Today nearly every organization relies on some form of information
technology. 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's 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. It seems log... (more)