High profile IT projects will be pressured to deliver increased visibility in 2014, as businesses look to protect against IT failures according to predictions for next year.

Data analytics company ExtraHop has revealed that its top predictions for next year are that businesses will look to develop insight into IT programmes in order to protect against service disruption after publicised IT industry failures, including downtime for the U.S. Healthcare.gov website and IT systems used by RBS and NatWest.

ExtraHop predicted that businesses would move to treat their IT services with the same managed approach employed across other key areas. Businesses are also increasingly likely to employ a variety of analytics sources in order to monitor applications.

Jesse Rothstein, CEO, ExtraHop, said: “As these technologies become more sophisticated and line-of-business stakeholders demand rapid adoption, IT teams must take an operations-oriented, business-minded approach to deployment and management. In this way, IT organisations can ensure business-critical performance, availability, and security.”

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