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26 OPINION A changing landscape doesn’t matter anymore… years, the success of these transformations is proving to be elusive, with less than one-third of organisational transformations succeeding in improving a company’s business performance. The digital world is challenging, and the emergence of groundbreaking innovations are few and far between; there’s also a certain expectation in the technology industry that a stable and seamless network monitoring experience will be provided. However, to achieve successful digital transformation, it’s important that IT departments are equipped with the right tools to prepare them for future change – containers and the application of those containers are one such new development affecting this change. Technology innovations are transforming the IT landscape at an incredible rate, and many CIOs and CTOs are looking at how they can implement new technologies to launch digital transformation within their organisation. This includes reviewing the many new products or ideas being launched, such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), for example. Yet according to recent research from McKinsey, despite more than 80% of organisations having undertaken digital transformation in the past five Understanding the changing landscape To prepare for the future, it’s important that we understand the changes that are taking place today. When it comes to the applications and workloads that are running on modern infrastructure, there’s a need to look past what’s running that workload and focus on the application itself. There have been several notable shifts over the last few years when it comes to the world of monitoring operations. These shifts demonstrate an overwhelming trend towards By Martin Hodgson, Head of UK and Ireland, Paessler www.paessler.com Preparing for the future of network monitoring, and why infrastructure www.networkseuropemagazine.com