Top Trends in Network Observability: Heightening Intelligence, Inspection, Insights, Integration, and Innovation

Top Trends in Network Observability: Heightening Intelligence, Inspection, Insights, Integration, and Innovation

This IDC Perspective discusses the top trends in network observability. Onrushing digital business demands, continual technology advancements, and ever-improving IT practices are all applying more and more pressure on the network infrastructure and network management systems, services, and staff. Network observability solutions must provide detailed intelligence and insights to not only assure network integrity but also contribute to complementary and overarching efforts focused on heightened digital infrastructure resiliency. Success of network observability solutions rests on their ability to offer detailed insights into the cloud, bolster security postures and processes, deliver the best user experience, support integration with other management and observability tools, and serve to bolster staff capabilities, productivity, and impact. "IDC research indicates that most organizations use more than 10 observability tools to measure and monitor their digital infrastructure. Many use double or triple this number! And yet, coverage gaps and blind spots continue to exist or even expand," says Mark Leary, director, Network Observability and Automation at IDC. "IT organizations need to take a more unified and streamlined approach to observability. Tools that serve multiple purposes, support multiple IT domains, and promote shared use of data drive more complete visibility and control. This leads to heightened network service integrity and networking staff productivity while reducing the cost and complexity of managing and evolving the network."

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