Advanced Network Analytics: Applying Machine Learning and More to Network Engineering and Operations
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The document discusses the importance and benefits of advanced network analytics in IT, emphasizing its role in automation, data center consolidation, and cloud services. It highlights findings from a survey of 200 North American IT professionals, detailing the demographics, use cases, and challenges associated with network analytics initiatives. Key findings show that 98% of these initiatives involve machine learning, which supports network automation and collaboration across various organizational teams.
Advanced Network Analytics: Applying Machine Learning and More to Network Engineering and Operations
- 1. IT & DATA MANAGEMENT RESEARCH, INDUSTRY ANALYSIS & CONSULTING Advanced Network Analytics EMA Research Highlights Shamus McGillicuddy Senior Analyst Enterprise Management Associates
- 2. Watch the On-Demand Webinar Slide 2 © 2018 Enterprise Management Associates, Inc. • Advanced Network Analytics: Applying Machine Learning and More to Network Engineering and Operations On-Demand webinar is available here: https://ema.wistia.com/medias/8ioq2x7k1n • Check out upcoming webinars from EMA here: http://www.enterprisemanagement.com/freeResearch
- 3. IT & DATA MANAGEMENT RESEARCH, INDUSTRY ANALYSIS & CONSULTING Featured Speaker Slide 3 © 2018 Enterprise Management Associates, Inc. Shamus McGillicuddy Senior Analyst, EMA Shamus is the senior analyst for the network management practice at Enterprise Management Associates (EMA). He has more than 12 years of experience in the IT industry as an analyst and journalist.
- 4. IT & DATA MANAGEMENT RESEARCH, INDUSTRY ANALYSIS & CONSULTINGSlide 4 © 2018 Enterprise Management Associates, Inc. Logistics An archived version of the event recording will be available at www.enterprisemanagement.com • Log questions in the chat panel located on the lower left- hand corner of your screen • Questions will be addressed during the QandA session of the event QUESTIONS EVENT RECORDING
- 5. IT & DATA MANAGEMENT RESEARCH, INDUSTRY ANALYSIS & CONSULTING Advanced Network Analytics EMA Research Highlights Shamus McGillicuddy Senior Analyst Enterprise Management Associates
- 6. IT & DATA MANAGEMENT RESEARCH, INDUSTRY ANALYSIS & CONSULTING Sponsors Slide 6 © 2018 Enterprise Management Associates, Inc.
- 7. IT & DATA MANAGEMENT RESEARCH, INDUSTRY ANALYSIS & CONSULTING Agenda • Research Methodology and Demographics • Why Network Analytics and Why Now? • Network Analytics Solution Strategies • Network Analytics Benefits and Challenges • Conclusion/Q&A Slide 7 © 2018 Enterprise Management Associates, Inc.
- 8. IT & DATA MANAGEMENT RESEARCH, INDUSTRY ANALYSIS & CONSULTING Research Methodology and Demographics
- 9. IT & DATA MANAGEMENT RESEARCH, INDUSTRY ANALYSIS & CONSULTING New EMA Research: Advanced Network Analytics EMA surveyed 200 North American IT pros involved in a network analytics initiative Slide 9 © 2018 Enterprise Management Associates, Inc. Defining a network analytics initiative: Use of analytics technologies and strategies to extract new insight and value from data produced by and collected from the network
- 10. IT & DATA MANAGEMENT RESEARCH, INDUSTRY ANALYSIS & CONSULTING Demographic Highlights • Job titles • CIO/CTO (28%) • IT managers/supervisors (14%) • IT directors (12%) • Architects (8%) • Project/program managers (7%) • IT groups • IT executive suite (32%) • IT project/program management (19%) • IT planning/design/engineering/architecture (13%) • NOC (8%) • Enterprises of all sizes • 28% small (250-999 employees) • 42% midsized (1,000 to 4,999 employees) • 30% large (5,000 or more) • 19 vertical industries • Software (15%) • Manufacturing (12%) • Finance/banking/insurance (10%) • Application/cloud/managed service providers (9%) Slide 10 © 2018 Enterprise Management Associates, Inc.
- 11. IT & DATA MANAGEMENT RESEARCH, INDUSTRY ANALYSIS & CONSULTING Why Network Analytics and Why Now?
- 12. IT & DATA MANAGEMENT RESEARCH, INDUSTRY ANALYSIS & CONSULTING Network Data: The Source of Truth for Digital Enterprises • Everything crosses the wire • Customer activity • Transactions • Security incidents • Business trends • The challenge: Extracting insight from network data Slide 12 © 2018 Enterprise Management Associates, Inc. IT & DATA MANAGEMENT RESEARCH, INDUSTRY ANALYSIS & CONSULTING
- 13. IT & DATA MANAGEMENT RESEARCH, INDUSTRY ANALYSIS & CONSULTING Unlocking the Value of Network Data • 2016: 49% of enterprises had a network analytics initiative • Today: Network analytics everywhere • M&A activity • R&D by monitoring vendors • Embedded analytics in infrastructure • Network analytics startups Slide 13 © 2018 Enterprise Management Associates, Inc.
- 14. IT & DATA MANAGEMENT RESEARCH, INDUSTRY ANALYSIS & CONSULTING Drivers of Network Analytics Investment IT automation is the #1 initiative driving network analytics (34%) Slide 14 © 2018 Enterprise Management Associates, Inc. Secondary drivers • Data center consolidation (26%) • External cloud services (23%) • Digital transformation (21%) • Digital experience management (21%) • Private cloud/SDDC (20%) • Multicloud/hybrid cloud (18%)
- 15. IT & DATA MANAGEMENT RESEARCH, INDUSTRY ANALYSIS & CONSULTING Network Analytics Solution Strategies
- 16. IT & DATA MANAGEMENT RESEARCH, INDUSTRY ANALYSIS & CONSULTING Top Use Cases for Advanced Network Analytics End user experience monitoring (69%) Network operations optimization (65%) Network security operations optimization (64%) Predictive network analysis (53%) Predictive security analysis (53%) Business process monitoring (53%) Slide 16 © 2018 Enterprise Management Associates, Inc.
- 17. IT & DATA MANAGEMENT RESEARCH, INDUSTRY ANALYSIS & CONSULTINGSlide 17 © 2018 Enterprise Management Associates, Inc. 58% 56% 55% 34% 16% Embedded in network infrastructure Embedded in network operations software Network-specific analytics vendors General analytics vendors Stanadalone analytics stacks applied to network data stores Valid Cases = 200, Total Mentions = 442 Analytics Technology Strategies: Enterprises Typically Adopt Multiple Approaches
- 18. IT & DATA MANAGEMENT RESEARCH, INDUSTRY ANALYSIS & CONSULTING Network Data Involved in Network Analytics Initiatives Slide 18 © 2018 Enterprise Management Associates, Inc. 44% 40% 38% 38% 29% 28% 28% 28% 26% 26% 22% 18% 0% Network flow records (NetFlow, sFlow, IPFIX, etc.) Network performance metrics (link utilization, multi-pathing, etc.) Network test data (ping, traceroute, synthetic transactions, etc.) Quality of service (QoS) data Proprietary deep packet inspection data generated by infrastructure (NBAR2, Medianet, AVC, etc.) Interpreted packet flows (wire data or packet metadata) Routing data (BGP data, etc.) Configuration files Device metrics (collected via SNMP, device APIs, etc.) Topology data Raw packets Logs Other Valid Cases = 200, Total Mentions = 734
- 19. IT & DATA MANAGEMENT RESEARCH, INDUSTRY ANALYSIS & CONSULTING Most Popular Analytics Heuristics Applied to Network Data PROCESS ANALYTICS (39%) REAL-TIME PREDICTIVE (37%) DATA MINING (36%) PREDICTIVE TRENDING (28%) Slide 19 © 2018 Enterprise Management Associates, Inc.
- 20. IT & DATA MANAGEMENT RESEARCH, INDUSTRY ANALYSIS & CONSULTING 98% of Network Analytics Initiatives Involve Machine Learning 54% APPLY MACHINE LEARNING TO NETWORK DATA TODAY HOW DO THEY PLAN TO USE IT? AUTOMATION OF LOW- LEVEL, REPEATABLE TASKS (44%) AUTOMATION OF COMPLEX, UNIQUE TASKS (41%) Slide 20 © 2018 Enterprise Management Associates, Inc. IT & DATA MANAGEMENT RESEARCH, INDUSTRY ANALYSIS & CONSULTING
- 21. IT & DATA MANAGEMENT RESEARCH, INDUSTRY ANALYSIS & CONSULTING Network Analytics Benefits and Challenges
- 22. IT & DATA MANAGEMENT RESEARCH, INDUSTRY ANALYSIS & CONSULTING The Benefits of Network Analytics Slide 22 © 2018 Enterprise Management Associates, Inc. 54% say network analytics is essential to their organization Top business benefits • Faster MTTR of network problems (69%) • Efficient network capacity utilization (60%) • Proactive network problem prevention (56%) • Optimization of capacity for service delivery (51%) • Improved correlation between network change and network health/performance (51%)
- 23. IT & DATA MANAGEMENT RESEARCH, INDUSTRY ANALYSIS & CONSULTING Breaking Out of the Network Silo Network analytics supports network team collaboration with: • ITSM (76%) • Application management (52%) • Security operations (52%) • DevOps/AppDev (50%) • Product R&D (22%) Slide 23 © 2018 Enterprise Management Associates, Inc. Groups outside of IT consume network analytics insights • Technology R&D (44%) • Corporate executive suite (34%) • Customer service (24%) • Manufacturing (22%) • Product R&D (22%)
- 24. IT & DATA MANAGEMENT RESEARCH, INDUSTRY ANALYSIS & CONSULTING Analytics Supports Network Automation • 76% of analytics projects support/enable network automation • Tasks targeted for automation • Network optimization (56%) • Cost optimization (51%) • Fault & Performance diagnostics/troubleshooting (43%) • Change management (42%) Slide 24 © 2018 Enterprise Management Associates, Inc. IT & DATA MANAGEMENT RESEARCH, INDUSTRY ANALYSIS & CONSULTING
- 25. IT & DATA MANAGEMENT RESEARCH, INDUSTRY ANALYSIS & CONSULTING Top Challenges to Network Analytics: Risk and Risk Slide 25 © 2018 Enterprise Management Associates, Inc. 32% 22% 21% 20% 20% 20% 19% 18% 6% 0% Risk - objection from security and/or compliance team Risk - data sovereignty conflict Lack of budget Lack of leadership - unsupportive management Politics - conflict about who should own and share the data Insufficient internal skills and knowledge Cultural - resistance to sharing data and insight Lack of vision - not knowing how to extract enough value from analytics None - We have no organizational challenges Other
- 26. IT & DATA MANAGEMENT RESEARCH, INDUSTRY ANALYSIS & CONSULTING Top Data Collection Challenges Securing network data (26%) Managing data quality (22%) Managing data storage capacity (20%) Determining amount of data to collect (18%) Slide 26 © 2018 Enterprise Management Associates, Inc. 1 2 3 4
- 27. IT & DATA MANAGEMENT RESEARCH, INDUSTRY ANALYSIS & CONSULTING Conclusion/Q&A
- 28. IT & DATA MANAGEMENT RESEARCH, INDUSTRY ANALYSIS & CONSULTING Conclusion • Network analytics adoption is driven by IT automation, data center consolidation and cloud • Network analytics isn’t a just product you can buy • Embedded in infrastructure and operations software, too • Machine learning is going mainstream • Network Analytics breaks down the networking silo, delivers value to the business • Risk aversion and budget constrains are leading organizational challenges Slide 28 © 2018 Enterprise Management Associates, Inc.
- 29. IT & DATA MANAGEMENT RESEARCH, INDUSTRY ANALYSIS & CONSULTING Log Your Questions in the Q&A Panel Slide 29 © 2018 Enterprise Management Associates, Inc. Get the report at: www.enterprisemanagement.com /research/