TechRadar™: Business Technology Monitoring, Q3 2013, Part 4 Of 5

In Part 4 of Forrester's TechRadar™ series on business technology (BT) monitoring, we examine four technologies in the "Growth" ecosystem phase: application and middleware monitoring, configuration monitoring, transaction mapping and monitoring, and virtual infrastructure monitoring. These monitoring technologies have numerous examples of successful adoptions and can be configured quickly for a variety of enterprise IT environments to ensure return on investment (ROI). Forrester recommends that any BT monitoring strategy includes these technologies so that essential end-to-end IT service monitoring can be achieved. While prior and subsequent reports in this TechRadar series evaluate 14 technologies in other ecosystem phases, IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals should use this report to determine when to pilot and invest in BT monitoring technologies in the Growth ecosystem phase.