But viewing them singly or collectively as a panacea to all business woes is dangerous. Never mind how new your servers are or how much memory you have. If you don't know that your server is at 95 percent capacity or that memory is low, you can't fix it. It all gets back to effective management and knowing what will happen beforehand. Effective management should provide the information that companies need to grow and support their infrastructure.
Solutions are out there now.
The scary thing is that it's taken this long for Internet companies to take a long, hard look at their innards.