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May - 2009 - issue > Top 10 most promising technology companies
Zyrion: Minding the Networks
Poonam Bhattacharya
Globally this business, christened network or server or IT infrastructure management, is currently $6 billion worth, and is peopled by the big four: HP, BMC, CA, and IBM. But why are we talking about these big companies when the issue is set aside for the ten hottest startups?
The answer lies in Zyrion, a firm engaged in Business Service Monitoring (BSM). BSM is a ‘small but rapidly growing’ segment of the network management area, says Zyrion’s founder and CEO Vikas Aggarwal.
What differentiates his company from competition, both new comers and incumbents, is embodied in the company’s tagline: Don’t tell me which device or application is down – tell me which business service it impacts.
Aggarwal says, essentially companies in the network management arena, including the ‘Big four’, focus on simply monitoring the network or server, and pointing out which individual components are not functioning properly.
“What is required is a service-oriented view of IT infrastructure,” he emphasizes, adding that it is essential to correlate parts of the IT infrastructure with delivery of service. It is important to identify the services that have been impacted when a specific piece of the IT infrastructure under-performs. He takes the example of the e-commerce site to explain his point.
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