IT Infrastructure and IoT refers to the products and services that support the deployment, management, and optimization of core technology systems and connected devices across enterprise environments. This category includes markets that focus on enabling organizations to build and operate resilient, scalable, and intelligent infrastructure. It encompasses solutions for data center management, network infrastructure, and IoT connectivity—spanning on-premises, cloud, edge, and hybrid models.
Infrastructure monitoring tools capture the health and resource utilization of IT infrastructure components wherever they reside (e.g., in a data center, at the edge, or IaaS or PaaS in the cloud). This enables I&O teams to monitor the availability and resource utilization data of physical, virtual, software entities, and AI systems — including servers, containers, network devices, database instances, hypervisors, storage, and basic application monitoring. These tools collect data in near real time and perform historical data analysis or trending of the elements they monitor.
Gartner defines telemetry pipelines as tools that provide a uniform and holistic mechanism to manage the collection, ingestion, transformation and routing of IT operational telemetry from source to destination. They can be used to filter and manage the amount of telemetry ingested by aggregation and analysis solutions, but have uses beyond cost management, such as data normalization and enrichment. As the number of telemetry sources increase and are distributed geographically, telemetry pipelines are becoming the core of an organization’s telemetry life cycle management strategy.