Gartner Research

Hype Cycle for IT Infrastructure Availability and Performance Management, 2016

Published: 30 June 2016

ID: G00290471

Analyst(s): Sanjit Ganguli , Gary Spivak

Summary

I&O leaders are faced with an array of decisions about which IT infrastructure planning, monitoring and analytics tools to deploy in their environments. They should use this Hype Cycle to construct a strategy and to set expectations when investing in these technologies.

Table Of Contents

Analysis

  • What You Need to Know
  • The Hype Cycle
  • The Priority Matrix
  • Off the Hype Cycle
  • On the Rise
    • Algorithmic IT Operations (AIOps) Platforms
    • Dynamic Optimization Technology
    • Digital Experience Monitoring
    • Wireless Network Monitoring
  • At the Peak
    • DevOps
  • Sliding Into the Trough
    • Unified Communications Monitoring
    • Capacity-Planning and Management Tools
    • Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Monitoring
    • Network Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics Tools
    • Cloud Management Platforms
  • Climbing the Slope
    • Application Performance Monitoring Suites
    • IT Infrastructure Monitoring
    • IT Service Alerting
    • IT Event Correlation and Analysis Tools
  • Entering the Plateau
    • Network Fault Management
  • Appendixes
    • Hype Cycle Phases, Benefit Ratings and Maturity Levels

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