Today’s IT infrastructure managers have always had a tough job, trying to keep up with network, server, application and client growth as well as keeping up with new technology introductions without growing staff. But the dual disruptive trends of server virtualization and Cloud services represent challenges of unprecedented scale. These two related evolutions bring with them new levels of complexity, growth (in number of managed elements), and high rates of change. They are also catalysts in another significant organizational and cultural change – the inevitable shift towards service-centric operations, as a byproduct of turning IT into an internal private Cloud provider to its served organization.

To resolve this challenge, APG offers the ability to support data collection, correlation, and presentation across all of the technology domains that must come together seamlessly to deliver today’s complex, composite applications and services. Storage, networking, physical computing and virtual computing are all brought together in a single integrated system. Beyond physical/virtual infrastructure, APG supports direct collection of performance data from within the application layer, covering the last of the major components that will come together to complete internal private Cloud services. With strong flexibility and scalability, the APG solution acts as a common performance management platform across all components that make up today’s complex, composite Cloud architectures.