The report highlights the importance of data insights for public sector leaders, with 71% of IT decision makers surveyed agreeing that they are important to their overall mission. However, many are challenged in extracting full value from their analytics applications, with 51% feeling that new IT paradigms like cloud DevOps and virtualization are adding to their organization's complexity. The three greatest difficulties in initial operations include struggling with the complexity of IT systems, lack of holistic visibility across IT systems, and manual troubleshooting. The report also notes that 66% of respondents expect to start or expand use of private cloud solutions and 42% plan to start or expand their use of public cloud solutions in the next year or two. Splunk offers a platform that can help public sector IT professionals gain visibility and intelligence to lower costs, improve security, streamline IT operations, and better serve the public.
