Intelligent CIO Europe Issue 02 | Page 28

TRENDING //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// said Matthias Scharer, VP of Business Operations, Dynatrace. “As a consequence, IT ecosystems are undergoing a constant transformation. The transition to virtualised infrastructure was followed by the migration to the cloud, which has since been supplanted by the trend towards multi-cloud. CIOs have now realised their legacy apps weren’t built for today’s digital ecosystems and are rebuilding them in a cloud-native architecture. These rapid changes have given rise to hyper-scale, hyper-dynamic and hyper-complex IT ecosystems, which makes it extremely difficult to monitor performance and find and fix problems fast.” The research further identified the challenges that organisations find most difficult to overcome as they transition to multi-cloud ecosystems and cloud native architecture. Key findings include: • 76% of CIOs say multi-cloud makes it especially difficult and time-consuming to monitor and understand the impact that 28 INTELLIGENTCIO “ 76% OF ORGANISATIONS THINK IT COMPLEXITY COULD SOON MAKE IT IMPOSSIBLE TO MANAGE DIGITAL PERFORMANCE EFFICIENTLY. cloud services have on the user experience • 72% are frustrated that IT has to spend so much time setting-up monitoring for different cloud environments when deploying new services • 72% say monitoring the performance of microservices in real- time is almost impossible • 84% of CIOs say the dynamic nature of containers makes it difficult to understand their impact on application performance • Maintaining and configuring performance monitoring (56%) and identifying service dependencies and interactions (54%) are the top challenges CIOs identify with managing microservices and containers. “For cloud to deliver on expected benefits, organisations must have end-to-end visibility across every single transaction,” continued Mr Scharer. “However, this has become very difficult because organisations are building multi-cloud ecosystems on a variety of services from AWS, Azure, Cloud Foundry and SAP among others. Added to that, the shift to cloud native architectures fragments the application transaction path even further. www.intelligentcio.com