The challenges of moving to the cloud
Enterprises are often compelled to develop new applications, because they need to stay ahead of their competition. The rapid development and deployment features that companies gain from this shift can help them adapt to their customers' ever-changing needs.
Moving business-critical applications to the cloud, or making them "cloud-native," poses new issues for the IT teams tasked with maintaining their performance. These issues include:
- Cloud and hybrid workloads create an added layer of complexity. The virtualized environments and containerized application resource stacks in these extended data centers need a different level of services.
- Various tools that monitor environments and siloed teams can create unnecessary delays in finding bottlenecks.
- Latency in issue resolution caused by these bottlenecks creates poor customer experiences and can lead to a loss of revenue or productivity.
- Teams often have to guess at usage and end up overspending on IT and overprovisioning resources to address potential obstacles.
IT teams must often access cloud-based microservices or serverless apps across multiple environments, and traditional monitoring tools do not provide enough observability. Visibility into the supporting infrastructure is crucial.
What's the alternative for today's IT teams?
- Total application stack observability, with low latency with 100 percent tracing
- Continuous, automated discovery and resource mapping
- Complete application stack infrastructure visibility and reporting
- Right-sized infrastructure on an as-needed basis, using artificial intelligence (AI) and automation
- Automatic discovery of the application's infrastructure supply chain, whether on-prem, in cloud or hybrid
IBM Turbonomic Application Resource Management (ARM)
With IBM® Turbornomic® Application Resource Management (ARM), customers can automate critical actions that proactively deliver the most efficient use of compute, storage and network resources to their apps at every layer of the stack — continuously, in real-time and without human intervention.
Your client's business depends on their applications being constantly available and performed in the cloud or on-premises. With IBM Turbonomic, organizations can automate cloud application resourcing and achieve cloud elasticity, prevent performance issues before they impact user experience and have software choose the right cloud configurations for their business.
Arrow, IBM and you
Arrow, IBM and partners like you are uniquely positioned to help organizations automate critical actions that proactively deliver the most efficient use of their resources. Contact us for more information on tools, credentials and incentives that can support your sales efforts.
Learn more about IBM Turbonomic and its benefit to customers and how you can grow your IBM business through Arrow by contacting channel manager Lisa Hughes.
