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If you are a new IT professional or manage a young team of IT staff, you know it too well how intimidating it is to be assigned to an on-call rotation for the first time. You might be asking yourself questions such as, “Will an outage or breach unfold? Will I sleep through an alert?

We are using data wrong. In today’s data-driven world, we have learned to store data. Our data storage capabilities have grown exponentially over the decades, and everyone can now store petabytes of data. Let’s all collectively pat ourselves on the back. We have won the war on storing data! Congratulations!

Many business organizations begin their data analytics journey with great expectations of discovering hidden insights from data. The concept of unified storage — data lake technologies in the cloud — have gained momentum in recent years, especially with the exponential options for cost-effective cloud-based storage services. Big data is readily available. In fact, 2.5 quintillion (2.5 x 10^18 or 2.5 billion billion) bytes generated every day!