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Roman Burdiuzha
Roman Burdiuzha

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Dynamic Landscape of AIOps

AIOps brings a paradigm shift by streamlining and optimizing IT processes. Through intelligent automation and real-time data analysis, redundant tasks are automated, allowing IT teams to focus on strategic initiatives rather than routine operations.

The dynamic nature of modern IT environments demands adaptability. AIOps equips organizations with the ability to swiftly respond to changes, ensuring that the infrastructure remains resilient and agile in the face of evolving technologies and business requirements.

As cyber threats become more sophisticated, AIOps plays a crucial role in fortifying security measures. By continuously monitoring for anomalies and potential security breaches, AIOps strengthens the security posture of IT infrastructure, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.

Types of AIOps solutions

Domain-centric AIOps Tools

Domain-centric AIOps tools are specialized in specific areas such as log monitoring, network monitoring, log collection, and application monitoring. These tools focus on a single domain, utilizing their collectors to gather "first-party" data. While they may offer valuable insights within their designated domain, their scope is limited compared to domain-agnostic tools.

Domain-agnostic AIOps Tools

In contrast, domain-agnostic AIOps tools operate broadly across various domains, encompassing monitoring, cloud, infrastructure, logging, and more. These tools analyze extensive IT data from across the organization, building models that provide accurate inferences and decisions. Their flexibility and accessibility make them future-proof solutions for diverse and dynamic IT landscapes.

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One of the challenges for customers is to navigate and understand the AIOps landscape because most vendors do claim AIOps, but the application of AIOps is different.

Following are some common themes I have seen:
1) Monitoring-centric AIOps (Domain-Centric)

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2) ITSM centric-AIOps (Domain-Centric)

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3) Data-Lake centric-AIOps (Domain-Centric)

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4) Pure play AIOps: (Domain-Agnostic)

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AIOps emerges as the linchpin in the modernization journey of IT infrastructure, fostering efficiency, resilience, and agility while aligning technology with the strategic goals of the organization.

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