Thursday, March 21, 2019

Word of the Day: AIOps

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AIOps

Artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) is an umbrella term for the use of big data analytics, machine learning (ML) and other artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to automate the identification and resolution of common information technology (IT) issues. The systems, services and applications in a large enterprise produce immense volumes of log and performance data. AIOps uses this data to monitor assets and gain visibility into dependencies without and outside of IT systems.

An AIOps platform should bring three capabilities to the enterprise:

1. Automate routine practices

Routine practices include user requests as well as non-critical IT system alerts. For example, AIOps can enable a help desk system to process and fulfill a user request to provision a resource automatically. AIOps platforms can also evaluate an alert and determine that it does not require action because the relevant metrics and supporting data available are within normal parameters.

2. Recognize serious issues faster and with greater accuracy than humans

IT professionals might address a known malware event on a noncritical system, but ignore an unusual download or process starting on a critical server because they are not watching for this threat. AIOps addresses this scenario differently, prioritizing the event on the critical system as a possible attack or infection because the behavior is out of the norm, and deprioritizing the known malware event by running an antimalware function.

3. Streamline the interactions between data center groups and teams.

AIOps provides each functional IT group with relevant data and perspectives. Without AI-enabled operations, teams must share, parse and process information by meeting or manually sending around data. AIOps should learn what analysis and monitoring data to show each group or team from the large pool of resource metrics.

 

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Quote of the Day

"AIOps can supplant -- or at least complement -- IT staff members who spend too much time on mundane tasks, such as systems monitoring, alert response, problem diagnosis and course of action determination." - Muddu Sudhakar

 

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Learning Center

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Writing for Business

Successfully _______ a DevOps culture in a data center isn't easy, but it brings great rewards.

A. adapting

B. adopting

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