The provided text discusses a scenario where an IT team faces challenges in monitoring and resolving performance issues within their data center due to traditional application performance monitoring (APM) tools focusing only on critical applications. It highlights the limitations of these tools, especially when non-critical but impactful applications like marketing apps cause slowdowns or bottlenecks that can lead to perceived outages and damage customer trust.
The text then introduces an app-centric infrastructure performance management (IPM) approach as a solution for identifying problems across the entire infrastructure, thereby improving response times, service continuity perceptions, data center energy sustainability, and providing detailed metrics to all levels of the organization. This method is advocated as essential for future-ready hybrid data centers.
The text ends with a reference to research conducted by Virtual Instruments in Europe which supports these claims based on survey responses from storage professionals across various industry verticals.