infrastructure monitoring maturity: modeling technology, process, & culture
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Infrastructure Monitoring Maturity:
Modeling Technology, Process and Culture
August 14, 2015
Shamus McGillicuddy
Senior Analyst
EMA
@ShamusEMA
Scott Frymire
Director of Content Marketing
SevOne
@scottfrymire
Today’s Presenters
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Shamus McGillicuddy, Senior Analyst, EMA
Shamus has more than nine years of experience in the IT industry, primarily
as a journalist covering the network infrastructure market. At Enterprise
Management Associates (EMA), he is the senior analyst for the network
management practice.
Scott Frymire, Director of Content Marketing, SevOne
Scott’s primary interest is interpreting how IT trends in the enterprise and
service provider markets – such as cloud, software-defined everything, and
the Internet of Things – impact the performance monitoring landscape. Prior
to SevOne, Scott spent 16 years in marketing business-to-business software
and services for ERP solution providers including Prophet 21, Activant, and
Epicor.
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Infrastructure Monitoring Maturity:
Modeling Technology, Process and Culture
August 14, 2015
Shamus McGillicuddy
Senior Analyst
EMA
@ShamusEMA
The Three Pillars of IT Maturity
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The IT organization is all about its people and how they work
Technology, process and
culture are intertwined
EMA PERSPECTIVE:
IT monitoring maturity assessment comprises three core elements
Technology
What kinds of tools are you using?
Are they isolated? Integrated?
Processes
How do you use those tools?
How do you collaborate?
Culture
How does IT view itself?
How does IT view the business?
How does business view IT?
All three must advance
The Stages of IT Monitoring Maturity
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From Firefighters to
Business Leaders
> Reactive Infrastructure Management
> Active Operational Management
> Proactive Service-Oriented Management
> Dynamic Business-Driven Management
The Stages of Maturity:
Reactive Infrastructure Management
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Day-to-day crisis management
Monitoring tools are element-centric with some
domain-level focus
> IT buys monitoring tools in response to crises instead of
strategic investments
Processes focus on forwarding problems to
specialists quickly
> No broad infrastructure diagnostics
A culture of individual heroes
> Highly skilled engineers are focused on troubleshooting
> Engineers have silo’d skill sets (network engineer, systems
engineer)
IT has weak credibility, poor communication with
the business
The Stages of Maturity: Active Operational Management
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Service-level management is more historical and
forensic than real-time
> Some service-centric real-time monitoring is present
> Most infrastructure monitoring is domain-centric
Event handling is more automated
Services are not yet well-defined and mapped to
infrastructure
> IT can restore core infrastructure operations quickly, but is
slow to restore business services fully
IT works as a collection of skill groups (networks,
systems, etc.)
> These silos have common processes in place
> Some cross-silo processes might exist but silos generally
isolated from each other and the rest of the business
A SERVICE-
CENTRIC MANAGEMENT
APPROACH
EMERGES
The Stages of Maturity:
Proactive Service-Oriented Management
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IT AS AN INTERNAL SERVICE PROVIDER
> Management tools are chosen strategically rather than reactively
> Monitoring tools are integrated with other operations and support systems
• Monitoring tools provide cross-domain, service-centric views
• Visualization and analytics can capture and define business impacts of IT
> Workflows become more automated to capture best practices
> Silos fade in favor of total infrastructure management with
interdependencies well-understood
> A service organization emerges as liaison to the business
• Empowered by strong monitoring, metrics and strategic planning
The Stages of Maturity:
Dynamic Business-Driven Management
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IT focuses on enabling the
business, optimizing to shifting
business conditions
> Monitoring and operational tools are integrated to automate most day-to-day
performance and availability problem resolution
> IT monitoring data provides insight into the business and not just infrastructure
> Advanced monitoring and management tools can shift resources automatically
based on conditions and events
> Both IT and business leaders understand how IT can help make the
business successful
• IT develops a common language for interacting with the business
Measuring Monitoring Maturity Progress
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Management
Tool Focus
> Element-centric
> Domain-centric
> Infrastructure-centric
> Focus on applications,
business services and
business advantage
Event Response
> Heroes and firefighters
> Replaced with
automation
> Heroes become domain
experts focused on
planning and
optimization
Relationship Between
Operations Center
and Help Desk
> Culture and technology
gap closes
> Process integration
across the two groups
ASSET
MANAGEMENT
Measuring Monitoring Maturity Progress
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> Segregated domains
> Total infrastructure view focused on performance
• IT service chargebacks and accounting become
possible
RELATIONSHIP
WITH THE
BUSINESS
> IT as a back-office cost center
• Clients as adversaries/idiots
> Customer service focus
> Service liaisons emerge from network operations
and/or help desk
• Speak language of the business
• Focus on strategic service planning
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Advancing Service QualityA 5 Stage Maturity Model for
Infrastructure Monitoring
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“SevOne’s maturity model provides Enterprise and Service Provider
organizations with an effective, product-agnostic blueprint for achieving
optimized service delivery via performance monitoring. The functional
capabilities described, combined with a focus on process improvement,
provide a path to lower risk and improved end-user experience.”
Shamus McGillicuddy, Senior Analyst, Network Management
Enterprise Management Associates
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CHARACTERISTICSOF A MATURE MONITORING STRATEGY
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#1 – It’s All About Service Assurance
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#2 – Can Handle Volume, Variety, Velocity of Data
Metric-to-Flow
Metric-to-Log
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#3 – High Levels of Interoperability and Automation
CMDB
+
Service
Mgmt
Perf Mgmt
!!!
Security Service Mgmt
Performance Mgmt
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#3 – High Levels of Interoperability and Automation
Performance Mgmt
Collection
Configuration
CONTROLLER
Analyzed, Normalized
Data and Events
DATA CENTER
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#4 – Tie Performance to Financial Impact
VS
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Early Results from the Online Assessment
Have no service definition or awareness
(focus on component monitoring only)78%
81%
64%
Have not integrated their monitoring tools with any other
systems for automating processes
Say correlation of data is nearly impossible because
reports span multiple tools
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