In construction the saying, 鈥渕easure twice cut once鈥 is a mantra that helps avoid re-work and wasted material. IT operations professionals are finding that flipping that saying into 鈥済ather once use many鈥 can reap similar rewards. Until recently hardware, tools, and applications have been focused not only on the tasks for which they were designed for but also on using and managing data for these tasks. This means that teams continually pull and replicate the same data over and over in order to do the analysis needed to perform their specific tasks, which has resulted in duplicative and siloed information throughout the organization.