Big data stacks are being moved to the cloud, enabling enterprises to get the most value from the information they own. But as demand for big data grows, enterprises must enhance the performance of their cloud assets. Faced with the complexity of cloud environments, most enterprises resort to scaling up their whole cloud infrastructure, adding more compute, and running more processes.

There has been an ongoing surge of companies beginning to run Spark on Kubernetes. In our recently published 2021 Big Data on Kubernetes Report, we discovered that 63% of today's enterprises are running Spark on Kubernetes. The same report found that nearly 80% of organizations embrace Kubernetes to optimize the utilization of compute resources and reduce their cloud expenses. However, running Spark on Kubernetes is not without complications and problems.

Increasingly, many organizations find that their current legacy monitoring solutions are no longer adequate in today's modern IT world. These enterprises find themselves struggling to manage and understand unprecedented amounts of data. With such large amounts of data needing to be dealt with, it is no wonder why it's a struggle for enterprises to leverage it for business success. Not to mention that optimizing performance and keeping costs in line is a technical challenge they must face at the same time.

IT transformation projects are complex, demanding undertakings. They loop in multiple departments, and various budgetary considerations. This is a five-step guide designed to help enterprises and IT transformation teams prepare, plan, and execute their IT transformation strategy.

According to Gartner, as of 2019, 35% of CIOs are decreasing their investment in their infrastructure and data center, while 33% of them are increasing their investments in cloud services or solutions.