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Sugar Ray Robinson and Jake LaMotta. Marvelous Marvin Hagler and Tommy Hearns. Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier. All were among history’s greatest boxers, but when they met in the ring, each brought out the best in the other. It’s the same in IT management. There are tools and platforms that on their own are essential to IT operations; but when paired as an infrastructure management tandem, each complements the other, ensuring maximal efficacy of both systems.
Yesterday the most used social media platforms in the world were inaccessible for 6 hours straight. Later, in a press release, Facebook revealed that the outage was due to configuration changes in their routers. There is no doubt that Facebook has an intense incident response plan, yet a small blind spot resulted in a significant business interruption. So how do we avoid this? The truth is, outages and performance issues are bound to happen in any network.
Yesterday the world’s largest social media platform suffered a global outage of all of its services for nearly six hours during which time, Facebook and its subsidiaries, including WhatsApp, Instagram and Oculus, were unavailable.
One of the questions I get asked a lot by customers, prospects, and partners is, “Will AIOps make them irrelevant?” To them, AIOps is often equivalent to automated remediation; an AIOps system automatically detects an incident and kicks off a remediation process in response to this incident, knowing exactly what process will solve the problem. IT is out of the loop, data centers and NOCs just keep humming along unattended, end users are none the wiser.
