Challenges in technology to meet enterprise needs in 2013 and expectations.

The pressure to collect and retain very large amounts of data, which began a few years ago, is not slowing down. New automation and monitoring technology continues to grow, supplying even more data. While disk is cheaper, larger, faster, there are no real innovations in helping the enterprise obtain valuable information from all this data. The low cost of collecting and storing the data motivates the enterprise to keep it, in case we figure out something valuable to do with it. Couple this with the tremendous desktop capability available through all user groups; you also have shadow data sources that may not be synchronized with the data the at IT functions are watching over. To quote Princess Leia, “The more you tighten your grip, ... the more …it will slip through your fingers.”

 

More powerful tools to manage data, discover data, correlate data; which are proportionate with the cost of the storage equation, remain hard to find.

 

The areas in business environment where solutions do not yet exist or not up to the mark, and which if existed, would've made job easier.

We operate in a continuous 24x7 mission critical IT environment. There are lots of moving parts, and there are multiple critical interfaces among and between various systems. The monitoring of all these internal and external data feeds and links is in and of itself a formidable task. The potential exists to develop or provide automated solutions, which are event driven, generate appropriate alerts, kick off scripts to begin self-repair or minimize impact to the target user or customer. Don’t get me wrong, there are lots of product available that will offer to do these things, but they tend to be limited to a subset of environments and they have very limited capability to produce automated responses across multiple systems.