The volume and variety of data required to monitor and manage complex IT systems has grown exponentially, which increases the need for new technologies to ingest, store and analyze the data. These technologies will need to be organized into a single, architected platform. The demand for IT operations analytics (ITOA) processes, technologies and services has grown significantly during the past two years. The primary goal of ITOA platforms is to deliver inferences about IT operations data to its users — an inference being an explicit addition to the information present in the data itself, generated by deductive and inductive processes applied to the data. Read Gartner’s report on IT Operations analytics to learn more.