The backbone of a modern organization—its IT infrastructure—is intricately woven. Along with the relentless pursuit of achieving seamless operations and sustained growth, the challenges of a modern IT infrastructure led to the proliferation of specialized sub-teams. These specialized teams collaborate to contribute to the health and performance of the IT infrastructure.

Businesses adopting new technologies are looking for a digital transition that assures streamlined performance upgrades while cutting costs. Servers, an important endpoint of the network, have a great influence on both aspects. Given its significance, proactively monitoring server traffic trends, bottlenecks, and optimizing the network to lessen outages or downtime is indispensable. However, monitoring without powerful strategies and tools that fulfill your business objectives is a lost cause.

Virtualization and the creation of many virtual machines (VMs) within the same infrastructure was the solution organizations came up with when faced with expansive, expensive networks that needed more hardware and thus more capital expenditure to host applications. While they resolved the bigger pain points, VMs still have to be monitored as they are heavy on resource usage.

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In the dynamic world of IT, traditional network monitoring approaches are no longer sufficient to manage the complexities of today’s networks—be they wired or wireless. To stay ahead of network events, IT administrators must shift from being reactive to adopting a proactive stance. This transition involves a comprehensive approach to network monitoring that includes forecasting future network requirements with the help of machine learning (ML) technology.

Network outages have become a dreaded reality, disrupting businesses, personal lives, and communication channels. While no network is immune to this unfortunate event, the recent Australian telecom outage serves as a stark reminder of the impact such disruptions can have. The outage, which lasted for several hours, caused nationwide disruptions to Australian businesses, essential services, and daily life.