May 19, 2022

Monitoring Azure and Your Entire Hybrid Infrastructure with DX UIM

Introduction: Rise of Hybrid, Multi-Cloud Approaches

While you often read about the move to “the cloud,” the reality is that most organizations aren’t moving to a single cloud, but multiple cloud environments from multiple providers. There can be a range of reasons for companies to use cloud services from more than one provider today:

Teams may opt to use different cloud providers for different workloads or services, based on such considerations as capacity, cost, and technical requirements.
Considerations can also include geography and proximity to cloud provider regions as well as regional privacy regulations and policies.
After a merger or acquisition, a team may have multiple cloud accounts with multiple service providers to manage.

For IT operations teams, the upshot of this proliferation of cloud services is complexity. Often, teams start by relying on the monitoring tools offered by the cloud provider. By definition, the use of multiple clouds therefore requires the use of multiple tools. Further, while the migration to cloud environments continues, increasingly dynamic on-premises deployments will remain a part of most enterprise landscapes moving forward. For just about every enterprise operations team, therefore, a hybrid mix of multiple cloud and on-premises environments will need to be monitored.

For most organizations, this means dozens of monitoring tools may be required. Managing this proliferation of tools introduces a number of challenges. Teams are left juggling different interfaces, trying to aggregate data from multiple sources for reporting, bouncing from one tool to the next when an issue arises, and so on. Beyond this labor-intensive, inefficient effort, teams have to contend with poor visibility, degraded service levels, spiraling costs, and more.

Requirements: Unified Solution for Azure Monitoring… and More

In our work with leading enterprises around the world, we’re seeing significant demand for support for Azure environments. What we’re also hearing is that many of those organizations that have services running on Azure today also have a presence in other cloud environments, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

Consequently, what IT operations teams need now isn’t a new tool for monitoring Azure; what they need is a comprehensive solution that can monitor Azure and the entire hybrid, multi-cloud ecosystem.

Establishing Unified Visibility of Hybrid, Multi-Cloud Environments

With DX Unified Infrastructure Management (DX UIM), teams can establish a unified view of all the cloud and on-premises environments their business services rely on. DX UIM represents a single solution for monitoring traditional data centers, public cloud services, and hybrid infrastructure environments.

DX UIM enables teams to do efficient, comprehensive monitoring of their Azure environments, including those that span multiple regions and, in the case of managed service providers, multiple customers. In addition to Azure monitoring, DX UIM offers coverage of AWS and GCP, and the modern architectures associated with cloud services, such as Apache, Hadoop, Mongo, and Nutanix. Plus, DX UIM offers coverage of physical servers, virtual machines, hyper-converged infrastructures, storage platforms, databases, packaged applications, and big data technologies.

Efficient, Powerful Azure Monitoring

When it comes to monitoring Azure environments, DX UIM offers a number of key advantages:

Extensive Monitoring Breadth and Depth

With DX UIM, teams can gain complete coverage of their Azure services, including computing, networking, applications, analytics, databases, storage, integrations, and management interfaces. Further, the solution can tie together data from these different areas to provide a complete, unified picture of the environment.