Companies are gaining greater financial benefits in the data center by moving to a virtual server infrastructure, but can IT successfully transition all the many and varied applications from physical to virtual servers? What assurance does IT have the applications will run as expected in a virtual system? This FOCUS Brief describes the BlueStripe Software solution, FactFinder, which provides application visibility and management in this new virtual world. This Brief details key business and technology drivers, and the need to bridge the gap between infrastructure administrators and application owners. It also details the FactFinder solution, including key benefits, and describes the markets addressed.  The Brief closes with a FOCUS assessment of the solution.

Keywords: application management, virtual infrastructure management, discovery, mapping, P2V, virtualization, VMware, XenSource, Hyper-V, triage, SLA, performance monitoring, health