Manage Planned Changes and Unexpected Events

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There are two types of changes that organizations must be prepared to manage, planned changes and unexpected events. Each has it’s own unique challenges and IT organizations should have a comprehensive management strategy in place.

An effective strategy for managing planned change include the ability to take a performance baseline, which will allow you to measure the impact of performance and end-user experience after change.

An effective strategy for managing unplanned change and events should be broad in its ability to see throughout the distributed enterprise as well as be able to obtain in-depth analysis data that rapidly isolates a problem to the application, system or network. Once the problem has been identified, having a single point of reference that all job functions within IT can reference from their point of view allows disparate teams to collaborate and come to faster problem resolution.

Visual Performance Manager meets the challenges of managing both planned changes and unexpected events with proven solution capabilities that address the following:

• Validate the impact of change (network and application)
• Leverage multiple sources of information under a single pane of glass
• Immediately identify the affected resources (network, server or application)
• Understand current performance in context with historical baselines
• Trending on performance degradation
• Report on bandwidth allocation and application growth