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By Sacha Dawes,
Head Geek, SolarWinds
Breaking Down Siloes With IT Operations Management
No business operates
solely on-premises anymore. And even with cloud adoption reaching new heights,
businesses aren't solely relying on those platforms, either. Instead, we're
seeing operations spread across on-prem and cloud, in addition to edge
environments and more. But with data being shared and transferred across these
different platforms, productivity can take a hit if organizations have them
operating in siloes.
Multi-cloud and
multi-premises will continue to dominate the IT reality in 2020. The pervasive
use of IT across departments within organizations is forcing IT siloes to break
down, resulting in tech pros from different teams needing to work together to
support business objectives like productivity and performance. Add to this the
challenge of managing highly distributed and multi-environment applications and
infrastructures, and the path ahead for tech pros can appear increasingly
daunting.
As businesses evolve,
tech pros are tiring of the proliferation of "best of breed" tools from
different vendors and are instead looking toward integrated solutions to give
them the ability to manage environments inside their firewall and hybrid and
public-cloud environments. Visibility needs to be centralized to support
modern, multi-cloud, and multi-premises architectures, with an integrated view showing
dependencies and relationships between applications and the infrastructure on
which they depend. Only then can tech pros understand performance metrics
across the business while also having the ability to speak a common IT language
and bridge previously siloed functions.
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About the Author
Sacha joined SolarWinds in 2018, where he leads product marketing for the SolarWinds® IT Operations Management product portfolio. He brings multiple years of experience from product management, product marketing, and business management roles at Microsoft, NetIQ, Gemalto, and Schlumberger. Originally from the U.K., Sacha lives in Austin, TX.