We are excited to be recognized as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Intelligent Application and Service Monitoring, Q2 2019. It covers vendors from infrastructure and cloud monitoring, application performance monitoring (APM) and AIOps. Rather than publishing a separate Wave for each of these vendor categories, we believe that this report creates a combined market category based on how solutions solve customer problems rather than on how technology vendors create market spaces.

Does it seem like every day we’re doing the same quick fixes? Deleting temporary files to free up space in a file system, bouncing a server, restarting a queue. Over and over. Whether automating these simple tasks or not, you’re responding to incidents that have already affected someone instead of making changes to prevent them from ever happening again.

Large organizations that wish to scale at an aggressive pace need IT departments that can be both nimble and agile. With DevOps and site reliability engineering (SRE) methodologies, IT teams can improve the agility, availability and performance of applications and services in their infrastructure. For those who are new to both concepts, here is a primer on how DevOps and SRE can work together to evolve IT operations.

You might be surprised to learn that I’m not the most organized person by nature. My wife still recounts, with horror, the story of when she first saw where I lived and discovered my office. Her breath caught in her throat when her eyes fell on my “filing system,” which basically consisted of individually stacked piles of paper — cellphone bills here, bank statements there, and so forth.

The DevOps era has turned traditional monitoring on its head with diverse, ephemeral data streaming from containers, microservices, and serverless functions as well as directly from the applications these new technologies enable. With efforts to efficiently utilize every drop of network, storage and compute, modern applications have created new challenges that render legacy IT operations management (ITOM) tools ineffective.

It has been clear to many IT practitioners for a while now that the fundamental nature of IT infrastructure monitoring is transforming, right alongside the rest of the IT landscape. Gartner’s latest Market Guide for IT Infrastructure Monitoring Tools is a great tool for ITOM professionals, offering the market definition, market direction, key findings and recommendations for IT infrastructure monitoring tools.

The recently released Futurum Research report, Digital Transformation – 9 Key Insights, offers critical data points that measure the current state of digital transformation in the enterprise to uncover new opportunities and improve business agility. According to the report: “Digital transformation is an ongoing process of leveraging digital technologies to build flexibility, agility, and adaptability into business processes.”

From Wikipedia: “Abraham Maslow was an American psychologist who was best known for creating Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, a theory of psychological health predicated on fulfilling innate human needs in priority…” In developmental psychology, Maslow’s hierarchy is a classification system that reflects the universal needs of society as its base and then proceeds to more acquired emotions. Here is a graphical depiction of Maslow’s hierarchy.

If you’ve chosen Nutanix Enterprise Cloud, you’re almost certainly relying on Nutanix Prism to help you migrate, then operate, the “enterprise cloud.” There’s no doubt that Prism is an outstanding tool for managing virtual environments. But — when was the last time someone complimented you on a well-managed virtual environment. Never, right? Because that’s not your job.