Comments on: Web Outages and Damage Control 2.0 http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/01/23/web-outages-and-damage-control-20/ News and analysis about data centers, cloud computing, managed hosting and disaster recovery Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:24:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Steve Henning http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/01/23/web-outages-and-damage-control-20/comment-page-1/#comment-250 Steve Henning Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:42:20 +0000 http://dev.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/01/23/web-outages-and-damage-control-20/#comment-250 It is certainly clear that outages such as those descibed can have damaging affect on both the companies providing services via the web and their hosting providers. It is also clear that bandwidth heavy Web 2.0 applications, as well as other new initiatives such as virtualization, have created a new level of IT complexity that current management approaches cannot scale to. It staff need a new approach that can allow them to take a more proactive stance, solving problems before costly downtime affects end users and the reputation of the company. There are now solutions available that use real time problem modeling to proactively notify IT staff of pending issues before they occur. With solutions like this in place, companies can protect invaluable brand reputation, revenues, and other elements that are vital to business success. It is certainly clear that outages such as those descibed can have damaging affect on both the companies providing services via the web and their hosting providers. It is also clear that bandwidth heavy Web 2.0 applications, as well as other new initiatives such as virtualization, have created a new level of IT complexity that current management approaches cannot scale to.

It staff need a new approach that can allow them to take a more proactive stance, solving problems before costly downtime affects end users and the reputation of the company. There are now solutions available that use real time problem modeling to proactively notify IT staff of pending issues before they occur. With solutions like this in place, companies can protect invaluable brand reputation, revenues, and other elements that are vital to business success.

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