Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 22 | Page 34

FEATURE: NETWORK MONITORING CHARBEL KHNEISSER, REGIONAL PRESALES DIRECTOR, METNA AT RIVERBED Is there a tendency for end-users to use too many monitoring tools? According to Forrester Research, 64% of organisations use a fragmented approach to technology monitoring. Adding to this; traditional Performance Management techniques are not enough in today’s complex infrastructure. Ever increasing complexity has driven organisations to further extend their portfolio of monitoring tools to address the shortcomings they have with individual solutions within their monitoring setup. This behaviour has led to a fragmented siloed approach which adds complexity and management overheads, defeating the main purpose of having a monitoring solution in the first place. 34 INTELLIGENTCIO Charbel Khneisser, Regional Presales Director, METNA at Riverbed www.intelligentcio.com