We’re seeing a lot of convergence in the market between observability vendors and companies positioned as artificial intelligence (AI) companies. It’s a natural marriage, since AI has the potential to significantly improve what observability does. The question is how to make the best use of AI to support observability in discovering an organization’s unknowns, providing […]
What Architecture Can Teach Us About Self-Healing Systems
DevOps teams and site reliability engineers (SREs) deal with code daily. Doing so teaches them to scrutinize their world, make astute observations, and draw unexpected connections. After all, although highly logical and mathematical in nature, software development is, at least in part, art form. Unconvinced by that statement? Consider the parallels between history’s most remarkable […]
AIOps Is Liberating IT Talent
For years, employers have worried about an IT talent shortage, sharpened by the so-called Great Resignation during the COVID years. Now that headlines are dominated by rounds of tech company layoffs, they may think they have the upper hand again. But the truth is that roles for IT skills outside high-profile consumer tech companies are […]
2023 Predictions: Breakthroughs Incoming for AI and Data Science
Surprising though it may sound, most AI business applications remain rudimentary. Some industry spectators believe the market is flush with cutting-edge AI breakthroughs. But in truth, many providers mislabel rules-based tools – including robotic process automation (RPA) – as AI and ML. Seasoned DevOps teams and software engineers know that RPA – although useful in […]
2023 Predictions: Cyber Asset Management to Future-Proof IT Infrastructure
Now more than ever, business success relies on an agile cyber asset management strategy. Over the past year, inflation, supply chain delays, cybercrime, transitions to remote work, and the Great Resignation have all drastically altered the business world, forcing enterprises to reevaluate and future-proof their IT infrastructure. It is becoming increasingly clear that without holistic […]
What Is Data-Centric AI All About?
Data-centric AI (DCAI) is a new class of AI technology that focuses on understanding, utilizing, and making decisions based on data. Before data-centric AI, AI was largely reliant on rules and heuristics. While these could be useful in some cases, they often led to suboptimal results or even errors when applied to new data sets. […]
The Compelling Case for AIOps + Observability
As organizations evolve and fully embrace digital transformation, the speed at which business is done increases. This also increases the pressure to do more in less time, with a goal of zero downtime and rapid problem resolution. Real costs to the business are at stake. For instance, a 2021 ITIC report found that a single hour of server […]
AIOps Technology: It’s Just Getting Started
There’s something surprising about enterprise technology: It’s not as evolved as most people assume. According to Flexera’s 2021 State of the Cloud Report, just six of 10 businesses have migrated their workloads to the cloud. That implies that 40% of workloads are still running on a client server or mainframe infrastructure. But not for long. Jamie Dimon, […]
When Data and IT Infrastructure Are Overly Complex
As efforts to simplify IT infrastructure through automation are ongoing, the action to pinpoint where complexity resides is key. Data complexity not only complicates the user experience but also wreaks havoc in the backend for administrators and IT decision-makers. As the world of data has grown exponentially and transcended the borders of enterprises, the management of data […]
Observability: Driving Digital Transformation in 2022 and Beyond
In the last couple of years, we’ve seen rapid digital transformation take over with a large emphasis on cloud adoption. In 2022, we can expect this trend to continue, if not increase. The disruptions that spiked cloud adoption back in 2020 aren’t behind us just yet and many organizations still have modernization efforts that need […]