{"id":2967,"date":"2013-09-29T20:21:11","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T00:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/?page_id=2967"},"modified":"2013-09-29T22:37:54","modified_gmt":"2013-09-30T02:37:54","slug":"defining-it-operations-analytics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/defining-it-operations-analytics\/","title":{"rendered":"Defining IT Operations Analytics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just some rough notes on what I think defines the IT Operations Analytics space<\/p>\n

Needle in the Haystack – Reports show us the peaks of the icebergs, analytics shows us what’s really underneath.
\nWho, What, Why, When, Where, How?
\nAutomation, Action
\nVisualization, Intuitive, Layman
\nStorytelling, Infographics
\nSmarts
\nDo More with Less, Efficiency
\nCorrelation \/ Causation \/ Trends
\nStatistics & Math Driven<\/p>\n

Not APM – but enhances\/extends it by doing smart stuff with its data<\/p>\n

Thoughts on how to classify<\/p>\n

by types\/sources\/scale of data (e.g. log analytics, structured\/un-structured, real time, time series metrics\/kpis, etc)
\nby typical solution set (e.g. tied to or partof BSM, APM, event mgmt, etc.)
\nby process\/workflow\/activity outcomes (e.g. capacity analytics, incident management, etc.)
\nby typical persona who uses it (e.g. front line support, data scientist)
\nother?<\/p>\n

Analytics
\nAnalysis
\nReporting
\nDashboards<\/p>\n


\nAnalysts<\/strong><\/p>\n

Forrester
\nTurn Big Data Inward with IT Analytics<\/a><\/p>\n

EMA<\/strong>
\nAPA – Advanced Performance Analytics<\/p>\n

Gartner <\/strong>
\nITOA – IT Operations Analytics<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.netuitive.com\/blog\/predictive-analytics\/gartner-forecasts-increased-focus-on-it-operations-analytics-by-global-2000-enterprises.html
\n4) IT Operations Analytics are expected to address these five critical use cases (from Gartner)<\/p>\n

Enhanced application or service model discovery (not really – doing something smart with that model yes.)
\n Performance problem root cause discovery
\n Performance problem impact assessment
\n Incident anticipation (yes, prevention, prediction…)
\n Capacity planning (doesn’t feel very analytic related to me – optimizing capacity with smart analysis of data yes.)
\n Action plan construction (not sure what that is – expert advice and next best actions to problem resolution because of some analytic approach of all available data -yes.<\/p>\n


\nIndustry Talk<\/strong><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.informs.org\/
\nhttp:\/\/www.analytics-magazine.org\/
\nhttp:\/\/apmdigest.com\/ Some stuff here – heavily vendor slanted
\nhttp:\/\/www.ibmbigdatahub.com\/
\nhttp:\/\/practicalanalytics.wordpress.com\/<\/p>\n

2013 Cloud Analytics Summit<\/a><\/p>\n

Sasha Gilenson CEO Evolven Software<\/strong>
\nhttp:\/\/www.datacenterknowledge.com\/archives\/2013\/07\/22\/it-operations-analytics-innovations-are-re-shaping-it-operations-gaining-strong-momentum\/
\nhttp:\/\/data-informed.com\/why-it-operations-need-their-own-data-analytics\/<\/p>\n

Ray Solnik, Appnomic Systems <\/strong>
\nhttp:\/\/www.datacenterjournal.com\/it\/time-analytics-delivers-operations\/
\n<\/p>\n

Analytics vrs APM (Will Cappelli, Gartner)<\/strong>
\nhttp:\/\/apmdigest.com\/gartner-analytics-vs-application-performance-management-1
\nhttp:\/\/apmdigest.com\/gartner-analytics-vs-application-performance-management-2
\nhttp:\/\/apmdigest.com\/gartner-analytics-vs-application-performance-management-3<\/p>\n

http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Analytics<\/p>\n

Asset, Preventive, Predictive<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www-01.ibm.com\/software\/analytics\/solutions\/operational-analytics\/<\/p>\n

Vendor Positioning<\/p>\n

INETCO: http:\/\/www.inetco.com\/products-and-services\/inetco-insight\/it-operations-analytics-itoa\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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