These slides--based on the webinar featuring leading IT analyst firm Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) and IBM--reveal the challenges of managing today’s complex IT environments and the benefits associated with moving to a true hybrid IT management approach.
Learn Best Practices of a True Hybrid IT Management Approach
1. IT & DATA MANAGEMENT RESEARCH,
INDUSTRY ANALYSIS & CONSULTING
Best Practices for
Hybrid IT Management
Julie Craig
Research Director,
Application Management
Enterprise Management Associates
Ben Fawcett
CTO
Orb Data
Rob Lamb
VP, Hybrid Cloud
IBM
5. IT & DATA MANAGEMENT RESEARCH,
INDUSTRY ANALYSIS & CONSULTING
Best Practices for
Hybrid IT Management
Julie Craig
Research Director,
Application Management
Enterprise Management Associates
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say a hybrid IT
management
strategy helps get
new apps into
market faster.
69%
The right set of hybrid IT
management solutions lead
to better customer
experience and competitive
advantage.
APPLICATIONS & SERVICES
Deliver them faster and with
higher availability, reliability and
performance
MULTI-CLOUD ENVIRONMENTS
Seamlessly connect and manage private,
public, and multi-cloud environments
IT INFRASTRUCTURE
Infuse analytics into IT operations
management solutions – proactive
vs. reactive
SOURCE: IBM Market Development & Insights Market Research, 2017
21. Better manage
your hybrid IT
environment.
IT infrastructure performance
Look for a mature suite of solutions that let you
identify and resolve problems faster and contain
embedded analytics for true insights.
Application performance
Look for solutions that not only allow you to get
apps into market faster, but also help you ensure
their availability and performance.
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Better manage
your hybrid IT
environment.
IT infrastructure performance
Look for a mature suite of solutions that let you
identify and resolve problems faster and contain
embedded analytics for true insights.
Application services
The right application server solutions will let you
create, connect and optimize your apps wherever
they are to help you increase your speed to market
and reduce costs.
Multi-cloud connectivity
There are now solutions to help you get clear
visibility into multi-cloud environments and
provision, orchestrate and define policies from a
single console.
Application performance
Look for solutions that not only allow you to get
apps into market faster, but also help you ensure
their availability and performance.
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IBM’s suite of
hybrid IT
management
solutions can
help you
integrate,
automate and
innovate.
IT infrastructure performance
Netcool Operations Insight solutions will let you
better monitor and manage your IT operations
environments with integrated tools, correlated
data, and embedded analytics.
Application services
WebSphere Application Server, coupled with new
offering around microservices, enables simple and
seamless migration of existing applications to the
cloud as well as ease of creating and deploying
“net-new” apps.
Multi-cloud connectivity
IBM Cloud private with cloud automation features
allows you to keep mission-critical apps secure
while still enabling connectivity to other public or
private clouds so you can manage true multi-cloud
environments in an automated way.
Application performance
Application Performance Management (APM)
solutions give you the right set of tools to diagnose
and resolve application issues faster and more
accurately – even predict them before they occur.
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The rate and pace of
adoption is based on a
company’s needs.
What’s important to
remember is a hybrid IT
management strategy is not
an “all or nothing” approach.
25. Let’s look at a few examples of companies already
embarking on our hybrid IT management strategy
Integration between IBM hybrid IT
management products reduced
their outage times, and improved
identification of issues before they
became problems.
Through IBM multi-cloud provisioning
as an integrated part of their hybrid IT
management strategy, they have
improved deployment accuracy of
applications using less resources
Growing customer engagement and
sales with IBM Cloud based
microservices build on WebSphere, as
an integrated part of their IT hybrid
management solution.
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Now, many hybrid IT
management solutions
are “shifting left” and also
providing benefits to Dev
environments.
SOURCE: APM & DevOps Study. IBM Market Development & Insights. 4Q17
These APM tools and capabilities are
expanding from operations into
development.
“The biggest impact so far is increased
productivity. We have much less
downtime than we did before.”
-- CIO, Wholesale 1,000 – 4,999 size
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For more information and getting started, IBM
can help:
Visit us at: www.ibm.com/cloud-computing/products/hybrid-it-management/
Call us at:
1-844-95-CLOUD (Priority code: CLOUD)
28. LEARN BEST PRACTICES OF A TRUE HYBRID
IT MANAGEMENT APPROACH
Ben Fawcett
CTO, Orb Data
29. About Orb Data
ITSM Consultancy since 1998
IBM Gold Business Partner
Focus on IBM Hybrid Cloud
Solutions
Consultancy /Training
Managed Services and Remote Support
Cloud based ITSM Services (SaaS)
Orb Data developed offerings
OpsAlerts.com – Netcool Operations Insight
as a Service
Self Service Portal for ITM
Cello - Mobile Device Management Portal –
IBM Award for Endpoint Management and
Innovation
Independent advice and support
http://blog.orb-data.com
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HOW ARE RECENT TRENDS IMPACTING ITSM DEPARTMENTS?
IT consumers are becoming more demanding
User experience
On-demand
Self-service and in control
Access to their own SaaS
Business applications are more dynamic
Virtualisation
Composite applications
Containers
DevOps
Now!
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HOW ARE RECENT TRENDS IMPACTING ITSM DEPARTMENTS?
Application Performance Management (APM)
has become a Big Data problem
Metric collection
Logfile analysis
Event trends
Business expectations are rising
Automation – deployment, detection and
remediation
Analytics
Business Service mapping, measuring and
visualising
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FUNDAMENTALS OF ITSM
The ITSM landscape and tooling are changing but many fundamentals are
not
Understand what you have and empower the IT users to understand it
Unify the tooling and standardise your approach and methodology
Improve efficiency and automate repeatable tasks
Develop an Overall StrategicVision that embraces hybrid and is appropriate
for your organisation
Self-Service -> Empower and Devolve
Service Catalogue -> Standardise and Automate
Exploit analytics -> Predict, Reduce and Improve
DevOps initiatives -> Unified approach to ITSM
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PRACTICAL AND TACTICAL
Realising a strategic vision doesn’t happen overnight
What practical steps can you take to prepare for managing complex Hybrid
Services?
Some examples of recent Orb Data client projects
1. Unifying data across the cloud - Global Bank
Public SaaS Service Desk and CMDB, on-premises IT Operations and Capacity
Management
2. Using Operations Analytics - LargeTelco
Using analytics to improve IT Operations efficiencies
3. User Driven Deployment - Financial Services
Using self-service as a model to empower users, devolve responsibility, enforce
standards and automate deployment
4. Shift left… and right? We’re all developers
A word on DevOps and how ITSM teams should respond
34. Unifying data across
the cloud - Global Bank
SaaS Service Desk
Business applications on-premises
and hybrid
Unifying Data for:
ServiceViews
Event Enrichment
Capacity Planning
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SOLUTION OVERVIEW
Public Cloud SaaS
Service Desk
Data
Warehouse
IBM
DASH
IBM
Netcool OMNIbus
IBM
Netcool ImpactCMDB
Tivoli Common
Reporting
Topology
IBM Application
Performance
Montoring
Severity
Modelling
Enrichment
Events
Impact UI
Data
Provider
Data
Merge
Performance
Metrics
Events
Auto-ticketing
Incidents
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ENRICHMENT
Server Service Application Component
ukepd01 Payments EasyPay Database
ukepd02 Payments EasyPay Database
ukepweb01 Payments EasyPay Web
ukfsftp01 Payments FileSafe FTP
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SEVERITY CALCULATION
Active and inactive handling for
resilient resources
A rules table to apply a severity
multiplier to particular events
A weighting for each child node in
the tree
Various severity models to choose
for each node - including maximum,
average and weighted average
40. Operations Analytics at a
LargeTelco
LargeTelecoms business Managed
Service division
IT Event Management service for
customers
Individual Netcool environments to serve
each customer
Upgrade to Netcool Operations Insight
to exploit the OperationsAnalytics
capabilities
41. Key Objectives
Reduce the number of alerts
displayed to OperationsTeam through
event grouping and a reduction in the
events generated at source
Reduce the MeanTime to Response
due to the reduced number of alerts
displayed to Operations
Reduce the MeanTime to Recovery
due to the reduced workload for the
operations team and the event search
facility available via Log Analysis
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WHAT DID WE DO?
1. Conducted Regular review of
event grouping analysis reports
2. Built new light weight
dashboards
3. Implemented Log Analysis event
search facility to aid with
problem determination
4. Conducted Regular review of
seasonality reports
5. Engaged Subject Matter Experts
to define Event Scoping
6. And retrained the operators
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RELATED EVENT STATISTICS
14806 events
reduced to 759
95% efficiency
Average
group Size
10595 events
covered by top
100 groups
Top group
size
Average
group Size
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IT OPERATIONS EFFICIENCY
Pre-Occurrence Incident ResolutionEvent
Time
0
Event Count
Event Search
Related Event
Analytics
Seasonal
Analytics
Service Desk
Integration
Event Scope
Grouping
Dashboards
Historical
Event Analysis
Maintenance
Management
Message
Catalogue
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OPSALERTS FROM ORB DATA
IBM Netcool Operations
Insight as a Service - Event
management in the cloud
Built on IBM Bluemix
Real-time event analytics
Health dashboards
Message Catalogue
Maintenance Management
Service Desk integration
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BENEFITTING FROM CLOUD AND DEVOPSTRENDS
SaaS applications are available to
ITSM teams too
IBM Alert Notifications
IBM RunbookAutomation
Website monitoring
Orb Data OpsAlerts : IBM Netcool
Operations Insight as a Service
Shift Left? But what ideas should
ITSM learn from Development?
Source control and Release
Management
API management and integration
Focus on User Experience
Automated testing
Service definitions and automated
provisioning of ITSM