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New Survey from Ixia, a Keysight Business, Reveals Monitoring Gaps Between Traditional and Hybrid IT EnvironmentsKeysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS), a leading technology company that helps enterprises, service providers and governments accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world, today released the results of a survey sponsored by Ixia (News - Alert), a Keysight Business, on 'The State of Cloud Monitoring'. The report highlights the security and monitoring challenges faced by enterprise IT staff responsible for managing public and private cloud deployments. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190325005503/en/ Nearly all respondents (99 percent) identified a direct link between comprehensive network visibility and business value. (Graphic: Business Wire) The survey was conducted by Dimensional Research and polled 338 IT professionals at organizations from a range of sizes and industries globally. The results revealed that companies have low visibility into their public cloud environments, and the tools and data supplied by cloud providers are insufficient. Lack of visibility can result in a variety of problems including the inability to track or diagnose application performance issues, inability to monitor and deliver against service-level agreements, and delays in detecting and resolving security vulnerabilities and exploits. Nearly all respondents (99 percent) identified a direct link between comprehensive network visibility and business value. The results confirm that IT professionals see a direct connection between access to packet data and their ability to maintain cloud security and performance.
"This survey makes it clear that those responsible fr hybrid IT environments are concerned about their inability to fully see and react to what is happening in their networks, especially as business-critical applications migrate to a virtualized infrastructure," said Recep Ozdag, general manager and vice president, product management in Keysight's Ixia Solutions Group. "This lack of visibility can result in poor application performance, customer data loss, and undetected security threats, all of which can have serious consequences to an organizations' overall business success." Visibility Solutions (News - Alert) Enhance Monitoring, Network Performance Management, and Security 99 percent of respondents stated that comprehensive visibility has direct value to their organizations, with the top three benefits cited as:
Public and Hybrid Cloud Monitoring Maturity Trails Traditional Data Centers The survey focused on challenges faced when monitoring public and private clouds, as well as on-premises data centers. Data revealed IT professionals indicated that cloud providers are not providing the level of visibility they need:
The survey also revealed that visibility is critical for monitoring cloud performance, as well as validating application performance prior to cloud deployment:
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