Ever-growing demands are driving enterprise information technology (IT) organizations to increase the activities needed to ensure the performance and availability of business-critical applications for end users. Indeed, the health of the enterprise is, in large part, dependent on IT and the applications used throughout the organization. This is due in large part to fierce competitiveness of the global marketplace and the ever-increasing use of the Web as a vital business platform. In order to support the business in the face of these dramatic market forces, IT must be able to manage all of the critical components underlying nowadays multitier distributed applications, including servers, storage, networks, and databases.
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