As complexity and volume grow, visibility across the entire
ecosystem shrinks. Companies are getting by with a mixed bag
of on-premises and cloud vendor-specific capacity management
tools that don’t communicate with one another. Because they lack
visibility, IT organizations and lines of business face a lose-lose
choice: They can spend more and over-provision resources to be
sure they’re available when demand requires them. Or they can
make an uninformed guess at what resources they’ll need, which can
save money but risks frustrating users with poor performance. With
on-premises systems, over-provisioning can mean making big bets
on capital expenses by purchasing infrastructure such as servers and
storage that are underutilized, under-provisioned, or not used at all.
In the cloud, operational costs rise with the consumption — and
waste — of computing and storage resources.
