Mike Fratto is a Senior Research Analyst on the Applied Infrastructure & DevOps team at 451 Research, a part of S&P Global Market Intelligence. He covers enterprise networking, including campus and datacenter networking, SDN, SD-WAN, SD-Branch, cloud networking, container networking, networking as a service, network performance monitoring, and network automation and orchestration. He has extensive experience reviewing and writing about enterprise remote access, security and network infrastructure products, as well as consulting with enterprise IT, equipment and software vendors, and service providers.
Prior to joining 451 Research, he was with GlobalData as Research Director with the Global IT Technology & Software team covering the enterprise networking and datacenter technology markets. Mike was with TechWeb for more than 15 years, most recently as Editor of Network Computing. He was Lead Analyst with InformationWeek Analytics, Senior Technology Editor with Network Computing and Executive Editor for Secure Enterprise. He has spoken at several conferences including Interop, SD-WAN Summit, MPLS + SDN + NFV World Congress and SDN NFV World Congress, as well as to local groups, and he served as the chair for Interop's Datacenter and Storage tracks. Prior to Network Computing, Mike was an independent consultant.
Mike teaches a graduate course in network security for Syracuse University's Information Science and Technology program. The course presents a technical and theoretical overview of network security strategies and technologies and how network security can fit into an organization's overall IT architecture.
Mike graduated from Syracuse University with a bachelor's degree in Information Science and Technology.
The driving force behind observability is the adoption of cloud-native architectures and applications that are, by nature, far more dynamic and require visibility capabilities to match. ObservIQ makes observability pipeline software that is delivered to customers as open source and commercial on-premises software, and as SaaS.
The driving force behind observability is the adoption of cloud-native architectures and applications, which by nature are far more dynamic and distributed. Observability architectures should eventually become as complex as the infrastructure they observe, making pipeline software a crucial component of "bringing order to chaos."
The company is best known as the provider of an open-source network monitoring and management platform that has been actively developed for over 20 years. OpenNMS has evolved to meet the requirement for IT services to be more agile, flexible and reliable.
IT wants to simplify operations to be more agile, and respond more quickly to demands from internal and external customers, while spending less time on maintenance. Observability pipelines can simplify connecting data senders with data receivers, and provide a rich set of tools for IT to customize the data streams, improving efficiency and cost savings.
According to the latest analysis from 451 Research's Cloud Computing Market Monitor service, the global IT management as a service market is projected to reach $27 billion with a five-year compound annual growth rate of 15% through 2026.
Along with the move to more data- and business-driven DevOps, many enterprises are prioritizing effective data collection, management and correlation, as well as the adoption of AI-/machine-learning-powered tooling for AIOps.
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