Report: 2022 Trends in Site Reliability Engineering
With the COVID-19 pandemic still affecting many areas of the globe, work from home is more of a mainstay than a luxury and digitizing business is more of a survival strategy than an option. Most enterprises are struggling with both of these concepts while digital-native companies are thriving. This report outlines the primary SRE trends that Constellation has observed for 2022 and beyond, based on recent and ongoing conversations with many digital CxO-level executives, SRE practitioners, and incident management team members.
Crisis/Incident Management in the Digital Era
When it comes to crisis and incident management in the cloud/digital era, HOPE IS NOT A STRATEGY! A properly setup Incident Management process should identify the incidents, provide you with Root Cause Analysis (RCA), propose possible fixes, and escalate the issue to the right SRE, DevOps, SME in a matter of minutes.
Report: Constellation ShortList™ AIOps
AIOps is a discipline, set of tools, and set of use cases that can help eliminate such situations and get to the root cause of a problem quickly. At the core, AIOps is expected to identify issues that experienced human IT specialists are able to, but in a time frame that is multitudes shorter than what a human is capable of.
Constellation Research identified the following offerings to be pure-play AIOps solutions that provide at least the bare-minimum functionality we define in the selection criteria below.
Report: Constellation ShortList™ Incident Management
Unplanned downtime is a nightmare for every IT executive. Long-drawn war rooms drain valuable resources and businesses lose opportunities and risk brand damage. Particularly with many choices and alternatives for any service, reducing churn by providing reliable services is a top agenda for any digital business. Having siloed teams, siloed monitoring/observability tools, multi-cloud operations, hybrid locations, blend of legacy, shortage of skilled IT analysts, and new tools all add to the issue.
Constellation evaluates more than 40 solutions categorized in this market. This Constellation ShortList is determined by client inquiries, partner conversations, customer references, vendor selection projects, market share and internal research.
In Digital Economy, You Should Fail Fast, But Must Also Recover Fast
In digital economy, you must move fast to survive. Not in six-month release cycles. But moving with fast release cycles, continuous releases, a mature CI/CD pipeline is only a portion of the solution. If you continue to break your systems at a faster rate but are unable to fix them faster as well, you are setting up for unplanned disasters that will hurt your business sooner than later. I discuss some of the fixes in this blog.
Report: Data Done Right for AIOps with RDA
Most of the AIOps companies are doing the process right, some use AI and ML properly, but most fail on how to automate data processing, or DataOps, on how to get the right data to AIOps tools at the right time. In this eBook "Data Done Right for AIOps," I discuss this in detail and offer some possible solutions including Robotic Data Automation (RDA).
What are the criteria for selecting a good AIOps solution? I have the top 5 – do you have more?
What are the criteria for selecting a good AIOps solution? How do you compare and measure the solutions one against another? Especially when there are so many solutions out there all claiming to solve the problem better than the others! In this article, I outline the top 5 criteria that all buyers should keep in mind when considering an AIOps solution. Let me know if you have more.
What does AIOps mean for the networking world?
The network is the foundation for all applications. With the increase in distributed applications and their hybrid nature, the network has become even more important. Delegating more and more tickets to AI will not only help reduce pressure on support team resources, but also fundamentally shift operations from being focused on reactive troubleshooting to proactive remediation.
The #1 Reason AI/ML Projects Fail in Your Organization…
The shine on AI and ML projects has never been brighter. The C-suite is excited about the prospects of these projects and is throwing money at them. Why then, with all this enthusiasm, can’t AI/ML projects gain more traction across the business? Why are so many of them failing?
The short answer: your business executives are not getting timely insights or sometimes even the right insights.
Edge visibility & architecture chat with Mark Thiele, CEO, Edgevana.
I am very honored to be part of the Edgevana podcast series talking to the legendary Mark Thiele on various edge, AI, AIOps, total observability at edge, and other related topics.
