Showing posts with label real time monitoring. Show all posts
Showing posts with label real time monitoring. Show all posts

Sunday, April 28, 2013

Business Profitability And RDS Monitoring

The Cloud is changing the way businesses operate. This has brought the spotlight onto RDS (Remote Desktop Services) monitoring. RDS systems are seen as the need of the hour for most small businesses. Monitoring comes close on the heels of any system that makes work easier for you, through automation or application of logic.

Why choose RDS, if monitoring is so essential to it?

RDS is the way to go, for enterprises small-sized businesses. The RDS system can reduce costs for these businesses especially when combined with an effective monitoring system.

Benefits of RDS set-up

> Outsource all time-consuming operational and administration needs to optimize time and effort.
> Cut down on the need for heavy, one-time investment in infrastructure and manpower needs.
> Harness professional expertise, even across geographically distant areas.

There are several other benefits to deploying RDS systems, all of them basically helping ensure more productivity and increased savings, ultimately.

Profitability and monitoring

Like with other applications, optimal working translates into money and time saved for your business. RDS monitoring can help generate alerts and red flags well before an application shuts down, thus preventing the end-user from experience problems. In the case of RDS, end users are employees, and thus, problems and issues can lead to loss in productivity and wastage of time.

In case of comprehensive RDS monitoring systems, real time monitoring could be combined together with specific application monitoring, to ensure problems are caught before they grow into bigger issues.

Choosing RDS Monitoring

RDS monitoring needs to incorporate several elements, including:

> History of effective monitoring in Application monitoring.
> Flexibility to adapt to changes in monitoring needs, including technical adaptations.
> Adequate expertise to cover a range of needs, as per different businesses.
> Expertise and professional know-how to cover diverse industries and RDS deployment in them, including areas needing monitoring.
> Ability to carry out different kinds of monitoring, including real time monitoring, capacity planning, as well as performance testing.
> Good understanding of Cloud technology, and how it works, to be able to provide for repairs, if needed.

Ideally, when choosing an RDS monitoring provider, you should check for all of the attributes, and also the following features:

> Does the vendor support different types of business applications?
> Do they have knowledge and understanding of very complex business applications such as Thick client?
> Do they give you the option of a single monitoring solution that could test all applications hosted within RDS Cloud?
> Cloud technology is dynamic and ever-changing. Will your vendor be able to adapt and provide you comprehensive monitoring cover, accordingly?
> Are the solutions simple to deploy and manage?

About the Author:

Tevron develops and delivers Application Monitoring Solutions, Service Level Agreement, RDS Monitoring, and End to End Performance monitoring solutions available globally. Tevron has also successfully delivered enterprise Application Monitoring Solutions and Testing solutions to support every IT enterprise application to hundreds of customers across the globe. Tevron's solutions designed to support diverse environments, business processes and applications with a service oriented management.

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Real Time Monitor: Facts And Significance

Real time monitors are significant to any business for the simple reason that they provide information that is current. Under real time monitoring, systems are reviewed on an ongoing basis, in the process, generating a minute-by-minute account of the performance of the application. As such, results provided by a real time monitor are more dependable and accurate.

Real time monitors help support IT and business services management by speedy performance reports that allow problem notification through real-time alerts and responses. Real time monitoring systems are indispensable for even IT infrastructure monitoring.

In case a small-sized business is involved in offering services that need consistent and detailed monitoring, then real time monitoring systems are investments that are worth considering. A small business does not usually have large stores of time or manpower that can be expended on a regular basis. Because of this, in times of crisis, they are more likely to lose businesses and clients than a regular corporate. A small business therefore, needs to be very alert to situations that could spiral into problems so that these are nipped in the bud before they cause loss of money and precious business.

Real time monitoring reports are different from performance reports that are generated on a weekly or a fortnightly basis. While these periodic reports are equally useful, they cannot replicate the significance of a real time monitor. A real time monitor is especially useful for businesses that depend upon a very high degree of accuracy for their operation. Thus, you will typically find them being used for IT set-ups and set-ups that deal with communication programs, including alerts. Real time monitors also play a significant role in service level agreements or SLAs. Functions that are customer-centric, or based upon business service management also depend heavily on real time monitoring systems.

Another advantage provided by real time monitors is that they help you detect issues before they balloon into full-fledged problems. With moment by moment detection, early sensing of problems and malfunctions becomes a reality and corrective measures can be initiated immediately. Historic data mapping can be undertaken for systems where server uptimes are critical. Then, if they show a tendency towards malfunctioning, systems can be put into place to ensure backup of important data is automatic and some degree of corrective measures can also be put into place immediately.

For a small business that cannot afford to lose clients, an efficient real time monitoring system can prove to be a very smart decision. Problems can be resolved before the data suffers irreparable loss or, in case of client involvement, before the client suffers from downtime problems.

About the Author:

Tevron develops and delivers powerful and comprehensive application monitoring solutions, service level agreement, end to end performance, and real-time monitor solutions available globally. Tevron has also successfully delivered enterprise application monitoring solutions and testing solutions to support every IT enterprise application to hundreds of customers across the globe. Tevron's solutions are scalable, flexible, and easy to maintain; they are also designed to support diverse environments, business processes and applications with a service oriented management.