Application Discovery – Fact Or Fiction
Informatica has been involved in many high value application consolidation projects and naturally our perspective is all about the data – we are interested in its quality, its lineage, its size and shape and how it correlates from one application to another. We provide a range of services to help our customers with this. This is all very important but we also need to think about the larger picture: the application servers, the database servers, shared infrastructure and storage.
Automated [IT infrastructure] discovery is a kind of holy grail – the idea is that you detect all of the servers and inter-server communications happening within a data centre, and somehow you can auto-magically infer business applications and services and all their dependencies. As is so often the case the reality is somewhat more complex – what you actually need to do is then apply lots of filters and human refinements to remove a vast amount of noise so that you end up with a useful and usable model.
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