Moving Beyond Monitoring Into Configuration Management
Published:
September 06 2011, 11:24 AM
by
Brandon Whichard
IT has long been monitoring infrastructure to detect outages and discover performance problems. While monitoring has and always will be an important part of data center operations, it's always going to be reactive. The simplest way for service providers to reduce costs is to prevent outages from happening in the first place.
Today CA Technologies and NEC announced a partnership to help bring configuration management to NEC's MasterScope. NEC has licensed CA Configuration Automation to help customers enforce configuration standards as they transition from traditional physical servers to virtual machines. With CA Configuration Automation, NEC MasterScope customers will be able to define configuration standards, detect errors and proactively remediate errors before outages occur.
You would never roll out a new service without monitoring its performance and availability so why would you launch a service without proper configuration management? The risks of an outage are simply too great. With this new partnership CA Technologies and NEC are positioned to help you move from a purely reactive approach to a proactive approach that will help prevent outages and reduce costs.
By: Brandon Whichard
Brandon Whichard is part of the product marketing team working in CA's Virtualization and Service Automation Business Unit. He is responsible for promoting and evangelizing CA’s Data Center Automation solutions. Prior to joining CA Technologies, Brandon held a variety of product management and marketing...
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