Keysight releases findings of The
State of Cloud Monitoring study
Manager and Vice President, Product Management in
Keysight’s Ixia Solutions Group.
“This lack of visibility can result in poor application
performance, customer data loss and undetected security
threats, all of which can have serious consequences to an
organisations’ overall business success.”
Public and hybrid cloud monitoring maturity
trails traditional data centres
eysight, a leading test and measurement vendor, has
released the results of a survey sponsored by Ixia, on
The State of Cloud Monitoring. The report highlights
the security and monitoring challenges faced by enterprise
IT staff responsible for managing public and private cloud
deployments. The survey, conducted by Dimensional Research
and polling 338 IT professionals at organisations from a range
of sizes and industries globally, revealed that companies have
low visibility into their public cloud environments and the tools
and data supplied by cloud providers are insufficient.
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Lack of visibility can result in a variety of problems including
the inability to track or diagnose application performance
issues, inability to monitor and deliver against service-level
agreements, and delays in detecting and resolving security
vulnerabilities and exploits. Key findings include:
“This survey makes it clear that those responsible for hybrid
IT environments are concerned about their inability to
fully see and react to what is happening in their networks,
especially as business-critical applications migrate to a
virtualised infrastructure,” said Recep Ozdag, General
www.intelligentciso.com
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• Public cloud environments are difficult to monitor: Less
than 20% of IT professionals reported they had complete,
timely access to data packets in public clouds. In private
clouds, the situation is better, with 55% reporting adequate
access. In on-premises data centres, 82% have the visibility
they need.
• Packet-level visibility is critical for monitoring: A total
of 86% of respondents stated visibility was important for
network and application performance monitoring and 93%
stated it was valuable for security.
Visibility solutions enhance monitoring, network
performance management and security
Nearly all respondents (99%) identified a direct link between
comprehensive network visibility and business value. The top
three visibility benefits cited were:
• Monitoring and ensuring application performance (60%)
• Enabling threat identification (59%)
• Identifying security ‘indicators of compromise’ (57%)
The survey also revealed that visibility is critical for monitoring
cloud performance, as well as validating application
performance prior to cloud deployment:
• Predicting performance is a key challenge. A total of
87% of cloud users find it difficult to predict application
performance in the cloud. u
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• A total of 87% of respondents expressed fears that a
lack of cloud visibility is obscuring security threats to
their organisation
• A total of 95% of respondents said visibility problems
had led them to experience an application or network
performance issue
• A total of 38% cited insufficient visibility as a key factor in
application outages and 31% in network outages
The survey focused on challenges faced when monitoring
public and private clouds, as well as on-premises data centres.
Data revealed IT professionals indicated that cloud providers
are not providing the level of visibility they need: