The dynamic nature of today’s virtualized data centers presents new environmental monitoring challenges 

The combination of today’s powerful servers with the wide-scale adoption of virtualization is radically changing the way companies must monitor their data centers. 

The consequences when problems arise are very high. While the loss of a single system in a smaller server room is cause for concern, a single data-center blade server failure in a large organization might take down multiple applications running as virtual instances on that piece of hardware.

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