Still firefighting Network Management issues? Not cool.

In the early days of operations & network management, everything was fairly straight forward. Applications where centralized, easy to manage and monitor.

As time has passed, the number of connected devices has grown dramatically as well as the number of applications across an organization increasing the workload of network management tools as well as the Systems Administrators aligned to these tools.

According to EMA, a common medium-sized network of 5,000 servers generates, when including log files, about 250 megabytes of potentially relevant operational data generated from approximately 125,000 events every day. According to some estimates, 90% of data in an organization is unstructured.

Most traditional tools in this space are ill equipped to deal with the huge amount of network operational data in this day and age (Internet of Things etc etc) let alone take advantage of any analytical capabilities to provide greater insight into potential problems, reduce costs or great infrastructure efficiency.

Using Netcool Operations Insight, a retail bank saved more than $600,000 by being able to predict and detect the cause of, and then avoid major outages in just 1 month

How?

  • Collect, correlate and consolidate events from your entire environment into a single operational view which can even be viewed on an iPad!
  • Turn your historical event data into insight for higher operational efficiency with Event Analytics
  • Accelerate problem isolation, identification and resolution for greater operations agility with Event Search Analytics
  • Reduce cost and eliminate manual steps by automating actions and execute automated diagnostics

And what does it mean from a tangible benefits point of view?

  • 30% reduction in overall event load and 10% faster MTTR
    Proven customer results demonstrated reduction of existing event load by 30% using Event Search.
  • 10% reduction in number of events requiring Operator action
  • Up to 75% saving on time spent performing historical event analysis
    Large customers have found they can reduce their historical event analysis requirements by 50% to 75%
  • 60% faster in creation of custom high impact mobile ready dashboards
    Dashboards for desktops and provision the same for mobile

In the UK, we are offering workshops to customers wishing to explore how to move the next generation network management tooling to reduce costs, take advantage of network analytics and get better insight into Operational Big Data.

Get in touch @just_the_lowe

Or take a look;
http://www-03.ibm.com/software/products/en/netcool-operations-insight