The author of this Pathfinder report is Mike Fratto, a Senior Research Analyst on the Applied Infrastructure & DevOps team at 451 Research, a part of S&P Global Market Intelligence. Pathfinder reports navigate decision-makers through the issues surrounding a specific technology or business case, explore the business value of adoption, and recommend the range of considerations and concrete next steps in the decision-making process.

This report explores the following topics:

• the growth of already commonplace cloud usage for mission-critical applications
• the importance of cloud governance
• the top cloud security concerns for enterprises
• the adoption of third-party tools for cloud management
• the steps IT teams should take to make their cloud environments more secure and reliable

AIOps is an umbrella term for underlying technologies, including Artificial Intelligence, Big Data Analytics and Machine Learning that automate the determination and resolution of IT issues in modern, distributed IT environments.

Here's a brief overview on how AIOps solution work:

• AIOps data usually comes from different MELT sources.
• Then, big data technologies aggregate and organize it, reduce noise, find patterns and isolate anomalies.
• The AIOps automated resolution system resolves known issues and hands over the complicated scenarios to IT teams.

Learn from this whitepaper on what are the Best Practices IT Teams and IT Leaders should follow in implementing AIOps in their enterprise.

• CISOs face stringent government regulations, such as the current administration mandating 12-18 months of log retention.
• Chief Enterprise Architects worry that the average cost of a single enterprise service outage is $400K and the average MTTR is over 7 hrs.
• Companies such as Facebook lose $65 million and 4.8% of their stock valuation over a 5-hour outage.
• Security breaches mar organizational reputation and prove a threat to business.
• 91% of leaders agree that monitoring tools are siloed and domain-specific, complicating the log management landscape.
• VP Cloud/IT Services acknowledge the accelerated pace of digital transformation post-COVID-19 and recognize the need for more sophisticated security monitoring and SIEM adoption.
• Log management market size reaches $2.3 billion in 2021 and is expected to grow to $4.1 billion by 2026 at a CAGR of 11.9%.

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Here are some features:

• Accurate IT asset visibility
• Compliance for IT assets
• Accurate CMDB
• Opex savings tied to manual data collection & reconciliation
• Faster change implementations
• Persona-based asset dependency mapping insights