With today's increasingly complex network environments it's often hard to pinpoint the exact cause of problems. According to a new survey by network specialist Emulex this often leads to incorrect reporting to management. The study of 547 US and European-based network and security operations professionals found that 45 percent of IT staff monitor network and application performance manually, instead of implementing network monitoring tools. This has resulted in 77 percent of those surveyed having reported information to their management teams that turned out to be wrong. 79 percent admitted to attributing the cause of network events to the wrong IT… [Continue Reading]