NetIQ announced the availability of NetIQ AppManager 8, to reduce the burden facing today's overworked IT operations staff as they work to keep monitoring current for the applications and systems underpinning IT services.

With improved usability and responsiveness of AppManager Control Center, operations teams can better centralize and simplify heterogeneous server management across physical and fast-changing virtualized environments.

Deeper and more comprehensive discovery and inventory of monitored components ensures that auto-deployment of monitoring is done in accordance with policy, leading to greater monitoring fidelity.

With AppManager 8, customers can take a phased approach to implementation and upgrade specific capabilities at their own pace, significantly improving their ability to successfully deploy and maximize business value from AppManager.

"AppManager 8 is our easiest to use version yet, and delivers greater monitoring fidelity to minimize the chaos when outages occur," said Travis Greene, Sr Product Marketing Manager at NetIQ. "Global 50 companies spanning the Energy, Telecommunications, Automotive and Manufacturing verticals are already running AppManager 8 in production, which is a testament to its ability to support the highest demands of service health visibility as well as our ability to help them achieve successful outcomes with monitoring and management solutions."