The efficiency of centralized network management

Faced with pressure to increase network capacity and performance while saving money, information technology managers have often been quite content to simply add more hardware as required. However, this results in a disparate network that is hard to manage, imposing an extra burden on IT staff and adversely impacting business efficiency. Ad hoc network expansion may have coped in the past, but the need for end-to-end network visibility to assure compliance with global security and privacy mandates and to streamline business processes means that this approach is no longer acceptable. The past few years have also seen an increased need for speed in deploying new enterprise-wide applications — a capability that is severely impeded when systems are disconnected from each other. It’s clear that chief information officers and their IT teams need to grab hold of their networks and manage and secure them as a unified whole. Bringing order to