datafriction

Modern Infrastructure Mgmt
Accelerating Productivity Through Machine Learning
jameskobielus
How extensively does decision making, powered by insights from infrastructure data, permeate your organization? (please click one response only.)

How extensively does decision making, powered by insights from infrastructure data, permeate your organization? (please click one response only.)

Jason Johnson PMP
http://www.via-cc.at... How extensively does decision making, powered by insights from infrastructure data, permeate your organization?

Peter Burris
All service -- and adoption -- is local.
Peter Burris
Too many disregard the value of data, presuming that it's disposable. The change in perspective happens in pockets.
Colin Walker
@plburris Data. Is not. Disposable. Literally impossible to replace. Preach. #SaveTheData #NotARedShirt
Colin Walker
@dorkninja Hilariously data is the thing that allows you to replace everything else. Or fix it. Or learn from it. Or ... #AllTheThings. Data is the truth/life/love. #BringMeData #AndBacon
Ralph Finos
@RalphFinos you have to know how to use and what you are doing. data itself is kind of useless unless you know what you are doing and can use the right tools
Peter Evans
@plburris Agree Peter, regulatory compliance rules (GDPR et al) will start to rain this problem in I think. It will be interesting to see if it has an affect on the use of data in the Data Lake as this is the usual place the data is just thrown
John Furrier
This is a must have for organizations
Peter Burris
@colin_walker And once it gets out, it can't be chased down.
Colin Walker
@plburris Right?! You have to be able to grab it *in* the moment. #YouveOnlyGotOneShot after all.
Peter Burris
And once DATA gets out, it can't be chased down.
Randy Arseneau
@RalphFinos Agree. But there are also cases where data that's useless today, and tomorrow, and the next day - becomes invaluable 10 years from now. See: The CDC.
Matt Cauthorn
@dorkninja This is interesting, and 100% true. Data's value changes over time depending on the use case. Too few take this into consideration, let's hope that changes :)
Colin Walker
@dorkninja I'd argue that's not data that's useless today or tomorrow. It's just a single data point that is useful in a trend, rather than on its own. Also something we can catalog, capture and covet.
Colin Walker
@dorkninja But yes, often *appears* useless at first, and for a while, and gets wrongly chucked. Definitely an issue.
Randy Arseneau
@colin_walker Yup - people forget the temporal element and assume all data is ephemeral or disposable.
Neil Raden
@mcauth Yes, everyone knows data is valuable, but no one knows how to value it. That's why you don't see it on the balance sheet
Matt Cauthorn
@NeilRaden From an ops perspective - as an ex-Ops person myself, a very simple value model I use is (velocity / friction ) * the number of users that can put the data into action. Not academically rigorous but folks find it useful.
Neil Raden
@mcauth - There should be some conformity, or canonical models, in industry verticals. There may be different valuation models across departments. Unless there is a market for data, all data valuation models will be subjective
Kayla Lounsbery
a deeper dive on the data value equation from @mcauth https://www.extrahop...
Matt Cauthorn
@NeilRaden +1 This is a fantastic point and is absolutely true.
jameskobielus
@dorkninja Data often indicates a state, status, or condition of the infrastructure at a point in time, or it can represent a trend over time. For infrastructure, all s essential for historical analysis, real-time monitoring, and preventive.
Jim Shocrylas
most applications today are vomiting data - state, status, condition in a vacuum. not actionable - need AI to synthesize and deliver accelerated insight
Matt Cauthorn
@Jshoc Largely true, especially given sheer volume. But it's also possible to - from a practice level - extract the stuff that you know matters and present it proactively, pre-AI.
Jason Johnson PMP
Question #5 coming up.
Sergey A. Razin
Question #2 is?
(1) Do you aggregate data from all your ITOps/DevOps, etc. tools into some data aggregation platform?
(2) Is your data still stuck in some monitoring tool?
(3) Are you beyond (1) and run some algorithms against your data?
jameskobielus
Is your IT organization a facilitator or obstacle to gaining value from your infrastructure data?

Is your IT organization a facilitator or obstacle to gaining value from your infrastructure data?

Jason Johnson PMP
Hi All, remember to post replies within the original post.
Jason Johnson PMP
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Randy Arseneau
Well, of course, we think we are facilitators... :) #marketingpun
Colin Walker
I feel super lucky that our IT team here is definitely a facilitator. In personal experience that is the exception to the rule, unfortunately. "Old" IT hats focus on ops, escalations and security. Data mining not pri 1.
Sergey A. Razin
How about some #machinelearning questions? It would be great to know who you all represent...
Respond with:
(1) Data scientist/Machine Learning Engineer
(2) Compsi proessor
(3) IT Admin
(4) Directory/VP/C-level
Jason Johnson PMP
Question #4 coming up.
jameskobielus
Is your infrastructure data becoming more of a strategic asset or overhead burden? (one response only)

Is your infrastructure data becoming more of a strategic asset or overhead burden? (one response only)