Go Beyond with Autonomic IT to Drive the Autonomous Business

Go Beyond with Autonomic IT to Drive the Autonomous Business  

IT infrastructures have grown prohibitively complex. But the full realization of AIOps – Autonomic IT – will liberate the IT function and propel businesses forward towards elevated performance and greater potential. 

BY MICHAEL NAPPI, CHIEF PRODUCT OFFICER  

Imagine a self-empowered operational IT environment that monitors, optimizes, and even heals your technology investments as it runs. IT operations are continuous: always available, always responsive, always seamless. If an issue emerges, it’s immediately identified, the root cause quickly uncovered, and the solution rapidly surfaced. In some cases, the affected system self-heals without intervention. 

Without the time and financial costs of alert storms and endless fire drills, IT teams and their budgets are freed up to focus on enabling new innovations and competitive advantages. Productivity is enhanced without the burden of slow system performance and downtime, and the business is continuously empowered to achieve better outcomes with elevated performance across the IT stack.  

This scenario is a daydream for most organizations. But it doesn’t have to be. The data, analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), and automation – as well as the expertise to apply these capabilities – are already available.   

It’s this vision that elevates the maturity of AIOps to a truly Autonomic reality: Autonomic IT. Autonomic IT leverages AI and automation in new ways to increase efficiency and improve outcomes. It’s a journey from the constraints of IT complexity, with disparate tools and ad hoc operations, to optimized IT with autonomous operations, total visibility, and self-organizing data and analytics. 

Scaling With Scope and Complexity  

Achieving the promises of digital business transformation – increased productivity, responsiveness, and profitability – isn’t possible with traditional approaches to IT management, which simply don’t scale with the skyrocketing scope and complexity of modern IT environments. The tools and processes most IT departments depend on require considerable manual intervention. They generate far more noise than signal, providing inadequate insights and guidance when issues arise. The result is high cost, business interruption, and a limited ability to advance the enterprise with new innovations. 

AIOps grew out of the need to bring order to this digital chaos through the introduction of automation, yet most organizations still struggle to reach optimal IT operations. Today, when a digital service goes down, three-quarters of the efforts to restore it are still manual, and monitoring and maintaining operations across hybrid IT environments and data silos still creates bottlenecks and visibility gaps for even the savviest IT teams.  

Going a step further than modern AIOps, Autonomic IT addresses these limitations head on by establishing a self-empowered operational environment that monitors, optimizes, and even heals technology investments while it runs. It replaces manual cycles with real-time data capture, analytics insights, and AI and machine learning (ML) techniques to transform how IT issues are recognized, understood, and remediated. Autonomic IT delivers an IT environment that natively understands its real-time state and intelligently surfaces insights and recommendations. Where possible, it acts on its own to automatically restore and proactively optimize operations, building on AIOps for a more human-friendly IT experience.  

Making IT Autonomic  

The concept of Autonomic IT is modeled on the human autonomic nervous system, a marvel of evolution that regulates functions such as heart rate, breathing, and body temperature. Some of these systems function entirely on their own, like a heartbeat, while others are self-regulating but respond dynamically to internal controls and external inputs: taking a deep breath or putting on a sweater.  

Similar regulations and stimuli serve as the backing for Autonomic IT operations – an infrastructure that can adapt and protect itself like a living organism. With the capability to sense, analyze, understand, and respond to changes in the IT environment as they take place or even before they occur, Autonomic IT systems can assess, remediate, and analyze automatically, driving a significant reduction in manual intervention.  

By adopting an integrated approach to automating IT operations, organizations unlock opportunities to innovate and impart value across the entire business, not just IT, drastically reducing the resource expenditure needed to maintain healthy IT systems. With business technology running itself, IT professionals can achieve and deliver much greater profit to the organization. Autonomic IT is what today’s organizations require in order to go beyond the norm and quickly reach the next levels of business potential.   

Empowering the Business with Autonomic IT 

This Autonomic approach to IT operations is transformative because it can radically reduce MTTR and dramatically improve the availability of digital services. Just as important, it can free up your IT team to innovate new capabilities and deliver greater value.  

But the payoff of Autonomic IT isn’t just to the IT function. It’s also a major aid to the enterprise. The business can become more responsive and proactive in innovating new products and services, meeting new customer demands, pivoting in the face of change, and competing for market share and growth. 

A trusted partner that has proven breadth and depth of experience in delivering the components of Autonomic IT at speed and at scale will help empower businesses to achieve Autonomic IT faster, more cost-effectively and comprehensively than would otherwise be possible. ScienceLogic is here to help. 

We can see the way forward. One that brings business and operations leaders together to accelerate innovation, drive revenue growth, and ensure superior customer experiences — a path that unlocks the transformative potential of generative AI and automation, delivering cost-optimized, efficient, scalable, and next-level experiences and capabilities to the business.  

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