What do a sinking ship and an improperly equipped data center have in common? For Dell Senior Director of Global Network and Datacenter Services Paul Beninati, the two have a lot in common. At least, from the perspective of company proactivity and ITOps performance goals.

Multi-cloud is inevitable. With AIOps, struggling in its complexity doesn’t need to be. Business technology stacks don’t appear out of a vacuum. For the modern cloud-enabled, cloud-dependent company (that is to say, most of them), the look from the inside looks more like an ongoing evolution than a monolithic choice.

“Make life easier” isn’t a mantra for the lazy—it’s a way to drill down on important automation in the IT Ops room. When Ryan Taylor, VP of solutions engineering at Transposit, talks about his experience and outlook in the IT Ops chair, people tend to listen.

The amount of data volume and complexity within tech stacks is continuing to increase with no sign of slowing down. As a result, many organizations are facing significant challenges related to tool sprawl and the overwhelming amount of data that needs to be exchanged between all the different systems. The result is this new rapid pace of data which brings a need for faster flow and exchange of information.

As an IT Ops exec, imagine your jubilation upon learning that after a year of hard work across your NOC, DevOps and SRE teams, you are able to automate incident response by 25%. You’re elated as you enter your CTO’s office to share this information, and their response is.

For years, Netcool has been omnipresent in many IT Operations organizations. That, combined with the sheer utility it once brought to the table, sometimes gave it a special sort of nostalgic reverence in IT Operations circles. But with all due respect to Netcool, there’s also little doubt the platform’s real-world utility has waned in the era of cloud and hybrid ops.

Get info, insights, and more from our RESOLVE 2022 keynote speech. “I kind of view AIOps as more of a practice.