HP is one of the world’s most recognizable IT companies. Its global product line spans everything from the online photo service Snapfish to consumer laptops and desktop computers to containerized data center solutions for corporate customers — and hundreds of consumer and business-facing offerings in between. To support these operations, the company operates e-commerce websites, corporate websites and dozens of mission-critical internal software tools. All of these systems depend on HP’s six global data centers and 10 managed compute spaces. After a data center consolidation effort in 2006, HP turned to the PI System to help improve its data center monitoring and maintenance operations.