Driven by modern business requirements, many organizations are re-evaluating their current processes and tools and how they support their evolovling IT environments, forcing many traditional approaches in IT to be reconsidered. A recent report from Forrester, Turn Big Data Inward With IT Analytics, describes how emergin IT Operations Analytics applications are better equipped to manage the big data challenges of IT, and coming to redefine how IT operations maintains performance and availability.

While business has applied analytics to their data challenges, IT operations, who enable the technology for business and BI analytics, have lagged behind. Nevertheless the IT operations domain continues to confront enormous volumes of data at far greater rates than ever imaginable. Futhermore, the systems in the IT domain also tend to be extremely complex and multilayered.