"AIOps[1]" may be another new mashed-up term for the xOps lexicon, but it appears to have captured the attention of many an IT manager. A new survey finds a majority of IT managers, 68%, are working with or considering AIOps, or artificial intelligence for IT operations.
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AIOps may help IT managers "differentiate between legitimate signals and inconsequential noise," according to the authors of a recent survey[2] from OpsRamp. The survey finds nearly three-quarters (73%) are taking advantage of AIOps capabilities to gain more meaningful insights related to system alerts.
So, where does AIOps fit into the scheme of things? In a recent Forbes post[3], Janakiram MSV outlined the following potential use cases for AIOps.
- Capacity planning: "As enterprise workloads start to migrate to the cloud, cloud providers will continue to add new configurations, which will only increase the complexity. By applying AI, workloads can be mapped to the right configuration of servers and virtual machines. After running the workload in its peak state, AIOps can recommend the correct instance family type, storage choices, network configuration, and even the IO throughput of storage."
- Resource utilization: "With AIOps, administrators will rely on predictive scaling in which the infrastructure intelligently adjusts itself based on historical data. It will learn how to reconfigure itself based on the current and anticipated utilization pattern."
- Storage management:"By bringing AI to storage ops, mundane tasks such as calibrating disks and reconfiguring them are automated. Through predictive analytics, storage capacity is automatically adjusted by adding new volumes proactively.AI can tackle fundamental to advanced operations related to storage management."
- Anomaly detection: "AIOps can accurately highlight