In IT, we’ve traditionally had different tools for collecting information and for acting on that information. Monitoring systems, log aggregators, and configuration management databases (CMDBs) collect information about your IT estate, while remote execution frameworks and configuration management systems help you take action on that estate.
IT professionals have been the glue between these systems, manually bridging between information and action. But now, we’re in the middle of a quiet revolution in how these systems are becoming connected to each other, with the insights derived from all of that information increasingly driving automated action across the enterprise.
