it operations analytics

The IT pendulum is swinging to distributed computing environments, network perimeters are dissolving, and compute is being distributed across various parts of organizations’ infrastructure—including, at times, their extended ecosystem. As a result, organizations need to ensure the appropriate levels of visibility and security at these remote locations, without dramatically increasing staff or tools. They need to invest in solutions that can scale to provide increased coverage and visibility, but that also ensure efficient use of resources. By implementing a common distributed data services layer as part of a comprehensive security operations and analytics platform architecture (SOAPA) and network operations architecture, organizations can reduce costs, mitigate risks, and improve operational efficiency.

If your business is like most, you are grappling with data storage. In an annual Frost & Sullivan survey of IT decision-makers, storage growth has been listed among top data center challenges for the past five years.2 With businesses collecting, replicating, and storing exponentially more data than ever before, simply acquiring sufficient storage capacity is a problem. Even more challenging is that businesses expect more from their stored data. Data is now recognized as a precious corporate asset and competitive differentiator: spawning new business models, new revenue streams, greater intelligence, streamlined operations, and lower costs. Booming market trends such as Internet of Things and Big Data analytics are generating new opportunities faster than IT organizations can prepare for them.

The performance of enterprise applications will have a direct impact on business activities and outcomes. The quality of the delivery of applications will depend on how smoothly the underlying data infrastructure operates. ? Optimal application performance and delivery is difficult to achieve in complex environments. ? Many IT infrastructure and operations teams are stretched to the breaking point. ? Predictive analytics and machine learning can be applied to great effect

Transform your business with services that allow you to innovate faster, simplify operations, and reduce risk. Building on an open, software-driven approach that uses virtualization, automation, analytics, and cloud, our networkwide architecture prepares you to respond to new opportunities at digital speed.

Businesses today expect finance to play an extended role across departments, including IT, human resources, compliance, operations, sales, marketing, and most importantly, corporate strategy.To successfully deliver on this role, the finance function needs to play a bigger and visible role in real-time decision making and continuous planning. This report explores how, using cloud and analytics, finance leaders can leapfrog a few generations of technology and offer mature analytical feature/functionality and skills to the entire organization.

Learn how predictive analytics and machine learning can help optimize application performance and meet the needs of the business with Nimble Storage Infosight. This ESG report highlights: • Optimal application performance and delivery is difficult to achieve in complex environments. • Many IT infrastructure and operations teams are stretched to the breaking point. • Predictive analytics and machine learning can be applied to great effect.

Register for the Enterprise Strategy Group’s Research Insights Paper, Understanding the State of Network Security Today to learn more about the challenges, changes, best practices and solution requirements for network security operations and tools. See why ESG recommends improving network visibility and reducing security vulnerabilities by consolidating tools through a platform-based approach to visibility in which data, analytics and reports from multiple tools are aggregated and consumed in one control panel. Download to learn more.

The ExtraHop Discovery Edition is a free virtual appliance will help you to discover the performance of your applications across the network, web, VDI, database, and storage tiers. Get yours today!

In today’s always on world, IT systems are so interdependent with business operations that even a few minutes of downtime can have big implications—for your productivity, reputation and finances. New technologies like cloud, mobile, analytics and social can help your business be more flexible and responsive, but at the same time they increase your risk.

The rise of the digital enterprise has created an explosion of valuable, yet unharnessed data for IT organizations. Traditional IT tools and processes, founded on the notion of control and management, are unable to support the speed and agility requirements of the digital enterprise. IT organizations must reengineer their approach from traditional analytics and reporting to adaptive, real-time digital service analytics.

The rise of the digital enterprise has created an explosion of valuable, yet unharnessed data for IT organizations. Traditional IT tools and processes, founded on the notion of control and management, are unable to support the speed and agility requirements of the digital enterprise. IT organizations must reengineer their approach from traditional analytics and reporting to adaptive, real-time digital service analytics.

It’s no secret financial services organizations own and operate legacy solutions. Some of these core processes are front and center, meeting customer needs; others are in the middle, supporting account handling operations; and still many more are in the back-office, handling data and managing analytics. The challenge for financial leaders is to ensure these traditional systems don’t prevent the delivery of great digital experiences now and into the future. To find out more download this eBook today.

The Digital Marketing Maturity Guide helps organizations determine the level of sophistication within their digital marketing operations. Dimensional Research to conducted a global survey of 700 marketing professionals gauging the level of digital marketing maturity across various verticals and company sizes. Use these findings to benchmark your organization against other groups.

Expanding analytic capabilities are critical to digitizing the business, optimizing costs, accelerating innovation, and surviving digital disruption Historically, manufacturers were almost solely focused on reducing costs by applying automation and analytics to engineering, R&D, manufacturing operations, and quality organizations. Even though the strategies used within these areas are still needed, they are not sufficient to ensure business survival and continuity in the age of Industry 4.0 and the IoT. Today, it is paramount that smart manufacturers broaden their scope because disruptive innovations in data acquisition, storage, and analytics technology have enabled an entirely new degree of automation and virtualization, promising a complete 360-degree high-fidelity virtual data-driven integrated views of all operations—from suppliers and supply chains, through equipment, processes, and manufacturing practices, to final product testing and customer satisfaction. Download this paper

Imagine a world where incident alerts arrive 30 minutes before problems even begin — you’d actually have the power to prevent outages and deliver a truly seamless experience to your customers. Sound impossible? Think again — the right AIOps (Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations) solution can help you maintain uptime, reduce manual incident-management tasks and increase productivity.

IT organizations are now responsible for delivering seamless customer experiences while preventing outages and managing an increasing number of systems. With growing responsibility placed on IT, there is an opportunity to drive strategy for company-wide business processes and operations. Companies using machine data powered platforms like Splunk collect disparate data types to quickly troubleshoot and monitor systems. By adding predictive capabilities, IT can glean critical insights for the business and develop strategic initiatives on issues that matter. Download the white paper “Embracing the Strategic Opportunity of IT” to learn how to: Enable a business aware IT organization Unlock operational efficiencies Solve problems with predictive analytics

Due to recent cyberattacks, security operations centers (SOCs) have had to focus on a holistic and cohesive security strategy by consolidating the right people, processes and technology to mitigate and remediate attacks. This white paper, “The Five Essential Capabilities of an Analytics-Driven SOC”, dives into the necessity of SOCs to be analytics driven and how it helps IT and business leaders assess their own risk levels. Download this white paper to to learn about: *How advanced analytics and machine learning are now critical hallmarks of the modern security platform *How proactively hunting and investigating threats can shore up defenses *Why adaptive security architectures, like Splunk’s, are needed to prevent, detect and respond to attacks in today’s security landscape

The world of artificial intelligence (AI) has finally arrived at the doorstep of IT operations. As organizations move toward using both big data and machine learning functionality to support a variety of IT operations, processes and tasks, artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) platforms have emerged as a one-stop solution. Gartner has released a “Market Guide for AIOps Platforms” that provides findings about the AIOps industry and its latest developments. Download your complimentary copy to: *Gain insight into the developing industry of AIOps and its future *Learn how to optimize IT operations powered by machine learning to drive business value *Compare different AIOps platform vendors and their range of capabilities

It’s no secret financial services organizations own and operate legacy solutions. Some of these core processes are front and center, meeting customer needs; others are in the middle, supporting account handling operations; and still many more are in the back-office, handling data and managing analytics. The challenge for financial leaders is to ensure these traditional systems don’t prevent the delivery of great digital experiences now and into the future.

HotSchedules is a technology company that streamlines several aspects of running a business in the service industry. The sales team at HotSchedules had been using Salesforce for several years, but they were spending a lot of time on data entry and other manual tasks. They needed a way to simplify recordkeeping so they could spend more time talking to prospects. The HotSchedules sales team is taking advantage of the full suite of features in Groove to enhance their sales operations at every turn — from Salesforce integration to multi-step campaigns to analytics. Let’s take a look.

collectd is an open source daemon that collects system and application performance metrics. With this data, collectd then has the ability to work alongside other tools to help identify trends, issues and relationships not easily observable. Read this e-book to get a deep dive into what collectd is and how you can begin incorporating it into your organization’s environment.

From protecting customer experience to preserving lines of revenue, IT operations teams face increasingly complex responsibilities and are responsible for preventing outages that could harm the organization. As a Splunk customer, your machine data platform empowers you to utilize machine learning to reduce MTTR. Discover how six companies utilize machine learning and AI to predict outages, protect business revenue and deliver exceptional customer experiences. Download the e-book to learn how: Micron Technology reduced number of IT incidents by more than 50% Econocom provides better customer service by centralizing once-siloed analytics, improving SLA performance and significantly reducing the number of events TransUnion combines machine data from multiple applications to create an end-to-end transaction flow

ESG Whitepaper: New security risks and old security challenges often overwhelm legacy security controls and analytical tools. This ESG white paper discusses why today's approach to security management—that depends on up-to-the-minute situational awareness and real-time security intelligence—means organizations are entering the era of big data security analytics.

The information security mission is no longer about implementing and operating controls. This report by the Security for Business Innovation Council (SBIC) describes how information security teams are transforming to include a much broader set of technical and business-centric activities, to better manage the wider risks to information assets.

RSA Technical Brief: The openness of today's networks and the growing sophistication of advanced threats make it almost impossible to prevent cyber attacks and intrusions. This technical brief discusses why combating advanced threats depends on organizations shifting more security resources from prevention to detection and remediation, and developing intelligence-driven security programs.