Nearly half of technology professionals (49%) say the continued adoption of hybrid IT computing is leading to more complexity for IT management, says Sean Michael Kerner, detailing findings from the recent SolarWinds IT Trends Report 2022
Hybrid IT Leads to Complexity and Lack of Visibility, Report Says
Nearly half of technology professionals (49%) say the continued adoption of hybrid IT computing is leading to more complexity for IT management, says Sean Michael Kerner, detailing findings from the recent SolarWinds IT Trends Report 2022 (https://it-trends.solarwinds.com/#/).
"The complexity comes in multiple forms," writes Kerner, "including the continued requirement to maintain legacy stacks and the fragmentation between old and new technologies."
Additionally, 49 percent of survey respondents noted that "visibility into their IT operations for infrastructure and applications has been diminished."
This lack of visibility and monitoring capabilities leads to organizational gaps, says Kerner, including the ability to effectively conduct anomaly detection and root-cause analysis and to gather metrics from disparate systems.
Many system administration tasks can be automated to improve your team's productivity, efficiency, and precision, says William Elcock. For example, manual tasks that admins regularly repeat should be automated to save time and reduce human error.
This article describes eight top tasks that sys admins should consider automating, including:
Patching
Password resets
Disk usage scans
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