Tool sprawl, AI complicate enterprise network operations
EMA surveyed 356 enterprise IT professionals and found that tool sprawl is consuming engineering time, increasing staffing demands, and slowing down incident resolution.
EMA surveyed 356 enterprise IT professionals and found that tool sprawl is consuming engineering time, increasing staffing demands, and slowing down incident resolution.
The short version
- “One of the first things I can say is no one gets a single pane of glass,” said Shamus McGillicuddy , vice president of research covering network infrastructure and operations at EMA, during a web event sharing the research findings.
- Tool sprawl strains IT operations Many enterprises are still working to unify their observability environments.
- EMA found that 51% of respondents had tool unification efforts under way, while 32% were still planning or evaluating that approach and 17% had completed unification.
What happened
Larger organizations reported that they had more observability tools in use across their environments. According to EMA, IT organizations cited several ways tool sprawl affects IT teams: 45% cited skills and staffing burdens from operating multiple tools.
Why it matters
44% said integration and API complexity consume engineering time.
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