Service Containers go beyond simple grouping, and support mapping the same device to multiple services. Additionally, containers can be mapped to containers to create a hierarchy of services for monitoring purposes. Business Service Container technology is a key innovation enables BSM and service oriented IT monitoring. It enables linking business services to the underlying IT infrastructure, and allows understanding the impact on business services when problems occur within the network. t: f: u: Page 4
5 ZYRION S TRAVERSE A PRE INTEGRATED SOLUTION Although the case for BSM in the data center is clear, the path forward has not been an easy one given the solution options that have been available in the marketplace. Older generation data center monitoring products are not able to unify fault/event, performance management and BSM all within one system, and thus businesses are forced to deploy and integrate multiple systems to get an end to end view. This requires making a significant investment in the initial deployment and ongoing administrative support, resulting in extremely high TCO. This legacy BSM solution approach involves linking multiple disparate applications across different layers and domains of infrastructure and business services. These solutions contain a confusing array of complicated features, require specialized application specific expertise to install/integrate and manage, and involve execution of complex projects to complete an implementation. What the modern data center needs is an integrated, feature rich network management solution with advanced capabilities, such as end to end correlated network and application monitoring, real time status of IT services, integrated business/technical views and SLA management. At the same time, this integrated, end to end solution has to be easily installable and configurable, require minimal training to use and administer, have the ability to be made operational within days, and most importantly, require no dedicated personnel to manage. Zyrion s Traverse solution meets all these requirements. Traverse is an innovative solution that provides a differentiated value proposition where businesses are able to get advanced BSM capabilities pre integrated with the required underlying fault/event and performance management capabilities. This ensures that the data center team has an end to end view of the infrastructure and processes. Traverse includes Business Service Containers for correlating network, application and IT service problems. The technology allows linking applications and underlying infrastructure to services such as ordering and payroll. Data center teams can get the solution implemented quickly and efficiently, as no complicated inter application integration is required to become fully operational. t: f: u: Page 5
6 THE BOTTOM LINE FOR THE DATA CENTER The increased reliance on IT for business process enablement and automation requires data center management and monitoring tools that enable business process owners and the IT operations team to collaborate in ensuring the smooth running of business services. Data centers need to deploy advanced Business Service Management (BSM) solutions that provide real time visibility into the performance of applications and services. Zyrion s Traverse is the answer, and is an end to end, pre integrated BSM systems that offers enterprise class functionality at a lower implementation cost and lower ongoing operational cost. ABOUT ZYRION, INC. Zyrion is a provider of Business Service Management (BSM) and IT infrastructure monitoring software for enteprises, MSPs and governmental organizations. The company s business service container technology allows organizations to more easily and effectively manage IT enabled business processes and services. Zyrion s flagship Traverse solution provides correlated, end to end network and server monitoring capabilities that link underlying applications and the IT infrastructure to business services. Zyrion has corporate offices in Sunnyvale, Calif. For more information, go to or call ZYRION. t: f: u: Page 6
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