High availability and performance of mission-critical applications is no longer a luxury for today's organizations; it's a matter of business survival. If applications fail - or suffer from low performance levels-revenues and customers are lost. IT operations managers and administrators need to adopt both server monitoring and capacity planning solutions that can quickly be deployed, automate processes, and adapt to changing enterprise situations - without breaking IT budgets.

Monitoring servers and proactively managing capacity can help a company maintain service level agreements, meet contractual obligations, improve customer and partner satisfaction, and move forward into new markets.

The adoption of integrated server monitoring and capacity planning solutions can alter, for the better, the entire role of a company's IT team. IT operations and administration staff can focus on maximizing server performance to meet ever-changing business requirements as opposed to constantly troubleshooting to bring servers back online. Indeed, proactive server management can create new cost-saving and revenue-generating strategies--greatly simplifying the planning of application growth and the adoption of the latest products and technologies.