Constant Monitoring Of Utilities IT Systems: Vital For An Uninterrupted Service To Customers

The areas in the utility sector would've made job easier

Security is a constant challenge, both for the infrastructure and especially for applications. While tools continue to evolve to address the "last" challenge, building an enterprise security program sufficient to address the continually evolving threats and the myriad of vulnerabilities will remain a key source of anxiety.

A second area is analytics and the amount of data that is being generated for analysis. The promise of data analytics within the organization requires a combination of advances from the application providers, to help extract key data sets for analytics, and development of expertise in the data analytics toolset for realization of value.

Technology trends impacting the utility sector

One is the extent to which virtualization has extended to many technology areas, servers, storage, java machines, networking, etc. These advances continue to bring options to reduce cost, and improve performance and the efficiency of IT services. However, the complexity of virtual worlds talking to each other makes troubleshooting far more complicated.

A second trend, that is positive, is the continuing advances in the ability to monitor IT systems, including applications, and the integration between applications, to assist IT to observe, diagnose, and resolve issues in our increasingly complex web of applications that support business processes.