Why Monitor
How “Mission Critical” is your Infrastructure
Can you spot mission critical areas?
The Dynamics of Monitoring
What Needs to be Monitored (click image)
Through the use of established, technological standards, including TCP/IP and SNMP, the status of any device can be tracked and monitored on a continual basis. As the complexities increase and the numbers of systems expand it is impossible to manage monitoring without automation.
Monitoring Critical Infrastructure
What is Critical Infrastructure
- Systems that become critical to business operations and the infrastructure that safeguards them.
- 95% and 99% uptime can be achieved through redundancies and backup systems for Critical Infrastructure.
Motivation for Monitoring
- Minimization of Down-Time, can lead you to:
- Business Continuity
- Reduced losses
- Monitoring will provide additional safeguards to reach the desired
99.999% uptime.(Approximately 5.2 minutes down-time per year)
The Cost of Down-Time
IT outages, planned or unplanned, can unleash a procession of costs and consequences that are direct and indirect, tangible and intangible, short term and long term, immediate and far reaching.
Tangible/Direct Costs
- Lost transaction revenue
- Lost wages & productivity
- Lost inventory and production
- Lost data and replacement cost
Intangible/Indirect Costs
- Lost business opportunities
- Loss of employees and/or morale
- Remedial labor costs
- Decrease in stock value
- Loss of customer/partner goodwill
- Brand damage & marketing costs
- Driving business to competitors
- Bad publicity/press
- Legal penalties & bank fees
The tip of the iceberg
Average Business Costs of Down-Time
The Cost of Downtime is completely unmeasurable... (click image)
The leading and most costly root causes of downtime were directly related to vulnerabilities in the data center’s Power and Cooling infrastructures.
On average, businesses lose between $84,000 and $108,000 for every hour of system downtime.
Monitoring Solution and Integration
Cost of downtime is unmeasurable
How Ascent Monitoring can help your Enterprise:
- Benefits of outsourced monitoring
- In house solution are costly to implement and maintain
- Quickly solve complex configurations and integration
- Eliminate personnel training and staffing costs
Ascent Monitoring will integrate full feature set
- Cost prohibitive for small to medium business
- 24 x 7 Service availability with N+1 NOC
- Remote Monitoring model post install and integration