The future is hybrid!

This means that your applications may depend on components running on public cloud, private cloud and on-prem. For example, the front end of your hybrid application may take advantage of cloud native architectures, leverage "as a Service" components, include some home grown solutions, and depend on on-prem back-end services such as IBM Z. By taking a hybrid approach, organizations are more agile and efficient as they manage changing business needs, meet scaling and security requirements, and adopt new innovative technologies. However, with limited staff, how do you effectively monitor and manage terabytes of data being generated by these disparate components in real-time to identify operational issues before they become customer impacting?

Clients are overwhelmed by disparate tools

Managing the components of your hybrid applications is not only a challenge for IT Ops teams but is also troubling for CIOs who are trying to negotiate complexity and scale of their existing applications. Often times the different components that make up your hybrid application include individual or specialized platform tooling which monitors just a particular service. And each of those monitoring tools are generating a lot of data, events and creating a lot of noise. All those different monitoring and analytics solutions are usually not well integrated which results in an interrupted and inefficient workflow for your IT Ops teams - often leading to the dreaded war room situation.

Accelerate incident detection and event management with IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps and IBM Z

The Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps is an AIOps platform that deploys advanced, explainable AI across the entire IT Ops toolchain, giving you the ability to quickly and confidently assess, diagnose, resolve and prevent incidents across mission-critical workloads and applications . It acts as a supplement to your existing monitoring investments and takes a unique application centric approach to help you automate often labor intensive IT processes and proactively mitigate high impacting events. IBM has developed and documented integrations to support the ingestion of Z data to help connect often siloed data sources and bring visibility for the health of the underlying Z infrastructure that supports those critical hybrid applications.  

Watch the demo: IBM Z integrations with Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps

To see the demo of how IBM Z monitoring and analytic solutions can integrate with the Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps to help accelerate the mean time to resolve issues across your hybrid applications - register for the free on-demand webinar here: http://ibm.biz/AIOps-0518


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