Gather Once. Use Many. Moving to Data-Centric Operations

In construction the saying, “measure twice cut once” is a mantra that helps avoid re-work and wasted material. IT operations professionals are finding that flipping that saying into “gather once use many” can reap similar rewards. Until recently hardware, tools, and applications have been focused not only on the tasks for which they were designed for but also on using and managing data for these tasks. This means that teams continually pull and replicate the same data over and over in order to do the analysis needed to perform their specific tasks, which has resulted in duplicative and siloed information throughout the organization.