AI augments capacity planning with machine learning smarts

Any sufficiently advanced technology might be indistinguishable from magic. And the history of IT demonstrates that such technologies invariably exceed human capacity to control them without automation. VM sprawl was the first sign of this impending chaos that engulfed virtual infrastructure. Now, that predicament is superseded by broader waste issues as cloud services continue to displace conventional enterprise infrastructure. IT management has evolved from simple UI portals, which connected multiple systems and exposed various IT admin functions in a central location, to sophisticated statistical and machine learning algorithms. These algorithms harness the massive amounts of telemetry data modern physical IT infrastructure and cloud services generate to filter, correlate, summarize, analyze and, ultimately, predict the behavior of an entire cloud environment.