Application reliability and security are paramount for today’s IT driven organizations. System downtime is expensive and can severely impact business success. With complex distributed applications working across multiple servers, locations and platforms -managing system reliability is an increasingly challenging task. The current trend towards real time business processes, distributed web services and outsourcing partners makes timely identification of reliability and security problems extremely important.

Table 1 shows the estimated cost of downtime for typical mission critical businesses that need Intelligent Reliability Automation Management.