White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is credited with coining the adage, “never waste a good crisis.” Aside from providing highly quotable fodder for online pundits and comedians, Emanuel makes an excellent point: often a crisis presents an opportunity to try new ideas or embark on new initiatives that we wouldn’t have time for, think are possible or even think of during ordinary times.

And the same applies to IT organizations and how they manage their mission critical applications. The typical IT department is always busy implementing new projects - rolling out new applications, building disaster recovery plans, and the like. Too often, regular, proactive monitoring falls by the wayside or simply falls behind the organization’s changing business practices and becomes irrelevant. Now that budget pressures have put many of these projects on hold, this is the perfect opportunity to step back and assess your company’s application performance needs.

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