Joint solution empowers IT with visibility into cloud to ensure optimal end-user experience.
Today, the business leaders move their services to the public cloud without consulting or even notifying IT of the change, until an issue arises. While this has become common, IT teams are still responsible for finding and fixing problems, remaining accountable for not just performance and security but also for the end user experience. And the challenge of maintaining control does not stop with the initial deployment. From a recent Gartner survey on the cloud monitoring challenges, more than 50 percent engineers said they were “blind to what happens in the cloud” while 32 percent cited visibility gaps and the majority felt the data shared by cloud providers did not meet their needs.
Notwithstanding, moving applications to the public cloud creates stumbling blocks for application and IT teams, as they no longer have the visibility needed to be effective. Yet it is critical that applications continue to deliver high levels of responsiveness and availability—at all times, no matter if the application is deployed in the data center, private cloud, public cloud, or a combination of all three.
The good news is that, the CA Technologies and Keysight (Ixia) have teamed together to develop a best practices approach to monitor packet data in the cloud. The joint CA Application Delivery Analysis (CA ADA) and Ixia CloudLens™ solutions provide the end-to-end response-time-monitoring capabilities that the IT team needs to track and optimize the end-user experience, no matter where the application is deployed. With CA ADA, which provides deep insight into TCP/IP conversations across multi-tiered applications, you can quickly identify the domain in which issues arise, so you can do faster incident triage and resolution. Ixia’s visibility solutions complement CA ADA by providing the full end-to-end visibility of physical, virtual, and cloud network traffic it needs. The joint solution can detect user experience issues as they occur and before customers become aware, so they can be quickly addressed.
CA Application Delivery Analysis (ADA) provides the end-to-end response-time-monitoring capabilities that the IT teams need to measure and report on the performance of applications across your infrastructure, quickly isolate and fix performance bottlenecks, and optimize the end-user experience. The solution is efficient to deploy and manage, delivering performance and availability measurements that are based on real multi-tiered application response times, without requiring synthetic tests or agents. CA ADA continually collects performance metrics, automatically establishes intelligent baselines, and instantly generates alerts when performance starts to deteriorate. Convenient application scorecards provide an at-a-glance view of critical application performance, while SLA reporting summarizes both performance and availability of applications.
