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The Importance of a Cloud Monitoring Services

Author: Tonny Anderson
by Tonny Anderson
Posted: May 24, 2015

The internet one of the biggest inventions of the 20th century is playing an increasingly important role in our everyday lives. The importance of the internet is illuminated more in business. In the world of commerce it is becoming the norm for every business small or big to have a website where they advertise and even trade. This means that hundreds or even thousands of consumers are interacting with companies online. The onus is then on the company to make sure that their site is up and running and free from any interruptions. One of the ways for business to do this is to host their website on a cloud.

Types of Clouds

As explained on the website Infosys.com they are three types of clouds

Public Cloud: is where, a service provider makes a cloud (includes application and storage) available to the public.It may be free or at a fee.A good example is Windows which offers the Azure Services Platform

Private Cloud: Which is hosted in an organisation and provides services to a few people behind a firewall

Hybrid Cloud: This is where some functions are hosted in an organisation and others are hosted externally. A good example is Amazon’s elastic compute cloud.

Cloud Monitoring Services

The cloud as the storage and access of data programs through web –hosted applications instead of a computer’s hard drive’. A study done by Wakefield research shows 95% of Americans use the cloud daily for banking, shopping, email and more. It is clear that cloud services are important.

Any website is susceptible to malware or malfunction therefore a cloud monitoring services is needed by any company that hosts its website on a cloud. When your company website is not functioning properly your company is at risk of losing clients ‘Research has shown that for every second a customer must wait for a page to load they become 16% less satisfied and 72% of customers won’t return to the page where they have had a bad experience.

It is therefore very important that the cloud is monitored to ensure its performance well and to detect any potential issues. A cloud monitoring service would be ideal for this. A recent survey that was conducted on virtualization manager customers on the website Solar winds.com who made use of the product regularly identified the use of a cloud monitoring service as having the effect of reducing website down time by up to 60%, was able to identify the cause of any problem encountered 50% faster and was able to managed more VMs for every individual – translating into 13 percent hike in VMs/admin

General services offered by cloud monitoring services include alerts immediately, which can be sent to your mobile, which tell you what is happening, when attention is needed for example when your website is down. They are designed to the specification of the organisation’s workload. Cloud Monitoring services are often done by an outside company and one of the advantages is you can choose the method of alert.

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