Hybrid Digital Infrastructure Management (HDIM)
For organizations seeking robust infrastructure management solutions, finding a balance between speed, cost, capacity, dependability, security, and compliance is becoming ever more complex
The global research and analysis firm lists several other trends including: Infrastructure is everywhere & so is your data; the overwhelming impact of IOT, distributed cloud, immersive experience, democratization of IT, networking — what’s next? and Hybrid Digital Infrastructure Management (HDIM)
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Companies are opting for hybrid IT, and more IT professionals are likely to take this approach in the future. However, the increasing level of hybrid IT deepens complexity while making monitoring and visibility more of a challenge. What is the future for infrastructure? However, connected infrastructure won’t be enough the counter the complexities caused by hybrid IT. So how will IT professionals and data managers adapt? A new category being talked about is hybrid digital infrastructure management (HDIM)
What is HDIM?
Hybrid Infrastructure Management (HIM) is the practice of monitoring and analyzing all your IT infrastructure: servers, storage and networks in a manner that relates to their impact on the performance and availability of your business applications. This encompasses the performance of private, public and hybrid-cloud infrastructure as well as traditional on-premises configurations. HIM enables IT organisations to deliver relevant, timely, performance, health and resource utilization metrics across all levels of IT and the Business
As hybrid IT comes into greater use, so will the challenges of infrastructure management. Vendors are already introducing a unified infrastructure management platform, but it’s predicted that they need to do more than this. Creating a HDIM toolset. This toolset should bring together insights from:
- IT service management (ITSM)
- Data center infrastructure management (DCIM) and
- Cloud management platforms (CMP)
Infrastructure and operations teams come together to review challenges and start work. This will help to create a more robust infrastructure that is ready for the inevitable complexities that hybrid IT will continue to bring.
How does it works?
Hybrid Infrastructure Management is different from traditional application and network performance management tools in its ability to capture and correlate low-level wire and machine data across an entire IT infrastructure, irrespective of vendor. HIM is comprised of monitoring, cross-domain correlation and AI-based analytics. It captures granular information, in real-time, on transaction flows from storage arrays, from network devices, between server VMs across both on-premises and cloud environments using a combination of hardware and software probes.
The hardware probes tap physically into storage and network fibre connections, while software probes capture information from physical and virtualised devices in an agentless, non-intrusive manner. They ingest huge amounts of real-time data which is correlated, analysed and presented to IT operations and business managers in user-defined custom views on a single pane of glass.
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