IBM Expands Big Data Portfolio in India with New Predictive Intelligence Software

The new software will help a company predict future outcomes, search and discover, and optimize its IT infrastructure by unlocking insights within the data generated by systems, files, databases and servers.

Today, organizations are increasingly faced with managing a complex IT system of servers, networks and applications. Combined with the proliferation of mobile and cloud computing environments, these systems can generate more than 1.3 terabytes of data per day, including log files, software error alerts, IT service tickets and network configuration updates. This can result in more than one million "events" or system alerts per day, some of which are critical to performance and others that are irrelevant, which can bog down systems administrators.

There are three new offerings in the IT Operations Analytics family. The first, IBM SmartCloud Analytics - Predictive Insights, captures IT operations data (which most businesses currently typically discard or archive) and sifts through it in real time, spotting trends which are critical to network performance. The cognitive capabilities in the software learn, reason and sense an organization's IT systems. As business and performance conditions change, the software adapts, updating settings and eliminating inadvertent but costly configuration errors.

IBM is also applying machine learning and analytics to storage with a new version of SmartCloud Virtual Storage Center. Now, organizations can save time and money by automating complex storage tiering decisions and moving to cloud storage.