The modern data center has evolved in a brief period of time into the complex environments seen today, with extremely fast, high–density switching pushing large volumes of traffic, and multiple layers of virtualization and overlays. Although this accelerated rate of change is helping increase the scale and complexity of the applications and solutions that organizations can deliver, the result is a highly abstract network that can be difficult to secure, monitor, and troubleshoot. Read this white paper to learn why insight into applications and their dependencies is important to achieve.