In amongst all the efforts of data centre operators to reduce power and water usage and their messaging around green energy, the impact of the growing use of the Cloud can sometimes get lost.
IBM certainly does have a significant set of AIOps capabilities, both through the acquisition of Instana, Turbonomics and SevOne and in-house developments.
Cisco has a very broad set of capabilities across cloud and legacy environments that should cover most customers’ full stack observability requirements.
Mainframe modernisation is in a healthy state, facilitated by open source initiatives such as Zowe. David Norfolk blogs from the 2022 Open Mainframe Summit.
Observability was an important element in delivering an excellent digital experience to end users and orienting performance around business events and outcomes, rather than IT systems.