IT Operations Analytics Survey Shows Only 57% of Critical IT Infrastructure Issues Are Detected Before Business Impact

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Continuity Software

28 Apr, 2015, 13:15 GMT

NEW YORK, April 28, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --

Executives Believe IT Operations Excellence Requires Better Tools For Measurement And Analysis, IT Best Practices Enforcement And Cross-Domain Configuration Verification 

Continuity Software[TM], a provider of IT Operations Analytics for proactive outage prevention, today announced the results of the 2015 IT Operations Analytics Survey.  Based on responses from over 200 IT professionals from various industries, the survey found that organizations large and small are struggling to meet their Key Performance Indicator (KPI) goals and prevent IT issues before they adversely impact the business.

Additional key findings include:

  • Uptime is the leading KPI for IT operations, used by 89% of respondents. Fifty-one percent of respondents track uptime in real-time, while 19% track it daily.
  • Organizations are least likely to monitor KPIs in the cloud environment (only 20% do so). In contrast, more than 70% of organizations monitor KPIs across their networks, databases, applications and storage.

Do Organizations Meet Their KPI Goals?  

  • Only 29% of respondents consistently meet or exceed their KPI goals. 46% percent of respondents meet their goals most of the time, and 13% meet some of them.
  • Organizations detect and address an average of only 57% of critical IT issues before they impact the business.
  • Organizations are more likely to meet their KPI goals if they frequently track configuration consistency across more IT domains.

What Role Do Analytics Tools Play?

- IT Operations Analytics tools are more commonly found in large organizations. 47% of organizations with over 10,000 employees use them, compared to 32% of smaller companies.

- 76% of executives who use IT Operations Analytics find these solutions helpful or extremely helpful in early detection of IT issues.

- IT executives believe the best way to improve operations excellence is to use better tools for measurement and analysis (28%), use tools to enforce IT best practices (28%), or use tools to detect cross-domain IT configuration issues (22%).

"Although KPI tracking is becoming more and more sophisticated, the fact that less than a third of organizations are meeting their KPI goals is concerning," said Doron Pinhas, CTO, Continuity Software.  "Organizations could meet their KPI goals more consistently - and avoid critical issues - if they used better analytics tools more often and more widely, particularly in the cloud."

To view the full report, please visit: http://www.continuitysoftware.com/survey/2015-it-operations-analytics-survey/

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About Continuity Software 

Continuity Software provides IT Operations Analytics solutions that help the world's leading organizations prevent unplanned IT outages. Our award-winning AvailabilityGuard software enables IT teams to proactively identify and eliminate single-points-of-failure and misconfigurations across the entire infrastructure-including high availability, cloud, and disaster recovery environments (DR). Using AvailabilityGuard's predictive IT Operations Analytics to pinpoint potential failures before they impact the business, organizations are able to deliver the highest levels of IT service availability while improving operational efficiency.  For additional information, please visit http://www.continuitysoftware.com email: info@continuitysoftware.com call: +1-888-782-8170 (United States).

Additional Resources:
- Surveys: http://www.continuitysoftware.com/resources/surveys/
- ITOA & Availability Blog: http://www.continuitysoftware.com/blog/

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Continuity Software
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